Individual Behaviour Sustains and Unifies Multiple Statuses and Roles
Explanation of Deendayal Upadhyay - Integral Humanism – Part II
Deendayal Upadhyay states that every individual is a limb of one ore more institutions of society. In sociological language, every individual is a member of different groups and he has a status or multiple statuses in various groups. Each status may have one or more roles the individual has to play. But Deendayal asserts that, despite this multiple personality, a man can and should behave in a way which does not bring different aspects of his life into mutual conflict but which is mutually sustaining, complementary and unifying. This quality, he argues, is inherent in man.
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Individual – A Plural Entity
Deendayal Upadhyay states that every individual is a limb of one ore more institutions of society. In sociological language, every individual is a member of different groups and he has a status or multiple statuses in various groups. Each status may have one or more roles the individual has to play. For example, if we take family as a group, a man may be a son to parents, a husband, a father to his children, a brother, and an uncle. All these are status of a single man in a single group called family. Each and every status has multiple roles. A son may be bread-earner for the family, in the house he may need to do some household chores; he may have to observe some fasts on some days etc. Apart from being a member of a family, a man may be an employee of an organization, a member of various professional, cultural and social organizations. Above he is citizen of city, state and country and ultimately of the whole mankind. Thus, Deendayal Upadhyay states that an individual is not merely a single entity in this context, but a plural entity.
But Deendayal asserts that, despite this multiple personality, a man can and should behave in a way which does not bring different aspects of his life into mutual conflict but which is mutually sustaining, complementary and unifying. This quality, he argues, is inherent in man.
A person who uses this quality properly will be a happy man. A person who does not have balanced development and outlook will not develop unity in his multiple roles and so reaps unhappiness. Bharatiya culture promotes and facilitates the maintenance of multiples roles of a person. Individuals have to maintain the harmony among the multiple roles with intelligence, understanding and tact. A person’s development will be integrated when he can resolve the conflicts between his multiple roles.
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