* The words employed here have specific and precise meanings. While this page has the definitions, the meanings to these words are resident in a human being. The definitions link the words to meanings in existence. For example: the word 'knowledge' used here is with a different meaning/depth than what is usually assumed. It is recommended that you get in touch with someone associated with the jeevan vidya to understand what these words exactly mean, else one runs the risk of coming to premature conclusions based on wrong connotations extended to these words. Attending a 7 day workshop (shivir) is a good starting point.
* Madhyasth Darshan is shared in the form of proposals and expects every person to rigorously self-verify the veracity of what is being stated. Taking it as a 'belief' or something to be 'followed' defeats its very purpose, its very objective, its very foundation. The objective is to have the understanding in ones own right.
* Until such time that we are able to 'see' these meanings ourselves, verify the proposals ourselves, have the understanding ourselves, all the material provided here remains information, and hence a proposal. Hence, for the reader any claim made by Jeevan Vidya remains just that - a claim, a viewpoint, or 'yet another viewpoint'. This is fully understood by the writers. Hence, the request for sincere consideration and thought - before you reach any conclusions - as mentioned, the 7 day workshop is probably the best starting point. i.e. this information is not sufficient in itself. It needs a human being to explain it. Communication of knowledge is only possible from one human to the other. The rest is information, technique and skills.
Preface: The objective of this preface is to provide an overview of the principle propositions to be outlined below. These propositions are basically in the form of aphorisms (sutra-atmak). Attempt has been made to elucidate them wherever possible. The nature of knowledge is such that maximum knowledge is encapsulated in minimal words. As we move from the gross to the subtle, the need for words reduces. The basic need of the human being is happiness. This need for happiness cannot be separated from the human being. It is innate to him. Just like the tendency to 'grow' cannot be separated from a plant. Man seeks a resolution - or wants to be resolved in all his relationships: within himself, with other humans and with nature at large.
On studying existence and mans place in it, it turns out that existence is basically in harmony, as co-existence. This co-existence is in the form of units saturated in space.
These units are nothing but all the entities we see around us: humans, animals, plants and the material order. These units are in self-organization within themselves and participate in the larger organization. The human being has been found to belong to the knowledge order.
It is evident that out of the 4 order (knowledge, animal, plant and material) it is only the human being that is not self-organized, and as a result is unable to fulfill his relationship with the other three orders (animals, plant and material). This manifests as the ecological problem. The human is also not able to fulfill his relationship with other humans in the knowledge order. This manifests as economic problems, social problems, problems in relationships, in criminal mentality, war and exploitation.
The result is unhappiness due to extraneous reasons - due to other humans, or nature at large.
The human is also unresolved within: full of conflict, depressed and with a lack of clarity, marked by indefiniteness, tension, confusion, self-doubt, desperation etc.
The result is unhappiness within himself.
There seem to never-ending dichotomies between the inferences from logic and intuition, between the desirable and un-desirable, the limitations of logic and the limitations of intuition, and the relative nature of mans conclusions in the non-physical domain. We seem to be largely certain regarding our conclusions about physical reality. Attempts to derive conclusions about human beings from our findings in the study of physical reality are incomplete and unsatisfactory.
The result is a lack of direction, an existential crisis. It manifests as unhappiness within, albeit of a different nature.
The human being is thus unresolved, is unhappy - within and without.
The reason for the above is lack of complete understanding of the self and existence and his relationship/place/purpose in existence. The human being wants to live in organization, wants happiness. The need for happiness is fulfilled by having knowledge (right understanding) while the need of physical things is fulfilled by physical things. On having knowledge about the self and existence, the human becomes resolved, and happy. Complete knowledge fulfills his existential, intuitive, intellectual, logical, ethical, moral, emotional and sense-organ related needs. He is able to be in harmony within and without. He is happy. This harmony is already there in existence. One does not have to create it. One only needs to understand it to be in it.
