With Morality to Self Realisation
Where is the Right Signpost?

Morality is Not an Individual's "Personal" Opinion, Attitude or Comment


 

Morality is part of all nature, undivided, common to all living humans on Earth.

It is as old as the consciousness of an animal which straightened its spine on two legs and became a human about two million years ago.

Morality Through Time, in Short


 

Our ancestors’ consciousness was at the level of pure survival. They made weapons mostly from killed animals. Their life was a day-to-day struggle in battles with beasts and climate.

Then the man started inventing religions, one by one. People very quickly began killing and burning each other in the name of religion. As new religions and beliefs emerged so did the concept of morality change. As laws and dogmas changed so did the conception of morality in the human mind.

The ancient Greeks had various ideas about what the moral of people might be. Some philosophers argued that living a moral life meant living through enjoyment, others again believed that living simply and in harmony with nature was moral.

In Roman times, exactly those thinkers and philosophers who were engaged in morality, ethics, and rhetoric were forced to commit suicide.

Although we have undergone various evolutions as a species the question of morality has never been more important than it is today, in a time of enormous, provocative technical abundance but also in a time of never greater confusion for the human soul.

Morality Today is a Big Mess


 

People have been thinking and talking about morality, about what makes a person miserable and what can save and relieve a person’s soul from suffering and torment long time ago. Then someone wrote it down and that is how the first texts dealing with human life as a whole were created.

There is a text from about 2200 BC about Gilgamesh who has gone his path of recognizing his delusions and illusions and turning his apparent pleasures into true truth.

Somewhere around the same time the death penalty appeared. A man devised a law that would kill anyone who killed another man or committed adultery. At that time there was no prison. People were punished each other by slavery or confiscation of money.

 

Many societies on our planet today are considered civilized societies. But even in the most civilized society (does being civilized mean having more money than others?) there is a death penalty. The reasons for this punishment are still the same today. Death penalty should scare others or protect society from the cacodemons in people. Such punishment costs the state less than a prison, say those states that still have it.

A man is a man.

However, morality is today understood differently from culture to culture. A sense of morality, a definition of decorous behavior or a way of punishing people could be grouped if you split the planet horizontally.

In Europe, for example, adultery or affection for other sex is not punished. In Saudi Arabia, Iran or Afghanistan it’s a fatal action.

Does a man have to be punished? Who are the judges?

The man who poisons thousands of people today with the food he invented and made himself rich is free. Right now, he is inventing new formulas. Even doctors often get lost in their own morals. The man is cursed. When he tastes money he can easily lose himself regardless which promises he gave.

Today, a man believes in one god and so kills those who believes in another. A man kills an animal to eat even if he knows that he can survive without eating an animal. An accomplished ignoramus will even laugh at and provoke those who do not eat animals. This state of the soul and its reaction is very interesting as it deals with two kinds of living beings.

In the most civilized societies people make fun of each other, they belittle, hate, torture each other (we don’t need to have a torture wheel in the basement, today a man is tortured by deeds), curse. People threaten each other, keep each other under control, impose ideas on each other that set them apart from themselves and from all other humans as well as from all of nature.

In the most civilized societies there are parents who keep under control a taste, freedom of expression, movement, natural talents and gifts, and entire life of their children. Some are even so occupied with their personal material wealth or academic success that they do not even see how much their own children suffer, mentally / physically and materially.

All these are usually a loud believers, those who think of themselves and about themselves the best, members of powerful more or less secret societies, leaders or members of various political parties, leaders of leaders.

Do these people like the things done to them what they do to others?

 

Just like thousands of years ago today a man still grabs leaving another in poverty. One side takes, the other side stays hungry. That circle is the destiny of humanity. Man is born and dies, but humanity remains.

Shortcuts in Life


 

If the first man was forced to kill the animal as well as his own race in order to adapt to the climate and living conditions, what is man forced to do today?
Who forces him to kill and do evil to others?
What today’s man adapts to and what does he defend himself from killing both humans and animals?

It is always easier to accept someone else’s rule and bow to someone else’s exclamation mark or bend own head in front of someone else’s imperative underlined sentence than to gather strength instead to go inside and to search and revive the buried treasure.

Only insecure people with unhappily wandering consciousness run to those who call them with exclamation marks and underlined words or who point their finger at them. Psychologically and physiologically (through mirror-neurons in the brain) people are closer to those who are similar in their opinion, feelings, state of mind or spirituality.
The above mentioned way of “educating” adults and advertising is nowadays very common where something is to be sold (or better, the most feebly and immoral resaled). It is usually about a big ego.

