From India and from the New Age: the spirituality…
…but also the “false prophets” and the risk of moral subjugation
I think it’s important to say that the content of
this article doesn’t want to represent a gratuitous polemic
against what is happening today, but its author is looking for
the “good” and for the “honest” that could stimulate a correct
consideration, by increasing the quality of life at all levels:
material, mental and spiritual. It is fruit of my direct
experience: since many years I’m dealing with Yoga, Ayurveda,
Indian culture and phylosophy and, consequently, I appreciate
the concepts of Indian phylosophy.
Anyway I did not want to renounce the free
capacity of judgment. On the contrary, considering this last
statement, I confirm that the discriminative capacity is a gift
of God to which we don’t have to renounce.
I have pointed out that the scientific and spiritual Indian
disciplines are today very widespread, by hook or by crook, in
our Country, renewing in some person the hope to see their
dreams, sometimes utopian, come true, even becoming the basis of
numerous pseudo modern movements that define themselves as
spiritual.
We can state that some of us, by birth, really needs to nourish
their abstract part, and the Indian culture, with its
philosophic interpretation of the manifestation, can partly
bring relief to these people but, in general, also to the
components of a society that is prey of distressing
materialistic needs, dissatisfactions and insecurities of every
kind.
I’m aware that India is useful in paying attention to the
spiritual substance of the manifestation and in giving it the
dignity it deserves.
This helps us to feel alive, not only in the senses but also in
the conscience. In fact, I state that the Indian experience is
first of all an experience of conscience.
The way that waits for the researcher of this culture is a
classical: the same that, generally, is purposed by the oriental
meditation. First of all the state of attention is aroused, then
the state of awareness (this level would distinguish us from the
animal kingdom, but I have my doubts about it) and at the end we
learn to live with satisfaction the self-conscience. Nothing to
say about that. Wonderful! But there is a reverse of the medal:
India, that in the West is seen as a spiritual master, at its
home is having an exactly opposed path, showing a strong
interest for the matter.
This makes me think that man won’t find, neither in this
occasion, his solution. When the India falling in love will be
over, he will have to put the knapsack over his shoulder again
and re-start to walk to the mountain’s summit, searching for a
really high prospective that allows him to contemplate both the
orient and the occident that become a third experience,
including the positive part of them both.
Once more I feel to affirm that the future universal religion,
the religion of the religions, could have a name that sounds
like “the unity in the diversity”. Obviously, I mean the unity
of the best…of a diversity that doesn’t scare, simply because
the different does nothing but affirms the infinity, quality
that we always attribute to the transcendent god that permeates
everything.
In my opinion, the Indian modern view presents some limit. Some
“personage” is considered, or considers himself (that is even
worse), divine by birth. In this excess of interpretation
transpires the thin deceit and there are different dangers…
First of all, and here the Indian culture is a real master to
us, we all are divine by birth. I cannot accept that God could
consider that a man is closer to Him than another one. This is
the usual human interpretation. At most I can think that
somebody can mature a more objective view, to be more precise a
less involved one.
But let’s go back to these “personages”: because of my personal
past experiences, I don’t really like them, because there is
nothing of democratic in them. I ask myself if a part of the
humanity went mad. Even the peoples of Occident, in spite of the
little esteem that we have for ourselves, walked a long and
useful way of social achievements to free us from dictators,
monarchs and other subjective views, searching for a more
universal view that we called democracy, and today we would like
to go back.
In other words, we choose to practice a larger view, that only
the multitude of consciences can give, that also seems to me to
be more secure on the way of the objective judgment, and today
we let them to be the “false prophets” that endanger our
democracy, cost great sacrifices and sometimes even blood.
In the past this kind of charismatic visionaries, convinced to
be in the right (this is why they are visionaries), as it was
foreseeable, did real masterpieces of disaster. Their best
weapon, in good or bad faith, has always been the exercise of
undue influence over a person.
The dictators never obtained anything without “to force” over
the others’ mind. So, dear reader, be aware of forcings, both
spiritual and material ones! We have to think we are lucky to
feel fallible and mortal, with the benefit of the doubt,
equipped with love and modesty, searching for an objective truth
that we know we’ll never be able to achieve because of the human
constitutional limits. It’s just this conviction that makes us
being careful, respectful and humble people.
Think of what a sadness would be the contrary: be
closed in a behavioral cage carried out by an unnatural conduct,
false certainties or illusions as these “false prophets” do; in
good or bad faith, they have nothing of anti-violent because
they still didn’t understand that, even only try to influence
another person, it already is a violent and disrespectful
attitude.
by Amadio Bianchi