Animals do not have this need to understand. Surviving is sufficient for them. i.e. they have a will to live. The human has a will to live, with happiness. To have this happiness, he needs knowledge. Animals 'are'. They do not have to learn how 'to be'. The human being 'is'. But he is not satisfied with just 'existing'. He has to understand 'how to be'. While some progress has been made in this direction in human history, it is only completely possible by having knowledge.
It is also seen that humans have the capacity of imagination (kalpanasheelta) and freedom of action (karma-swatantrata). We act based on our thoughts, our imagination. What is the satisfaction point of imagination and freedom of action? (triputi bindu of kalpanasheelta & karmaswatantra) How do we know that our imagination is correct? In that, it is based on the principles of existence? - this can only be fulfilled by having knowledge. i.e. knowledge or right understanding provides the basis for our imagination, of our desires, of our conclusions on physical reality as well. Knowledge is thus the anchor for the human being, his innate, inalienable need. This knowledge is:
- Knowledge of self (jeevan: conscious aspect of a human being) [jeevan gyaan]
- Knowledge of existence (knowledge order, animal order, plant order, material order) [astitva darshan gyaan]
- Knowledge of humane conduct [manaviyata poorna acharan gyaan] - values, character, principled living [mulya, charitra, naitikta]
Knowledge of Existence: (astitva darshan gyaan) Existence is in the form of co-existence, as units saturated in space. These units are manifested as the 4 orders:
- Knowledge Order (human beings)
- Animal Order
- Plant (pranic) Order
- Material Order.
| ORDER | THINGS | ACTIVITY | SVABHAV (Participation) | DHARM (Innanteness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physio-Chemical (Material) [padarth] | Air, Water, Minerals | Composition-Decomposition | Composition-Decomposition | Existence |
| Plant [pranic] | Plants, Animal Body, Human Body | Composition-Decomposition + Respiration | Enhance-Worsen | Existence+Growth |
| Animal [jeev] | Animal Body + jeevan [conscious aspect, or I] | Composition-Decomposition & Respiration in Body + Selection in jeevan (I) | Wretchedness, cunningness and cruelty (deenta, heenta, krurata) | Existence&Growth in body + Will to live in jeevan (I) |
| Human (gyaan) | Human Body + jeevan [conscious aspect, or I] | Composition-Decomposition & Respiration in Body + Selection, thinking & desiring in jeevan (I) | Strength Courage& Benevolence (dheerta, veerta, udarta) | Existence&Growth in body + Will to live in jeevan (I) with happiness |
This knowledge is based on existence, on reality, hence human living becomes based on something definite. On the basis of knowledge, one is able to clearly identify the values in and is able to see that it is naturally acceptable to him to live with these values and by living with these values gives satisfaction. Consequently all his thoughts and imagination are in accordance with these values and he expresses them with other humans as well as nature. Therefore to live these values becomes natural for him and to live otherwise becomes unnatural. By doing this he ensures continuity of happiness and prosperity. On the basis of this he is able to live with satisfaction in the self and have mutually satisfying relationships. This prepares the ground for the realization of Human tradition. Human beings can thus have definite conduct. Humane Conduct comprises of:
- Values
- Character
- Principled living
Second - humane-character is one. Humane-character is in the form of self-wealth, continence, and work-behavior filled with kindness.
Third - we realize principled-living when we right-use and protect our resources (body, mind, and wealth).
In this way - humane-conduct gets explained as a combination of values, character, and principled-living. These are three pillars for living in orderliness
Values:
Relationship IS. It does not have to be created. It is already there. It only needs to be understood. These are definite expectations in relationships, also called values. Values in behavior are manifest in human relationships as 9 established and 9 expression values. These are definite and can be understood. i.e. the expectations in human relationships are definite and can be fulfilled leading to mutual satisfaction.
| Established-Values | Expression-Values | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gratitude | Self-restraint |
| 2 | Glory | Ease |
| 3 | Reverence | Obedience |
| 4 | Love | Unanimity |
| 5 | Trust | Complementariness |
| 6 | Guidance | Spontaneity |
| 7 | Motherliness | Generosity |
| 8 | Respect | Compliance |
| 9 | Affection | Commitment |
Character:
- Self Wealth
- Sexual Morality (Continence)
- Work and behavior with kindness
Essence of principled-living is deploying one's resources (body, mind, and wealth) into purposefulness. This is called right-use. Right-use is in two aspects: (1) deploying one's resources for production and seva. (2) deploying these for realizing values in human-relations.
