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Originally Posted by niranjan  I am not at all against the making of money and wealth through honest means. If people wish to enjoy life with their hard-earned money, they have every right to do so.
However it is also a fact that all objective pleasures result in pain and misery in the long run.
It is a fact that permanent happiness cannot be obtained from sensory pleasures. The romans , in their peak of luxury and enjoyment, used to build basins near their banquets, so that after eating a full course meal, they could go to the basins and vomit what all they have ingested, and again go and eat food, just for the taste of it. This shows the ludicrous extent that man was ready to go , for the sake of happiness and pleasure from objective sources , which unfortunately was temporary.
And it is a fact that true and permanent happiness , joy and bliss is obtained not from without, but from within.
All enlightened masters have described the sheer bliss , joy and happiness of their state,and which is not temporary , but permanent, and compared to which all outside pleasures are trivial.
Even if a person is not enlightened ,but still has substantial spiritual growth, he too would experience great bliss and joy and peace of mind.
So I don't think spirituality should be underestimated in any culture, or society or country. |
Well I guess what I was asking is that none of the enlightened masters are household names. It seems to me that these types of people are doing it for themselves and vonlunteers. They aren't in the business like so many other religious type folk of power and money as I think you are explaining here. Your stating the world would be a better place but what are they doing or do they think it's even necessary to spread the possibility of this superconsciousness a bit more publically like the Prophets have in the religions... like say oh the Islamist folks you are questioning the veracity of...
I hope you don't mind the questions because I am not really knowledgeable in this superconsciousness. I have heard it barely on the news when it comes to celebritys and such. I saw it on a world religion class on PBS... they touched on it but much more brief than I wanted. I am building a foundation.
Basically the heroes of pop culture today are business folk making billions, Jesus or insert religious icon(s) here, and celebritys. The enlightened ones know whats going on, greater than Mohammad and people like that, what are they doing for people because you never really hear anything about them.