Morality Absolute

By Abhijit Naskar

"If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as this - a moral being is a good being - a religious being - a conscientious being - a wise being."

Abhijit Naskar is the name of an idea that has swept the world off its feet with the realization of one humanity. The humanizing ideas of this twenty-first century thinker have been at the fore-front of global harmony and peace. In this book, Naskar takes us on a joy-ride of realization of our inner morality. He quite boldly trumps all intellectual assumptions of morality, and proclaims it to be realized, worked on and acted on, by nobody else but ourselves. Here he tears apart all claims of exclusive possessions of morality by the scientific, philosophical and religious communities, and places it where it is born in the first place - the human mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Naskarism Publishing
• Release date: Nov 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386067634

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CHAPTER 1––––––––What’s Right,

What’s Wrong

What's right and what 's wrong, that's the question that every single living human on earth ponders upon every once in a while, if not frequently. Volumes of literature have been published on this matter, yet it appears to be a never-resolving puzzle among the kind of creatures known as Homo sapiens - a puzzle for which every single individual on earth believes to have a solution. Yet, when the impulses of instincts shove them at the very edge of their conscience, those self-glorified solutions and preconceived notions of the puzzle of a basic moral sense begin to dwindle in thin air of insecurity and confusion. Out of this magnificent yet heart-wrenching existential event, rises either a truly civilized being with absolute control over the primitive parts of the self, or an ugly ghost from our distant wild past.

Standing true to one's moral values is easier when the mind is absorbed in chemical happiness, but the trouble occurs, when that happiness becomes a matter of the future attained only through almost superhuman persistence, patience and self-restraint. In such situations, the true mettle of a human being reveals itself - and the truth rises through the actions taken by the individual. And depending on the temporal nature of the reward anticipated via those actions, one can truly determine the moral pedestal that one truly lives on.

Happy moments almost always induce morally superior behavior in an individual, but that's not the true moral realm that one lives in. The true morality of an individual self manifests during the moments of extreme hardship and agony. These are the moments that determine the true solution to the puzzle of morality of human existence. Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human species. Every other kind of moral behavior would simply be an evolutionary response of the brain's empathy system acting as a mechanism for survival of not necessarily the individual, but a group of individuals.

And that's how various ideologies often induce morally superior behavior among individuals within the groups relevant to those ideologies, such as nationalism, communism, feminism, religious fundamentalism, scientism and many more. Happiness induced morality is not true morality, for it is very likely to be nullified by the morally inferior behavior the individual expresses when he or she is in pain.

Now, here one thing I must clarify. It is that in terms of momentary practical application, there is really not much difference between happiness induced moral behavior and that manifested in agony. However, we want to make a world where even one's miseries cannot overpower one's moral behavior, not a world where a person does charity when he or she is happy, and undoes all that by hurting his or her most dear ones in moments of pain.

For the ignorant, pain is a curse, but for the wise, it is a blessed moment for reinforcing one's inner goodness and morality. Morally inferior sentiments and behavior do not require nourishment, in order to survive in the neural mesh of an individual, rather they gain power in the absence of conscientious flow of goodness in the mental realm of an individual. Here, you must also bear in mind, these flows of goodness and morality do not come from the external world, rather they rise from your internal world and then get manifested through behavior in the outside world.

Human mind is a nuclear furnace of good and evil, but the interesting part is, the evil does not need sustenance to survive, the good does. When the good has sustenance, the evil remains dormant, but the moment the good lacks sustenance provided by the self, the evil grows stronger and turns the self into its worst primitive version. How much sustenance the good has been provided by the self is determined during the times of reduced level of happy hormones.

Happiness induced morality does not say anything about the content of a person's character. The real mettle of an individual's character is revealed during the times of misery. Happiness brings instant gratification with it, but it does not have as much impact upon the shaping of a person's character as does misery, which initiates strong character-building responses within the brain. Misery builds character, happiness makes cheesecake. And upon the edifice of strong conscientious characters the bold and civilized sapiens society is to be born.

CHAPTER 2––––––––When Cognition and Behavior are in sync

Humans are being raised in a society where people are getting more and more easily bored with what they have in their possession at the current moment. There is an innate tendency within us to always crave for more, either looking towards the past or imposing an image of the self in an imaginary futuristic scenario, and apparently this tendency is growing stronger throughout the world, especially in the advanced nations, for they have reached a point of saturation in terms of basic needs of survival.

Something is going terribly wrong. Their tendency for desiring more has made them less humane, trustworthy and emotionally stable in personal relationships and as well as in terms of social capabilities, despite the fact that existential sociability is the key element in human adaption. And this lack of genuine bond among humans well beyond the primitive