Change Your Sanskaar For A Better Sansaar

The world is divided into two major groups as far as existence of soul is concerned, one of these consists of people who believe in the existence of the soul and are called religious people and the other consists of people who do not believe in its existence and are called non-religious people. True knowledge of soul, however, is not a matter of superficial importance nor is it to be left to some philosophers or religious scholars to discuss. However, it would be incomplete if we would not touch upon views of a well known psychologist on Soul or consciousness. He did not believe in the existence of Soul as an entity, different from the body and the brain. He considered 'The Unconscious' as comprising mainly of the repressed desires which manifest themselves in dreams and find expression in the form of neurotic habits and phobias. He called this as Id (or instincts and drive) and said that man's desires were so censored by his Super-ego and those desires which were considered as not conforming to social norms or to accepted ethical standards were repressed On the other hand, in the East, religious people of India have, since very ancient times, been believing in Sanskaras which are to some extent, like 'The Unconscious' of Freud's Theory because these do not form the content of The Conscious because man is normally not aware of them or their sources even though his personality and his behaviour, at all times, is influenced by the Sanskaras that he posesses. His sanskaras do not leave him even in his dreams or his spiritual efforts. In fact, these are so intimately related with man's peace and war or good and bad personality that it would be meaningless to talk of world peace or a social, political or cultural change without talking of and planning and working for a change in the man's Sanskaras.

Remember ! without the knowledge of 'The Unconscious', all the inventions of Science and Technology will not make the world peaceful even though they may make it comfortable. All the scholarship, erudition, religious rituals and mantras will also not help to land man in peace unless and until there is a change for the better in man's Sanskaras. And that is why we must strongly work towards changing our sanskar’s if we want to have a good and better Sansaar.