The commanding attitude towards others is nowadays even in the circles of yoga, meditation and others in the West more and more popular ancient Eastern techniques for “transformation of the mind”, almost a rule that millions of people even do not notice (Eastern Europe, I have noticed, is increasingly copying the Western imperative communication and adult education, probably thinking it is good because the West does it).

Those people, again, who treat others as an one exclamation mark (or six), who communicate with others in underlined or red-written words are of course no “gurus”, “masters” or “teachers” nor are they self-fulfilled persons but people who are still at the level of consciousness characterized by hunger for power and domination. But the hunger for controlling other people has nothing to do with morality. It is a trait of the nature of the lower animals and the tragedy of human intelligence.
One should take care in order to distinguish resale and truth.

There are certainly believers and speakers who are truly moral but these are very few.

It is certain that there are moral teachers of yoga, meditation or other Eastern wisdoms but it is even more certain that there are very few of them, since both yoga and meditation today have become one of the largest businesses in the World where, unlike traditional businesses in the West there are no rules, no morals, no ethics.

Is Morality innate?


 

Both virtues and vices are innate human qualities. Innate morality could be called nature and nature is a man alone.

But man’s misfortune is that he tries so hard to be what he is not. That brings both to him and to all humanity (nothing happens alone) great consequences to personal mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health (health is not just not having high blood pressure).

Out of fear he adopts rules that are not part of his nature. He is constantly working against himself. Out of double, old and new fear, he becomes even more aggressive. An aggressive man is a timid man, usually he is a big coward and one who has no knowledge.

Morality is a Personal Choice of Responsibility


 

Man is at an advantage today because he carries the most complexed and evolved brain in evolution possible. But he is completely alienated from his own nature, from himself, from his inner strength. He can no longer listen to the voices of either internal or external nature.

Man can make from himself whatever he wants. From a child too. The country can make whatever it wants from its nation.

All holy books and all saints say something clever, there is truth in every holy book and the most pernicious thing for developed human mind is to be enslaved by one single book or one single message.

Every man knows what is good and what is bad.

Every common sense is given the ability to recognize the good and the bad in themselves and others.

Twins have one benefit in life and that is that twins are born with a natural mirror that is available to them 24 hours, year after year. A twin can correct and recognize both the good and the bad in himself and in others. It is something like “what I will never become when I grow up” or “I wouldn’t be me without them”.

Humans are divided into only two kinds, conscious and unconscious.

People who do good we call good and people who do bad things we call bad people.

Good deeds are a characteristic of a moral man. This is not a new philosophy. Every healthy man in the World will agree about it. But beware, intentions and desires are morals as well.

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Where is the Right Signpost?


 

All life is an attempt to find a balance between learned and inherited, feeling and thought, intent and act. Morality is permeated through daily life of every living person, from morning until night. Intention, desire, wishes, deeds, even the very thought carries the energy of morality or immorality. Two choices, two paths, two poles that lives human soul in peace or restlessness.

Morality comes from the Latin word moralitas, which means good, becoming behavior.

Will we read a book or allow ourselves to be lined up in exclamation marks and thus become an example for a good moral person? Hardly.

Our morals grow from the same root in our soul as our goodness.

The human mind is, some believe, the most developed phenomenon on the planet and in the Universe. I’m not sure about the universe but I agree that the human mind is the most complex of all species on Earth. Yet no mind can do it alone. Man is as a human animal given unique and very developed consciousness that is constantly evolving. It is a story with no end. But if the mind neglects and gives itself to “time” and “nature” nothing of that mind  will constructively come out. Few fruits will give such a neglected mind.

A man learns to walk or to talk step by step. But he always has to start from somewhere.

I met wonderful, wise, good grandmothers who are a true embodiment of morality on Earth. The starting point for their gentleness and moral were mostly their families. One can be inspired and developed both by life itself and, if lucky, by the life of one’s parents.

If it is difficult for you to recognize the true mirrors use the most reliable guide first: yourself. It’s always a good start. But you should not be bothered. One very easy experiment is this: at the end of the day analyze your thoughts and deeds but look at yourself as a stranger. Think about what morality is for you, what did you attend, what did you say and to whom, what you did that day and what results those deeds brought to you and others. It’s very simple.

