The Vedic Indian Civilization is not something that can change with time. It is based on the Eternal Laws and Principles. The word eternal is not a religious or a kind of fundamentalism that one can force others to believe or follow. It is based on the scientific study of the natural world in the universe. It starts with creation of the universe and of life in it as well.
We usually avoid the using of excessive proofs in Indian Classical methods of research. The Indian research works are based on human study without the use of machines, tools and equipments. The reason for it is that the Indian works follow it not for science and technology, but rather for the joy of doing so metaphysically. Thus, most of Indians particularly in the rural areas, the villages do not ask for proofs.
They do not follow anything blindly but as metaphysical understanding inclines towards the faith, which is essence of philosophy, they leave the logic and proofs. It helps Indians to accept Will of God or nature, the natural laws and principles that is not same as luck and destiny. The changing of luck, destiny and fortune is by following the natural laws and principles that is called the Daily Karma, the Nitya Karma or Nitnem. This is also known as the Purushartha.
This is what is common in India when people say why one is trying to prove what we trust and respect. It is something pretending. The faith is feelings of reverence that we do not seemingly need to alter with knowledge and logic so that modern science and technology can establish its market, yes the global market.
We always need science and technology to facilitate human life in the natural world, but what about the pollution and side affects it causes does matter a lot.
It seems our rushing too fast is something that is philosophically blind.
The Indian Civilization has always focused on the Kingdom of God as the Rama Rajya as proposed by many including Mahatma Gandhi.
According to Indian Scriptures like the Holy Ramayana, the Vedic Knowledge was spread in the world and the country in the neighborhood of India, Sri Lanka used it to have full knowledge in almost all fields and faculties of human knowledge.
The Ravana, who was a foreigner to India but due to his mastery in the Vedic knowledge he is respected as most knowledgeable scholar of Vedas. Even Lord Rama respected and honored his mastery of Vedas.
His departure from earth did not leave that Vedic Knowledge and Wisdom vanished. It has been proved by many as the truth that only humans can gain. Among them is the Swami Vivekananda.
The point is that the Vedic Knowledge and Wisdom is Philosophically in nature. It has Six Schools of Indian Philosophy, so it does not embrace the world religions and faiths as they are in the context of religions as such.
The Vedic knowledge is called the Darshna, which has as higher level as the religion because it does not deal with the Action or Karma Theories, and is thus Philosophy. We need to consider it in the context.
The next part is:
How Indian Youth Thinks about Kings, Queens, Royals, Marriage, Child
Birth, Ancient and Modern Life: Similarities and differences - 3
and,
Previous part of this article: How and Why Vedic Means Sanatana or Eternal Laws and Principles of Nature, Universe and Spirit: My TV Serial on India as Civilization
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How Self, Society, Nature and Soul Work Together - Human, Possessions, Life, Service and Duty
Image by brewbooks via FlickrWe have 3 most popular terms used in Indian Philosophy and Religions and particularly the Metaphysics. These terms are:
1. Aadhibhotic
2. Aadhidavic
3. Aaddhiatamic
1. Aadhibhotic means related to body and all that we possess as a human.
2. The Aadhidavic relates to what runs life as we know it the Devta's, the life givers.
3. The Aaddhiatamic relates what we are, the souls, and thus relates to our conscience and consciousness as well. Now, the body, nature and soul work in a very simple way. We know about the physical world and what we should do in it in context to body and thus social.
However, what makes us know it is the soul (through conscience and all other tools like intellect and emotions). Now, when we consider nature we learn how to deal with Society, Nature and God (in whatever form we worship).
At the physical level (aadhibhotic) society is just buildings and possessions.
At natural level, there is also presence of living ones in the society. The point of spirituality comes from practice of what nature teaches us religion or Dharma. Nature follows the Dharma without any discrimination. Thus, nature and soul together learn spirituality, nature and society practice religion as if socializing with natural world in the nature that includes us, we, the humans.
Thus, religion goes as natural socialization but spiritualism is personal socialization with nature (for theory) and society (for practice). If we serve nature, we receive help in return. However, when we serve soul, the self or conscience, we have nothing to exchange as it is our real self that does not lack anything but in return makes us intellectually and emotionally mature and thus socially strong, mature and thus self-dependent.
This self-dependency is not being able to earn to live.
The conscience is a dynamic thing and thus spirituality is also dynamic that helps us for personal, family, social, national and international development without interfering with the nature. So, the natural laws and principles are for socialization and these can be accepted at intellectual level if we hear what our conscience says not what books say otherwise we may only know and remember (memorizing) without practicing it.
In conclusion, managing family and possessions begins our religions and faiths and how we contribute to society becomes Service (Seva).
The quality and standard that service at home and in society needs that we practice spiritualism as Know Thyself to understand ourselves and thus others. It helps to bring the concept of duty into service. Now, the service is the easiest way to socialize but in spiritual socialization one have to go beyond just serving others. Lord Krishna asks Arjuna to leave all religions, the socialization and so many restrictions it imposes on an individual, group, community and people in general that prevents one to do what one ought to do for all.
It services only motives and interests of some people, who belong to receiving that service due to religious together without even deserving it and thus misuse of laws of any state or nation in modern context. How hard it is to leave the social bonds and do our duty is beyond religions but is spiritual in nature, something that nature wants from us but not the society.
As nowadays society that seem to ignore nature, natural world and its right may prevent anyone doing one's duty.
All of it needed Lord Krishna to give Sermon of Holy Gita and thus is the duty and spirit or spiritualism not just religions and faiths. However, without practicing one's own religion and faith it is difficult to understand and practice what we know as duty, the Kartvya, essence of all services and thus the excellence and quality of service.
We may not simply claim to be public servant.
The democracy that we have had during the ancient times and even few hundreds years had religion and politics working together as the Indian Kings and Queens had been. They made rules according to the religions of the state in which they lived and they followed by themselves.
Lord Rama used Dharma or religion for democracy, but it may seem that he was King and thus not democrat. All of the decisions were taken on behalf of public and the ministers were selected according to standards established in the society. The democary in it was also that there were many states with many kings.
Similarly, Lord Krishna gave Kingdom of India to Yudhishtra and himself remained under his ruling as he served as King of Mathura. There are many examples when kingship was given to many who were not family members.
In nutshell, the Panchayat Raj is the most ancient concept of democracy that India gave to human civilization as only the selected people work in it. The public have always selected the people. It has similarity with home based business that has been present in India in all ages and thus throughout the history. The children were given education and training to be what their parents were and if one excelled one could be either minister or a king and or queen.
Initially most of the Kings and Queens had small regions (state levels) and then attained training, education and skills to be at national levels. This was also democratic way. We are taught that only the mighty was the King and that is not true as one had to prove all that needs to be a king or queen. What about Akbar (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar)and Laxmi Bai (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani_Lakshmibai)
We are not discussing the Invaders or others, who used forces. We need to learn even about not just Akbar, the great but also Sher Shah Suri (with thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Shah_Suri) to understand how Indian always have made a difference in service and duty.
The process of knowing others is not just by knowledge and data information about anyone, but as equating our personal knowledge about our self as parameter to know others. By knowing others we may not know our-self, but by knowing our-self we can know all.
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