How to adjust and sublimate complexes?
All our passions and complexes are the
manifestation of our libido entwined with the very existence itself. The libido
is the guiding force of all passions and complexes. When this libido of man is
attached to supreme beloved like Lord Jesus Christ, Lord Krishna, Lord Buddha,
Lord Hazrat Rasul, Lord Sri Gourang and so on through love and service and
admiration then its manifestation (i.e., Complexes) comes to be adjusted first
in themselves and then with the libido and gradually sublimated.
What is called libido?
Sri Sri Thakur explains in his philosophy “what is life and what
is libido?”
He says,
“Fusional adherence
That evolves in to being
With responsive becoming
Is Life”28
Eugenic science admits that life
sprouts from the fertilization of an ovum by a sperm. Sri Sri Thakur adds;
“Cohesive urge by which
Sperm and ovum adhere and
Evolves is libido --- the urge.” 29
Sri Sri Thakur further explains, “The
magnetic current underlining the cohesive force between the sperm and an ovum
due to which an ovum is fertilized by a particular sperm to form a zygote,
which through cell-division evolves in to a concrete being is called libido.
Libido means “ tendency towards unification. This libido is manifested through
habit, behavior and man's nature of inclination” 29 A
The very existence of every being is in
tune with the cohesive urge of the libido. Hence the inherent urge of
unification lies at the root of attraction between parents and the progeny,
husband and wife, friend and friend, lover and beloved. It is this urge of
unification that acts as the motive force behind mans utmost effort to find
God, the source of existence. With the help of this libido, human being pulls
man objects and affairs etc. In the environment towards him self and enjoy the
glory.
Thus man's inclination for diverse
objects and affairs in this plane of matter act feeder canals to the main
stream of the urge for unification -- unification with the source if and when
they all are utilized for a single purpose -- for the purpose of serving and
fulfilling one supreme beloved called ideal. But man having no supreme beloved
or ideal in life, utilizes these different streams of inclination to please,
serve and fulfil different persons -- father, mother, husband, wife, friend,
lover and beloved or his selfish end. As however, all these persons are not
generally attached to any supreme source of superior impulses, they cannot
provide us with adequate feedback to these different inclination in man in
return. In the long run the man gets tired of his cravings. As because man's
libido, for want of adequate nurture,, comes to be weak the man feels
suffocated in himself with a sense of negation through he may be drowned in
affluence, plenty and prosperity in material provision. The intensity of
affliction due to suffocation with sense of negation along with a sense of
self-alienation cannot be expressed in language.
But on the other hand, when man is
inclined to such a great man like Christ, Krishna, Buddha, Hazrat Rasul through
active love, service and admiration and employ all his thoughts, deeds and
speeches to establish him and him alone in the hearts of people and when all
his liking, love and inclination are engaged in pleasing him and him alone, his
libido becomes attached to his supreme beloved strongly. His libido becomes
integrated. Then the manifestation of this libido (thread) as flowers are
strung to a thread to form a garland. The deeper the love and attachment for
ideal, the greater becomes the adjustment among complexes. Gradually they get
sublimated and come to be the friends of man.
Sri Sri Thakur comments: “libido wants
integration or yoga. This very integrate libido comes to be the regulation or
yoga. This very integrated libido comes to be the regulator of complexes and
the complexes become sublimated. Sri Sri Thakur emphatically remarks, “when the
complexes come to be meaningfully adjusted through passion-pervading attachment
for the ideal like Lord Christ, Lord Sri Krishna, Lord Buddha, Lord Hazrat
Rasul and so on, then and then only they gets sublimated. When the passions are
sublimated then sex changes into love, anger into vigor, greed into magnanimity
and pride into modesty.” 29B
Libido i.e., The tendency towards unification
in human beings may also be called “love”. Love is that through which man
express his tendency towards unification. Every human being wants to love
someone or other. There is not a single man who does not cherish love for any
one in this world.
On the contrary, a man may love many
persons, but he always desires someone in particular on whom he can bestow his
love exclusively. A man have name, fame, money, plenty and prosperity in all
respects, but if he has no one whom he can love exclusively or someone who can
love him exclusively, he feels himself prop-less in the vast ocean of
interaction and ultimately drowns himself in more frustration and a deep
feeling of self alienation. Thus the instinctive tendency in man is to love and
to be loved exclusively. The sublime feeling of Ananda (enjoyment) of man lies
in his capacity for loving others as well as in commanding love from others.
As a tree requires to drive its roots
into a particular place on earth and secure nurture and nourishment in order to
be meaningful in serving the environment with flowers, fruits, wood and other
contributions, a man similarly, requires to drive the root of his love i.e. His
libido into a particular good and great in order to enjoy his self through
interaction with selves beyond himself. Thus the natural tendency of the libido
is to be attached exclusively to some one good and great. Through this
concentric love libido gets nourishment in its cohesive urge and tends to
evolve. As the libido gets nourishment, the complexes and passions are
meaningfully adjusted and sublimated. As a result human nature gets purified.