Human Civilization It is only on the basis of the understanding of humane conduct, its acceptance, commitment, and fulfillment leading to mutual satisfaction that all 4 dimensions of Human civilization can be understood and ensured:
1. Humane Conduct
Has been outlined above.
2. Human Education: Process to ensure the understanding of human conduct and commitment to live in accordance to it from generation and generation. To understand and live in harmony at all levels from self to entire existence is human education. This means ensuring value education that ensures development of consciousness.
3. Human Constitution: The framework of human living in harmony with himself and in harmony with the entire existence is human constitution. It is knowing, believing, recognition and fulfillment of relationship of humans with humans and the rest of nature leading to mutual happiness and prosperity in human beings and the enrichment, protection and right utilization of the rest of nature.
4. Human Organization: Realization of harmony with entire existence, in behavior, work and participation in organization from family to world family in the human order. There are 5 dimensions to ensure this human organization:
- Education-Right Values system (shiksha-sanskaar)
- Health-Discipline (swasthya-sanyam)
- Production-Work (utpadan-karya)
- Exchange-Storage (vinimay-kosh)
- Justice-Suraksha (nyaya-suraksha)
This ensures the realization and continuity in which the human target of:
- Resolution in every human being (samadhaan)
- Prosperity in every Family (samriddhi)
- Fearlessness in Society [Trust] (abhay)
- Co-Existence with Nature (sah-astitiva)
- Knowledge is manifest.
- Knowledge is expressible in words.
- Knowledge can be internalized by a human-being by way of study.
- Knowledge can be realized by every human-being in work and behavior.
- Existence expresses itself at all levels as coexistence. In other words, Existence is Coexistence.
- Existence exhibits stability. There is no increase or decrease in existence.
- Existence exhibits definite progress. Progress is exhibited in atom. Awakening is definite in existence.
- All principles in existence are innate to entities in existence as their natural-characteristics.
Existence can be understood. All entities in existence including the human being can be understood. Knowledge is manifest. It can be expressed. This knowledge includes the form-full dimensions as well as the form-less dimensions of entities in existence. I.e. physical and non-physical reality are included, can be studied, understood, verified and lived as an expression of this understanding.
Our problems today are on account of man. The rest of existence is already in co-existence. i.e. the environmental problem, the problem of economics, of relationship, of sectarianism, social problems, problems in relationships, problems in the self, conflicts = together called unhappiness are due to man. The contradictions are not outside, they are within man. Hence we need to work on man. This is possible by means of education.
Madhyasth Darshan has proposals for the same - proposals on the development of human beings and existence so far, the reasons for the same and the knowledge needed to demystify the human being and existence, thus opening up the possibility of a just and humane order, of a desirable human tradition that meets the human target.
The prevalent education of today is essentially based on the Freudian thesis of Sex-maniac Psychology, Adam Smith's thesis of Profit-maniac Economics, and Darwin's thesis of Consumption-maniac Sociology. Madhyasth-Darshan proposes alternative theses for these as - Human-Consciousness Oriented Psychology (मानव संचेत्नावादी मनोविज्ञान), Cyclical Economics (आवर्तनशील अर्थशास्त्र), and Behavioral Sociology (व्यवहारवादी समाजशास्त्र). This Study of Human-being leads a human-being to realize humanness in living - as self-confidence, coexistence with other humans and with nature at large.
Principle Propositions Space is mediating, and pervasive. Nature saturated in Space is limited as positive, negative and mediating activities. Therefore Space is complete-state.
