Tuesday 21 April 2015

Security - drives development to what purpose ?

Human development has been driven by one and only thing that is sense of security. As long as the man cared only for food and reproduction he could live and happily dwell in forests and caves. Those who surrendered themselves to the nature and tuned their lives to their immediate nature, could live and even today still surviving as tribes.

But those who did not want to surrender started thinking. They wanted to be sure they will have food tomorrow and will have partners to reproduce. So Instead of just taking and using what nature provided them, they started possessing things, like food , partners etc.

Then with the impartiality set-in between the people, that is those who have more and those who have less. This brought greed and fights. Then someone thought a social order is required and brought cutsoms like marriages, family and so.

People had no time for compassion and love as long they thought they do not have enough. When they thought they had enough they could develop compassion and love for others and naturally it gave them power over others because they could do what other's could not.

The power gave them freedom to explore themselves and surrounding to develop art and culture. The artists were born. With art and culture they developed knowledge.

With knowledge He started asking question why we exists and so on ? Religion was born.
With freedom, knowledge and religion He pondered ... and pondered and found ultimately that we need to give up desires to be  happy and released of the karmic bonds. (BUDDHAHOOD)

What did the other sect of people(tribes) did without going through this cycle they tuned to the environment and lived in the moment, with no thinking about future. They accepted nature as it is and lived in the moment.

What did we do we resisted nature and in the end reached the same conclusion , but what a (damaging) change we have brought upon earth to find the same answer.

Until and unless there is bigger purpose than individual liberation, the whole human development would have no purpose served. What is that purpose for the human development ?

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