Volume 7 Issue 12 December, 2017
Autobiography of “I”
“I” is our only world and life which we nurture and safeguard
“as if” it is our friend, guide and philosopher” till an event or a situation open’s one’s eye door to “Reality” giving rise to a doubt, whether “I” is real or false?
Throughout life, one is conditioned to a belief that “I’’ means Mss., is the one who is experiencing pain and pleasure believing it to be a temporary or likely to become a permanent issue. Repeated experiences of such type fail or succeed in teaching the truth of life. When one ponders over the failure cases, questions such as “Is “I’’ preventing him to accept the truth?’’ In cases where one is ready to introspect his mind and analyze, truth dawns. What is the truth? Whatever they were considering as real “I’’ which is responsible for all their actions, is not the true.
The real ‘’I’’ is the real operator and all actions seen outside are results of this. This is a very important “Turning point’’ which is documented in the life of enlightened person’s. These persons have created road maps to be followed by interested persons who would like to explore the “inner world” to get convinced about the concept. Road maps furnished the psychoanalytical and existential schools seem to be inadequate in achieving the goal. Supporting this concept with evidence is difficult due to its abstract nature. Experiential narration evidence is vast. Much more than this, kind of relief one gets from these transformations, and better quality of life, and immunological profile changes with no stress makes this concept strong.
Clinical cases of neurosis and some neurotic personality disorders when analyzed, reveal the self-centeredness or poor ego function which can be correlated with the clinical symptoms. “KNOW THYSELF BEFORE KNOWING OTHERS”.
Department of Psychiatry, AIMS, Bellur, Karnataka
