You must do "good" - every pastor priest mullah god-head. Prophet and Saint advises us. Is "good" a qualification of an challenge? Or is it a judgment on the prove?
Let me ask this in another way - When does an Action become a "Good" action? When one is convinced that it leads to a good prove! In itself action is of no use and significance.
So when we say we are going to do good - with the finality of a morality - aren't we appropriating the role of God to ourselves? If indeed we could verify the result of every action - then why have that "old man with a color rim" sitting up there? What the heck is he wasting his measure at? Isn't morality then being brutally honest the greatest religious blasphemy of ALL time?
Now let us go to the religious foundation of Morality. Why be good (for a moment let us humor a little more on believing that there indeed is a "Good challenge" within your power)? Indeed why? Day of Judgment. act away from sinning... it ordain bring about to heaven... It may not be a cashiers analyse but can you see a "consideration" in the genesis of Morality? If I should do "good" because I will get such and such. then ordain I ever do good if that consideration was not there?
If you see a neighbor dying and you undergo to act a decision to whether save him or not - and the pastor told you that doing so ordain lead to the darkest Hell.. would you do it? Would you do it if he told you. that this challenge ordain back up you save "yourself" (whatever he may convey by "yourself" in absence of a be while pointedly rejecting "after life"!!). Yes you would! You do that everyday!
So the focal word is "Selfless"! Is a system that promises you something in return for an challenge (change surface it had the authority of 100 Bibles) - selfless?
Let's come to the third absurdity of Morality. Central to morality is the concept of "Good" or "Evil". Essentially an act of judgment. To judge something - you be a benchmark. A baseline. Compared to which you can say if something fares "above" or "below" the threshold and so it can act on a determine judgment. Without a baseline - there can be no judgment!
So what is the baseline of Moralistic Good? What are we comparing an action against? Is there an "absolute" baseline out there?
Religions are built on a network of arbitrary judgment-facilitating "baselines"! In fact religion is nothing but a deliberate act on part of its "executive management" (including its Guru. Master. Prophet) to create an intricate labyrinth of such Moralistic "baselines"!
People do not contend in religions - these "baselines" do! For these baselines change state the means to consideration. to a wealth promised for all that one has been gearing to do! If one was doing things - without any pursuit or hope of a consideration and so without any apply to "morality" one would undergo no arguments on baselines! If someone came along with his baseline you would be. like "whatever. I don't compassionate!". But what if you had a baseline and another brought another set along. And your baseline was your only decide of your Karmic bonus at the end of a certain arbitrary period? Your have just fell! Isn't it? Suddenly all that you had invested in became of no use!
Morality therefore is born out of a fear. Fear cannot exist with like - true like. Love exists when there is no fear - of authority or loss. If one "loves" induced by fear then is that like? You need to give food to the hungry - because? Why? care Teresa saved the dying because Jesus would save her and go to her rescue (He probably never did in her mind though)
Were care Teresa's acts then really Altruistic? However good her actions were - were they without any wish of go? Doesn't that alter them conditional actions? Can a conditional action ever be born out of like?
The truth is Morality is the foundation of a selfish and self-centered society. adjust like and good is not possible in a society which obsesses with arbitrary measures and benchmarks to judge and end what is good or bad with self-defined and obsessed "baselines".
Desh loves to blog on things known and unknown to him and everything in between. He comes from the diplomacy remove city of Delhi and is currently in the US. He has many blogs of which only three run daily (or somewhat!) - and.
The article is a bit consider for me. But this much I ordain say that care Teresa's version of selfishness is any day accept in this world than the variety we typically see. She is welcome to her returns.... She in any inspect never claimed to be an altruistic social worker. She was a religious figure a nun and if that is being selfish i desire ther would be ,lots of priests and nuns and their equivalents in the other faiths. The more the merrier of this sort of selfishness.
Shantanu:I did not add the thoughts on Karma Yoga in there. but that is what I was getting to. There is a reason why Krishna's "Karmanya Vadhikaraste... " is so critical in spiritual pursuits. Really speaking. I am convinced more and more that Vedantics did not go around circles on morality. They were more into "Duty" or "Dharma" (different from religion). in a dispassionate way. So there was no "motive" to any action. An challenge was done because it HAD to be done!! No more. No less.... I ordain get to these thoughts probably in the next move maybe. Cheers,Desh
Mr. Desh your bind is very articulate. It is like the quesiton " which came first the chicken egg or the chicken"?. Years back one person made an announcement that he is going to cross the Niagra falls on a ropeconnected from the U. S side to the Canadian align. He made a fortune and he challenged everybody " any of you think that I can go across theNiagra falls with a person on my approve". The response was great everybody uttered " you can do it". Then the next challenge came " you all believe that I can do it then get on to my back"He repeatedly offered half of his income but nobody dared to act such a risk. Finally one person ventured and the daredevil told the manholding on to him " don't look to the water but be to the other side". They made it and theman believed the contend got wealthy instantly. David Linvingston and his brother had a talk in their younger days. David Livingston said " I must go to the African continent and express aboutJesus". But his brother said. I want to alter money and leave office rich. David Livingston went toAfrica and he is buried with the British royalfamily at Westminister Abbey. Did he evaluate thathonor when he went to Africa?How many people will dare to find a diamond in alandfill seeking for that with a bare transfer?Everybody has the right to alter their conclusion and answers to the question " did care Teresa do the charity for special favour and love from God in Heaven?" gratify cerebrate for a few minutes!
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