IS ESCAPISM INEVITABLE
“Nature is not a feeling-less machine. It is the arena of feelings
and emotions that create discoveries and revelations continuously. We feel
rushed and chased and driven continuously in life because we have landed
into the economic life which means participation in the destruction of
nature. *Life is actually converted into escaping*. Unfortunately, every
university is driven by economics and actually is helping mechanization or
the removal feelings and emotions, the basic method of relating.”
KR: “ Emotions and sensory perceptions are closely intertwined.
Of the five senses, sight has been by far the most extensively studied
sense in emotion research. Relatively less is known about how emotions
influence the other four senses. Touch is essential for nonverbal
communication in both humans and other animals. The current investigation
tested competing hypotheses about the effect of fear on tactile perception.
One hypothesis based on evolutionary considerations predicts that fear
enhances sensory perception, including tactile sensitivity. A competing
hypothesis based on research on peripheral psychophysiology predicts that
fear should decrease tactile sensitivity. Two experiments that induced
negative emotional states and measured two-point discrimination ability at
the fingertip found that fear reduces tactile sensitivity relative to anger
or a neutral control condition (Studies 1 and 2). These findings did not
appear to be driven by participants’ naïve beliefs about the influence of
emotions on touch (Study 3). The results represent the first evidence of
the causal impact of emotional states on tactile sensitivity, are
consistent with prior evidence for the peripheral physiological effects of
fear, and offer novel empirical grounds for developing and advancing
theories of emotional influences on sensory perception.” [NATIONAL LIBRARY
OF MEDICINE RESEARCH] These observations based on our philosophy, is ONLY
ACCORDING TO THE TRIGUNAS THE PRAKRITHI -NATURE.
Based on research on emotional speech perception, we
created a new, highly controlled full-body stimuli set. We used the
same-sequence approach, and not emotional actions (e.g., jumping of joy,
recoiling in fear): One professional dancer danced 30 sequences of (dance)
movements five times each, expressing joy, anger, fear, sadness or a
neutral state, one at each repetition. We outline the creation of a total
of 150, 6-s-long such video stimuli, that show the dancer as a white
silhouette on a black background. Ratings from 90 participants (emotion
recognition, aesthetic judgment) showed that intended emotion was
recognized above chance (chance: 20%; joy: 45%, anger: 48%, fear: 37%,
sadness: 50%, neutral state: 51%), and that aesthetic judgment was
sensitive to the intended emotion (beauty ratings: joy > anger > fear >
neutral state, and sad > fear > neutral state). The stimuli set, normative
values and code are available for download.
The Bhagavad Gita suggests emotional perception involves
cultivating equanimity, recognizing the transient nature of emotions, and
detaching from selfish attachments to achieve inner peace. It explains how
contemplation leads to desire, which, when thwarted, results in anger, and
emphasizes redirecting attention inward and surrendering attachments to God
rather than external objects. The Gita identifies fear, anger, and greed as
destructive "gates to hell," urging one to transcend them through spiritual
wisdom and selfless action.
Bg. 2.14
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः ।
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ॥ १४ ॥
mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya
śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ
āgamāpāyino ’nityās
tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata
O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and
their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and
disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense
perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without
being disturbed.
Bg. 2.48
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय ।
सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते ॥ ४८ ॥
yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi
saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañ-jaya
siddhy-asiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā
samatvaṁ yoga ucyate
Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to
success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.
In the process of control of the mind and thus from the
impact of emotions, people undergo the escapism as a route.
K Rajaram IRS 81025
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