Re: Capitalism & ignorance
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
There are some very good discussions that are occurring on this thread. The key here is ignorance vs. enlightenment. Different systems have their pluses and minuses, I think we all agree - yet at the end of the day we get what we deserve.
This is a very hard thing to swallow , yet we as a society have a collective consciousness that is a great influence on the quality of life. The collective consciousness works at the family level, community level , national level and global level. It is what goes on in aggregate that becomes the ~collection~ no? If people are in strife, unhappy, stressed, rago-guna driven individually, what then can we expect at the collective level ? The same.
So where does change come from? It must start at the individual level. Balance, sattva, unfoldment of the Divine, upliftment of higher values must start with the individual, then the family, community, the nation. Like that change occurs. Yet many think the way to change is to protest, demand, revolt, push back, etc. These are the tools of ignorance. The tools of knowledge is to change the quality of the person, of society , from the inside out.
Where must this start? The mahābhārata suggests it is the duty at the leadership level ( kṣatria¹ to create this orderly society. It seems we must put these people in the leadership positions that have enlightened vision. Yet is this occurring? I do not see it. Why so ? We are not ~growing~ these types of people in our society, in our communities in our educational system in mass to make this occur.
Yet here is the pickle. When society is steeped in ignorance how will these people know there is a purely better way to lead and live ? It becomes the duty of those that are enlightened to bring a better vision and uplift the individual the best they can.
praṇām
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kṣatria - governing , endowed with sovereignty
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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