If someone wants to know me: I can put my name, my father’s name along with my family name and where I am from. This should be good enough for my identity, but it is not. This is four layers of my identity! Would I include my neighbourhood, city, province, nation, religion, male, female, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, black, white, brown, yellow, red, mixed, how big or small I am or even how old am I?
If you begin to understand and research genetics and science, you will begin to understand that we are all made of the same substances and we are a mixture of all the above items. Now, let us consider what my problems are and where are they coming from?
What happened to the human being under all these layers? Well, we got lost in an identity crisis. The reality is that we all are mortal. We need oxygen to breath and food to eat. We live and die. Some get hurt from the similar happenings that hurt many of us and this affects others the same way. We all need love, compassion, forgiveness and sacrifice for SELF as an individual and collectively for the humanity as a whole.
Do we act like a turtle and hide inside our shell acting like we are protecting our mother earth from a variety of aliens? Take a look at all of us and how we react when we experience every social and spiritual crime carried against us individually and collectively. Is it committed by our own fellow human beings? If you remove all the man made political boundary lines of the globe and strip down all the political and sexual identities of the individual you will find a physical world with the real human being who is capable to together.
All political lines were and still are being created in the name of peace. After millions of years of evolution, how did we get that illusive peace by divisions? No, we did not. Regardless of our evolution the animal instinct is still live and well in our being. Today’s so called evolved human being is a lot more dangerous than it was in the past, so the divisions of related politics can be deadly for humanity as a whole. We may save the other species from extinction but we are working hard to make ourselves extinct by our actions.
If you, as an individual, are willing to rid yourself of all the problems related with your prejudice, racism and discrimination, you will have to go through a period where you will peel off all the man made identities for yourself. This is not possible done by one individual at a time. It is not possible without the spreading of education for all of mankind. It must come from both sides and it is unless it comes from both opposing sides, both individually and collectively. I said opposing sides because it has been and still is an on going discussion what is more important. Is it the individual or the mass? If you bring your politics and attempt to reach everyone in the mass or the group that you have chosen to follow, it is a given that many of your group will reject your ideas as it is difficult to change from the old ideas that we know and follow as a society. If a society choses not to adhere to equal individual human rights, the future will be filled with many types of crimes which may include spiritual crimes which ends up by causing the group a lot of trouble.
The problem is that as groups we would not want to let this happen because it would be political suicide for our group. As an individual, we would not want to let go of the politics of our sense of belonging. It would not be an easy task for the people who are brainwashed by the politics of the group that they have chosen to follow. To change their ideas and their sense of belonging for millions of years is what we are trying to accomplish. This is all we know from our upbringing so the transformation or I should call it,” the next step of the evolution”, from the previous knowledge is a difficult uphill climb especially when it is related to our security and present belief system.
To understand this picture we have to look at ourselves as individuals. If I were to pick one function of the known ones and look at the sophistication of it, would we want or choose to change what we do? I said the known ones because we are still evolving and we don’t know everything about the body yet. If you start to look at yourself, you will start to not only believe in God but learn to gain some respect for the other individuals and yourself as well. All the known and unknown abilities of the individual are wasted when one kills or dies while following the politics in the name of what the group proclaims you must do to continue with yours sense of belonging.
Do we diet to the point to stay thin and lose our health? This is a pathetic act because we are aware that all individuals are mortal. Killing and you being killed for a cause is common in many human societies. All this is related with the politics of the sense of belonging to a group that we have chosen to accept to affiliate with . To fit in, do I try to impress others in our group so I will be accepted ? One’s sense of being admired and accepted is related with the sense of belonging.
If your sense of belonging is warped, you need to awaken your sense of freedom to match it to your being so you can make good decisions according to the importance of your life.
Not liking being a little overweight and being healthy has everything to do with sense of freedom. To act in such a way such as dying from self starvation is not a healthier and wiser choice for a functioning individual. Throwing away a perfectly functioning body in the name of cause or just to fit in with the others is a clear sign of the individual weakness so stand up to your potential a human being.
As KABIR said hundreds of years ago, “THE DROP IN THE OCEAN, EVERY BODY KNOWS, THE OCEAN IN THE DROP, A RARE ONE DOES”.
Since you are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop , so dig, dig and dig for that God given potential. Don’t let the trends, friends or the politics of sense of belonging rob you of your gifts of life. After all , you are the subcontractor of the almighty himself.
If you look at the melting pot in societies, this is already happening. People are learning that their core values and that their God given identity is a human being. This human being is an organism just like a coral reef with a multiple number of colors , yet it survives. It lives and thrives the same way.
Human individual have two sides and with these two sides they must commit to accepting the responsibility to create balance between the two. Both spiritual and physical sides are related with our behavior. The physical side wants security because it knows about the mortality of all humans yet the spiritual side has the wisdom to be secure from within by connecting to the source.
