Sanskar , Alcohol and Subconscious Mind

Buddhiraj Sahu
Nov 5 · 4 min read

A Psychologist’s speculation on human behaviour and Indian Sankar:A controlled wrong way.

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Here is something funny but it is some softcore enlightenment written by PriyaDi on the exploitation of common people in name of Sanskar.Here didi has commented on how people are giving more importance to a social norms than(such serious issue like)birth of a child.

So what is sanskar?

The Sanskrit word saṃskāra (संस्कार) has various context-driven meanings that broadly refer to “the putting together, accomplishing well, making perfect, a form of solemn recognition and getting ready” and “mental impression, recollection.(source:wikipedia)

The Myth: Sanskar is the property of having good behaviour.

But,the popular notion of sanskar is the myth.Everyone want their son ,daughter,daughter-in-law etc to be sanskari(man or women with Sankar) son.And,they have no idea what is it?and why is it?


Lets turn our train of thoughts to somewhere else…

Actually, It’s an experience during my visit to one of my mentors wedding in Pachmari MadhyPradesh.I met a lots of people out of which there were some experts from some fields like politics photography/psychology etc and also some common man(Aam-Aadmi).I talked about myself my journey and my goals in brief and they too shared theirs.One night some of those people had a bear party.One man (lets name him Hobs) , he became very aggressive and he was saying bad about me scolding me.Actually I was sleeping that night peacefully but I came to know about his weird behaviour on the next day morning.And I was like wtf? Why was that man mad at me?

The short answer is jealousy, but why did his impulse became alive after taking some shots of whisky??

Actually he was envious of me from the beginning,but could not spit it out.Social rules and norms had hold his tongue all that time.But, that did not last longer.Here is a fact from neuroscience.

Drinking alcohol results in less amount of blood flow to your prefrontal cortex thus inhibiting activity in that region and it results in loss of impulse control,poor decision making and bad memory acquisition.

Yes, now let’s highlight the word Impulse.as a human being we all have impulses(one can compare it with the ‘ego’ as termed by Freud in his developmental theory of person).Having impulses is not wrong but suppressing it without deeply understanding is really bad.

What is the role of Sanskar here?

The psychological make up of someone is Conscious self and sub-conscious instincts.These are basically →

1) Things you know you do or have done

2) Things you don’t know you have done

To be precise the decision you take, the kind of music you choose are to somewhat you conscious living, but why exactly you do it you have no idea. Truely, 80 % of the time we are working in a auto pilot mode.

These subconscious impulses are and will always be there in the back of your mind but you can exchange them with some good thoughts or actions.

Even when you had a bad feeling if you try to look at a situation in a good way and do the same when that kinds of situations appear again ,then good thing will happen .What is happening here is you are using your Conscious mind too much to see the good then eventually it will transform you subconscious mind too.Thus the next time you will feel nothing bad in that situation.(Same as adding fresh water into a glass of oil,eventually there will remain only the water).
Ex-here that man could have feel good to see a younger boy than him is on a quest to work on his passion and make friends.

How Sankar works!!

Honest Psychological defn of sanskar,

The property learned implicitly or explicitly by virtue of which people override their urge to basic drives like food water sex self defence in order to accomplish some goals oriented towards a comfortable life.
(-according to me)

1)Good Sanskar is all about what is good way to behave as taught by parents and others.Its not a first hand things,you didn’t learn on your own.Thus your own thinking and feeling are conditioned in the way other had taught you to.

2)You will be rewarded when you get good marks but in a street of bad people child are rewarded when they do theft rape etc. One’s life is totally upside down as compare to other.This cunfuse child to decide what is good/bad when they become adult.Society and culture decides good/bad for them.

3)And yes,it creates the bad word called “formalities”.You have to behave as a sanskari people even when you are in a need.(hungry, want to go out,date someone etc).

Rick and Morty

That’s fine for today, I have bad behaviour so as you.To keep a eye on those we don.t need sanskar,we need conscious way of living and may be something else.

Next Time >>> On Imagination

Buddhiraj Sahu

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I am a Neuro-Nomad , love to view the world in an artistic way!!

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