The Politics of Unity

Clearly … the severest issue afflicting the development of mind and the humanity condition in the world … is the impact it brings to race relations. It translates into divisions according to color … faith … cultural practice … tribes … and knowing. There's a preponderance of attention … brought to the issue in these times … and it occupies our daily attention … like bread and butter. It is the most irascible factor … on the road to human development.

 

In Syria … the differences in tribal loyalties has forced millions … out of their country in an enforced migration to Europe. In India … a mob lynched a Moslem allegedly for cow slaughter … in a state that has banned the practice. In both instances … the rule of law has been completely ignored. Democratic elections in Syria … determine the rule of the majority … to which each individual tribe is bound to adhere to. The practice of law and order in India … would have ensured that … a police report … would have brought the alleged perpetrator to book.

 

In almost all such cases … it demonstrates the failure to comply with an organization of society … that the individual has come to subscribe to. As a member of humanity … we are no doubt familiar with the disparate conditions for its development around the world … that ultimately unites us as one being … and yet the impulses with which we view individual actions of difference … raises such a storm of protest at the impunity of such thoughts and actions … that man fails in his compliance to organizational guidelines … established for the purpose.

 

In the cultural practice of dharma … the individual is schooled in the … need for human development to be undertaken … in all its many possibilities … including issues that are clearly in contradiction to one another. Hence an organization of community … as big as the world … was created to undertake such an exercise. In the course of a lifetime … we observe the play of the opposites … and sometimes that takes place … at the loss of lives. The dharma student is reminded … that even at such severity of conditions … it is the work of the life forces in man.

 

In Ferguson … an unarmed black man … was shot by a police officer … who was Caucasian. We are familiar with the qualities of fair-skinned individuals … who see by their light of vision … an orderly sense of life in their attitudes … that is derived from their own singular orientation to life … on account of their natures. It turns hasty sometimes … and figures … it is the only viable alternative to life … and negates the possibility of others. That's a little like the human prick saying … ' I contribute to the generation of life and the rest of my body doesn't.'

 

The propensity to think … negates the sexual impulse … since they need to act in a manner that is mutually exclusive. This may be extended to all manner of actions … that we undertake … which are in that way … a dismissal of something … to bring something else into manifestation. Man wholly dismissed the life of the ape … to evolve into the human. Imagine the violent nature … inherent in such an act of advancement. Yet … we will defend that entirely.

 

The key it appears … is in the proper cognition of every factor … in the sampradaya of the human experience … as playing a unique role in the development of our overall identity as human … or the future specie. If for any reason … the future specie should rush against the grain … it produces the effect of an incomplete human development … that will fail to rise to the manifestation of that new specie. But man it appears … can intuit the light of that future specie … and bring that to his bearing … in engaging the human condition.

Its a relation that we can at times … identify on the basis of specie to specie. In the encounter … it is a clear acceptance of the fact … that one will continue living and the other will not. Its a merge of the qualities … into a final being in the universe. But to achieve that completely … man is tasked with first giving up on any false representation of the future specie … and to develop his own physiology … in a physical act … for that achievement. Hence the conflicts we view in the world … is a matter of difference … between those who do and those who don't … and the claims we make about what constitutes the right approach.

 

The nature of the intuition … regarding the future specie … exists in the human condition … by the support of the anima qualities … that we passed through … to get to man. Despite its violent background … it understands the nature of the priorities … and has in my condition … granted me the opportunity to work my human development … primarily the mind … to its optimum level. In doing so … any representation of mind that it has engendered over the ages … is being brought to total diminution. This has shocked me … and brought me to great concern about my callous natures. Yet he insists that … that's the way the achievement is made.

 

Our cultures pile up all thoughts of a different specie under the legend of the dragon.  In the movie version of the theme … as presented in ' Dragonheart ' … the dragon calls on the knight to kill him … for its the dragon who continues to nurture … the past anima qualities of ignorance and false notions … in its wayward son. Its the only way for man … to take the tentative steps on his own … to work out his own development as human. In a socio-religious context … it is also a reference to the crucifixion of the Christ. In denying any knowledge of him … Peter demonstrates the loss of contact we experience … when disengaged with the primal-anima energies of our past.

 

Face to face with these two aspects of our creative energies … I figure I understand the police officer in Ferguson … the President of Syria … and the Indian mob at the lynching. But its more than that. It feels like … I could have been that police officer … that president … that mob … and it raises the hellish specter that … ' I'm ( mysteriously ) doing it all.' No doubt my understanding needs greater refinement  … but its a long way from taking the law into my own hands. Its a daily act of discernment between what constitutes … the human quality … and all the rest that do not. And it continues with the full volitional participation of my understanding … on every issue … every day.

 

In the Bhagavad Gita … the Vasudeva says … ' I move men around like puppets to do the will of creation.' Its not too hard to see how in 500 bc … a man could have identified himself that way wholly with a quality of the mind at unity. It was an early message of man and creation … brought to minds only then waking to the light of the world. We are therefore grateful for the strides we have made in understanding the mind … science … and the identity of man in creation. Our course in the civilization experience … promises us that more can make that achievement in times to come.  

Reviews

[Solar]

Perhaps the message of the Gita may be unpalatable to the modern mind in its wishful thinking, as there will always be conflict until man evolves. Perhaps accounts of atrocities are selectively played out in a so-called secular media, such as the absence of news about atrocities against Hindus in Bengal, Kashmir. The rule of resaon and science has also been guilty - used to justify the holocaust. Perhaps. A though-provoking piece.

[Dayran]

I like the way you point to possibilities. It makes me think sometimes that all is at the throw of the dice ... despite man's attempts to corral and manage them. Appreciate the comment.

[Solar]

Thank you. Perhaps not so much a throw of dice...as we can only see segments of time in paradigms. What are your thoughts on Heraclitus with regards to strife and harmony?

[Dayran]

I had to look him up ... I have not read him before. Two things stood out ... the ever present reality and the union of opposites. I'm stunned. I intend to read more about him. Thks for bringing him to my attention.

[Solar]

yes - i came to reading him through Sri Aurobindo's essay on Heraclitus, regarding the clash of opposites and the changing/unchanging stream.