A word and its meaning- contd

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contd.<br>One fully respects your feeling that

"it is important to change from 'self-awareness' to

social awareness."<br>and as you also said<br>""I am

here to find whether spiritualism has that answer or

not.""<br>Uma and SilentSoul and maybe others before mentioned

your approach being very akin to "Karma-Yoga" taught

by Krishna in the Gita, which is nothing but pure

state of selflessness as a body, instead one's

awareness expanded into the matrix of society. All actions

originating from this type of decentralised consciousness

which is very much possible before you dismiss this as

abstract.<br>As you are averse to any sort of abstract discussion

and open to down to earth activity in tha social

field, which may be quite a 'cultural shock' to many of

us here. Most of us are on the path quite different

in which realising the fallacies and hypocrisy of

society also reflected in self, one begins to

systematically overcome these illusory ideas in self; well let

that be out of discussion for the moment.<br>May be

the idea of Karma-Yoga (karma here as activity)

sounds distant but it would be good if you looked up the

Bhagavat Gita in this regard.<br>Further into

spirituality, you must have heard of the word 'empathy'? This

as you will agree is a vital ingredient of a better

society. To quote just one example, during advanced stages

of (development of personal awareness in

your terms:) a high level of sensitivity is developed

towards the surrounding environment. One has seen

personally a person developing a choking sensation during

meditation just because a lizard happened to have fallen in

a bucket full of water and struggling to breath,

the effect gone as soon as the cause removed. This

was just a chance happening and not any

'demonstration'. Similarly, sensitivity to other people's moods

and thoughts is also developed and one is able to be

naturally happy only when all in the surroundings are happy

too. <br>>The purpose of all the above explanation

was to stress the actual feeling of empathy over just

an intellectual understanding and hence 'copying' of

it as in good manners etc.<<br>Too much of

intellectual "personal awareness" in true spiritual terms is

not awareness at all !<br>Karma-yoga tells us to

begin with this very same abstract idea of total

selflessness but constant application to actualise this

intellectual practice is very strongly stressed. Ultimately

arriving at that perfect empathy !<br>So the paths may

vary, one in to out, other out to in, the end has to be

betterment of humanity as a whole. This result , you have

already arrived at after much intellectual excercise,

showing the very logical direction of your intellectual

approach.<br>But now is the question of putting in practise the so

many words passed around. Any suggestions??<br>regards

really

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Near Perfect.<br><br>- Seshadri.