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"What the modern spirit has sought for is the economic social ultimate, -
an ideal material organization of civilisation and comfort - , the use of
reason and science and education for the
generalisation of a utilitarian rationality which will make the individual
a perfect social being in a perfected economic society".
"A rational and scientific formula of the vitalistic and materialistic human being and its
life, a search for a perfected economic society and the democratic cultus of the average man
are all that the modern mind presents us in this crisis as a light for its solution",
(Sri Aurobindo, Life Divine II,28)
Our modern culture is based on the principle of
concurrence. Man has inherited this behaviour from the animal kingdom where it is a neccessity to survive.
We see the limitations of this system - which has no moral at all - today :
There is growingly less win because of more concurrence, people loose their jobs and so
moral is degrading. Only a certain rich class benefits from these developements.
In the underdeveloped countries people mostly have to work under incredible conditions and earn just as
much as to survive and therefore moral degrades.
A society without ethic rules
is the basis for irresponsibleness and
consciencelotness.
On the other hand tolerance
and moral have never been a principle of very simple or of primitive people
who love the primitive things of live, independent of their position in society.
The forces of the animal-kingdom are still an important and omnipresent factor in
daily life, and man must first leave these roots behind himself before
true relationships are possible.
Therefore modern wars have another battlefield within the societies, the manyfolded battles for position and power,
for posession and wealth and for the most attractive
partner, if possible in the specific society, the points of attraction for the small human ego.
A worldly socialism can not really change
these problems, because his basis would be the too human nature
with its self-assertion and the various vital and negative forces, which have always lead to
corruption.
First through the true broad realization of the universal religious principles and methods of the Universal Doctrine
mankind would be able to elevate above the animal kingdom and
learn to transform the primitive human nature, what the majority of mankind does not want.
First through the selfrealisation of higher and of universal religious principles(atma-jnana) man really
raises above the animal kingdom and learns to transform himself.
The opposite of the principle of concurrence is the principle of
solidarity(to use a modern name),
which must be a basis of every big and long lasting society.
The highest form of this principle would be the
"charity" of the bible.
But this principle has been misinterpreted in the past because it is too high
for the current human nature and a problem for worldly religions.
In the eastern
spirituality it is not so open known because the systems of yoga are
mostly a kind of sublte spiritual egoism(work for the karma). In
buddhism we know a similar wish to resolve all beings(Karuna).
In the origins of christianity
and in the old bible was charity a central point. But Jesus said clearly :
"My next one is who fulfills the will of the divine father", ie. who does not live in the will
of his small human ego, and he and the Bible say : "Next love is equivalent to the
fulfilment of the ten commandments"(Mark. 12,31) - and not only with the fulfilment the after the letter.
The psychic roots of the modern
global culture with their new possibilities of communication are still the vital forces of
the common self
, the forces of samsara,in comparison
to the spiritual self and the
self of Philosophy.
Our culture tries to whitewash the primitive roots and the perishableness
with technical innovations and
styling and luxury, and to make the happy consumers blind and satisfied and tame, all
that on the costs of a plundered nature and of the poor nations.
Many people beleive simpleminded that man controls now the highly complex nature,
because science has learned to use many laws of the material surface and made unbeleivable
technical insights possible.
But besides many temporary successes the results of techniqs were too often the destruction of
environment and the loss of the biological balances and overexploitation of the natural resources
- internally and externally.
Our culture learns to control the outer forms and mostly fills them
with old or laughable and exaggerated contents, often only seeking for a gap in the market
which allows to survive.
Inwardly man becomes more and more the concurrent of the other - but he has been taught how to
smile and to play his role in society. Therefore lie and falsehood have become a
daily companion.
A worldly socialism can not really solve these problems, because his basis
would be the too human nature which underlies the negative forces. Similar problems have
the democracies with their lack of
inner values and free play of forces.
The worldwide
overpopulation is only one unsoluble indicator which is another
consequence of the lack of the safety of
social systems and of course of the fact that
sex is still a big value in most societys.
First through the real common realization of universal religious principles
will mankind be able to raise above the
animal kingdom and learn to transform the primitive human nature.
Globalisation
Another modern problem is the international interlacing of world-economy.
The
poor countrys mostly serve as supplier of cheap raw materials for the industralised
countries who would not be able to have this standard of life without such cheap
fountains. Their societies
have often become a caricture of a modern society
just serving as a inexpensive supplier of work and industrial products and as
markets for the industry-nations, suppliers who cannot pay their interest
and are highly indebted.
The result is a chaos with corruption, in
which all received values were overthrown and all firm ground seems to disappear from its social organisation,
its conduct and its culture.
"The first danger is a resurgence of the old vital and material primitive
barbarian in a civilised form; the means
Science has put at our disposal eliminates the
peril of the subversion and destruction of an effete civilisation by stronger primitive
peoples, but it is the resurgence of the
barbarian in ourselves, in civilised man,
that is the peril, and this we see all around us.
