Shivaji -- Portrait of the King as Barbarian

Allama Iqbal and His Women Re: # 50 Hi! The teacher asked his student `what is your name?` The student humbly replied, ``Sher Yar``...The teacher angrily took out his stick asked the student to streatch out his hand and start hitting saying, `where in the world one would call teacher `yar```! Cheers and Peace!

Allama Iqbal and His Women Iqbal is matchless...His dream for Pakistan meant a `self` both individual and collective on the smilitude of friedrich Nietzschde...but now in 21st century finding Mahmud of Ghazna, Tariq Ziyad, Musa Bin Nussr or Mohammad Qassim happily going for conquering foreigners and their lands seems `aggression`...This is the time that would make us think if it is ok finding a powerful eagle ruling the skies to may poor swans its prey...? Or let me tell it step by step as what that we have in present since 17th century believes..
1. Doubt gives rise to begin investigation
2. Self is “a thing that thinks” (mind) leads to analysis of doubt […I think therefore I am”…Descartes ]
3. Therefore ‘self’ is the grounding point of modern philosophy . Self make us explore further unto the God and Universe.
4. The power of mind is meaningful for an investigation on what is true and what is false, right and wrong. Thus initiating an identity search.
5. Veracity (truth) is not in body but in mind (self). [Dualism two different kinds of substances mind and body.]
6. Mind: is immaterial and internal existence that known to mind itself.
7. Body is material, occupies space and is divisible. Head, fingers, thumbs…are identifiably parts of body.
8. Mind and Body are distanced and distinct from each other.
Question arises as:
9. How the two can be reconciled?
10. But self includes the body too.
11. Therefore body is a self too but different from the self (mind)
12. Mind is pivot of the vessel that control and direct the body.
13. Mind’s control over body can be challenged and hijacked? Say drunken man has not control of mind any more. Hence foreign substance has taken over the role of mind…
Thus came Sigmund Freud criticism on Descartes approaches saying:
14. Mind cannot be the sole pivot of the vessel controlling and directing the body. There is more to the self than that Descartes appreciated…said Sigmund Freud.
15. Self grounding in mind and responsible for every thing is too primitively simple
16. Self cannot be a thing as Descartes said but more mysterious, messy and complicated.
17. Freud distinguished self with an iceberg said it is ‘an intricate web of conflicting desires, dictates and attempts to be rational but still remains unexposed.’ Freud self has three parts; the id, the superego and the ego.
18. Id contains two instincts called ‘thanatos’ and ‘eros’ demanding satisfaction/pressing for irrational acts. Hence it operates for body related pleasures (food/sex) only however:
19. Id is constantly warned and checked by part of our self called superego, an integral part of our psych that exercises a check and balance mechanism versus id.
20. And thus the tussle between id and superego attempts to change the structure of the self.
21. However, here ego intervenes to keep balance between reality and desires. It is the ego that tells you chill when you doing some self-destructive. It is some times successful some times not.
22. To find why one would act in a way that is devastating Freud has developed ‘psychoanalysis’ that would unearth the fault by talking about the past.
23. What The Descartes and Freud discussion gets struck with is the role of mind that no body has seen to say if its existence.
Other Theorists:
24. The search for alternative explanation of identity has made other theorists to return to the body part of self that Descartes had discarded as unreliable and unworthy of attention. Hence it was said that if there be any thing called mind it must be located nowhere but in body existing in space and time.
25. The consequences of physical body are immense with respect to such person’s psychologies about himself and others.
26. These theorists observed that both Descartes and Freud overlooked the consequences of body that abodes the mind.
27. The role of body was further enhanced with the discovery of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) that helped resolved all the issues of self.
28. DNA is divided into chromosomes alongside what lays genes that furnishes a blue print of a person, his growth and development. Genes containing four acids:-(i) Adenine, (ii) Guanine, (iii) Cytosine and (iv) Thymine, all called ‘nucleotides. This discovery helped researchers in Human Genome Project to know the self.
The Human Genome Project in 1990 mapping out the complete human genetic code came out with the results that human genome consists of approximately 30 to 40 thousand genes that send messages to our body thus dictating our behaviour. These genes reflect about the entire self its past, present and future.