When we need to take a decision, most of the times we take it based on what we "feel" is Right. How do we verify if this decision is The Right decision ?
It is not very difficult to see whats Right and whats Wrong. Anything which is Right would be UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED ! It might not be Understood initially. At the face of it, if might look like deniying someone. But whatever is Right would be understood and accepted over a period of time. The decision would be true across time, location and person. It should not deny any person at any place at any point of time. That any person includes ourselves too. It should not make me unhappy. There is more to it that it should not effect/disturb anything in existence. (Includes Nature, Society, family and you). Such decisions are Right decisions.
To make sure that one takes Right decision, one needs to have a proper understanding of the functioning of everything. Like what does Nature expect from us. What does society expect from us. What does family expect from us and what do you want for urself!! . It is only then that you can make sure you are not messing up with any of them.
The moment we start looking at ourselves, seeing what is going on because of our decisions. Are they Right i.e. are they accepted by everyone. Am I happy taking such a decision. Once we start contemplating on such issues, we start correcting our decisions. To correct our decisions, we seek more knowledge, correct knowledge and hence our KB gets purified. Outcome : Decisons would be Right.
Note: Decision here does not only mean a major step/advancement (like chosing a career) . It can be as small as uttering a word(what word .. we are responsible for the consequences of our words), taking a step(walk), deciding what to eat and wear ....
Disclaimer : This is just a proposal. I am not advocating it !
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Well, nothing in this world is ever absolute. "Universally accepted" is an aberration. Hell... even time is relative! Over a period of time what is relative can never become absolute. I believe there is no absolute right. And I am advocating it ! :)
:) i believe(everyone can see it) there are some tautologies in this world .. they are universally true !! . So, I think there is something called absolutely right ! :) ...
Eg: You want the other to respect you.
Don't you think this is TRUE across time,space and person ?? and there are many more such things .. and that is TRUTH !! ..
If you are saying there is nothing that is absolute, then you are indirectly saying nothing is TRUE !! or there is nothing called TRUTH !!
"You want the other to respect you" - well this can very well be false! Does a murderer kill his victims for want of respect? forget a murderer, I personally have done nasty things to a few people because i hate them and i consciously want them to hate me too! I want them 'not' to respect me!! If u want i'll tell u these incidents personally. Unfortunately the situation you are talking about exists in theory only.
And imho 'truth' is just another name for what what is "UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED". From childhood, we have been constantly been drilled that something is right and something is not right. Doesnt that constitute the 'truth' you are speaking of? Give me an example of a truth and i'll find you a person for whom that is not true. And that in itself validates what i say by there is nothing that is "absolute". Everything depends on the 'frame of reference'. I rest my case :)
I just remembered something i was taught in kindergarten. My teacher told me that there is something called as a universal truth. She said this was called a fact and cited this example. "The sun rises in the East". At that point i was too ignorant to understand what that mean.. forget argue against it. Now i can see that the Sun rises in the East only on the earth. It rises in the west if we were on Venus! And there would be no sun if we were on some other planet in some other galaxy! Again its all in the frame of reference.
Yes I can see what you are saying. But there is nothing like frame of reference ra it universally true ... lets see the example you quoted ..
And thanks for reminding me ra. I forgot to mention that. Something that is "Absolutely Right" makes you happy.
If you had the two options
1) Be a friend of that person
2) Disturb the other and drift away from him bcos you dont like his actions .. or something in him ..
Which one would you choose ?? ...
If you had the solution for how to(also why to) "see" him as a friend. I am confident you would have gone for the first option only.
If you had noticed carefully, (or observe it next time) ... you were undergoing lot of discomfort when you were doing all that.... by disturbing the other we are disturbed ra !! ...
I am not saying something very complex ra ... kavalante just observe youself and see it ..
Also be clear abt what is it that you did not like in that person. You did not like ..
1) What he was bcos he grew up in such an environment
2) What he was bcos he was not mature enough/did not have as much understanding as you
3) What he was bcos he was doing what everybody around him does (taken over by society) ...
if you can actually see what it was that was making you unconfortble abt him, I think we can notice that he is not really "intentionally" trying to disturb us .. he has no intention of making you unhappy .. he himself is confused .. and is doing some jugglary to grab attention or something like that ...
and if you have seen that he is not doing intentionally and it is bcos of lack of competence in him .. and you also see that you are at a higher understanding level than him, you actually try to help him !! .. in whatever way possible ... !! ...
I hope you are able to see what I am saying .. if one goes by "TRUTH" .. one will be happy ra ... or in other words by doing RIGHT things ..
and yes sun rise itself is a very relative phenomenon, there is nothing like rising or setting hapenning .. and I dont think "sun rises in the east" is a tautology ..
The whole Physical / Material world .. Physico-Chemical world has a very definet behaviour ...
The problem is with human beings .. they are so indefinet in their behaviour .. and that is the root cause of the misery .. this indefinetness in behaviour ..
When would it be definet .. when there is a definet base/source on which their actions are based on .. and where is that source ?? it is very much within you .. we have not paid attention to it anthe ! ..
If our behaviour is based on something very indefinet like "trends" or "influences" .. then certainly our bhehaviour will also be indefinet ! ..
We never know when the other will trust me and when he will stab me !! ..
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