For that is bound to come if there is no high
and strenous mental and moral controlling and uplifting the vital and physical man in us
and no spiritual ideal liberating him from himself into his
inner being. Even if this relapse is escaped, there is another danger, - for a cessation
of the evolutionary urge, a crystallisation into a stable comfortable mechanised social living
without ideal or outlook is another possibl outcome. Reason by itself cannot maintain the race in
its progress; it can do so only if it is a mediator between the life and the body and
something higher and greater within him; for it is the inner spiritual
necessity, the push fom what is there yet unrealised within him that maintains in him,
once he has attained to mind, the evolutionary stress, the spiritual nisus."
(Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, II pg.1053)
As result of the modern ignorant
materialistic way of life mankind sinks more and more in the dark samsaric
forces of the body and closes the doors to the forces of evolution.
Real cultural life needs at least the well known but insufficient
four freedoms
(Freedom of personal deveolpement, Freedom of religion, Freedom of need,
Freedom of fear) as A.A. Baileys new WGW stated over
50 years ago - but it must be seen that the support of her White Brothership is
an illusion, and so the WGW had no real success :
Morality and Nature-Law are in
reality the same, based on the distant principle of divine
harmony, a harmony which does not develop with the observance of the rules and
ethics of a specific religious movement. Only a spiritual harmony on the basis of a transformed nature
can prevent a coming chaos.
Freedom
Nowadays is
freedom often misunderstood as complete unboundedness, as "to do what one wants",
but such a view forgets the retroactions of all deeds in the area of
karma.
Absolute freedom would mean the disentanglement from everything inclusive the
limitations of the small person.
Real freedom would presume a free will. In the
divine the will is the revelation of the highest infinite
divine force, and power and plan are in unity. Because of the omnipotence the result of the plan is
perfect, but because of the omnipotence this willpower is absolute irrespective.
The acting human ego-centered or selfcentered
will
has its origin in the reaction of challenges in the material world, on wishes and desires, which
actuate the will, and which are indirect consequences of the Adi-Dharma.
The success of the effort depends upon many unclear factors. Often this will undertakes false or
fruitless efforts in direction of the target and the achievement of the aim is unsure.
Even the highly developed ego-centered(Ahamkara) mental volition(Mahat) is still a product
of Maya, and therefore the true "white magician" tires to surrender to the plans of the divine.
First trough identification with the spiritual willpower
can true freedom be reached(Moksha),
which is liberation from the influences of Maya.
In the hidden background of the spiritual will stands the light of the
divine providence.
First the enlightened
master in his unity sees that behind success and failure stands the
divine plan and the acting of the divine providence - which cannot be escaped.
Human Love
Cultural and historically is 'Love' a
term that is used in many contexts and in different shades of meaning.
Sex, as described in many walks of society as love, is nowadays still one of the great human
Values of life, but a door of death and the negative involutionary forces.
This widespread low
level of love is also a sign of how much the majority of mankind
from the lower Vital lives, how immature it is for a global world culture.
On the other hand, the social Konsenus is often based on a natural
instinctive affection, often with authoritarian characteristics, and comes depending on the level of evolution
from an ancient and often socialized
Groupconsciousness, and turns in its Reverse, if it does not find its confirmation.
Sri Aurobindo spoke in this context from the "Passionflower of human love",
"What is commonly called love, is in reality of the main vibration of universal
Love as far away as hate, the latter is only narrowed, hardened, and stiffens
and the other hits out, that's the whole difference"(The Mother(Aurobindo), Bulletin 2/1966)
Love is principally the
Attempt to draw at something desirable, from wherever the desire may come,
that individual can have indeed very primitive
backgrounds, including the object of desire.
The disappointment then brings forth hatred and anger. So-called feelings of love are
usually merely a reflection of continued astral-ethereal or instinctive desire.
Therefore, Buddhism also warns against greed, hatred and anger(ignorance).
"The faces of the Divine love should not be the usual lively feeling, to which people give this name.
That is not love but a vital desire, an acquiring instinct, the instinct to possess and to monopolize.
Not only is this not the
divine love, but for this should not even the slightest interference with the yoga
be allowed."(Sri Aurobindo, On Yoga II)
"Respect, I do not speak of that what people call
happiness which comes from the pleasure,
from the forgetting, from the
adiaphora - all that is not even a caricature of the true bliss(Ananda), but
more a devilish invention to let you loose the path.
I talk here of a Delight, which is the perfect peace, shadowless light,
Harmony, utter beauty and irresistible power, the delight that the divine presence itself is,
in its essence, in its will, and in their realisation."(The Mother,Evening Talks 1955)
Hinduism says "The husband loves his wife because of the ATMAN"(
Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad), where of course, the spiritually developed person is meant..
Even in Dzogchen-Buddhism exists the theorem "not to fall for the human
love
, which is so far away from the true
charity of the divine ananda.
(J. Lorber writes aptly about the heavenly love and the nd die
hellish Love)
In the first letter of John of the New Testament we read to this:
"I have written to you fathers, because you know the one who is from the beginning (3.Initiation)
I have written unto you young men, because you are strong and the Word of God
remains in you, and ye have overcome the evil (2. Initiation).
