PHILOSOPHY 1. The Necessity of Philosophy Man is a thinking being. He does not like to move like a blind man. He wants to find out a harmonizing link in the infinite stream of events and distinct varieties of life and the world. Otherwise his mind is not satisfied. Man is an indivisible entity, and the urge of his being constantly drives him towards effecting a supreme integration and an intelligent unification in the domain of his conception, activity, aspiration, knowledge and love. If he cannot succeed in harmoniously reconciling and unifying the distinct varieties in a concentric manner, then he feels as if his own individuality is being torn into pieces. He does not feel happy. This inherent thirst of man to find the harmonizing link and discover the fundamental cause of this creation has given birth to philosophy in the world. It deals with truth i.e., existence. So however much philosophy may be engaged in finding the highest and the ultimate truth of life, it should be consistent with reality, related to life, interlinked, in tune with science and reason having all-round consistency. 2. Real Philosophy Philosophy means vision. The knowledge which is not obtained from direct observation or direct realization shorn of obsessions and the experience which has not been assimilated in the being with an unfoldment of consistent analytical and synthetic insight, which has no relation with science, actual life and reason, which has no practical utility, and is involved in an intricate maze of sheer unrealistic imagination or inferences, does not deserve to be called real philosophy. Philosophy shows us the path of life not with an obsession of sentimentalism nor with a reactionary one-sided, unbalanced evolution of things but with an unfoldment of the dynamic essence of truth that is free from delusions and true to facts,— with a meaningful scientific exposition of reality,— with a harmonization of the past, present and the future,— with a fulfillment of the individual and the collective body in time with distinctiveness and the Ideal. 3. The fundamental problem of man and its solution Sri Sri Thakur has penetrated the core of every affair of this complicated modern world with his normal total outlook born of direct realization and has clearly pinpointed as to what is the nature and fundamental essence of man, what is his inmost desire and how it can be fulfilled harmoniously in the background of individual and collective life to the mutual advantage of one another. The individual self of man today is torn into microscopic pieces due to the conflict of complexes. With such a mental plight he does not himself find peace, nor can he do his duties properly, maintaining a concordant relation with his environment. And it is owing to this basic malady, that dissension, disaster and disorder are reigning rampant in all spheres of the family, society, state and the world. This is one of the fundamental reasons behind economic backwardness, want of food, poverty, unemployment, abnormal rise of prices, dissension between the capitalist and the labour, flaws in the system of production and distribution, national disunity and international trouble and unrest etc. so what is needed is the moulding of individual life. The power of love is the inborn asset of man. He turns out to be what he actively loves with his whole being. If he accepts a God-intoxicated, all loving, distinctiveness-nurturing, all fulfilling person as the be-all and end-all of his life and follows his principles and instructions, then he may grow according to his characteristics and may also become interested in people. So the first and foremost directive of the philosophy of life enunciated by Sri Sri Thakur, is to accept the form of initiation introduced by the latest distinctiveness nurturing, all Fulfilling Ideal and to broaden the base of life and growth for self and others out of an unrepelling active adherence to the Ideal and an urge for serving the interest of the Ideal and installing him. it is through this that man can acquire an all-consistent integrated and undivided personality, and advance towards creating a God-centered, distinctiveness nurturing solidarity of the whole human race. (Source: AIPOL)
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 05:46:15 +0000
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