Progress is permanent but disparities, divisions and discrimination will decline

Progress is permanent but disparities, divisions and discrimination will decline and they must be made to decline without violence.

I think over generalizing and stereotyping of psychological attitudes as a result of any externally acquired item, often wealth and its concomitant consequences may not be correct though often these exaggerated projections of disparities and victimhood peddling have had enormous emotional reactions and appeal among the less privileged and worked well as a sales pitch for religions and political parties to promise paradise to the poor and envy entitlements in general.

However, if we read through evolution carefully and completely we will know that over the past few decades the impact of science and technology along with rationalism have narrowed the gaps and disparities [though not completely eradicated] in many aspects of life and democratized various levels of accessibility to many be it health, education, food, employment opportunities etc.

I am talking about broader, global humanitarian progress over the past few decades. For example, how many could contact their relatives within minutes in 60s, how many had access to some health care and education in 60s. Affordability and accessibility are possible approximately to almost 80% of the population now whereas it used to be roughly 20% before 50s.

This is by no means denying that there are disparities and discrimination which are absolutely bad for any civilized society or dismissing that still there are some haughty souls who strut around with entitlement and act with bossy insolence.

We need to further improve to narrow the gap ideally till we reach a stage where all human beings will have equal access and rights to as many good things as possible.

Many people insulate for various reasons. Everyone needs some personal space and time some find it between the two ears, some between the ribs on two sides of the body and some between the two walls of their dwelling either a single small room or compound walls of their palaces.

How to keep in tune with everything?

      How to keep in tune with everything?

"The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything." -  Swami Chinmayananda.

I choose this quote purely because this primarily explains and involves refraining seeing anything through the prism of any ‘ism’ and developing a synergy to keep in tune with everything.

I have been reading a lot of your [Subhash Kak’s] works and at the outset I would like to place my appreciation of your vast research and wide knowledge of the subjects that you deal with.

But having said that I feel we need to understand that life is a constant process of churning and for facility of identification and reference we classify many things with different terminologies.

Some of these terminologies become so well settled that they help us recognize, report and reevaluate whenever we encounter some similar things.

So, names and terminologies mostly are easy tools for recognition and classification but they do not confer any exclusive identity to one aspect of life against the other.

Therefore, in any field , if we allow the inherent energy of that field to freely flow without our pre-conception of it, we may encounter the interconnectivity , inter-relatedness and sometimes the inter-dependence as well, of  many of the entities that we tend to slice up for the convenience of our own easier frames of reference and understanding.

So, my mind , instinctively reacts whenever I come across the term ‘versus’ or usage of the term ‘and’ as if a tool to bridge the gaps between two entities.

It is true that while each entity by itself may exhibit some inherent characteristics and express some unique utility but not necessarily different perspective on life.

While polarity principle is inherent, most often, the differences are developed due to perceptional deficiencies.

It becomes all the more impelling to break this paradigm of even debating certain entities as different from one another especially if those entities are very vital aspects that seem to permeate with life as whole and play their inevitable part, of which our awareness may be of varying degrees of knowledge or ignorance.

These are mainly, and usually often debated arenas of science, philosophy and spirituality.

I have tried through observation as well study of materials available aplenty on all these three categories to understand what we mean by those very terms.

Without a clear cut definition of what we mean by each one these terms we mean be swimming in a verbally intoxicating cock tail of terminologies.

Here in the following links I lay forth my attempts to understand them with many sub links in them. So, it involves a long reading.

I welcome wider debates and discussions on these without any irrelevant ideological extrapolations.

There is this inevitable polarity principle in nature and evolution.

Like evolutionary biology, there are evolutionary trends, metamorphosis or constant changes in social systems, philosophies, sciences, linguistics, arts, languages and so on.

Unless we observe and study them i.e. the evolutionary trends /changes in all spheres of life with contextual relevance we may not live in tune with the whole of life and will continue to view life in bits and pieces.

Though it is easy to analyze life in bits and pieces but then that is a wrong perspective imbued with lot of inevitable prejudices.

As a result of this wrong perspective and attitude there is an unending list of these ‘versus’:-Faithful versus unfaithful; Religious versus irreligious; Science versus Religion; Science or religion versus spirituality; Tradition versus taboo; Technology versus Humanity.

I can elaborate the damage these perspectives have done to the development of humanity leading to petrified ideologies, putrefied perspectives, and puerile interpretation of many things and ended up viewing various polarity principles as paradoxes.

So, it is time for us to go beyond all divisive paradoxes and experience the synergy so that we may keep in tune with everything.

Philosophy

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/11/philosophy-what-it-is.html

Science

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/10/reason-and-science-let-us-respect.html

Spirituality

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/03/spirituality-whole-gamut-of-it.html

Polarity principle

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/08/paradoxes-or-polarity.html

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/12/division-and-oneness.html

Synergy

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2017/01/synergy-to-become-global-citizen-and.html

WHAT IS THE WHOLE TRUTH

WHAT IS THE WHOLE TRUTH

Our life is an event occasional
In the grand universe eternal;
This single truth universal,
Religions classified as celestial and terrestrial,
Politicians divided this terrestrial, into occidental and oriental;
With our approaches skeptical, our perceptions parochial;
Our life span that is temporal, but our desire to lead a life eternal;
And with our ego’s incompatibility to cohabit with all
We settled for the smallest possible division, the grand Individual;
But even this small division of individual
Was further divided as male and female
Thus continues the rationale ‘fractional’.
Only when our vision becomes overall
We shall know that life is part and parcel of the whole.