Conscience

Thought control! - Where do we get this from?

When we see a new born baby, sometimes we directly assume that the infants don’t know to think or we start to wonder about their thought process. Considering the fact that it is non-communicative, or at the least for the human interpretation, we assume that the process doesn’t require any control action. Experience based knowledge and common sense proves that the assumption is harmless! But once the infant starts and understands the concept of thinking, we set boundaries. With or without our knowledge we set boundaries based on ‘our’ brought up and ‘our’ understanding of what is right and wrong. If you look back the lane you walked through your childhood, you would see that the brought up was instilled with parental moral values and conceptual understanding of the world progression. These two actually commingles to what we call as the “conscience”.

Merriam-Webster defines conscience as “the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good”.

Before getting in to a different plane called God-fearing, how often have we stopped or started our actions based on conscience? How often have we reasoned our actions based on our brought-up? We respond to the emotions based on our premeditated rules that we have set inside the aura of conscience!

For instance, according to any common middle class family in my country (India) pre-marital sex is a sin (I hope)! Whereas for a normal parent in here (United States) if his/her son or daughter is not being social (!), they tend to think there could be something wrong with them and they encourage them to date and be normal (!). Not that they advocate pre-marital sex but they don’t consider it as a sin. Now, this is because that the people of different cultures have their own way of understanding what is best for them. What is good for you might not be good for someone else! Everyone has their own conscience and the chances of a complete overlap between any two sets are impossible and that’s the beauty of the creator.

As I said earlier, we develop everything as we grow. Conscience builds character and character builds conscience. If you remember, character is build upon knowledge! So, knowledge does influence conscience. It either curves or straightens conscience!

It’s the main raw material for the end product called “guilt”. What motivates guilt? Our rules! The fights, on the regrets for actions, are often between conscience and reasoning! We grow up with external influences, good and bad, we save both as we progress through the lessons of life. And then wisdom delivers changes! It alters the perception of good and bad! And finally it all boils down to how far we are away from the original sins. We keep adding and negating constraints to our so called pseudo-conscience based on reasoning, but we are supposed to keep in mind that we should succumb to the fundamental rules of our original conscience and make sure we preserve it to the fullest.

Alter your consciential rules of existence, but make sure you dont lose your individuality in it. If the character is victimized in the chamber of life then conscience delivers justice and one who loses it is as good as dead with no life-after