At last the stage has come where some medicine was needed to treat this kind of mental illness in adults. But I will insist upon meditation like prayer, yoga or any other similar means to focus on self with absolute concentration, a method to explore Secrets of Self to reach a point where The Creator may communicate directly with us.
When I heard about the world Selfie
first time, my instant thinking was that it is something to do with Secrets of
Self (Asar-i-Khudi), the first poetry book of Iqbal published in 1915.
But as I watched on CNN President
Obama posing for a Selfie during a memorial service for former South African
President Nelson Mandela last December.
I corrected my thought that
this Selfie is not that of Iqbal. This Selfie is simply a photograph that one
captures typically of oneself with a Smartphone to upload on social media for
the purpose of self exhibit. President Obama is not an exception and due to
natural instinct even I would like to do the same at some special occasions as I could not resist to be a part of a Selfie caught by my Grand Daughter in the following picture.
Self in general is a composition of two elements i.e. “I” and “Me”. “I” stand
for the definition, description and unlimited detailed explanation of one
self’s good or bad characteristics according to his perception while “Me” is
the perceptions of others regarding all these characteristics. In both the
cases it is not easy to pass a concrete judgment about one’s personality which
is known by The Creator who does not require any uploaded photograph in any
color, style or with any celebrity at some occasion. He understands the Selfie
of each and every creature, the invisible characteristics of the soul which is
not readable by any humanly gadget. If I conceive the perception of my soul
which can be photographed, only then it will be possible to uplift its level to
the one needed to a bit closer to The Creator’s wish.
We can escalate our Self to an unlimited
height level just like Will Power to an unlimited strength except the
difference of wishful targets are set for Will Power and not for Self enhancement. Secrets of Self
are not related to wishful thinking, rather these are based upon the refinement
of our spirit, cleaner and purer the spirit better is the human according to
the standards set by The Creator. Today our souls are so much polluted that we
have to take shelter of our skeleton’s appearance, the photograph. It can only
deceive ourselves and cannot necessarily create an impact of an ideal human. We
have to work on purification of our souls to be better human and the beautiful
world in result.
