The Gift Of Indian Intelligentsia
Today the very life on our planet is being threatened. Not only terrorists are blasting destructions but the balance of Nature is disturbed. Seasons became out of sequence,
rivers and ponds are polluted and drying slowly , water level is sinking beneath the earth , fresh air is rare , forests are disappearing, and many species vanishing.
Social and family values have been greatly affected by the central values of the market which is – advantage. Advantage even at the cost of human sensitivities and feelings.
New technologies are being launched constantly which is distorting the very humanness of man and his relationship with everybody around him. And the control of technology is in the hands of the market which has only one goal – advantage. Advantage is not just one time matter . It is a vicious circle of constant growth. Honestly, I say it is a naked dance of advantage-mongering-psychology what we now know as Western value oriented modern civilization.
Advantage-mongering-psychology has one word in Sanskrit, that is TRISNA.
If we can see the world thru the third eye – it looks like it is burning in a vast devastating wild fire of trisna. Trisna never grows old, it is ever green youthful and powerful.
This powerful trisna, today has brought a terrible threat of extinction of humanity as a whole.
All streets are lit with flood of light but people inside are all dark.
Everybody has a phone , computer , TV, fan , electrical equipments. Progress is welcome. Nobody suggests you to go back to stone age.
Now here Western intelligentsia is confused and hopelessly helpless.
Here comes Indian Intelligentsia which tells us,
There must be a speedy progress but it must not be lopsided. Material progress has to be founded upon spiritual progress which right at the start establishes a deep harmony in the Nature and a decency and genuine feelings in
human relationships.
India’s spirituality begins with a new vision that life and Nature are not apart from each other but interconnected and one.
That Nature and animals are for the use of humans is a wrong theory! Both have life and so have equal status.
All life forms are fruits in the tree of Nature . Fullness of life is developed in the wholeness of nature.
Indian intelligentsia has witnessed many cases of rise of selfish imperialisms but it diagnosed it as one of the many human impulses like hunger, security , competition , quest , ego etc. It has also encountered conflict and war among
them but also harmony as well.
Indian intelligentsia has recognized and evolved techniques , process , methods as how to control , organize ,subjugate all destructive impulses of abnormal and normal human life and used them for constructive purposes. It has developed meditations , yoga, art , music , dance , ceremonies , mystic lifestyle and a whole culture to transmute this trisna energy into divine experiences.
Indian Intelligentsia researched on atom and matter and found it to be one with consciousness. It went deep into the rock bottom of I ness and has discovered its atonement with the Universe.
Indian intelligentsia has considered on the purpose of life and found four different goals for people of four different levels of consciousness:
Financial , sensual, psychic and Enlightenment.
This keeps a balance in society.
It evolved arts to enrich the world of interactions thru friendship with high minded , happy ones.
Compassion with miserable ones , cheers with meritorious ones and indifference with ‘wet blanket’ (heavy, burden) like ones and negativity stuck ones.
Bravery is given highest value, and kindness and non violence to all living beings is established as central values of life, with exception of traitors.
A unique sacredness and selflessness is infused in almost all relationships in life.
Indian intellectuals have eliminated all the horror and dread from the word ‘’death’’ by calling it, ‘’mere change of body’’. Truth is established as God Himself. Obliviously the Truth [God] within is imperishable and the body with its related
Items are perishable, always vanishing .
This precept is deeply established as set pattern of life which kept India’s history free from centuries long dreaded bloodshed, whereas in Europe and America and the Middle East, the history of monotheistic religions has made rivers of blood from innocents.
In fact Indian intellectuals have given the matchless gift of the understanding of immortality to Mankind, thru the discovery of unification of Self Consciousness with the Cosmic Consciousness. After attaining which no body is treated as ‘others’, ‘aliens’ or ‘foreigners’.
The purpose of creation, according to Indian intellectuals is expansion of happiness. Life is from bliss, for bliss and thru bliss. Therefore enjoyment is not condemned as in the Bible traditions but the secret is, it has to be enjoyed with inherent stamina of un-involvement / detachment . Otherwise, be sure you are helplessly heading towards troubles.
The direct message from Indian intellectuals is harmony between materialism and spiritualism , between science and meditation , between the timelessness of meditation and the timelessness of hard works , between breathless love and the breathlessness of new experiments, between egolessness before tough situations of life and wgolessness of divine presence.
It is this harmony and symphony of life that I am intending to share by coming to the beautiful people of Europe.
OM