Today
let us pick 39 and 40th shlokas of 4th chapter for our Psychoanalysis Mano Vaijnanika
Vishleshane. Here there are certain words like Shradda, Shanti, Ajnate,
Ashradde and the most important one "Samshayatma vinashyati". Today's
biggest trauma is this Samshaya (doubting).
श्रद्धावान् लभते ज्ञानं
तत्परः संयतेन्द्रियः।
ज्ञानं लब्ध्वा परां
शान्तिमचिरेणाधिगच्छति॥गीता ४-३९॥
अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा
विनश्यति।
नायं लोकोऽस्ति न परो न सुखं
संशयात्मनः॥गीता ४-४०॥
Doubting
and Shradda do not go together. Wherever there is deep Shradda (Commitment),
there is no place for doubting. India's ancient literature has given two
dimensions for this doubting, positive and negative.
Tarka
Shastra / Nyaya Shastra prescribe 16 tools to reach Tatva Jnana (Realistic
Understanding). A few of them are Pramana, Prameya, Samshaya, Prayojana, Drushtanta, Sidhanta, Avayva, Tarka, Vada,
Nirnaya, Kshetwabhasa, Samanvaya and so on. All these tools lead to realistic
understanding, objective understanding of the subject matter. So in this
context, Samshaya is a necessary tool which ultimately leads to clarity of
understanding.
In
today's modern research methodology, we shortlist all probable scenarios to start
with and gradually proceed to negate one by one depending on probability of occurrences,
ultimately leading to clear understanding and confirmed conclusions. Samshaya or doubting is what works here. So
in the path of Tatva Jnana, Samshaya is necessary
and useful.
Sometime
back, a parent in Dharwad started doubting the behaviour of their
child, every day the child was going out of the school for some or the other
reason. This doubting of the parent led to unraveling a big racket of
antisocial elements feeding school children with food items laced with drugs.
This was happening just outside the school. So, doubting led to unraveling of
such a big menace. Similarly, a small doubt of a press reporter in America lead
to exposure of large scale mal-practice and under handling in elections because
of which an elected leader had to resign.
So
Samshaya is not bad always, it
leads to Vichara, Vimarshe and Vishleshana. People, who have such Samshaya,
will be constructive thinkers, they will be inclined to unravel the truth, they
always think in terms of societal welfare and national security, nationalistic at
heart. With this as the basis, they start with a small thread of information
and go on researching to unravel the truth, which is in the interest of society
and nation. In this way Samshaya is good.