The examples are always seen in the extreme because we all are human beings. We want to have physical experience of life while we are here. Going to extremes either way is not wise for any mortal. Being extreme is a non spiritual period because we are still evolving. When you are an unfinished product you just can’t claim that you know every thing regardless of the number of books you have read. You are still learning, so you can’t make extreme decisions. Religions, medicine and music hit us in such a way that we think that we know everything there is to know. Interestingly enough we have been reacting to these things for millions of years and we are still learning more everyday.Yet we have claimed all along that we know every thing. This thought is not to put anyone down but it is explained so as to point towards the evolving nature of human individuals. God gives human individuals the chance to enjoy this mortal life. The only way a human being can enjoy the bounties of life is through the animal side. Controlling or killing the animal side is simply not from God, it is more to impress the people around us. A healthy individual should have a balanced approach to life, reciprocating that is by the act of giving back, to be useful to God you can do good while enjoying a temporary visit. Enjoying a good food can make the animal side happy and satisfied. A useful being is a reciprocating being, God’s work needs to be done regardless. If everyone becomes a monk, this kills the animal side, and gives up the enjoyments of the journey and become dependent on the others to feed. How would humanity function ?
You can put ash all over your body and walk around naked without showering for years or put on a Hijab and claim to be a clean person in your social settings. This would not stop the world from rotating around the Sun. Physical and spiritual cleanliness is meaningless to God if the human is not there to reciprocate. Your prayers, fasting and other forms of personal sacrifice and related sufferings are from the customs that were passed down and it comes from the actions expected by your political or religious group that you choose to follow.
Your spiritual work is directly between you and God because you are a subcontractor working for God. If you can help people who are suffering and praying to God by fixing up their luck, but you choose not to help , you are not reciprocating and doing your job as a subcontractor. You can worship and self sacrifice as part of your personal suffering, but if you are an able human being and you don’t help the others , you are not reciprocating. In my opinion, everyone who is working is reciprocating. Some may say I am getting paid for the work I perform but if you logically look at all humans they are helping others. Therefore, helping others is reciprocating. You may think the actions are for the other human beings and not for God. If you want to see God spiritually but you can’t see or understand then you must search for God. If you want to see that God physically exists through the living human beings, so search for God in these helping human beings which would logically be reciprocating to God.
Whether you believe in God or not, try to reach a potential that will help you to reciprocate at higher level. Since that is your practical prayers, you end up helping humanity, thus God. You can worship like a prophet but if you can contribute to humanity by saving lives, in my opinion you are at higher level of reciprocation. For instance, the inventor of the insulin should be regarded as a prophet in medical field because his discoveries have been saving lives long after he has died.
You can wipe or wash yourself but this does not make you clean. If your spirituality is tainted with the politics of your sense of belonging, sooner or later you will commit spiritual crimes like prejudice and discrimination in the name of your belonging group.
The real dirt you want removed from your being is your spiritual dirt. When you can pray to God but feel no remorse and self responsibility by bombing and blowing up some innocent people, it is clearly disrespecting God given identity. You can have your political reasons, but a spiritual crime is a spiritual crime. There is no other way to describe it. You are responsible because you have been blessed with free will which gives you a roll of subcontractor. You may care about the physical hygiene but in reality its the spiritual hygiene that matters the most.
God blessed human individual with free will, thus He gave us equal power to make our own decisions. Some of us may think this is not true because even the leaves on the tree can’t move without God’s will. Look around and see if everyone is moving around or living as puppets live. We live within a family raised by the same parents. We all seem to grow up to be different. We choose different paths, we value different things, we even think and feel differently. We even put different levels of efforts and worshiping in our personal lives. Why all the differences? Are we sure that God wanted us to be the same? This is not to discredit anyone’s knowledge but to make some sense to ones self.
If the leaves can’t move on their own, how can it be believed that someone can abort a child without the God’s will?.
We can put God on a pedestal because we feel so vulnerable that we can’t even breath on our own if the oxygen is taken away. God does whatever is God’s Will. By giving us free will, God gave human individuals the role of a subcontractor and we all know that subcontractors work for the contractor. We get God’s prescribed job done but we choose how it gets done, so does this bring your importance up as an individual and make you feel responsible for your personal actions?
Metaphorically it is said that a drug lord can help the people belonging to his community to the point that everyone starts to feel that it is their duty to help him. They feel that the purpose of their lives is to protect him. Now, if you think and know that the drugs kill even the innocents and have horrendous negative effects on the society. If you understand what a Drug Lord does and you make a decision that don’t care what the Drug Lord is doing and you keep thinking that helping the drug lord, is the right and good thing to do? I think not! This act is all about the politics of the sense of belonging which has robbed individuals of a personal sense of justice. Belonging impulses to the point that one can’t think as an individual is not what is expected and is working against your free will. This is the start of an individuals destruction of a human being. A destroyed individual is not and can not be a subcontractor of the Almighty.
