865 (Part 4 of 10 series) Review of Bolshevik Revolution 1917 . Musings on Individualism and True Total Socialism

I do not AT PRESENT believe much in tokenisms of conveying best wishes on New Years etc., though I might have in the past, occasionally engaged myself in such conveyances. Hence, To my readers: Be yourself 2017 ! We shall continue our musings on Individualism vs True Total Socialism. In the previous blogpost No. 864, we have made some comparative observations on the Railway System of now defunct U.S.S.R, and our 2016 INdian Railways and the portents for 2017. Thoughts are like house-flies during rainy season. Like the flies, unbridled (uncontrolled, unrestrained) thoughts can also make our lives miserable. As an atheist, I do not believe in yoga, in its present marketing sense. True yoga (yoga = Indo European Word. Akin to 'yoke' = pairing, just as two oxen are paired to a plough), Yoga in religious sense might have referred to a Yoking between "Soul of a Creature (human soul which Indian culture believes, to reside in human bodies, called 'jIva Atma')" and the "Supreme God called 'parama Atma' ", in Bhagavad Gita, an important scripture of Hinduism, though not the SOLE SCRIPTURE.

According to present scientific understanding, I believe that 'soul' does not exist. Mind, I believe is only an extended faculty of body. Mind is not separate from physical body of any individual. When a body is buried, or cremated, everything pertaining to the body goes. A wing of INdian Philosophy 'sAnkhya path' or sAnkhya yOga, which is based on numbers (sankhya = number), recognises 'mano buddhi ahankAra cittams' (mano=mind, buddhi=intellect, ahankAra=ego, cittam=mental disposition, will) as concepts. We can view yOga as a yoking of body and manobuddhyahankAra cittams. This concept has nothing to do with God, jIvAtma (souls of creatures) and paramAtma (Supreme Soul).

Indian Philosophical tenets, inter alia other things, revolve around conquering senses and the minds (mano buddhyahankAra cittams).

All the three principal philosophical tenets Advaita (Monism), Dvaita (Dualism), ViSishThA advaita (special Monism), recognise the need for harmony between the soul within the body, and outside the body. Understanding this harmony between whatever exists within our bodies, and outside our bodies in the environment, can add an additional strength to the concept of Socialism, which involves SHARING. Individualism prevalent, and vociferously supported in today's Capitalist world, does not give much value to SHARING, except some intangible and intractable sharing of FaceBook, Twitter etc. Social Media images and messages. On the other hand the SHARING visualised by Writers like Karl Marx, leaders like Lenin, Versatile Geniuses like George Bernard Shaw, strengthen the idea of sharing of tangible objects in Socialism.

More, will be added to this blog post, today and tomorrow.