The moral consciousness seeks to rescue man from the animal consciousness. Its effort is to be delivered from the inferior vital instincts and rise to something higher, genuinely human. It does that or tries to do that by cultivating a feeling of repulsion, even of horrow towards things that are sought to be rejected and cast out. The feeling of repulsion, of revulsion and horror is indispensable to the growth and maintenance of the moral feeling.
The Indian discipline teaches that to rise to a higher state of consciousness one need not have, rather one must not have any feeling of revulsion or hatred. One must be free from attachment to the movements of inferior nature, one must cultivate detachment from them but not necessarily through hatred or horror. The spiritual discipline bases itself upon a sense of perfect equality.
You have to rise above the status of the lower nature and this can be done only by a calm detachment, a quiet withdrawal.
One need not entertain repulsion or hatred for animal life in order to rise superior to it, one automatically rises superior to it when one links oneself to the higher status, when one is imbued with a superior consciousness. The animal consciousness is not a wrong consciousness in itself, it is the life of the animal; the human consciousness may regard it as such and may still discover a superior consciousness looking at the movements of the lower world dispassionately, and indifferently or even appreciatively for a thing of beauty is there even in the animal life, for the Divine is everywhere. As in a building where brick is laid upon brick, or stone upon stone, the one laid above is not superior to the one laid below, the terms inferior and superior indicate only the simple position of the object.
The world is a gradation of developing consciousness, of growing states or status of being. There is a higher and lower level in point of the measure of consciousness but that involves no moral judgement; the moral judgement is man's, one might almost say, idiosyncrasy, that is to say a notion that is a prop to help him mount the ladder. Though it might be necessary at a certain stage, in certain circumstances, it is not a universal or ineluctable law,, not even in his personal domain. The growing consciousness is like a growing tree rising upwards first into a trunk, then spreading out into branches, into twigs and tendrils, then in flowers and finally in fruits. These are mounting grades of growth, but the growth above is not superior to the growth below. it is one unified whole and each portion has its own absolute value, beauty and utility.
The urge of spiritual consciousness is to go beyond the dualities beyond the trinities (Triguna) all mental and scriptural rules and regulations. For there is only one absolute the transcendent, the Supreme Divine himself. The Brahman.
The Indian spiritual consciousness considers the secular distinction of good and evil as otiose; both are maya, there must neither be attachment to the good nor repulsion from evil. We have to cultivate a consciousness, now forgotten and alienated but once natural to the human mind, the consciousness and status of a transcendence built with the sense of absolute calm a equality, all serene and all englobing, that is God consciousness.
The Indian discipline teaches that to rise to a higher state of consciousness one need not have, rather one must not have any feeling of revulsion or hatred. One must be free from attachment to the movements of inferior nature, one must cultivate detachment from them but not necessarily through hatred or horror. The spiritual discipline bases itself upon a sense of perfect equality.
You have to rise above the status of the lower nature and this can be done only by a calm detachment, a quiet withdrawal.
One need not entertain repulsion or hatred for animal life in order to rise superior to it, one automatically rises superior to it when one links oneself to the higher status, when one is imbued with a superior consciousness. The animal consciousness is not a wrong consciousness in itself, it is the life of the animal; the human consciousness may regard it as such and may still discover a superior consciousness looking at the movements of the lower world dispassionately, and indifferently or even appreciatively for a thing of beauty is there even in the animal life, for the Divine is everywhere. As in a building where brick is laid upon brick, or stone upon stone, the one laid above is not superior to the one laid below, the terms inferior and superior indicate only the simple position of the object.
The world is a gradation of developing consciousness, of growing states or status of being. There is a higher and lower level in point of the measure of consciousness but that involves no moral judgement; the moral judgement is man's, one might almost say, idiosyncrasy, that is to say a notion that is a prop to help him mount the ladder. Though it might be necessary at a certain stage, in certain circumstances, it is not a universal or ineluctable law,, not even in his personal domain. The growing consciousness is like a growing tree rising upwards first into a trunk, then spreading out into branches, into twigs and tendrils, then in flowers and finally in fruits. These are mounting grades of growth, but the growth above is not superior to the growth below. it is one unified whole and each portion has its own absolute value, beauty and utility.
The urge of spiritual consciousness is to go beyond the dualities beyond the trinities (Triguna) all mental and scriptural rules and regulations. For there is only one absolute the transcendent, the Supreme Divine himself. The Brahman.
The Indian spiritual consciousness considers the secular distinction of good and evil as otiose; both are maya, there must neither be attachment to the good nor repulsion from evil. We have to cultivate a consciousness, now forgotten and alienated but once natural to the human mind, the consciousness and status of a transcendence built with the sense of absolute calm a equality, all serene and all englobing, that is God consciousness.
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