when i see videos about children starving, sold for prostitution, maimed so they can beg, recruited for Taliban, worked to death, born with HIV - i feel so pained.. and i also feel so angry.. for it is the mistake of the parents.. of the man - who could not control his urges and cared not that his careless act to satisfy his needs might spawn a life that will suffer and suffer! how can this be?? how can we who are capable of such acts of greatness are also culpable of such crimes??
this is an eternal question... and i truly think that spiritual education will go a long way in addressing this.. if we all helped our fellow beings, there will be no need.. god has given us ample.. it's in the distribution of it that suffering comes.. but we saw that communism doesn't work.. what works is spiritual advancement and spiritual education.. to take no more.. to give as much as you can... it can't be a top down socially forced equality.. it has to be within and spread out.. it's capitalism with a heart..
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I dont know. Doesn't maslow's triangle state, that the most basic needs are to addressed first. If one is hungry, how can there be space for spirituality? The issues in these world are mostly very survival based, except possibly the religious ones. Gandhi too, had a multipronged approach to solving these problems. Spirituality and abstention was just one of his experiments, isn't it?
ReplyDeletetrue... the spirituality is for the well fed ones to take care of the poor around them.. if we each cared for our neighbors how can there be starvation?? which poses the next question of distance between the rich and poor.. it's frustrating how all the world's problems are related in a circular fashion.. but i do think that spirituality does not lie on top of the maslows, but across the scale.. why it even reduces hunger.. which is why buddha and the others lived on begging.. but all these arguments will make sense when i return to india.. which is what i am going to do..
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