This book is a must-read for all claiming to be on a so-called ‘spiritual’ path, all those who are still ‘practicing’. The book or the author never claims to be anything ‘spiritual’, but can throw light into how these concepts of pseudo-spirituality, religions and cultures developed.
There is only one step from here – who the subject is, who the knower is – what is its nature, which is the area of Advaita. Realization is to understand that you are that primordial source. It does not award you any advantage over others. It is not the search for a euphoric state, a better life.
All acts of spirituality are purely material. It is the observer alone that is beyond. If you do any spiritual activity – yoga or meditation, persist or refrain from any acts, you do that in the phenomenal, material plane only. No matter what you eat, drink or do, it cannot affect the noumenal, the observer – whether you have realized it or not. It will not affect the realizing process or the chance of realizing either because there is no such thing.
People think that spirituality means anything that defies logic, physics, gravity and evidence. It is the Truth – the pure subjectivity – the knower of the spirituality - that is beyond the laws. And that too, it is not defying – it is ‘beyond’.
മനുഷ്യരറിയാൻ, മനുഷ്യരെയറിയാൻ, ജീവിതം സുഗമമാക്കാൻ മൈത്രേയൻ പകർന്നു നല്കുന്ന ഉൾക്കാഴ്ച്ചകൾ. നാമിന്നേവരെ പിന്തുടർന്നുപോന്ന ആശയഗതികളെയും സിദ്ധാന്തങ്ങളെയും വിശ്വാസങ്ങളെയും നിശിതമായി വിമർശിക്കുന്നതിനോടൊപ്പംതന്നെ അവയെയെല്ലാം മറികടക്കാനുള്ള പോംവഴികളും അദ്ദേഹം നൽകുന്നു. ശാസ്ത്രചിന്തയെയും സ്വതന്ത്രചിന്തയെയും പിന്തുടരുന്ന, അതിനാഗ്രഹിക്കുന്ന ഏതൊരു മലയാളിയും കേട്ടിരിക്കേണ്ട കൃതി.
Contents
1 Preface
2 The Meaning of Life
3 Is there a beginning for the Universe?
4 Origin of life
5 Everything and everyone is modern
6 Co-operation is a natural phenomenon
7 Birth, Death and Sex
8 Who created god?
9 The continental Drift
10 Territorial Sense and the Sense of Identity
11 Are miracles possible?
12 Invention of Agriculture and the Formation of City States
13 The Changing Parameters
14 The Identity of Multiple Identities
15 The Evolution of Sexuality in Human beings
16 Parenting
17 Origin of Moral Codes
18 What is the Cause of Unequal Development?
19 The Unequal-Hierarchical Society
20 Who Changes the World?
21 The Quantum Jump brought by Language
22 The Subjugation to White Skin
23 Inventions are the Cause of Historical Progress
24 Is it possible to Love your Neighbours as Yourself?
25 The ‘Useless’ Old People
26 Fear is the Anticipated Knowledge and God is Ignorance Incarnated
27 Social Recognition is as Important as Food
28 Some Mechanisms of Domination
29 The Exaggerated Existence of Mystics
30 The Adoration of the Sacred
31 The Role Played by Microbes in Colonial Expansion
32 The Real Picture of ‘Colonialism’
33 ‘Progress’ is not a One-Way Traffic Affair
34 The Person in a Hierarchical Society
35 Everyone is Altruistic
36 The ‘Selfish’ Politicians
37 The Core of Self-Realization
38 Is ‘Realization of Truth’ Possible?
39 The Key to All Success
40 The Motive Behind All Charitable Action
41 Creation of Wealth is the Only Solution
42 A Little critique of Marxist Positions
43 The Extremist Positions and the ‘Tribal’ Question
44 The Difference of City and Village at a Glance
45 Some Thoughts on Alcohol
46 Killing and Vegetarianism
47 Wealth and Population Explosion
48 The Distance from Subject to Citizen
49 The Condemned Institutions
50 The Story of Nuclear Family
51 The ‘Neglected’ Parents
52 The Origin of Sex Work
53 What is Morality?
54 Is there ‘progress’?
55 Equality – The Modern Value
56 Ecology
57 This is the Best of All Times
58 The Preciousness of Life
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