SPLASHES FROM HINDU MAHASAGAR 2 - Relationships, Groups, Societies and Countries by Chand K Sharma *** Jai Maharaj posts
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Splases form Hindu Mahasagar -- 2 - Relationships, Groups, Societies
and Countries
Splases form Hindu Mahasagar -- 2
Relationships, Groups, Societies and Countries
Life is also one of the many systems of the Universe. Life is
perceived as a combination of soul with body. Life ends whenever
these two are separated. Thereafter these two merge with their
superior elements. Soul with the Superior Being, and the corpse
formed out of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Ethereal merges with basic
elements after it gets dissolved through cremation, burial or decay
by passage of time.
The moment body and soul are united a desire to live emerges
automatically. No living being, even the plants, wants to die. Every
living thing can even take the life of another living being either to
satisfy its own food requirement or when there is threat to its own
life. Everyone wants to avoid death.
While living beings can change themselves to certain existent and
this is called adaptability. This is more in humans than others. But
only humans can change others and this is called effectiveness. Our
happiness and sufferings are due to the mismatch between our
adaptability and effectiveness. We are happy when circumstances are
of our liking, and we become unhappy when things are not to our
liking and we cannot change them or cannot adjust ourselves.
Food, shelter, and security are also necessary to live. Plants need
protection from Sun, manure, and animals also need resting place and
food and so are humans. No one can live and flourish in isolation.
All kinds of plants, animals and humans are in pairs of males and
females. No gender is in position to generate life individually.
There is need for companionship. Thus all living beings have needs
and work to full-fill their needs.
For instance, a cat, dog, or any other animal, after feeling hungry
leaves his resting place and gets motivated to search food. This
action is prompted to satisfy a body need. Having found food, the
animal is further continues to visit the same place daily to maintain
continuity of his food supply and 'secures' the source. Often the
animal would locate itself near the site, become friendly with the
food supplier if there be any, and would not let another animal
disrupt the food supply. This way animal start belonging to some one
and it begins forming of a group. Once an animal, has secured source
to satisfy its needs it can do better things in life. They want to be
loved also. Pet animals refuse to eat their food on being separated
from, or rejected by their owners. Their 'need for esteem' demands
satisfaction by patting and cajoling by the master. Then they want to
improve and develop also. Animals learn to perform several tricks and
other functions to fully realize their potential.
Same sequence works for humans also. A new born needs food, care,
resting place, then love from parents and relatives. When these are
given the child wants to know the surrounding and responds to accept
knowledge from parents, teachers and finally resorts to individual
and efforts to improve. Basically everyone wants to learn techniques
of improving ones adaptability and effectiveness to attain happiness
and satisfaction.
Needs motivated everyone towards formation of social groups,
relationships and code of conduct. Early man lived in caves and moved
about in groups in search of food through hunting. The animal skin
provided him means of protection against weather. They lived nomadic
life in search of hunting places. Later they learnt agriculture as an
alternate source of food. This way they started settlements near
water sources and homes were made.
Based on the biological differences, instincts, traits division of
duties was also made. All over the world, by and large, females
continue to look after 'indoor' responsibilities, while males manage
the external environment. Females and offspring were to be protected
from rivals, animals and climatic disasters. Females were assigned
the role to manage households. Since males were sturdier than females
and more apt to undertake handwork and risks, they took upon
themselves the responsibility of providing food through hunting and
agriculture. With division of responsibilities, over a period,
traditions got established concerning their rights and duties on the
basis of sex, and effectiveness in the group.
There are Needy at the receiving end and there are givers or
satisfiers at the other end. This existence of receiver and the giver
formed the basis of relationships. The intimacy and duration of
relationship is proportionate to the intensity of need and the
capability of the giver to satisfy the same. All relationships are
formed out of some needs and last till the need is there. A child,
who cried bitterly due to momentary separation from mother, would
forget the same mother once need for her affection is over and would
go in search of friends for satisfying some other need. As the needs
change, relationships also keep changing.
The givers emerged as group leaders while the receivers turned
followers. Group leaders were more effective, while followers were
adoptive. The group leaders were not only to lead hunting
expeditions, but also had to arrange for the protection of all group
members, their families, tools and crops. They devised customs and
traditions regarding birth, marriage, and burial of dead according to
availability of resources and environment. Later those customs got
formalized in rituals to be followed by all group members in a
specified manner to bring uniformity.
They were required to settle internal disputes and administer
justice. The group leadership was enlarged in scope and strengthened.
The added responsibilities lead to the evolution of kingship,
followers, domains, and administrative systems. As the groups
enlarged they extended their control over larger areas and later it
started formation of countries and nationalities. The earlier
groupings according to races were followed by nationalities, in
ninteenth century.
A nation is defined as a population having: a common language and
literature, common customs, common consciousness of right and wrong,
and inhabiting a territory of geographical unity. The concept of
Nationality is more recent one. Nationality merely denotes the formal
legal rights and obligations of a person living in a specified
geographical area. The limits of the geographical area may expand or
shrink to include or exclude persons, but the religious affinities
manifested in the form of beliefs and ethical codes always overflow
the national frontiers.
Be it a small group, society or a nation, when every one wanted to
live with others with happiness some rules were also needed to
regulate relationships. This need necessitated emergence of religions
all over the world. Obviously the beginning was to be made by the
human group of World's first civilization -- in India.
Chand K Sharma
End of forwarded message from Chand K Sharma
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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