No man or
woman is born perfect. Education makes them knowledgeable but not perfect. Therefore
every human is subject to prejudices, misconceptions, and misjudgments. One
thinks one’s nation, family or clan is the best and there he falls to
prejudice. It may be okay when you think yours is the best, but when your
neighbor also claims his is the best there is disagreement as there cannot be
two bests; pointing to an obvious fault in someone’s knowledge.
Whole
traditions and folklores are misconceptions; if you do not know they are, you
are eligible for anything but being perfect. And traditions are part and parcel
of our world, what is handed down from the ancient times is given magical
power; there is no better way for you to be imperfect than believing your
tradition holds the best for the whole rest of the world.
People are
blinded by culture, religion, or their own preferences. Fame, wealth, power,
attractiveness or charisma can make one stand out among them, but that is far
from a reason to be perfect.
If you are
looking for the real essence of being human, do not be blinded by what’s in the
news and what’s in the media. The glamor and power are seen as necessities of
perfection, but those who have them in galore, are far from any perfection.
They may even be pathetic existences with more worries and prejudices than you
and I have.
The life of
a man who is awakened to universality of humanity is a perfect existence. A man
who has knowledge of the unity of himself with the nature every passing moment is
a perfect man. No cultural or social boundaries exist for him, he is with
unbounded knowledge into all aspects of life around him.
Such a man
can perceive common roots in every culture; common features in every tradition.
No best in the world tradition or culture exist for him as he is able to see
the universality of all existing cultures and traditions. In our world today
how many of us are even conscious of the existence of a state of such
perfection?
The fast
development of modern technology however makes it easier for today’s men and
women to see this aspect of life better. But their cultural prejudices and
preferences exert such a strong pull on them, they are still far from awakening
to this truth even when it is becoming more obvious everyday with the help of
modern communication.
Knowledge
creates peace. If you know what’s happening and if you know you have the
control over it, you have nothing to fear. Peace is with you wherever you go,
as you are the master of it all. Whether its health, politics, relationships,
transactions or family if you are in the know of things you are as steady as a
mountain.
This
universal knowledge is the ultimate achievement you can make by investing the
valuable time of your life. The fame or wealth without this knowledge does not
add quality to a life and the gaping holes of imperfection strike back to
devastate such a life as long as it is not based on correct knowledge.
Ignorance and ignorant goals
In our
ignorance we believe that our spiritual goals differ according to our culture
and our religion. A person brought up in a Christian background will have one
goal, while a person brought up in a Buddhist background will totally oppose it
and put their trust on another goal. If you are coming from any other religious
backgrounds you will have totally different goals and values to both of these.
Think for a
moment, is it possible there to exist different spiritual goals for different
people just because the language they speak is different from each other or
just because their skin color is different?
So a
Buddhist will anyway end up in Nirvana, just because that’s what he was
believing all his life and a Christian will meet his God, because that’s what
he believed. And a Hindu will meet his Brahman as that was his belief according
to his background.
Well this is
the well accepted convention even in our current world of technological
development where products and technologies are made for all these ethnic
groups in the same factory and they happily use them laying aside their
differences.
As I
mentioned in my earlier post the advances in technology lie ahead of the
thinking of the current day population of the world. Technology readily accepts
and caters to ‘oneness’ of humanity no matter whether they belong to this
religion or that tradition. But the humans still believe in different spiritual
goals according to their own tradition.
The thinking
of humans may lie behind, but what is clear is they are not far from realizing
their true religion. The true spiritual goal is not varied but ‘one’. There are
no separate tailor-made spiritual goals for different nations and traditions in
the great mother nature, she offers but ONE goal to all humanity, just like one
study of medicine can cater to any human of any tradition living in any part of
the world or ONE technology of mobile phones have captured the fascination of
all these creeds.
While this
prospect lies ahead in the future, I believe only a few forward thinking people
will be interested in this aspect of life right now, to recognize the true
spiritual goal stripped of its dense cultural covers that make it almost
unrecognizable.
I welcome
the presence of such people and invite you all to come forward to spread the
word of this universal message to everyone. Amid the advances of technology
this is the next level our humanity should step towards in its great march
towards advancement.
I have
summarized this journey towards perfection into seven-steps. The path is a
natural occurrence and anyone familiar with it may formulate any number of
steps as to their preference. In my own analysis, I counted seven; it is not
because it is a special number. And I
hope to discuss these in due course through the posts on this blog in the
future.
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