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ved. It is this state of super-consciousness where man gets an opportunity to experience the depth of pure love, peace of being and the autonomous bliss of the sclf. This state of super-consciousness is considered to be the value of values in life. Krishnamurty (1977) calls this state of transcendence the state of 'creative awareness' or 'creative reality' where the creativity of man in general and specially the moral and spiritual is most pronounced. It is this state for which most of the Indian philosophical thought, both classical and folk, in exhorts to aspire for and is idealized as the state of perfect health and normalcy Thus, fundamentally, 'health' is not the adaptive power but rather an intrinsic happiness; and higher is the degree of tbis autonomous peace and happiness heal-their and normal a man is.
As Sorokin remarks, "these traditional systems contain in them. selves nearly all the sound techniques of modern psycbo-analysis, psychotherapy, psychodrama, moral education, and education of character” and above all, do not include the 'violent' naturalistic methods (Kothari and Mehta, 1988) of modern psychiatry like electric-shock therapy, surgical operations, torturing of animals, and so on.
In fact today, when the world has already ushered into the epochs of post-modernity and fast reaching the logical edge of the consumeristic and hedonistic industrial civilization, a holistic concept of health and normalcy has become a great necessity. The conventional fragmentation of the totality of being into the multiple adaptational demands and the utilitarian segmentalization of the social and ecological systems have become too hazardous for the healthy growth of humanity. Instead of understanding our own existential predicaments through autological dialectics, today, we have made man overdependent upon a variety of experts, which in itself has put him to a different kind of insecurity feelings and hazards.
In short, what is needed now is first to emancipate the very notion of health itself from its traditional narrow confines and from the common negative meaning that the absence of disease is the measure of health". The concept of health along with the concept of man should be so broad based and positively-oriented that it may include the entire range of human life and the related ecological systems into a one integral fold. In order to attain such a notion of human development and health perspective, a radical alteration in our perception of man and human needs is a prime requisite and this calls forth the different disciplines of social sciences to review
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