The art of the good usage of cognitions
June 2015
By Devina Das
“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.” – Woody Allen
The Student
A student is essentially that person that has the urge to learn or the drive to carry out the same with the inherent stubborn-ness to venture out to look for that master who can introduce and elucidate to him the vistas of knowledge and education.
He is on the lookout for that master who could deliver on his lap the reality of the apparent extingencies of the society and guide him to the purview of the truth that is concealed from the eyes of those who cannot learn or who have forgotten to carry out the same by being confined to the shackles of the material aspect of the social,at large.It is the search for the master who can enable him to inculcate the knowledge of those forces that is evaded from the souls in a context that essentially has commenced to reside into the econimic realm.
However,it indeed is a fact established the a truth preached by the lot that spells novelty,that, in order to ensure the exhuming of enlightened and meaningful education in various spheres and to give birth to that persona of the organism that is suppressed for long and has been incorporated into the unconscious sphere of the mental component,the person has to possess the capabilitues of being the right student.
The right student is the one that has the drive and the one that indeed is prepared to find the true meaning of one’s own existence and how a knowledge of this nature maybe utilized.
The Phoenix that Education Is
It is the experiences and the environment that the humans in the present day world have been extensively inclined towards,as remarked by Swami Sukhabodhnanda.However,beyond all these types and factors is the discipline associated with education.
It is indeed the experiences of oneself that call for the perpetuation of the mind and the mental framework pertaining to ensuring efficient social conduct and ensuring the establishment of those attributes that are for the benefits of the individual and those that are attached with him.However,such experiences can only come to be meaningfully understood by the virtue of using the data obtained through education and applying the same to the experiences encountered through social and other forms of interactions.
Further,education allows the individual to develop an insight and hence discover all that is essential to him and all that needs to be valued and whose sanctity shall never be encroached into.
Psychological evidence shows that practice of developing an insight on a regualr basis enables person to understand the factors operating around and within and how the element in those aspects maybe churned to develop an understanding of what is needed to attain the goal or the objective that is being yearned for.
An undeniable and unarguable fact as it is – mental clarity indeed is a key to success.
The Existential Component
The social is of immense importance and the social self,that is the product of our social interactions associations,and affiliations enable us to understand about the appropriate ways of functioning and discovering the relevant ways of attaining our own goals and objectives.
As Abraham and Maslow said that man is a social animal – and indeed that is so.
However,the existential self is indeed that aspect that enables the person to crack the code towards finding what is important for his own self and moving towards the effective execution of the same, even if such beliefs,values etc. held maybe divergent to others’ opinions and customs.
It is the existential self that enables the organism to know that ‘meaning’ is indeed subjective in nature and it is this meaning that he promulgates, that forms the gateway to his true self – the key towards establishing serenity,both inwards and outwards.