Goodwill season begins with a reflection on the ideas of reaching out to one and all or not only to some other belonging to a particular specie.Kindness need not be restrictive to a set of entity or to some selected few within the human or animal kingdom but this need be holistic that is to say pertaining to all others unconditionally.
Where this is possible, one would say that the seeker has transcended from the norm of the material onto the realm of appreciating each and every kind of life where there is no real discrimination of any kind. It is about extending openness of being regardless of status. There is thus no running after one who possesses grandeur due to being a ‘star’ or some other who may have excelled in some area of life. That aspect of reaching out is accorded similar merits whether one is a poor, disabled or disadvantaged or whether one belongs to the other species of life.
The awe-ness factor is accorded to one and all regardless of being. This reflects in a way what Krishna refers to in The Bhagavad Gita about a Brahmana who verily sees all others equally without any form of lack of respect and or favouritism one above the other. In a way, Vaishnava philosophy proclaims a kind of spiritual communism where each and everyone matters regardless of the bodily form which is apparent matters little for what is quintessence is that which the tradition refers to as the soul. The naïve of course may remark that to be sure not everyone is a learned pandit or Brahmana as the world is full of millions of non-Brahmana entities which is to say that it is precisely the reason that the mundane world order continues to be so as stated or having a lack, nay a severe form of ailment at the core. However, it remains for the thinker to make others aware of that way or form of life which has a vision of being where matters of wrongness per se or inequality may not or never be tolerated. Verily it is up to those who reflect through proactivity that that one keeps showing through visions of what may be or can be achieved or life is a question of seeing that utopia which may be realised regardless of where one is. To give is to accept the status quo as being the norm whereas only in keeping reminding others of a qualitative life that may be still there if only….
As things takes a short cut ignoring the ideal form to a rude temporal form, there is little need to create aura around the superficial as what is real is the self that every other is. It is towards that one may divert all attention not to that crude bodily form which emerges which is decorated through is the subject of attention. The sages from this tradition as stated above carefully enunciate that one respect the other not because of an achievement in a particular bodily form but precisely there is an aspect of the transcendent in each and every living entity. Or respect is attributed to one and all but whilst one may never be able to adjudge any other the point remains that it is sometimes natural that one accords attention to someone who excels or have made some special contribution within the material world.
From a materialist perspective, based on the superficial or bodily concept of life , one may be seen to have achieved a lot and indeed are rewarded for being so or perhaps have gone through some excellence in different fields of life and so it is natural that one accords grandeur to some other (s). In doing so there is some recognition for hard work whilst in a non-envious way; such attribution perhaps should be there. The point though it all becomes non proper where exclusion comes into being, thereby life on this view is no longer all inclusive but is about a certain approach based on boastfulness, arrogance and undue divisions which sets some against others. It is verily that kind of trend that one is questioning where there is fragmentations from where destructions take over and where this is so; only contradictions arise and the subject remains entangled in a way of life which is non authentic where what matters becomes a kind of adulation of the false ego self or of a group where the real is neglected for the superficial where the essence is betrayed for the temporal mode.
For the visionaries, life is more than just of the here and now where all are measured using this format for things to be so pronounced upon. There is a need to approach that holistic form which is not merely a simpleton of applauding the superficial. To be sure, it is a call to be always vigilant and prudent rather than keep falling prey to that way of being which have plaudits for the mundane, or the games into which one is caught up whilst the actual and real suffers in the process.
In a temporal mode, one is conditioned into a particular to be appreciated and or acknowledged by the mass. That this is a serious malady of the conditioned state from which one has to rise from or else it a perpetual vicious cycle of life of being where the real value is seen through a veil, that saliency which keeps us at bay far from what needs to be appreciated beyond that façade which hinders one from seeing the whole of life. Instead a partial view has emerged and the subject is thus conned into submission of witnessing the glories of life through what some other may say.
That is why, it is important to not be gullible at any time and always seek to question what is in front of us. The point is not to accept or deny something based on hearsay or what a group or some other may say. It is about awakening and definitely stopping through this dense world of non-certainty and to stop, pause and reflect not from a particular view or some view or no view but perhaps crucially to simply be there within the world and to work out the essence based on information rather through opiniated verbosity. On this note one may of course question what is written: And that would be a healthy attitude!