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THE ORIGIN OF THE
HUMAN BEING
The source of the world is motiveless and has the unique
appearance of consciousness and bliss. It has an eternal Nature,
like the shadow cast by the sun. Although herself inert, she used
the consciousness of the supreme Self to create all and everything
which is transient, like a piece of theatre.
In the beginning,, Nature the mother of all, gave birth to
intellect, composed of desire and vast in appearance. Out of that
came personal identity. It was born in three divisions, according
to the qualities of purity, passion and darkness. From the union
of purity and passion arose the ten organs and also mind. The
voice, the hands, the feet, the sex organs, and the rectum. Those
with detailed understanding say that the first five are the organs
of intellect, while the remaining five are the organs of action.
From personal identity, dominated by the qualities of passion and
purity, arose the set of five subtle elements. The wise recite the
names of these subtle elements as follow: sound, touch visible
form, taste, and smell.
Sound, touch, vision, taste, and smell, the characteristics of the
respective subtle elements, arrived at a gross condition. From
these subtle elements arose the set of five gross elements, which
are considered to be space, wind, fire, water and earth.
These five, sound and so forth, are thought of as the
characteristics of the organs of intellect. Similarly, the
characteristics of the organs of action are speaking, grasping,
walking, orgasm, and excreting.
Nature is also known by the names “Principle’, “Power’ “Eternal’
and ‘Unaltered’. She is located in Siva. The wise know that
following seven items are Nature and her modification: intellect,
personal identity, and each of the five subtle elements. Having
pervaded everything, they dwell in the world.
The living soul is constrained to dwell forever in this home of
the body which is created by means of these twenty-four
principles. This is called the embodied person, pervaded by sin
and merit, sorrow and joy, and so on, and bound by the mind by
means of the artificial fetters of action. Love and hate, greed
and delusion and, fifth, the personal identity, the ten organs,
and the intellect: these serve to fetter the embodied person.
Through ignorance one becomes fettered: through knowledge one is
liberated.
Thus, disease brings one into association with suffering, while
health brings happiness.
Mind as Cause
The mental faculty is indeed independently produced. It is what
binds the life together with the experiencing body, just before it
departs, its behaviour alters, affection mutates, all the sense
suffer, strength drains away, and diseases wax strong. Without it,
one lets go of the breath of life. As the apprehender of the
senses it is called “mind”. It is classified in three way: as
being pure, passionate, or dark.
Man is a mental being seeking to establish a control over the life
forces he embodies or uses, and one condition of that mastery is a
necessary self-control, a restraint, an order, a discipline
imposed on his mental, vital and physical being. The animal life
is automatically subjected to certain measures; it is the field of
an instinctive vital-dharma. Man, liberated from them by willed
and intelligent restraints, an understanding measure, a voluntary
discipline. Not only a powerful expenditure and control of them is
the condition of his life’s success and soundness. The moral is
not the sole element: it is not entirely true dharma; on that side
is the victory. The immediate success often goes to other powers;
even an ultimate conquest of the Right comes usually by an
association with some form of Might. But still there is always a
moral element among the many factors of acknowledged right has at
some time or other disastrous or take account of his fellows and
the aid and opposition of their energies, and his relations with
them impose on him checks, demands and conditions which have or
evolve a moral significance. There is laid on him almost from the
first a number of obligations even in the pursuit of vital success
and satisfaction, which become a first empirical basis of an
ethical order. And there are cosmic as well as human forces that
respond to this balance of the mental and moral and the vital
order.
In the above it is shortly explained in philosophical language the
concept of Soul or Spirit, Mind and Body. In a materialistic way
also it can be explained that any imbalance between Mind and Body
relationship will certainly cause sickness to both mind and body.
The relationship of mind and body is inter-dependent. In other
words any imbalance of mind will disorder body. Like-wise any
disorder of body will imbalance mind. In fact, the mind is root
cause for sickness in an individual. The pure mind’s body is also
pure from sickness. The impure mind’s body is also impure with
sickness. So, Health is Mind and Mind is Health. According to
Hahnemann’s theory on Chronic Diseases, the direction of disorder
might from mind to body and body to mind. Any suppressions of
illness towards inside body finally disturb mind and cause
ill-ness to mind which appears in the form of mental disorders.
Like-wise any chronic jealousy or suppression of excitement or
grief will disturb mind and cause illness to body in terms of
different pathology. Homeopathy analyzes the root cause of a
chronic disease and the similimum, that is, the remedy, is
administered duly considering all these root causes. Hahnemann
proved Homeopathic medicines from Mind symptoms to Extremities and
Modalities of Medicine. The followers of Hahnemann have been
mounting up much subject on Mind and Body treatment. As such the
concept and subject on the Mind is highly stressed in the system
of Homeopathic Medicine.
Each and every one of the proven Homeopathic Medicine has
well-defined mental symptoms and mind picture. To illustrate:
Argentum nitricum - The mind is - Highly Impulsive, Hurried Mind
etc; Aurum met - The mind is - Despair and Melancholic, Suicidal;
Lachesis - The mind is - Loquatic, Suspicious, Jealous; Pulsatilla
- The Mind is - Sensitive, Needs Sympathy, Easily Tearful; Natrum
mur - The Mind is - Suppression of Grief and Sorrow, Could not
Express or Share his emotions, Hates any Sympathy. Anacardium
orientale - The mind is - Irresolution, Malicious, Some times Good
and Some times Bad, Change of Moods, Violent; Platina - The Mind
is - Egoistic, Proud, Impure Mind with Sex suppressions. Etc.
While analyzing a case the Homeopathic Physician considers the
Mind Picture, the Altered Disposition and its abnormalities and
the causation for sickness in order to prescribe the similimum.
The Mind picture or Natural Dispositions like - Domineering, Mild,
Anxious, Fearful, Mild, Restlessness, Planning and thinking,
Lascivious, Unsocial behaviour or Malicious, Destructiveness etc;
the Altered Disposition like - Sad, Melancholy, Effects of Shock,
Rage, Anguish, Dullness, Imbecile, Delusions etc The causations
like - Ailments from Loss of relative or failure of Love etc. and
Dreams.
Homeopathy deals with Mind and its state of alteration and the
altered state of Mind will come to normalcy through administering
a similimum. Homeopathy brings state of Happiness and Peace to the
Mind and brings sound health.
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