Read the sequel if you liked the first part
After having proposed in the first part of this article that we all need to depend on others for our physical and spiritual survival, and that the best thing to do is to strive for a balance between our selfishness and wordly interactions, let me turn around once more...Read On....
Having put our inner self and our personality on the same platform now, i must remark how intuitively un-appealing this idea is. This idea, essentially empirical, thus must yield to a better(not perfect!) hypothesis.
What i propose next then,is this. The self is (again) the centre of our universes, only, it must essentially interact with the outer world for its survival, which are only constraints imposed by nature on our existence. Thus our personality is subservient to our inner self, it is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
If you are confused with this, think of the enabler-driver model in management studies,Or the Objective function/constraints in optimization problems. We are driven to satisfy our souls, thats the aim all the time, but a necessary amount of compromises have to be made to survive and carry on with this quest.
This idea then is a hybrid of the earlier two, and naturally suffers from several flaws, both empirical and intuitive. I do not propose to have any perfect answers, only it is so interesting to speculate...
is concludes the article...Please let me know your thoughts on the subject.
What stayed with you?
A line that lingered, a feeling, a disagreement. Great comments are as valuable as the original piece.
Responses2
the author seems to be maxo confused....!! well i think the article has been written during some time of the night when the author thoroughly frustrated with CAT prep, has spoken straight from the bottom of his wandering heart.... let me make myself clear..i do not mean to dampen the spirit of this esteem website by making frivolous comments but kya karoon yaar control hi nahi hota.....mein bhi max frust aa chuka hoon ...life max pain mar rahi hai....c ya
hmmm.... the commentator seems to be someone who at way past midnight,when all are asleep(even i) has been utterly frustrated by his GRE wordlists and had no other means of expression (and no food to eat)...cool reh hot ho ke bhi koi fayeda nahi ahi...c ya
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