Why this happens?

What is The Civilization About?

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Why something or someone a person, some place, some activity, thought skill, goal, mission, entertainment or even a drug attracts us? There are essential needs like food, shelter, sleep, physical exercise in one or the other form, but why those other things without which we can live attract us?

Is it because they attract us or because we are extrovert and try to find meaning and purpose in them?

Is there an end? And if there is a final achievement, for us, what is there to do the next?

Something is basically wrong there in this approach.

Shrimadbhagvadgita Chapter 1 deals with this very issue. It's named :

Arjuna ViShAda Yoga.

In the worldly sense there are always goals there to be achieved. The struggle, war, competition, friends and enemies. The same people are always there, for and against themselves. Two or more groups. Dharma is one and unique but the same turns into two or more groups. And the bifurcation too is not ultimate and final. Each group is divided into so many sub-groups. Don't you see this has been our history so far. They fight for supremacy, domination over the other sub-groups. In every sub-group there are individuals who have their own interests and those interests too clash with each other. In a word it's Politics. There is the wealth the gifts of nature like the Earth. Air, Water, Fire and the Ether / Space. These all are the material aspects of this wealth. The word "wealth" and "health" rhyme. Wealth is from the Sanskrit root - वल् > वलयति, and Health us from the root - हल् > हलयति . Likewise there is the word  कल्  > कलयति, The English word Calculate is a cognate derivative of  कलनं, कलनं, the word calculate (कलयति, कुलयति)  are thus rooted in the कल्  and कुल्  verb-roots. Another word  काल / kAla too is from the same root. We have a word "Calculus" - a branch in Mathematics.

"Calculus" was a stone carefully, neatly carved out so as to serve the purpose of measuring the lengths.

But our civilization however has no such a stone, any criteria upon which we can build the society. We are an irrational crowd of different ethnicities, many and various social groups and sub-groups in them.

Chapter 2 of the Gita - 

sAmkhya yoga,

Deals with this issue.

The word "sAmkhya" comes from the word  संख्याति / संख्यायते  which is again a composite word, with the suffix सं  and the root  ख्या - which again comes from  ख  / खं  meaning the Cosmos - the Ether.

The Emptiness,  the vacuum. This is the very Womb where-in the  पुरुषोत्तम  the  Father of this existence lays the seed.  पुरुषोत्तम  means  the  उत्तम पुरुष. In Sanskrit - in Grammar as well in the Spiritual too, उत्तम पुरुष  denotes  the First Person.

Namely, the pronoun "I".

Before the manifestation takes place, there is "someone" - the consciousness of the manifestation is there.

"Someone", Who is no other than "I".

This "Someone" could be referred to in three ways - "I", "You" and "That".

Logically, rationally and coherently, "I" can neither refer to itself, nor be referred to by "Someone" else - that is; by "You" / "That". Still "I" exists with reference to "something" else, which is referred to by means of the pronoun "It" / "This".

In this way, the consciousness is split into two -the subject, and the object.

sAmkhya principle suggests that these two are the basic and the fundamental उपाधि / "attributes", while consciousness itself is the गुण  / "quality", inherent in the "I". "I" not only as the pronoun, but also as the noun, is the Priormost Reality - Unique,  Undefined, Nameless.

This is the

"sAmkhya Principle" in a nutshell.

Due to the intricate, complicated, cryptic nature of this "I", a secondary "I" comes into, or arises from itself in all and every individual that reflects within "I" and an illusion of a multi-faceted existence takes place.

The innumerable, individual secondary "I" appear to have their own independent existence in their own "worlds", and no two worlds are similar to each other.

Still all individuals believe that there is a world common to all.

Everyone has a freedom of choice, will and action, though has no control over the consequences.

This Principle is the basis of the "Karma" and "Karma-yoga".

As no one has control over the results and the consequences of one's actions,  there is "Someone" Who has this power and control over all the results of all the actions performed by the innumerable individuals - call it 'souls' who repeatedly go through so many births and rebirths, because if death is the end of the soul, it's always everywhere and no future life at all. Here comes the idea of "God", and He is believed to reward or punish the soul for their virtuous or evil actions / deeds.

In the present scenario, as none of the above two Principles which are the Two forms of Dharma is given importance, no one is concerned about Dharma we have to live the life in this way.

Always struggling, fighting, quarreling.

This is the only salient feature of the whole humanity.

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