Thursday, February 20, 2014

Plastic people and virtues rooted in originality



                            I  have given many examples of my life throughout my articles only for  the sole reason that I had no other examples to give. It is because I have only read two spiritual books till date and the rare accounts of the exemplary lives of great Yogis are too few and far in between in my recorded memory. Today, let me give you an example of plastic people living in an artificiality dominated world. I have  a habit of going to great lenghts to congratulate and wish people luck, fortune and prosperity when they disclose to me of their wonderful achievements in their material endeavours. I have a sister and brother in law who are living abroad and have always gone to great lengths to cheer for them, congratulate and wish them much more in the coming years to come. During my telephone conversation with them I spend at least five minutes only to wish them from the very core of my heart anytime they convey to me about their wonderful material achievements. One day, the brother of my sister who is my cousin suddenly retorted that my well wishes to his sister was nothing but a bogus praise of the makeup of the most phony poetic rhyme. A few months elapsed and I wished one of my aunts in the same manner only to be taken aback when she too retorted to not to do too much of all my sweet-talking!  



                           Plastic people rooted in a phony nature no more believe in virtues  any longer. The planet today is a duplicate world inhabitated by equally duplicate people. The personality value has spread like a forest fire and not the character or the principle ethics and phony human nature has the majority which is widely underestimating  and minimising the minority, the virtues and virtuous people rooted in originality. This is why virtues have no value to most of the entire world population roooted in plasticity these days. Almost  the entire world population has become  plastic. Most of the world population is invaded by double standard people with plastic nature and atheistic vices. People with virtues are minimised and not believed in because how can most of the inhabitants of planet earth who have a double standard believe and imbibe virtues? Plasticity and artificiality is the in-thing and virtues and virtuous people seem to be out of place. I have seen people mock and laugh at people grounded in virtuous qualities. People who are very virtuous are often termed a retard and even I have been called one once by one of my cousins who is totally addicted to the second most dangerous atheistic vice - sex. I know of one such character who designated  Lord Krishna a gay because of the intimate spiritual dialogue the great Gopala was sharing with Arjuna, while delivering the Gita on the battlefield of Kurushetra.



                               The categories of plastic people are mainly- opportunists, exploiters, diplomatic people, negative people, double-standard humans,  those with the two most dangerous atheistic vices which are money and sex, power hungry people etc.



                               Opportunists are people who normally spark off a friendship, relationships, pursue a membership of a political party or other institutions for grabbing opportunities in life. The opportunists are usually in a low and often weak familial, communal, societal position and are eager to bridge bonds with people who is normally in a higher financial and social position and status. They may also be well off people who are on the constant hunt for very affluent and high-profile benefactors. These opportunists have a habit of dumping the relationship of the low, mediocre and high level benefactors once the oportunities are grabbed and the advantages taken. The exploiters are those who are normally in a higher social and financial ranking and  whose main target is to exploit you and your skills and capabilities, naturally taking advantage, because of you being his subordinate and just because he enjoys a superior power than you do. These kind of exploiters suck the entire blood out of you like a blood-hungry leech and goes on defeating you until you don’t get to realise that he is doing nothing than only manipulating you. Diplomatic people always puts on a pseudo personality apart from his authentic nature to suit his field of interest. Diplomatic people put up an act of a very close friendship and relationship with you  to get his things accomplished whereas his real nature may not be the way you imagined to be. His entire personality is a cloak of betrayal and disguise since  diplomatic people never put on their true nature while ineracting with people. Shy away from diplomats if you are in search of true and enduring friendships and relationships. One should never jump to assumptions while interacting with a close friend. There should be a mode of detatched observation while communing and interacting  with every warm human  relationship you   share. If there is sometime a setback with your close friend and something fruitful and fulfilling could not be the outcome of your pleading assistance and aid to your close friend there could be a hundred positive reasons for the failure of an  amicable solution to your plea for assistance than a negative cause.  If there is someone close to you who has a habit of jumping to conclusions and who takes every bit of your initiation with only negativity it would be better to shun such company. Dont let things go in such a way that you shall yourself start being negative. Negativity is a pseudo and plastic nature and a person endowed with the discouraging feature of hundred percent negativitism is someone who has a bogus character. There are double standard people who act in a certain way with some people and just the opposite way around with other people. This category of people behave and act pleasingly with selected people and prefer to stay reserved  with people they don’t appreciate and choose to keep a distance. The principle motive of all double standard people as well as all the categories of plastic people is to exploit people and to seize opportune opportunities. So be careful of double standard people in your life! The worst category of plastic people are those who are slaves to the two most dangerous anti-God vices, money and sex. The filthiest and the most hopeless class of people on the planet are people who are addicted to money and sex and these class of people can go to any measure to keep on fuelling their desires for these two filthy vices.  These people go to any length to fulfill their objectives, any plans they may have while living their material life and to accomplish their addiction for money and sex. These class of people don’t even bar their nearest kin, relatives, friends, family members and even parents when it comes to the issue of fulfilling their desires for material worth, power, wealth and want for satisfaction of carnal pleasures even if it means thrusting the barrel of a shotgun onto a kin to fulfill their desires for sex. The power hungry people can be understood in the same terms as the plastic people addicted to sex and money. These category of people  annihilate everybody and anybody who obstruct their path to the seat of power.



                         “The origin of the original virtues lies in an awakened soul.”
                                                                                             -Ashwas Thapa



                           The source of the genuine virtues that can only be developed through the awakening of the Self is present only in awakened beings while the human values and virtues is never a permanent quality and is impermanent which can ebb away according the varying human conditions exposed to it. Virtuous qualities like love, truth, goodness and beauty gets reinvigorated in a spiritual aspirant who has chanced to have transcended at least the fourth spiritual plane, virtues which the fully awake soul exercises to exercise on a permanent basis among all human beings. The fully restored awareness is a permanent medium to exercise the spiritually developed virtues and is not impermanet  like the ordinary virtues exercised on the human level. Therefore, virtues rooted in originality can only spring forth from a fully awake soul and not from impermanent medium such as the human intellect or mind because the completely vibrant  Self  is a permanent reality to express and exercise genuine virtues and the human brain  a transient or bogus instrument to do the same. In other words, the spiritually awakened man is an authentic virtuous being and not an ordinary mortal grounded in materialism. “May we all live to be authentic  virtuous beings while living this life of ours on planet earth!”    
                                                (This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)           

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