Saturday, October 16, 2010

Religion, Society and Individual



Need to find out the right balance of these three areas in our life is essential . We are traveling amidst of this identity dilemma. All the three are deeply rooted in every one. We always find hard to draw a line in the positions of individual social being and religious entity.
This is a unknown challenge we are carrying for through out life.
Religion or the faith has no separate from everyday life and we cannot make any existence without a value and belief. Then as an individual living in the society do we succeed to complete the responsibilities to the society where we are living. We may be successful individual but as social animal where we are standing? If a person if dedicated to the religion, the process makes any impact on the life of individual and society where the values actually shall be cultivated.
But sadly the fact very bizarre, when we committed to our religious faith, we are learning to observe any thing not approved by our belief is wrong, and formidable. It is not an acceptable model for advancement of human being. We are practicing to skeptical to the society in which we are actively and completely involved and enjoying .It is obvious hypocrisy and deception. If we are not true to our religion and further to society we would be complete failure as individual who is the lead of out family, which is the basic foundation of the human progress till date.
Simply problem is not with religion or society, it is really with individual. When person failed in his core value and cannot identify the suitable position in each critical segment, the harmony among religion, society and individual will become predicament and our myopic views starting. Hence instead of helping the society to progress we are reversing it.
We are least bothered to learn the religious thoughts but trying to mold it for our individual goals. More accurately we neither understand the responsibility of social life nor accountability of an individual in society. Hence of course not genuine to our faith
Until and unless our practical intelligence identifies our commitment towards the society, we would not be perfect examples of personality. A poor personality cannot be a impeccable leaders in the religious path.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Thoughts and Deeds


In conversation to his disciples Great Buddha asked that which is most serious sin, sins committed by body, sins caused by wrong speech or sinful thoughts. Buddha answered that sin of wrong thought are more serious since the mind is more fundamental than any thing else.
If we take this question to the contemporary scenario of fast and haste life, people thinking wrong things than doing it. As Upanishad says our thought is creating our wish, and subsequently it become our deed. Utter competition in life without inculcating any values creating a moral l vacuum in our mind.
We cannot tolerate any kind of rejection, if it is somebody overtaking our car, or getting a promotion in the office. We area forced to learn others achievement as our opportunity loss, in fact it is not at all related. When values deteriorating, so believes do. If we have no ethical and respectful values and believe, our life will lean to wicked but easy way. And we never felt any shame or failed to realize that our ways and thoughts are inferior
That is not an acceptable way of development for society in whole and particularly for individual. A success are not real achievement if we loosing our values for it.
A bad thought, even if is simple or innocuous, but making any harm to other creatures, we obviously sowing the seeds of negative energy and destructive culture. This will damage the originator sooner or later. Since thought and deeds are inseparable