Monday, 11 February 2019

NATIMANITA [न-अतिमानिता] 3

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I am quite often reminded of a piece of narration from a book titled as “Elements of Psychology” by Krech & Crutchfield, perhaps, while explaining about human personality. Here below I will try to narrate it in my own words.
“Please think of bulb onion or common onion, a shortened compressed underground stem surrounded by fleshy modified scale (leaves) and imagine a soft spoken, gentle and highly educated successful businessman. This businessman, let’s call him David, lives in a palatial house; has a beautiful, intelligent and loving wife; is respected by his financiers, customers, his staff and workers, his neighbors; and, even by his competitors.


For some reason his business began to encounter some rough weather. His sales figures underwent a declining trend despite considerable efforts of promotion. He started losing and his financiers started withdrawing their support gradually. His creditors initially started delaying the payments due to him and then even avoided paying him. The lending institutions became panicky and started pressing him for repayments. To regain his commanding position in business he decided to sell-off his palatial house to become cash rich. But, this sent an adverse message to all concern. He was deeper in trouble. The outer layers of the onion were peeled off. He was no more a successful businessman, but a businessman who had failed. He started losing his confidence and displayed an irritating character. He could never realize that he was, then, being viewed as a devastated heavy drunkard who boasted a lot. To get the money he started selling his personal assets. After losing many more layers of his personality, he no longer looked like an attractive onion any more. His wife left him to marry someone else; the lending institutions attached his business assets and filed suits for recovery of the balance. There were no more leaves to be peeled off. The hero of this story became an indecent pauper; a repulsive rascal.”

This was Sansarik Manita; money, education, the qualities to attract the people around, position, power, race, caste, external behavior etc. and a desire to be honored by the outside world.

Similarly, there is Parmarthik Manita; being somewhat elated to have achieved rare qualities with great efforts and after having made many sacrifices of worldly pleasures for moving a little farther than others in the path of selflessness and spirituality.

PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA

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