The virus of degeneration burns out and evaporates like incense.
If the libido of man is maintained hale
and hearty from his childhood through proper nurture and nourishment, the man
can never come under the evil influence of his passion and complexes. No
obsession of any complex can occur in him at all. Rather, he can enjoy the good
output of his adjusted complexes in his normal behavior. To provided nurture
and nourishment to the libido of a child means to deal with child in such a way
that in born inclination for mother comes to the nurtured and the libido of the
child gets normally attached to his mother, father or any other superior like
them.
It the libido of a child be nourished
by the shower of parental love and affection, then at the later period, that
child in his manhood comes to be attached spontaneously to an ideal. When he is
attached to his ideal through love ,services and admiration, his inborn instincts
an attributes come to be elevated and sublimated. He comes to be source of
existential nurture to his fellow beings through his congenial habit, behavior
and conduct.
There are many historical evidences of
this type of transformation of degenerated human beings, made possible by an
active attachment for an embodied ideal. Change of robber Ratnakar (As depicted
in the epic, the Ramayana) into a great poet Valmiki, out of love for
Purushotam Sri Ramchandra, terror Saul in to saint Paul, prostitute Mary Magdalene
into a devotee Mary Magdalene out of strong and active love for lord Jesus
Christ, prostitute Amrapali in to a devoted and magnanimous Amrapali through
her love and attachment to Lord Buddha, alcoholic and debauched Jagai and
Madhai into a greatly devoted disciple of Lord Sri Gauranga are indeed
obviously clear cases in point. The golden spectrum of change that we notice in
life of most precious jewel of Islam --Khalipha Omar was the effect of divine
touch of Hazrat Rasul.
In the life of Sri Sri Ramkrishana and
Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra such transformation of men and women with
degenerated nature into normal men and women with love, devotion and active
zeal to serve the environment are in abundance. Drunkard Girish Ghish and
prostitute Nati Binodini in the life of Sri Sri Ramkrishana; and Satya C.
Dutta, once a person obsessed with passion for other woman, and many others in
the life of Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra were transformed into such religious
persons that they could command love and adoration from their country men.and
their living examples of life story provided inspiration amongst millions of
people to achieve eternal peace of mind. 30
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2. DO : Dhriti Bidhyana, vol. I, 1986, P. 412
3. Do : Alochana Prasange Vol. X,1376,p. 51
4. Do : Alochana Prasange Vol.
5. Do : Nana Prasanga , Vol.II, 1995 P. 69
6. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol.XII, 1977, P. 10
7. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. XIV,1390,p.45
8. Do : Message, Vol. VII, 1965, P. 129
9. Do : Alochana Prasange, XIV, 1390, p. 45
10. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. X 1376,P 130
11. Do :
12. Mr. Amram Scheinfeld : The New You And Heredity, P. 28
13. The Holy Geeta, Chapter VIII, Verse-6
14. Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra: Anusruti,Vol. I, 1976, P. 122, No2
15. Do : Alochana Prasange, I, 1365, P .200-201
16. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. XVII, 1992, P. 124
17. Do :Anusruti, Vol. I, 1976, P. 122, No. 2
18. Do : Nana Prasange, VOL I, 1397, p. 36-37
19. Do : Anusruti, Vol. I. 1976, P. 122, No. 3
20. Do :Ibid. No. 4
21. Do : Message, Vol. VII, 1965, P. 127
22. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. VIII, 1371, P. 208
23. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. X, 1376, P. 123
24. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. VI, 1368. P. 162-163
25. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. XI, 1379, P. 246
26. Do : Alochana Prasange,Vol. Vi, 1368, P. 228-229
27. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. VI, 1368, P. 231
28. Do : Magnadicta, 1985, P. 3
29 Do : Magnadicta, 1985, P. 2
29A. Do : Alochana Prasange, Vol. I, 1365, P. 139
29B. R. A. Hauserman : Personal DIARY: conversation with Sri Sri Thakur,1948
30. Dr. Rebati Biswas : Jivan Jyoti, 1399, Alpha Publishing House,
Bhaba:
The term 'Bhaba' here has been used to
denote the totality of experiences with feeling, sensations, perception ,etc.,
In a state of being. As for example, when a man dreams that he is eating, He
sees the food, feels the food, smells the food, He tastes the food and enjoys
the food with all its environment, the sum-total of these experiences that He
is in called 'Bhaba' of the man at that time. He does not realize that he is
dreaming unless this “Bhaba” breaks i.e., He wakes up. Sri Sri Thakur some
times uses 'ideal' for 'Bhaba'. (Dr. Rebati Mohan Biswas: The New Light from
The East, 1982, P. 72)
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