If most people are deeply grateful to you (every one of us feels in deep who thanks us from the heart and who is a sycophant), if you can calm people and not make them angry like wild beasts and if you yourself are calm and peaceful, you did good things. What philosophical system is close to you and which “force” you choose to believe in is all the same.

Your actions will be your own mirror. If you feel safe despite the turmoil and noisy tongues ​​around you and if you are firmly grounded in your inner peace, you will know that you are on the right track and that your life has meaning.

Wasting time and analyzing other people’s actions it doesn’t make sense because even though you spend all day, all week or your whole life looking for the answer to why someone is unjust to you when you are righteous (are you really, always and so much righteous to others?) you won’t find a smart answer.

It may be that the Balkan people (who knows very well what real poverty and suffering is) do have a bit more opened heart chakra (energy of the heart) than other materially wealthy Europeans but they definitively have to work a lot more to improve their moral relations to their closest ones. Everyone who intrusive put himself  before all others feeding off energy of the heart of even loved ones should start listening, hearing and thinking more.

It always helps to bring one’s thoughts back to wise heads and good, inspiring souls.

Self-Realization


 

The entire texts above are dry facts, data and theorizing. In facts and data often there is not much truth. And theorizing often ends up in a dead end. It is a job of mechanical, automatic, robotic awareness.

Besides, neither sitting nor philosophizing puts many stones away. This is only done by practice.

And the practice is to deal with your own soul. It is not a medicine to swallow nor is it commentary or a like. It is about big effort and willpower.
The way, illusions and the process of recognition in Gilgamesh’s life are the ways, the illusions and the recognition of today’s man.  A man is a man.

Real, true morality is nothing but a highly developed consciousness and realization. For realization or better self-realization are both consciousness and the Universe needed. That is why a man cannot do anything neither for himself nor for other without a great deal of work on his own consciousness, psyche and on its Self.

Until man realizes and accepts that he is a part of both the environment and Universe and until he begins to study both himself and Universe, he will not move from his present robotic existence to whatever intelligence he has.

When one realizes that the only constant is change is a truth and that the end of his suffering, misery, destructive and self-destructive insecurity is a mirror, his morals, his gentleness and the meaning of his life will be the highest truth. For the beginning it is a mirror of himself in relation to himself, then in relation to others and finally a mirror of himself in relation to the whole of the Universe. Some people are lucky to realize their existence regardless of this mirror hierarchy. Such people are a real treasure on Earth and there are very rare.

Ancient Indian Sanskrit texts (Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages ​​in human history, the Sanskrit script is called devanagari) resonate in the lives and works of many thinkers, advisers, speakers, philosophers and psychoanalysts (a good psychoanalyst is first a philosopher), physicists (the first philosophers were physicists), mathematicians, astrologers.

Morality is called Dharma in the vast and varied Indian literature and is mentioned in the Vedas for several centuries before Christ.

Yoga Sutra itself is not a scripture old thousands of years. It is a compilation of ancient Indian Vedic texts and it was shaped just before the beginning of our era and perhaps earlier.

Yoga Sutra is not a religious text, it provides various tips for transforming consciousness including morals and ethics that are inseparable appearances and are nothing but natural laws.

Yamas are tips and perspectives that relate to ourselves, how we treat ourselves or what kind of life we ​​need to lead in order to be filled, liberated and enriched.

In the attached introductory texts to this page you can read about a worthy and very rewarding lifestyle that every living being, at every corner of the planet and at any time can apply in order to move from a robotic point of existence and thus integrate with himself, with nature and how he can transform his consciousness to backmost path of unification with its higher existence which means with the Universe.

Yoga Sutra is about five yamas or five self-control tips that, in combination with other effort, goodwill and other circumstances, lead to an irreversible inner peace and transformation of consciousness.

Self control is not some voguish word. It really is an effort.

Five bases, five self-controls can perfectly revive the human habit of doing good to others, telling the truth to own self and to others, habit of not abducting and not exaggerating in his animal urges and greed.

And also a man can transform his great habit to blame someone else when he stumble himself: “Why the hell are you staying there right now? Don’t you see that I am walking?”…

One can change that annoying feeling, that meaningless thought and those hard words.

Yoga Sutra 2.30:

„Yama is abstention from harming others, from false-hood, from theft, from incontinence and from greed.“

On the attached pages you can read about the practice of nonviolence, who are people who speak straight from the heart, where ends taking away and copying, sex, love and the universes between, poverty and greed.