Nature (units) is active-state, and therefore is engulfed in Space. Therefore, Nature is soaked in Space. Entire Nature is energized being saturated in Space. Nature is active. Nature (as activities) is with forceful-action, motion, and constitution. As a result, Nature itself is manifested as four natural-orders. Of the physiochemical and conscious nature saturated in Space - the conscious-nature in knowledge-order is with opportunity of achieving capacity, ability, and readiness for existential-experience; and all four natural-orders of nature are mutually related for completeness. Therefore - immortality of constitution (constitutional-completeness), fulfillment of potency (activity-completeness), and destination of motion (conduct-completeness) in the nature are expressed as State-Truth, Relative-Truth, and Manifestation-Truth.
Space is mediating. Therefore, Nature saturated in mediating Space is controlled and protected. The nucleus found in every atom is the mediating-activity. Therefore, positive and negative activities and relative powers (of nature's units) are controlled and protected.
Nature is as infinite physiochemical and conscious activities. Physiochemical-nature itself attains the conscious-status upon development-completion. A human-being is a combined expression of physiochemical and conscious - while being a component of Nature.
Development-progression leads to Development-completion as Constitutional-Completeness. Awakening-progression leads to Awakening-completion as Activity-Completeness and Conduct-Completeness. An awakened human-being does production with less-developed nature for realizing right-use and purposefulness. A human-being is responsible for humane-behaviour with other human-beings, and realizing value of glory towards more awakened. A human-being studies, practices, and resolutions for attaining higher-states of awakening.
A person in illusion is free while doing actions and is slave for facing the results of those un-awakened actions.
Humankind on this Earth is in Awakening-Progression - and it has got the opportunity, expectation, and possibility for attaining Awakening-Completion. An awakened-person's being helpful for less-developed is its most important trait.
Plant-order is more developed than Matter-order, Animal-order is more developed than Plant-order, and Animal-like sub-human in Knowledge-order (in illusion) is more developed than Animal-order. Devil-like sub-human in Knowledge-order (in illusion) is more developed than Animal-like sub-human, Awakened-human is more developed than Devil-like sub-human, and Awakened Godly-human is more developed than Awakened-human. Awakening-Completed Divine-human is more developed than Awakened Godly-human.
A unit of Knowledge-order is with visioning-capacity. Visioning is of physiochemical and conscious nature saturated in pervasive Space.
Knowledge of existential-experience and visioning is fully realized in Awakening-completion status.
Awakening itself is Intelligence, Intelligence itself is Universality, Universality itself is Awakened-Tradition, Awakened-Tradition itself is Undivided-Society and Universal-Orderliness.
A human-being itself is primarily helpful for another human's decline or progress.
Gratitude
I am grateful towards all those guides of right-path from whom the sources of actuality are still alive. Gratitude is fundamental value for progression towards awakening. Gratitude itself is foundation and protector value for humane culture and civility.
One who isn't grateful, cannot produce proofs for carrying humane culture and civility. One who will not carry humane culture and civility, would also be incapable of living within humane-norms and humane-orderliness.
Humane culture, civility, norms, and orderliness are mutually complementary. It is not possible for determining society and sociality without them. Therefore, Glory without gratitude, Ease without glory, Spontaneity without ease, Coexistence without spontaneity, and Gratitude without coexistence doesn't have continuity.
The person who bears gratitude, only that person's conduct is inspirational and educating for next generation. This is successful within the purview of human-ness.
Knowledge-Order's Success is in Self-realization
- A. Nagraj
1. Existence is in the form of co-existence, as units saturated in space Existence is not just material (physiochemical matter) - but all material-entities and conscious-entities are inseparably and eternally actively-present in pervasive-space. - Existence is stable. There is no increase or decrease in existence.
- Existence has definitiveness for progress and awakening.
- All principles in existence are natural.
- Each unit is organized within itself and participates harmoniously with the larger organization
- Is all pervading
- There is no time and location where space is not
- Space is energy in equilibrium
- Space is energy itself:
- Is Manifested in units as energy
- Is Manifested in human as knowledge
- Space is mediating, and pervasive.
