It was a significant incident that touched me deeply during my seminary days, which set me on the path of psychology and the treatment of mental disease. A close friend of mine doing his final year degree course and of very good standing with the people in the neighbourhood, fainted suddenly after he saw something strange and got frightened. Although he regained consciousness in a short time, there were obvious changes in his character and behaviour. Subsequently, he would pass out for a brief period once or twice a week. He was taken to a Neurologist who advised treatment for Epilepsy. This was to continue for five years. During this period, the young man developed suicidal tendencies. Many times his family managed to thwart his attempts at suicide; but one day the inevitable happened. He jumped into a deep well and ended his life.

I began to wonder what could have been at the root of this change in his conduct, which finally brought him to his doom. During the past 45 years, my researches and studies were directed towards understanding the root causes of these phenomena as well as finding some sort of solutions for them. My efforts brought me face to face with certain startling realities. In the first place, I was convinced that an illusory second personality, very active and elusive, came to be formed in some people who got sick as a result of fright and in some others a turbulent form of darkness blocking the intellect,,rendering the mind blank. I thought I put my finger at the cause of the phenomenon. But, how to find a remedy remained a torturing question. My researches continued and led me to the conclusion; the illusory personality is the personification of a frightful and monstrous idea.based on superstitious belief. And to expel this personified idea, psychiatric medicine was absolutely inadequate, may be even detrimental.

Taking into full account the peculiar nature and operation of the human mind, I proceeded with my religio-scientific approach. Man is the supreme creature with an immortal soul conceived within his mortal body. The human mind, ``as per some present day psychological opinions or conceptions '', is considered to be the brain! It is paradoxical to think that the mind is the convoluted nervous substance of the brain or the formal stipulated mode of functions of this organ. The Human psyche is neither material nor merely a working modality of the brain. It is, on the contrary, the very life-principle, vivifying and activating a perishable body. Religiosity and scientificity are inalienable qualities of a mind, fundamental as well as universal. Ancient historians like Herodotus, Plutarch and Marcopolo, philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Seneca bear ample witness to it. What all of them observed as common ``among various nations and people was a keen sense of divine worship and desire for progress''. This points to a profound awareness of religion and science. In this context, the words of a celebrated Anthropologist-F.Ratseley - are worth recalling. He says: - `` you will not find in all Anthropology a human race without an awareness of religion and a quest for comforts.'' Ancient archeological findings also point to this conclusion. The condition of modern man is not any different. All of this goes to prove that the human mind is oriented basically to science and religion.