HINDUISM, THE WAY OUT OF THE CURRENT COMPLEXITIES ... 1

The less one is conscious of one's lower self, the more one is Self-conscious. Herein lies the importance of humility as an attribute which essentially is the attempt at obliteration of the ego and establishment of oneself in samesightedness.

Differentiation is in the fabric of the universe, an embedded principle, for the world of relativity is but variegated necessarily by its very structure. As such, it is but natural that men will be located in different points in space-time not only in the physical universe but in the corresponding psychological universe as well. This leads to variation of temperament, attributes and evolutionary levels which makes the world of man rather complex, almost impossible to manage, despite grandiloquent claims of religions, ideologies and philosophical systems to the contrary.

Essentially all this boils down to self-preservation in a hostile world and this leads to the formation of co-interest groups which is the basis of society. Thinkers down the ages have struggled to grapple with this problem of human conflict arising from mutually exclusive interests which have led to countless wars that have destroyed the flower of humanity and have stunted civilisation and culture. Each time a new wave, a new inspiration has arisen somewhere, it has destroyed existing culture to gain a foothold in the human scene. Fanaticism has been the watchword for all revolutionary movements, be they in the realm of religion or in that of politics and the worst have been those movements which have made a dangerous mix of the two. War has been the constant theme of human civilisation and has been the settling force of ideological conflicts. But settlement has never been despite the march of armies across the vast terrain of the earth and man remains as unsettled as he ever was, only now in a more precarious position owing to the vastly increased means of self-destruction available to him thanks to the growth of technology.

The Hindus had discovered ages ago the solution to life's maladies. The Arya rishis (seers of transcendental truth) discovered on the banks of the Saraswati, the Sindhu (Indus) and the Ganga, in the impenetrable forests of the vast landmass of Bharatvarsha and in the high hills of the Himalayas, the fundamental truths of life and existence which through a succession of oral transmission eventually got recorded in the Vedas. Upon such divine realisations is built the Hindu society which has withstood the shock of unnumbered aggression from barbaric foreign forces threatening to obliterate its very existence but rock-like it has stood in the teeth of terrible tyranny, unvanquished, supreme, absorbing these rushing elements in its vast mother-body and evolving into an organism which is the human model for the world at large ever engaged in fratricidal feud.