#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-3.11 : Swami Krishnananda
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#OPINION : 27/04/2020 : 2140.
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#OPINION : 27/04/2020 : 2140.
#Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 11.
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Though that is an important thing, there is much more than this in kama. You require to be loved by society, the public. People in general should recognise you.
#Would you like the whole society to pooh-pooh you though you are living a family life with a husband-wife relationship?
Social recognition and status is also a part of the requirement of feeling and emotion, apart from a good family life. All this is included within the requirement of what is known as kama, apart from artha, or material requirement.
#Would you like the whole society to pooh-pooh you though you are living a family life with a husband-wife relationship?
Social recognition and status is also a part of the requirement of feeling and emotion, apart from a good family life. All this is included within the requirement of what is known as kama, apart from artha, or material requirement.
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Now, you must remember that you are permitted to have physical comforts and emotional needs also, under one condition: that you should not interfere with other people who also require the same needs. You should not say that you want everything for yourself. The regulating principle which restricts your asking for artha and kama is called dharma.
You want freedom, but your freedom is limited by the necessity for freedom for other people also. If two people require freedom, none of them can have one hundred percent freedom because if each one wants one hundred percent freedom, there will be two one hundred percents, and that cannot be. Two infinities cannot be there. Inasmuch as every person has a need of the same kind and everyone wants to be free, it is necessary to put a limit on the freedom of each person.
#That regulative principle which limits your freedom and ordains how you have to conduct yourself in society, together with the sanction that you can have artha and kama, is dharma, law and order. Artha, kama, dharma are the relative values of life.
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Now, you must remember that you are permitted to have physical comforts and emotional needs also, under one condition: that you should not interfere with other people who also require the same needs. You should not say that you want everything for yourself. The regulating principle which restricts your asking for artha and kama is called dharma.
You want freedom, but your freedom is limited by the necessity for freedom for other people also. If two people require freedom, none of them can have one hundred percent freedom because if each one wants one hundred percent freedom, there will be two one hundred percents, and that cannot be. Two infinities cannot be there. Inasmuch as every person has a need of the same kind and everyone wants to be free, it is necessary to put a limit on the freedom of each person.
#That regulative principle which limits your freedom and ordains how you have to conduct yourself in society, together with the sanction that you can have artha and kama, is dharma, law and order. Artha, kama, dharma are the relative values of life.
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But they are relative; that is very important.
Why are they relative?
Because they are not absolute. These things cannot satisfy you eternally, though they may be there with you. Now, inasmuch as they are relative, naturally there must be something which is absolute, in comparison with which we are relative.
#The last one, the fourth, which is the absolute requirement, is moksha, or absolute liberation. You do not require conditioned freedom. In society you have only limited, conditioned freedom, but you want absolute freedom. In society, in the world, absolute freedom is not possible because of the existence of other people. How will you have absolute freedom? That subject we shall see another time.
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But they are relative; that is very important.
Why are they relative?
Because they are not absolute. These things cannot satisfy you eternally, though they may be there with you. Now, inasmuch as they are relative, naturally there must be something which is absolute, in comparison with which we are relative.
#The last one, the fourth, which is the absolute requirement, is moksha, or absolute liberation. You do not require conditioned freedom. In society you have only limited, conditioned freedom, but you want absolute freedom. In society, in the world, absolute freedom is not possible because of the existence of other people. How will you have absolute freedom? That subject we shall see another time.
Chapter-3. Ends.
Next : Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It
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