Selves

Selves

The many faces of a man - multiple beings all embedded in the realm of the mind. The one surfacing at any given moment being left to chance, nay, chance is the adjudicator and the director of the play, with the screenplay being left entirely at the hands of each individual actor. The no. of artists on stage solely decided by the ruling actor of the moment, or rather his perceptions.

The play expands by the day to incorporate and nurse more artists, each of them a master in his own right, with an Ego quotient as high as possible. The seven selves, as described by Kahlil Gibran, are forever engaged in battle to gain supremacy of the mind, of the self. Each of the selves stake a claim to the throne, backed up with a convincing set of arguments.

Yet, alas, anniliation of one at the hands of the other is virtually impossible, even though they are perenially at loggerheads with each other. The rules of the earthly world, thus alleviate itself from that of the mind.

The bane of mankind has been its inability to comprehend the mental realm, the only possesion which sets him apart from fellow tellurians, which like an over-spoilt child can prove to be his downfall. The emphasis of eastern thought on "the observation of the mind" seems apt, and the saying goes "Conquer the mind to conquer the world".