| Culture of New Civ.: Global Agenda (PART TWO IS OVER) | 4 comments |
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27 Jan 2007 @ 12:17, by Shreepal Singh
Our world is divided, as ever, into two kinds of peoples. The ones who are satisfied with the present set of man-made institutions and circumstances, and those who feel the present is seriously fraught with serious defects on many counts and are restless to search for a better alternative; the ones who are charmed by achievements of modern science and hold that soon it is going to utter the last word on every thing, and those who feel that for the material science chiselled by Mind and its reason the horizon of ‘real truth’ shall remain as distant as ever. Let us accept this division of our world and let us take sides. The former category belongs to the current, the old civilzation and the later one to the new emerging one that is yet to get its due respect.
Let us recapitulate now what we have been saying in these articles so that logical conclusions may be derived from them and practical agenda may be formed for global action.
Beyond biological needs of life, the psychological anatomy of human being is of a very complex nature. Mind is there; it provides light of reason in the dark animal existence, but mind alone is not there. Neither mind is the highest light.
Reason should be used to the fullest extent as mind provides light and guidance to animal instincts and unguided desires of men. This light of reason must guide man till the light higher than mind is not received by human being.
Biological structure of man, with its organs and their senses, has its own separate workings and demands, like food, air etc. But biological nature is not the frontiers of human existence. Beyond body senses, there are desires and human cravings and impulses. They have real existence and constantly urge man, in plane and subtle manners, to satiate them and their liking. Not only desires are there mind also is there. Mind has its own separate world and its logical aspirations, and it demands their fulfillment. It is the world of thoughts, ideas, reason, logic and symmetrical harmony.
But senses, desires and mental thoughts combine together and create cacophony calling upon human being to pay attention to their respective demands. This cacophony is what we know as an individual's 'personality'. Depending on the sifting conglomeration of senses, desires and thoughts, this individual's cacophonous personality remains in constant flux of change.
If this cacophony is quieted and these urgings are subdued, then a guiding light descends upon human being that is higher than the blind darting urge of sensual pleasure, or the twilight of treacherous dark desires, or even the rational light of mind.
This higher light reveals the real nature of things. It lets human being know the absolute truth of all that exists by way of providing him a very personal experience of the essence of things by an identification with them rather than creating a mere hazy idea by mental analysis. This knowledge dawns on him like the morning light wherein his mind's limitations are exposed.
Once this light's dawning is there in an individual's experience, it becomes morally justified for him and for those who bring faith on him to accord to this light a place higher than mind. It also becomes justified to test all human decisions, however momentous they may be in importance, in the light of this power.
This higher light, power, truth etc. reveals itself to human being in a manner that is absolutely real and concrete, knowable only by identification (therefore, known to the person only who has received it), beyond mental comprehension, eternal in existence, beyond language's description, and therefore, mysterious to human mind.
This light reveals to the persons who receive this light that there are myriad gradations of consciousness beyond our material world. It reveals that these gradations of consciousness are as real as this earthly life existence. And it reveals that it is possible to explore their extent, nature and purpose in the universal scheme of things, and to utilize this knowledge to advance the cause of the purpose of human-stay in this material world.
In the light of this power, it becomes apparent that this world is transient, under constant transformation, illusory relative to the Truth revealed by this power and created for a specific purpose in accordance with superb plan beyond mind. For those who have experienced this light and those who bring faith on the truth of such experience it becomes morally justified to use the temporary stay of human being in this world to the maximum benefit in consonance with the supreme purpose and plan. In the light of that power it becomes clear that there is an element in human being that is eternal, that never dies, that take birth after birth till the purpose of coming in this world is achieved as per that superb plan.
Therefore, it becomes morally justified for an individual to pursue the agenda of human life in this mortal world as dictated by this light. Equally it becomes morally wrong to dedicate human life to cater to the demands of senses, desires and reason as these demands insist for their supremacy over the superior purpose that this light may reveal and create hindrance in the path of its agenda. It becomes proper thing for an individual, as revealed by that light, to control his desires, sensual indulgence and mental questioning that tries to put this light into doubt and lead human being astray from the sole agenda of this light. All means and methods (shown by religious teachers, yogis, sufis, saints, mystics etc.) that help to control, quiet and finally uproot sensual animal instincts, desires and doubts of mind are justified as they serve the cause of this eternal light.
