“There is an
insect called mayfly which lives for less than 24 hours. A mosquito has a life-span of two months and
a rat runs about for two years. These
beings do all what a human does, expect going to
school and college and earning a living.
They too hurry hither and thither for food, they too seek the company of
the opposite sex and bring forth progeny like Xerox-copies !
“Coming to think of
it, two factors are overwhelmingly present in the psyche of all living
beings: (i) the instinct for survival even against
odds; and (ii) the urge to ensure continuity of species. It is for the first of these requirements
that Nature has fitted out every being with sting or nails or teeth. For fulfilment of the second need, certain
hormones are generated at the appropriate age in the metabolic routine. When there is hormonal imbalance of a
particular order, a need would come to be felt for seeking the company of the
other sex. In beings on the lower scales
of evolution up to animals, the urge abates once the hormonal balance is
restored.
“Any surplus within
the physical body is a burden that manifests as unrest; and the excretion of
the surplus is experienced as pleasure by the mind although actually it is only
relief.
“The sixth sense
is absent in lesser beings up to animals and they live by instinct. The tiger, for instance ceases hunting for
prey when its abdomen is filled for the day and it does not catch and store
deer or sheep for the morrow and the days after. So is their preoccupation with the opposite
sex.
“Man alone, of
all living beings, has the sixth sense.
That is why the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)-
do even Professors of Literature remember him these days? – called man ‘the
roof and crown of things’. The sixth sense is endowed to man by Nature so that
he may embark on the inquiry to ascertain the purpose of life and devise ways
and means to get that purpose fulfilled.
But, alas, the homo-sapien is putting
the sixth sense to all uses except the primary purpose !
The thought of the transient pleasure of meeting the need to continue his own
species is stored and remembered by the sixth sense which makes him hanker for
it again and again even after the basic need is past. This thought results in over-expending of the
life-energy, which alone is any living being’s opening balance or Capital. Don’t you hear a sad J. Krishnamurti
warning you, ‘A life was given to you, the most precious thing possible. And what
have you done with it? You have
distorted it’.
“The pressure for
the perpetuation of the clan is the outcome of the soul’s imperative need to
clear the imprints it has acquired through the generations. Any object or article has an inherent
quality. For example, coolness is the
inherent quality of the water. When
poured in a vessel and placed over fire, water acquires heat, which is not
natural to it. Effort is required to
induce a quality into an object, which thereafter would be striving on its own
to shed the addition. Likewise
the soul. In the embodied
condition, it projects as the mind, becomes cribbed and cabined (as Shakespeare would put it),
engenders the ego branching out as the ‘I’ and ‘Mine’ notions, develops likes
and dislikes (ragam and dwesham),
slips into the six temperamental moods ranging from kamam
to matscharyam and draws on to itself
countless stigmas in the form of imprints.
“In its
sustained endeavour to restore itself to its native state of pristine purity, when the soul
realizes that the job of clearance cannot be completed in the course of the
physical body’s life-time, it has perforce to rope in some working partners in
the shape of spouse and sons and daughters.
When this work-force too is in the same state of intoxication with
worldly objects; the family-line has to necessarily continue from generation to
ignorant generation. History repeats
itself in a most ignoble and inglorious manner. What shame, this !
“I have explained to you the science behind marriage. The institution of marriage has to be
harnessed to what the Totality of Nature intended it to be. In case some of you, boys and girls, would
prefer to remain single for life, it is possible for you to do so, as long as
you evolve a scheme of living, which would aid the clearing of imprints. I shall share more information with you,
depending on the earnestness you display during the question-time for which we
could perhaps allot an hour even”
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