Dualism in Life

Dualism in humanscalling it human nature. Actually it has become a
Dualism is a marked feature among people in moderndominating character in life. Now a beggar can easily
times. Dualism means to act, behave or show orpose as a saint, a sage or a fortune-teller. Modern
pose different than the actuality. No one is sparedsensibility does not function like traditional wisdom. It
and unaffected by dualism. The issue is not whetherperceives no stable base as a standard to judge by
to practise it or not. The real issue is how far werelating or comparison. The problem is, even the right
have gone into practising dualism in everyday life. Itand wrong have lost their original meaning. The
has reached its extremes. It has been seen thatreason is that the standard base to hold upon has
people try to pose different than actual even inbeen shaken. The result is chaos in modern life. Now
unimportant cases.everybody practices dualism.
Sometime in the past, dualism existed as a marginalAn interesting question arises, if dualism has helped
aspect of the total personality. It prevailed in thepeople to succeed in life in past, will it continue to
form and level of mood. A character was quitehelp in future? The answer is no. The main reason for
conscious of and aware of the temporary change inits failure is that it sometimes backfires. It is a two
posing different from actual. Moral values had strongedged weapon. The problem is that even being
hold in life and the conscience pinched human heartaware of dualism to such extent, we still practise it.
as a reminder of doing sin by practising dualismDespite of this fact, we expect things to be clear of
regarded a vice. At that time a beggar in general,their nature. The net result is dualism has bred
looked like a beggar and not confused with a saint, asuspicion. Even if someone or something seems or is
sage, an ascetic, a hermit or a fortune-teller. Theregenuine, we see with doubt because the ruling
was more or less a marked boundary. A beggarelement of dualism prevents us to perceive and
aware of his limits, dared not pose as a saint. Thisjudge on account of any known experience. The
was so because of a fear of being pointed out.experience thus formed up to that point had already
As time rolled on, most of the taboos and beliefsbeen shattered and it failed to become a standard
were shaken by modern scientific developments.for genuine judgement. Since dualism is judging a dual
People in general lost fear of heaven and hell. As acharacter, the result is confusion. Modern minds in
result the hold of moral values was eased. Theconfusion are becoming weaker in memory. So no
people relished for an open and relaxed atmosphere.one tries to think hard in confusion and leaves the
From moods, duality got transferred into attitudes.matter without forming an opinion.
Practising duality was found rewarding rather thanThe only hope to get rid of this evil is to revert to
losing in most cases. In that case, the consciousbeing playfully moody in dualism, unlike being serious
actual self began to lose to the posing self. In otherin posing, what one is not. This will lead to developing
words, people began to improve in the art of dualism.a habit of playing occasional kidding gestures among
It meant, posing or acting other than actual gotpeople during interaction and thus reduce undue
perfected in minimizing chances of being detected orstress posed by deep-rooted dualism. It is high time
pointed out.to restore faith, encourage openness and respect
From being playfully moody in dualism, then making itotherness in the fast transforming Indian Society.
an attitude, we have now entered into a phase of