When we are talking of a person as an individual, we forget that we are actually the sum of many many individual entities. Biologically we are a full walking ecosystem. We have nearly more than 100 trillion bacteria living inside us, especially in our gut. Also that is perhaps more than the total number of all human beings who have ever been born so far. Even our body includes many other living organisms that affect the way we move, the way we digest, the way we think, the nature we feel, the way we react and respond. This is the reason we declare the expression, ‘ gut feeling ’ that is the summation of all the feelings of all the inhabitants in our body.
When we come up with some idea or wisdom of new theories or analysis, all of that does not come from just I the individual, instead collectively, the result of inputs from all our mentors, friends and family, whatever we collect from books, audio visual media, and lastly our assessment. Now such self or Atman is also a part of this huge universe the Prana Brahman, the universal consciousness of Hindu philosophy. This whole universe constitutes such selves as well as the whole Brahman or the cosmos. They are each complete in themselves separately, the individual.
What we feel is collectively, the sense of temperature on the surface skin, the effect of the heat on the each complete organisms in the body, also the effect of the temperature on the that particular organ system. This is the resultant feeling we express. So sometimes it is seen that a certain amount of temperature we are able to bear, taking in consideration the influence of the brain signals which directs that it is bearable, but otherwise sometimes you may consider the same temperature unbearable. May be you have just watched the Khatoon ke Khelari reality show in the television 📺 and inspired by the tolerance factor of an individual.
One day I could not find any hope in going with the time ,coping with the studies 📚, this 24 hours felt like too short a period for my total syllabus. But, my mentor gave me some tips on how to proceed on the studies 📝, by little writing down the notes a little, and going through the theories with understanding and logic. So now I think that this 24 hours is sufficient enough to prepare my syllabus. This is a collective agreement of ideas that we sometimes change according to the evidence of the influx of knowledge we impart from surroundings. This is a resultant idea we develop, though we are an individual.
The doctrine of interdependence, the ‘ bundle’' theory in Buddhism talks of the anatman, the no- self, a and of anicca, the doctrine of impermanence, indicating that, " The individual is a series of interconnected processes that, working together, give the appearance of being a single, separated, but whole. Hence the individual, who we believe to be a singular entity, is viewed as being an interrelated part of an ever-changing, impermanent universe.
Hope I could explain the individual as a conglomerate of small complete organisms, so is me Subir Kumar Ghosh.
