[WithoutMe]

Our moral ideas and sentiments have three sources (according to the ‘Triune brain hypothesis’), as follows: -

The first springs from the Reptilian Brain: It is the set of desires inherent in our nature, which impel us to eat, drink, congregate, procreate: in general, to continue our physical existence and exercise our inborn faculties.

The second springs from the Mammalian Brain: It is the state of society, which makes necessary certain rules governing our behavior and interactions, in order to maintain society and the goods attainable only in society.

The third springs from the Human Brain (and is the last brain to develop in the grand evolutionary scale): It is our conscious, explicit attempts to figure out what our proper goals and rules of conduct are.

While birth, during the trauma that is caused (called the ‘birth trauma’) while a baby is brought out from the safe environment of the mother’s womb out to this world, the child experiences the first panic of her life & thus, the three brains develop some minor lack in synchronicity. This disharmony is increased as the child goes through the loads of other panic (due to the traumas of life) as she grows up. However, this breaking-up of the 3 brain harmony can also happen before birth, if the child faces any emergency of resources while in the womb (like if the mother falls over & all).

Now, why do we need morality? Because we have free will. We do not merely exist, but act, and in acting, are faced with infinite alternative courses of action (or inaction). In order to act, we must choose a course of action; and in order to choose, we need some reason to prefer one course of action to another. Morality is our guide to choosing among these alternatives. Thus, Choice is the fundamental axis on which all morality is based! Instead of this kind of a morality, which is “to-be-decided”, based on a principle or an idea, can we not exist in a way so as to do, not on any said or known idea (be it the moral values or out of the fear of punishment), but do as if the whole of Existence flows through us while one is doing it, i.e., one doesnot actually do it, instead, it is done, not by someone or by some idea, but one that is borne out of the precise perception of ‘what is’ (in place of the ‘what ought to be’)…. Can that be possible?

Having a guide, be it morality or whatever, will need a mind that listens not to ‘what is’, but to ‘what should be’. Now instead of listening to ‘what should be’, can one be totally attentive only to ‘what is’ & act accordingly? In that case, there will be no image of that thing, as per the ‘should have been’ like this or that, but the actual & immediate perception, a sort of real relation among all things… Can one then live in an absolute reality, a reality that is stripped bare of its notions, ideas, theories, images, abstractions, & all that goes under the veil of “should have been” or “should be”?

In short, can one have an innate ethics, one that is not learned or grows out of age, but one that is a 'mode of existence' , a sort of living-in-harmony? Or, in the language of Neuro-Psychology, can the three brains work in perfect harmony with each other?

Infact as I see it, the effort of all these Yogis & all, is to gain back the balance the 3 brains had back before the experience of the birth trauma!!! Now wonder Nirvakalpa Samadhi is described as living in the Womb of Existence.

Regards,
wM.

PS. "Morality" is based on "mores" (the word "more" means "should be" or the "ought to be")...