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VOL. 3, ISSUE 1 (2018)
Globalisation and spiritual development: An Indian outlook
Authors
Nasir Ahmed, Dhiman Chakraborty
Abstract
India is very much fit place for the postcolonial multicultural and multi-religious society. This diversity is linked with concept of citizenship and process of national identity. Just as globalisation is changing the nature of the state it is also altering the nature of the social contract between state and citizens. Corporate and nations seek to achieve favourable economic policies overseas by linking loans to particular actions on the part of developing country. This is accomplished through the implementation of the dependency principle. The whole world is being pushed onto the path of uniculturisation of cultures, globalisation of consumption, physically closer, spiritually apart. Over the past few decades, the new media digital technologies create a world-wild network of globalised identity formation. If globalisation connotes the equal distribution of every prospect of human life or aspiration or activity in this realm of materialism (way to technology and digitalised environment), then the paradoxical of ARTHA-KAMA vs. DHARMA-MOKSHA are placed together in a balanced, proportionate, harmonising manner. So the worldly affairs which is visible by the five senses and the affairs related to the inner fulfilment---- are the balancing factors in one’s existence. The Sanatan Bharatia Dharma thus fulfils the globalised existence of man’s contact with the omnipotence God, if we relate this omnipresence throughout this globalised world. God is maximally great or perfect and therefore is omnipotent. What we need is the notion of globalised Bharatia spirituality in the way of absence of egoism, individuality, personality, duality, attraction, aversion, tyranny etc. Instead what we now get is the only mask of happiness and ecstasy! The core of the Nirvana is absent but we are actually enthusiastic about the tall buildings in the midst of concretised infrastructure! The lesson here is how we get and not what we get! If the path is rationalised and logical, then we must overcome the existence of “life without a soul”! Our primary aim should be on the prospect of fulfilled satisfied existence only in the core and not only in the showy aristocracy. Thus materialism is the harmonising tool of achieving that spiritual globalised existence where the complete attachment of soul to the body can be fulfilled! This may be the true sense of fulfilled existence that one may aspire for! The robust Karma-yogi Vivekananda observed that the vast majority of men are atheists as he comments: “I am glad that in modern times another set of atheists has come up in the Western world, the materialists, because they are sincere atheists”. To penetrate the inner vision of a mere appearance we then must argue in the line of Aurobindo: “The supra-physical can only be really mastered in its fullness, when we can keep our feet firmly on the physical”. William Blake the mystic visionary governed his poetry in the realm, “There Exist in that Eternal World the Permanent Realities of Every Thing which we see reflected in this Vegetable Glass of Nature”. Vivekananda believes in conservation of spirituality not only on the personal level but also on the national level. Hindu Yogis have practised conservation of spiritual energy. They know how to withdraw the self from the body so that its dependence on the outer world is reduced to the minimum. There is a stark contrast in Vivekananda’s words: “The West has solved the problem of how much a man can have. India has solved the problem of how little a man can have”. This paper is completely based on the reflections on the globalised spiritual mentality in the Bharatia context. Is globalisation only for the materialised infrastructure and digitalised ecosystem of society or it is a mental attachment to the entire globe in a single whole? Can we attain the theory based reality into mechanism of this society or we can have a genuine way to discover that ultimate reality into the practice of humankind and culture through the materialistic means as shown by the Bharatia monks like Vivekananda and others! Globalisation is not only the means of overall development of the world by a single thread but a spiritual harmonisation in the Indian way of thinking and achieving the materialism through the omnipresent universalizing consciousness! In this paper, an attempt has been made to judge the metaphysical realm of consciousness into the realm of realistic materiality through the various judge points of Indian thinkers and philosophers!
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Pages:1419-1421
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Nasir Ahmed, Dhiman Chakraborty "Globalisation and spiritual development: An Indian outlook". International Journal of Academic Research and Development, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 1419-1421
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