Human is called a social animal, because of his ability to interact socially. This ability is responsible for his superior feeling which has made him to live an illusory life. Because the truth is otherwise. In fact a seed of superiority is lying within himself and waiting for water.
For a long time man is living an a mechanical life. He thinks something but acts opposite to it. A modern English thinker, Lewis Yablonsky, has coined a right word for this pathology, a robopathology and a man who suffers is called a robopath. Robo means a machine, an automaton and pathology refers to disease, so robopathology is a term to define current situation of human being. As he is becoming more and more mechanical.
There are two states of mind; conscious and sub-conscious. Sub-conscious mind is your robotic mind and most of the time it works and helps you in your daily routine. For example when you are learning how to drive a car then you are conscious about steering, brakes, accelerator and surrounding vehicles. But once you have learnt then this info is saved in your sub-conscious mind, that is your robot, and then you don’t have to be worried about the things which bothered you the first time. Then during driving you are talking on cell phone, listening songs but don’t pay such attention to driving. Have you noticed that at times when you are
going home and thinking something you forget about your surroundings but when
you come back from your thinking you are
at your own house…this is only because the way back to your house is saved in
your subconscious. But these benefits are within certain limits. As to live completely a robot life is nothing but boredom. To wake up in the morning, go to workplace, eat, sleep and the other day goes on alike.
Robopath is a person who goes on living a mechanical life, a repetitive life. He avoids adventures and is afraid of dangers, new ways. So he always tries to stick with his old ways, with which he is accustomed. He dreams at night with eyes shut and in the day with eyes open. He does not act but reacts. His button is in others’ hands, he is controlled by others. When somebody is insulting him, he reacts with his anger. Sufis have talked much about this pathology and given it may names. They used to call, man is dead, man is asleep, man is machine, and man is not yet. Gurdjieff introduced the same concept to western world and called man, a machine. All of his teachings were to wake up man. He used to say his followers to do a simple experiment, to watch the second arm of wrist watch and remember that it is the arm that shows seconds. But to his amazement, his followers could not remember it more than ten seconds.
So, robot mind is good for daily routine work but to live completely with it takes away the charm of life. It is like to live life in sleeping mode. Hence, to do everything with consciousness does the work of salt in life. Be aware of your each and every activity.
