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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