SPIRITUALITY IS NOT THE MORALITY
rajni
The morality, the ethics and the practices recommended by them are to
regulate the behaviour of an individual towards others. These others
may be the other members of the same society or the members of some
others societies.
Subsequently societies developed their political set ups also to
evolve new practices; enforce them and also punish for their
violation. This branch assumed the name of the law and law Courts.
But this all including the morality, the ethics and the law were only
to regulate the outer behaviour of a subject. This is all external;
imposed from outside; enforced from outside and observed from outside.
No society or system will object to your most contrary beliefs and
notions so long as your external conduct is in conformity with its
morals or laws. The societies have nothing to do with your internal
fabric. They are in expectations of your external conduct to be in
conformity with their practices – the morals or the ethics or the
laws.
All morals, ethics and laws presuppose the existence of others. This
existence of others is independent of anyone else in the society. The
morals, ethics and the laws are all Bipolar Processes. It envisages
YOU the doer and those OTHERS who would face the result of your deeds.
These morals, ethics and the laws are the bridges bridging the
individuals. For all the morals, ethics and the laws (hereinafter
these will collectively be termed as External Trio) the existence of
plurality of individuals is an essence. Without a plurality and the
interconnections amongst that plurality this External Trio is void ab
initio. It is meaningless. It loses its worth.
Now take the spirituality. But before entering the domain of
spirituality the meaning of “Bipolar Process” ought to be made clear.
This “Bipolar Process” was discussed in the preceding paragraphs while
dealing with the issue of the External Trio. It was said there that
this External Trio is essentially a Bipolar Process involving “You”
and “the Others”.
The outside world enters you as sensations through your senses. Your
mind processes these sensations and produces information or knowledge
for you. All the empirical knowledge has two components. One is the
sensation from the outer world and the other is the processed product
of your mind.
When the concepts of one person are expressed to others it is through
verbal conversation. In all verbal conversations there are generally
two elements one relates to the fact regarding the sensation you
received through your senses and the other is the mental element
provided by your mind. When the facts are in contradistinction to each
others a mental element is taken recourse of to overcome the
stagnation of contradistinction of facts. “Ram steals bread to feed a
starving person” involves two facts (may be moral or legal or ethical)
in contradistinction to each other. The matter is resolved by a mental
process giving more weight to one fact over the other.
These mental elements embedding the sensations are called thoughts.
The thoughts are essentially based on sensations received by your
senses. May be, some thoughts appear to be free from the empirical
basis. But it is not so.
You may think of an animal with the tail like a horse and the body
like a lion. But it is nothing more than a new permutation –
combination of your sensation about tail, horse, lion and body etc.
Your mind gives these combinations new names as a child gives
different names to the different shapes made from the same clay.
SPIRITUALITY IS NOT THE MORALITY
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