Hazare Khwaishein aisi ki har khwaish mein dum nikle
Now that the good guy has won, I can put some thoughts down on corruption.
I will start with my basic premise that Man is a dichotomy. On the one hand he is an animal, driven by instinct and emotion and governed by the laws of the jungle.
On the other hand he is also a rational being given reason and intellect so that he may be able to rise above his animalistic tendencies and create a civilised society.
However I believe all great civilisations came into being on an impulse, on ego and emotion rather than on intellect yet it is no secret that they grew because of our ability to think and reason. This makes me wonder about what is truly desirable.
In the law of the jungle, survival is key. Survival, which forms the seat of all thought, uses ego to protect itself and produces emotion as it's army to propagate.
But we cannot deny the existence of the intellect either. It is definitely there and clearly rules us at some level. It uses morality to protect itself and reason as it's armies. Unfortunately both these pale into insignificance compared to ego and emotion, so does it lose ? No! Not really...
Much like Anna Hazare it fights a silent battle, creating doubts and conflicts in us, as to what is truly desirable.
So my thoughts lead me to ask this same question again, what is truly desirable? The intellect or the ego?
The problem is I don't like either, I don't like either because I want both, both to co-exist peacefully but that can't happen. Well, not without a mediator...
Thats when I think that maybe, there is a third party living in our brain, someone who we have not considered in this war up till now. Someone who is already playing the part of that mediator...Our Spirit!
I think Spirituality is the key to civilisation, we had it right all those years ago but something stopped, we went to battle and chose two opposing sides in our brain without realising that there need be no battle, Our spirit is there to guide us from one to the other and that's who we should bat for.
Corruption comes from that animalistic desire of survival. Take what you can at whatever cost. It will forever be within us to put ourselves above everyone else even at the cost of our civilisation. We know that something is not totally right about our need to do this, so we pretend. We pretend to follow the laws of Man but secretly follow the laws of the jungle.
This behaviour entangles us in an eternal loop from which there is no escape, but the constant fight between "Us" and "Them".
Sometimes Anna Hazare will win and sometimes he will lose...the battle will continue...unrelenting...
Unless we recognise that the battle is not really "Us" vs "Them" but rather "Us" vs "Us".
We are all equally corrupt and equally moralistic, depending on the situation and the sides we choose in our head.
Spirituality changes that, cause it helps us see that "Us" and "Them" are the same person. There is no difference between the two. What I take from you, I also take from me. We are all one, connected, together but separate. All part of the same stuff that makes the whole universe.
we need to climb a little higher in our heads and see the world through the eyes of the eternal mediator. Hopefully it will end, not just corruption, but all the little battles that we are fighting.
--------This is an inspired work
I will start with my basic premise that Man is a dichotomy. On the one hand he is an animal, driven by instinct and emotion and governed by the laws of the jungle.
On the other hand he is also a rational being given reason and intellect so that he may be able to rise above his animalistic tendencies and create a civilised society.
However I believe all great civilisations came into being on an impulse, on ego and emotion rather than on intellect yet it is no secret that they grew because of our ability to think and reason. This makes me wonder about what is truly desirable.
In the law of the jungle, survival is key. Survival, which forms the seat of all thought, uses ego to protect itself and produces emotion as it's army to propagate.
But we cannot deny the existence of the intellect either. It is definitely there and clearly rules us at some level. It uses morality to protect itself and reason as it's armies. Unfortunately both these pale into insignificance compared to ego and emotion, so does it lose ? No! Not really...
Much like Anna Hazare it fights a silent battle, creating doubts and conflicts in us, as to what is truly desirable.
So my thoughts lead me to ask this same question again, what is truly desirable? The intellect or the ego?
The problem is I don't like either, I don't like either because I want both, both to co-exist peacefully but that can't happen. Well, not without a mediator...
Thats when I think that maybe, there is a third party living in our brain, someone who we have not considered in this war up till now. Someone who is already playing the part of that mediator...Our Spirit!
I think Spirituality is the key to civilisation, we had it right all those years ago but something stopped, we went to battle and chose two opposing sides in our brain without realising that there need be no battle, Our spirit is there to guide us from one to the other and that's who we should bat for.
Corruption comes from that animalistic desire of survival. Take what you can at whatever cost. It will forever be within us to put ourselves above everyone else even at the cost of our civilisation. We know that something is not totally right about our need to do this, so we pretend. We pretend to follow the laws of Man but secretly follow the laws of the jungle.
This behaviour entangles us in an eternal loop from which there is no escape, but the constant fight between "Us" and "Them".
Sometimes Anna Hazare will win and sometimes he will lose...the battle will continue...unrelenting...
Unless we recognise that the battle is not really "Us" vs "Them" but rather "Us" vs "Us".
We are all equally corrupt and equally moralistic, depending on the situation and the sides we choose in our head.
Spirituality changes that, cause it helps us see that "Us" and "Them" are the same person. There is no difference between the two. What I take from you, I also take from me. We are all one, connected, together but separate. All part of the same stuff that makes the whole universe.
we need to climb a little higher in our heads and see the world through the eyes of the eternal mediator. Hopefully it will end, not just corruption, but all the little battles that we are fighting.
--------This is an inspired work
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