"Love not the world nor the things in it. If any man loves the world, is not in the
the love of the Father. For everything that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the
Eyes,and the pride of life, is not of the father but
of the world. And the world passes away with the the lust, but who fulfills the will
of God does remain forever."(1. John. Letter 12)
(Further in Mathew 13,22)
"Love is one of the big primary forces of the universe.
It exists in itself, regardless of the objects in which and through which and for which
it reveals in an always free movement.",(The Mother, Talks, 2.6.1929)
If you are in touch with your spiritual being, you begin to perceive
somehow, what may be the divine love. Do not try to enter into direct relationship
with the divine love , because there is still a lively desire
that drives you. Ye would not be aware of that, but it would be a lively desire".
(The Mother(Aurobindo), Talks 1951)
Love is not a sexual relation. Love is not vital attraction or vital
exchange. Love is not the need of the heart for affection. Love is an all-powerful
oscillation, starting directly from the One, and only the very pure and very strong is
able to receive it and to reveal it. To be puremeans, only to be open for the influence of the
Highest and for no other." (The Mother(Aurobindo) - Bulletin, 11/1963)
Wisdom and knowledge
Wisdom
is often looked at as a deep insight into the circles and
laws of the cycles of life, which goes
beyond the accumulation of pure
knowledge.
Human wisdom has a materialistic
connotation since it hardly rises above the everyday, and because it differs fundamentally from the universal
spiritual wisdom or the wisdom of
emptiness.
At each plane of creation exist different laws, which are often a synthesis of the laws of the next
lower plane. Highest consciousness is "
Chit" and it is simultaneously the highest wisdom and the ultimate omniscience, which
reveals in Kashmir Shaivism as Sadvidya-Tattva, in Hinduism as highest Atman and in the
Bible as 'Holy Spirit'(Genesis). This gradation of wisdom generates the characteristics of
the laws of the lower worlds and keeps these worlds in motion.
The wisdom of the mind is a egocentric rational (often not even that - e.g. if
glamouring emotions play with) weighing of experience and acquired knowledge and it is
thus incorrect and not spontaneous. To the mind must therefore the higher wisdom often
appear as a folly. This problem, however, exists already in modern
quantum physics.
The spiritual seeker is lead by the knowledge and the wisdom of the masters without
to put aside the reason, and he tries to connect with the power of wisdom through spiritual practices.
The higher laws are more and more neglected and often also combated in the modern societies and
under the pressure of the businessworld and of materialistic science, the
human rights stand on paper, and therefore stands this solidifying deluded modernized culture before a
dangerous future - on the
predetermined path back into the forces of the unconscious, from which
most souls are not reborn.
The "Mother"(Aurobindo) said : "Modern man is an Asura (a negative entity). The Asuras understand
only the language of struggle" and Sri Aurobindo also said, "power, wealth and sex are the three
main attractions of the human ego" and further "to defeat lie and falsehood, that is the path ".
"We must replace competition
and strife by collaboration and fraternity." - The Mother(Aurobiondo)
The average man is completely unsensitive for spirituality, and he follows
the rules of his unconscious nature.
The simple rule is : "Where the STREAM does not flow exists no hunger for the stream".
"The Individual does not owe highest loyalty to the state which is a machine, nor to the
community which is only a part of life and not the whole life.
His obligation is to the truth, the self, the spirit, the divine in himself and in all.
His real life goal should not consist in subordination to the mass or
to lose in the mass, but to find and to express the truth of being in itself, and to help the
community of humanity to find their own truth and fullness of being",
(Sri Aurobindo)
Therefore it is advisable for the true seeker to live after the old traditional hermetic principle of
"KNOWING-DARING-WILLING-RETICENCE", a bit like in the middle-ages, because we have to live
in a modern
intolerant and often very negative world. The purpose of the modern
enlightenment was once to see things with the reason and not to beleive in vague and
strange explanations, but modern reason
is based on models and notions and ideas with their limitations.
The majority of people is not
enough intelligent to understand these scientific developements, despite from the limitations
of modern science, and they would not live after the realizations because they are
bound to the zigzag course of their vital nature.
Even the human rights
stand mostly just on paper worldwide, everything has its own
price, and therefore our culture has a doubtful future .
Some readers may argue that these thoughts about
psychology and society are
not necessary for the understanding of the spiritual process.
But we are a part of this world, scientific progress should not be ignored but spiritually illuminated
, and we are causing karma for other people in daily life and we are still working at our own personal karma.
I have not disclosed the Universal Path for people who just want to draw
the biggest advantage out of all things or those who do not want to applicate
INTROSPECTION in practice or who do not want to surrender to the divine rules and forces.
This website has been written for the people of true good will, ie. for true spiritual seekers !
The spiritual path is not a hobby or an intersting exotic entertainment.
You must be able to fight and You must know what You really want.
The ASPIRATION must be a flame and You must be willing to surrender
to he higher spiritual rules and to Your inner divine self.
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