At the individual level it is justified to control one's lower impulses. At the social level, logically, it is justified to curb the spread of desires and gearing of society to meet those desires. It cannot be the ideal of society to meet demands of these desires by resorting to means of demand and supply, cheap and excess production, competition, monopoly, advertisement, replacing men with machines to make goods cheap, using technology to render unemployment rather than creating leisure-hours for employed persons etc. Machines, ideally, should be used to curtail working hours of the people engaged in industrial production of goods by weaning them from the hands of those who use them to earn their private profits to the social detriment. It is justified not only to avoid the exploitation of natural resources to the maximum possible extent but also to leave them unused surplus so that on the one hand man may elevate himself to a higher level than a mere consuming animal and on the other these surplus natural resources may be available to the succeeding future generations of mankind.
Therefore, it is necessary to formulate an action-plan in consonance with this view point. This action-plan by virtue of its substance and reach should be comprehensive in nature and global in scope. We have already suggested an action-plan in the form of the Charter of New Civilization in one of our earlier articles, which is again given here for ready reference.
CHARTER OF NEW CIVILIZATION GLOBAL INITIATIVE
HAVING FAITH:
THAT planet earth is our common home and we human beings have inherited it from our forefathers, in trust for our own use and for the use of all other life-species dwelling on earth of the present and of the succeeding generations.
THAT all life-species are sacrosanct and they deserve survival and preservation at our hands.
THAT all man-made disputes – whether social, cultural, economic, political or any other - arising from conflict of interests are capable of being resolved by human beings in peace and amity;
THAT mankind is an evolving species being at the apex of life-evolution on earth yet being at an intermediate stage only; and
THAT mankind is capable of exploring the unknown micro and macro universe, harnessing the unveiled secrets of nature and its forces, and is capable of thereby to consciously shaping her destiny and the destiny of earth and of universe;
AND BEING CONVINCED
THAT mankind is living under the threat of annihilation at her hand by the use of weapons of mass destruction;
THAT a firm and sustainable human-unity is the only effective and workable guarantee to protect human race against such threat of self-annihilation; and
THAT such human-unity can only be established on the solid foundation of the commonality of human-interests, the commonality of purpose of life of human beings on earth and the commonality of the destiny of human race;
WE, THE CITIZENS OF EARTH, CALL UPON
PEOPLES OF ALL NATIONS, FAITHS AND CULTURES
TO
ACCOMPLISH, in common interest,
COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL of all life-species on earth by observing peace, good order, complete and global disarmament and respect for and conservation of nature;
FREEDOM, from political, economic, cultural and social oppression, within national and international organizations of human society, by guarding the individuals’ human rights and the interests of organized society;
COMMON PROSPERITY of peoples by utilizing technological advancements and scientific management of global natural resources to avoid waste, unsustainable exploitation and natural imbalance, and to bring efficiency;
GLOBAL UNITY among different subdivisions of mankind by promoting mutual respect for diversity, understanding and harmony in diversity; and
ENLIGHTENMENT of human beings by encouraging them to imbibe the knowledge of science, from material science to psychic science, and encouraging them to remain always open to change of convictions.
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4 comments
27 Jan 2007 @ 13:16 by swanny : action
Actions and money
speak louder than words...
Just actions
The world needs less rhetoric and more
deeds
A new civ must be built and sustained
on just actions
and a just faith and not just or unjust wars.
Is there no right to peace, freedom and harmony.
Yes we have a "right" to a Harmonious Planet.
Though is the right to harmony stronger than
the right to "arms".
But what is harmony....
Has harmony no teeth
no not teeth to bite
but the teeth of consequences...
We must evoke "karmha" thus
upon those who seek to govern with the fist...
To overcome those by will the will of
the just and true.
Truth will bear out...
As it always eventually does....
Else how is it that humanity has progressed this far.
Let us hold fast and dilegent to the harmonious way and path.
swanny
28 Jan 2007 @ 08:05 by shreepal : Yes, let us act
swanny, yes, let us hold fast to the harmonious way in our private and public life. Indeed it is the actions and deeds that count in bringing a change and not words, though behind all actions there lies some motivating force: certain ideas or some individual inclinations, for example. I, for one, am with you and other likeminded persons for actions in the right direction.
29 Jan 2007 @ 17:32 by b : Actions and Deeds
speak louder then words. Your words here Shreepal, are in harmoney. Some others might think they are holier then thou and some are just evil. There is a source of all. It started with creation of this universe. Here on Earth, humans are basicly good. We can all see love if we look. Above reason is aesthetic.
30 Jan 2007 @ 07:34 by shreepal : Actions and deeds
Yes. And now let us learn to speak through our actions and deeds. Let us plant a seed in the form of 'harmonious community' or 'human habitation living an alternative civilization'somewhere on our Earth.Let us take initiative in this direction. Initially, at one place, which should be self-sustaining and naturally self-duplicating because of its advantage on different facets of human life. It must spread itself by and by on Earth on its own strength by weaning away citizens from the current civilization to a better way of life made readily available as an alternative.
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