Sehgal Forth Degree Rubrics

Abrupt	Abrupt: Sudden, unexpected or without any pre-warning. Someone who has the habit of doing everything all of a sudden he will be called an abrupt or an unpredictable person. He causes inconvenience to others, he is treated as a person having no regards for other's convinence or sentiments and is therefore labelled as a rude person.  Which in reality he is not and does not intend to be.	A lady had persistent cough for many months. She was asked what was her problem but she kept quite for a long time, which means that she did not want to reply.  And all of a sudden as if a shot from the gun she said that she was suffering from cough. It was revealed by the person at accompanying her that in her daily routine also she changes her mood all of a sudden.  The attendants of a patient say, "We can not predict anything about him. He takes no displeasures all of a sudden. What causes him to do so is impossible to detect before hand.  We are caught unawares and are unable to make anything about his behavior as to why & and when he changes his attitude towards the members of his family.  We simply keep on thinking over the matter as to how to avoid something that provokes him but he has never allowed us to form any accurate judgment about his likes and dislikes".
Impulsive	Impulse: Impelled to do anything without pre-meditation or consideration whether it is worth doing it that moment. Impulsive: One who acts under the influence of an impulse which rises like a tidal wave in the ocean and carries him away.	The patient's wife is telling about him that, "on seeing a notice of SALE, displayed outside a shop.  He will enter it all at once and purchase things without taking a pause to think over whether the goods purchased will be of immediate use.  He will repent later on when he will find that he has been responsible to disturb the whole month's budget & the things needed today have to be postponed for want of money."
Absent-minded	Absent-minded(adj): absent-minded is the person whose mind is not present where it should be. Generally one is bound to remark about such a person ' where are you' or ' where were you'	A patient tells, " please repeat what you asked?  I am sorry, my mind was away (was not present) while listening to you
Absorbed	Absorbed: Deeply engrossed. Absorbed : person is present but is so deeply involved that he is not available on the surface as if sucked in as water in the sand.  Such persons may invite remarks -- "you seem to be so deeply buried in your work that you did not notice us. We are sitting here before you for the last one hour.	absorbed: person is present but is so deeply involved that he is not available on the surface as if sucked in as water in the sand.  Such persons may invite remarks -- "You seem to be so deeply buried in your work that you did not notice us.  We are sitting here before you for the last one hour"
Abstraction, of mind	Abstraction (n): Act of considering something as a general quality not reading to any practical  result. Mind (n): the part in a human or other conscious being that reasons, understands, wills, perceives,                        experiences, emotions, etc. Getting away from the real subject.  It is like the one who is busy in studying a particular subject and trying to understand it deeply and in between, his thoughts stray away and dwell on some other subject having no concern with the subject under study.  Like what he is going to get to eat at lunch or dinner or recalls a song and its tune how sweet it was or that if he becomes an industrialist he will be very kind to the poor etc etc. After sometime he realizes that he was led away from the real subject and reproaches himself for this lapse on his part.	While taking to you (about my ailment) you might have noticed that I stopped in between.  Actually I left the subject under discussion and strayed away to another of no importance.  After sometime I realized with amazement and questioned myself as to what I was doing." This is the part of my mental state.
Abusive	Abusive: One who puts to misuse anything. It may be one's tongue by using filthy languages, one's authority or position by taking undue advantage of it.	The truth about our child is that he being hour only child knows that we will yield to every wish of his and that is why he tries to misuse his position without realizing that he is over straining our resources.
Activity desires, fruitless	Activity: To be in a state of doing something. Desires (v): Wishes to do something although it is not necessary that one should actually  undertake to do something.  A wish may remain only a wish and not take a practical shape. Fruitless: bearing no fruit. To remain doing something without any purpose or aim, bearing no fruit.	He wants to do something but having no eye on the usefulness of his efforts.  He is not concerned with the result of his activity.  It seems as if he is simply interested in keeping his limbs moving and if you try to divert his attention towards some useful work which is pending he will pay a no attention to it
Hypocrisy	Hypocrisy: Outward show of having desirable or publically approved, attitudes, beliefs, principles etc, that one does not actually possess. Interpretation: -- In other words ability to befool others like a wolf in sheep's skin by hiding the cruel realities about himself, and showing of having all the virtues appreciated publically. Versions: -- A patient, a social worker came and complained about the after effects of alcohol on his digestive system.  When he was asked that he is the member of de-addiction association, why then he consumed it.  He said "the sermons are for others and not for myself."