COMPLEXITY OF MIND
I agree with you, this is a nice topic for discussion, said John. On a rainy day, we all close friends sitting in the drawing room sipping a cup of coffee and chatting. Ramesh continued saying, mind is a complex thing, the acts of which are incredible and amazing. If a person is convinced, his mind visualises the things or persons and makes him to see them physically.
Yes, my friend, who is a Doctor, explained me that if a woman is convinced that she is conceiving a baby, who is not truly on the family way, could get all symptoms of a pregnant woman said John. He continued further, she experiences morning sickness, changes in body, and even physical change of expanding tummy. This is ridiculous said Shiva. Ramesh with his comforting and pleasant voice said Shiva; this is what complexity of mind means. Please keep your cool to share our experiences and explore them further.
It’s true, even Hypnotists admit it. I heard of an incidence that happened to a medical Student said Imran. The medico, about whom I am narrating, is sceptic and a disbeliever of rebirths, Ghosts, devils, and spirits. She (medico) was arguing seriously with her friends one day about the fantasy of Ghosts and spirits. After prolonged argument, they proposed for a bet that medico, who is a nonbeliever of Spirits, should go alone to a burial ground, secure a nail on a selected tree and return alone. She agreed very boldly.
All her friends accompanied her up to the burial ground on a dark night. She entered bravely and confidently in to it with a hammer in one hand and a nail in the other. She did not return even at the break of dawn. Her friends worried, entered in to the burial ground and saw to their astonishment that she successfully stabbed the nail in to the stem of the tree along with a part of her attire fixed with it, and found dead. How do you correlate it? John questioned.
Ramesh interrupted, the possibility here is that people do hear lots of things about myths since childhood. When one is alone, a doubt arises whether one is erring and by any chance the myth they heard is true. This doubt dominates ones willpower and brings in fear. I remember reading an article that people fear for the silence but not for darkness, when they are alone. Probably, she started getting a doubt, being alone that when the people around her believe the existence of devils, which may be true. May be this is the reason for medico’s death. This is an instance for complexity of mind.
Shiva said I am in agreement, I do visualise that persons known to me are approaching me when I am walking in a dark street but when they actually come close by, I realise that they are altogether different persons and even not familiar to me at all.
Well friends, said Ramesh; I narrate an occasion, which was experienced by me, when I was living in a township, built for the employees of our project, which was away from a village nearby. I had the habit of walking for at least two to three miles after I had my food at night. One night, it was dark around; I took a torch light for my safety during walk. I had to encircle a barren land while walking for reaching the Gate for the township.
When I was about to take a turn during my walk, I noticed an old woman was sitting in the barren land. I guessed she may be answering her calls of nature and might be not allowed to use the washroom in the apartment. With a sad note I proceeded ahead on my walk. It used to take one hour to reach the same spot on my return. To my surprise I could see the old woman was still sitting in the same spot. I puzzled for a moment thinking what might have happened to her. But the very next moment fear engulfed me with a thought that she might be a devil. Suddenly my legs were frozen, my throat was dry. I stood like a statue there and unable to move forward. After struggling for a couple of minutes, I could regain my strength rejecting all thoughts as trash.
I decided that I should not leave the spot without knowing the fact. I hesitated for a moment, thinking that it is bad manners on my part to flash light on the spot. Besieged hard with mannerism and at the same time curiosity prevailed for knowing the fact, I swung the light quickly on the spot and withdrew. To my surprise, I have not seen any person there but an old newspaper stuck to a dry bush.
Great, said all in chorus. This is a perfect example for the complexity of mind said John. We all parted to meet again on some other day.
Kasturi Subbarao,
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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