God gives us an equal opportunity to be good or bad. Knowing what our good and bad spiritual level is crucial at all levels of humanity. As an individual, if you don’t have a personal sense of justice, you would be following and enforcing the rules, rituals, traditions and customs of your belonging groups. This makes you subservient to a group of people and not a subcontractor to The Almighty. The more you preach the politics of your belonging group, the less valuable you personally become.
Know your value. You are an ocean in a drop not a drop in the ocean. Most groups prohibit individuals from becoming important because the groups believe in the mass more than the individual. Yet it is proven that the main essences of all groups is the individual. Religious beliefs, socialism and communism are highly influenced by the politics of sense of belonging thus are designed for the masses so the individual’s rights can be sacrificed. We have come a long way from human sacrifice but when it comes to mass verses individual religions it would always stand for the masses.
Equal human rights is a new phenomena but it is the most spiritual thing humanity can adopt. Many human individuals are brain washed and made to feel good by self sacrifice. This can come from sleep to hunger to self mutilating. This is all too common in different religious practices. Yet it is all well known and as a fact that a working individual who help humanity are fulfilling God’s assigned job. This reciprocation is part of the contract we all sign with the Contractor so we can be the subcontractors. We give and take, not give and give, even the honey bees and ants work for the queen but they can’t live without food, so it is their contract. Genetically we are far more superior and aware of being a queen ourselves so no one should be treated even by themselves like a worker bee or warrior ant.
Security as an individual is essential. It becomes part 0f a evolution, from walls of a house to walls of communities and to national walls to even nuclear weaponry. These are not only the realities of today’s living. They have been around for thousands of years.
Since the conceptual big brother has taken the responsibility our house and its walls we have gained some respect but ultimate security is still illusive. We as societies, have evolved enough to learn and have accepted that a percentage of crime would always be a part of our civilized world. Nothing would be perfect or black and white so we some time sweep our dirt under the rug. We do the best we can. Sure, we play the blame-game and use our politics to blame even Devil for our deeds. No one should be hiding behind the Devil. We all should must take responsibility of our actions because as a subcontractor we become chief executive officer of our lives regardless of the belief system.
As we evolve we should try to educate our animal side to self regulate instead of us trying to kill it. This education is far more important for social harmony than strict rules. You can fear physical punishments but stray as soon as you find the danger is gone. Education itself points towards rehabilitation instead of harsh punishments.
We need our justice system and security because we have not evolved to the point where everyone of us can self-regulate and respect others as they must. We are still in the process of evolution so we understand that we have crime free societies. If you think you will be safe inside the walls of all kind, you have to think about the cost. This cost is not limited to the money. The stress and related health problems can rob you of your quality of life. Especially being mortal you just can’t afford to spend your happiness and health on it. Without our physical side we can’t experience a quality of life as it is given to us through God . This gift from God needs to be respected just like our spiritual side. In some religions, religious rituals are connected to customs such as the killing of animals but do we really need to do this in the name of God?
Personally, I believe our life is a gift from God to enjoy in return of reciprocation. This reciprocation is connected to our spiritual side. If you don’t reciprocate it means you take and take but don’t give in return. This alone is a disrespect of God. Even if you claim that you have killed the animal side spiritually and you don’t contribute to God’s work, one must understand and accept that this is not the answer because you are trying to impress others around you but not fulfilling God’s orders. You do this as it is your need to express yourself to your belonging group. You may claim that you have inner peace by killing the inner animal side but you did not do justice to yourself by sacrificing your physical life for the approval of your belonging group. This it is an extreme act and anything extreme robs you of inner peace so do you really have any inner peace?
Externally pleasing and impressing belonging group may give some satisfaction but it is not the inner peace we try to attain and keep. Without inner peace you may potentially go against God’s wisdom of reciprocation.
If you are at peace inside, you are, and you can and achieve spiritual entity. Being a spiritual entity, compassion, empathy, forgiveness, love and sacrifice are your jewels. Spiritual sides of religions preach all the above but the politics of sense of belonging usually strips the individual of these spiritual jewels.
These jewels are an individual’s personal spiritual property and they come with responsibilities of free will. If you have free will, you are responsible for your actions. You simply just can’t hide behind your belonging group’s desires. Why do you think that we all have our free will and sense of freedom? If you choose to act for your belonging group, it has nothing to do with spirituality, it is all about the politics and you are the responsible one who has to choose. If you can think that you are not a part of a machine, that is not correct. You may be a small part of a machine or you may be The Machine.
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