Sunday, August 04, 2013

 

Spirituality, Morality and Legality


Spirituality branded with religious labels has led to wars in the past, and till date fighting to prove superiority over the other's religion. No spiritual leader ever did come to start a religion. All they did was to enlighten and teach right from wrong. Unfortunately today spirituality has gone wrong and thanks to religion. Most major religions in the world have its history with bloodshed and violence, whose casualties would be much more than all world wars put together. Earlier it was one religion against the other and today it is even divisions and sects within a religion against each other.  

Then comes the barrage of ‘spiritual gurus’. On intervals you get these conmen who come with their twisted philosophies and even prophecies. What is intriguing is most of these gurus have followers who are intellectuals from a diversified spectrum of professions? So this proves that education can make you an intelligent idiot. Worst are leaders of religions or their appointed people to profess the faith mired in controversies and scams. What religion can we follow when the ones who are leading are lost? Spirituality is more of self-awareness and seeking inwards to improve the world outwards rather than seeking to improve materialistic needs, and in the process destroying the world outwards. It is outward seeking of big home, big cars, big bank balance, big status, and big fame including to the size of food which is Big Mac, Big Coke and Large fries, when there is hunger and malnutrition all around the world.

Spirituality is a root from which shoots forth morality, and fruits of which the society around is supposed to benefit from. Spirituality is an inborn instinct which gives you a self-realization of what is what is right and wrong and what is good and bad. Morality is what gets groomed or nurtured. In the professional world morality is branded as ethics. If you do a dictionary search of the word ‘ethics’ it means a system of moral principles. To avoid direct connotation to morality, the professional space shrouds it as ethics and in the process does the direct opposite of moral and ethical values. Morality is further buried under the pretext of culture. No culture promotes anything immoral, and culture is more an aspect of social interaction of a particular place or region. Culturally what may be accepted in some regions may contradict in another, but spirituality and morality is universal. We have killed basic instinct of spirituality with greed, leaving nothing that can be nurtured for future generations in morality.

When spirituality and morality fails we resort to legality to run a society, which is nothing but adding chemical pesticide to the root of spirituality effecting the fruits of morality. With all the laws in the world, has the world become a better place? In fact deterioration of the world in every aspect is gaining faster pace and acceleration. Strangely in China they are toying with an idea of making it a law to take care of parents. Now if children cannot take care of their parents or don’t want too, then how would a law help? Can a law demonstrate how to love your parents? Same goes with giving time to your family where it is now coined as ‘quality time’. When did time have quality? It is the person that lacks quality, lacks morality and spirituality. Same goes with generosity which gets glorified being titled as philanthropy and charity, when in reality caring for any human deprived of basic needs is not generosity, philanthropy or charity but it is a duty and responsibility. Can a law put this basic act of humanity in place? It can only be achieved with Spirituality and Morality.

Legality itself has no meaning without Spirituality and Morality of people practicing the profession. On the contrary laws are focused on legalizing gay marriages; live in relationships; protecting health damaging plant processed food laced with chemicals as preservatives, colas, cigarettes; laws for criminal rights when their crime has taken innocent lives. The dichotomy is even branding people as criminals who do something morally right, so we have cases like a Julian Assange who blow the lid of governments with wikileaks, branded criminal and a threat to national security or Edward Snowden who revealed programs such as the interception of US and European telephone and electronic communication surveillance of citizens without their knowledge or consent  Snowden's disclosures are said to rank among the most significant NSA security breaches in United States history. So a government doing something illegal is fine, but someone who exposes it is doing something illegal.

Ultimately we are so confused we don’t know what it is Spirituality, Morality or Legality, resulting in no humanity.

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