- Are recognized by being limited from 6 sides
- Are active
- Are energized while being in space
- Each unit is in the form of State and Motion
- State is its being-ness in itself
- Motion is its participation in the larger order
- There can be some location where units are not, but no time where units are not
- Units are manifest as nature
- Nature saturated in Space is limited as positive, negative and mediating activities. Therefore Space is complete-state.
- Nature (units) is active-state, and therefore is engulfed in Space. Therefore, Nature is soaked in Space. Entire Nature is energized being saturated in Space. Nature is active. Nature (as activities) is with forceful-action, motion, and constitution. As a result, Nature itself is manifested as four natural-orders.
- Of the physiochemical and conscious nature saturated in Space - the conscious-nature in knowledge-order is with opportunity of achieving capacity, ability, and receptivity for existential-experience; and all four natural-orders of nature are mutually related for completeness. Therefore - immortality of constitution (constitutional-completeness), fulfillment of potency (activity-completeness), and destination of motion (conduct-completeness) in the nature are expressed as State-Truth, Relative-Truth, and Manifestation-Truth.
- Space is mediating. Therefore, Nature saturated in mediating Space is controlled and protected. The nucleus found in every atom is the mediating-activity. Therefore, positive and negative activities and relative powers (of nature's units) are controlled and protected.
- Nature is as infinite physiochemical and conscious activities. Physiochemical-nature itself attains the conscious-status upon development-completion. A human-being is a combined expression of physiochemical and conscious - while being a component of Nature.
- Nature is active-presence of infinite activities in coexistence. Every activity (or entity) of nature is fully described by its natural-inclination, its motion, and its Constitution.
- Matter-Order
- Plant-Order
- Animal-Order
- Knowledge-Order (human beings)
3. There is development in existence
- Development-progression leads to Development-completion as Constitutional-Completeness.
- Plant-order is more developed than Matter-order, Animal-order is more developed than Plant-order, and Animal-like sub-human in Knowledge-order (in illusion) is more developed than Animal-order.
- Devil-like sub-human in Knowledge-order (in illusion) is more developed than Animal-like sub-human,
- Awakened-human is more developed than Devil-like sub-human, and
- Awakened Godly-human is more developed than Awakened-human.
- Awakening-Completed Divine-human is more developed than Awakened Godly-human.
- A unit of Knowledge-order is with imagination/visioning-capacity. imagination/visioning is of physiochemical and conscious nature saturated in pervasive Space. Knowledge of existential-experience and visioning is fully realized in Awakening-completion status.
- Awakening-progression leads to Awakening-completion as Activity-Completeness and Conduct-Completeness. An awakened human-being does production with less-developed nature for realizing right-use and purposefulness. A human-being is responsible for humane-behaviour with other human-beings, and realizing value of glory towards more awakened. A human-being studies, practices, and resolutions for attaining higher-states of awakening.
- Awakening itself is Intelligence, Intelligence itself is Universality, Universality itself is Awakened-Tradition, Awakened-Tradition itself is Undivided-Society and Universal-Orderliness.
- Knowledge is manifest.
- Knowledge is communicable in words.
- Knowledge can be achieved as existential-knowledge (bodh) by a human-being through study.
- Knowledge can be realized universally by humankind in work and behavior.
- Knowledge of existence expressing itself as coexistence.
- Knowledge of Jeevan
- Knowledge of Humane-conduct
- Knowledge of Jeevan's Immortality
- Knowledge of Body's Mortality
- Knowledge of Humane-Behavior Principles
- Knowledge of Time, Activity, and Decision-Making
- Time = Duration of an activity
- Activity is eternal active-presence
- Self-wealth, Sexual-Morality (Continence), Work and Behavior with Kindness
- Relationships, Values, Valuation, and Mutual-fulfillment
- Right-use and Protection of Resources (body, mind, and wealth)
7. Human
- Is a co-existence of Jeevan (conscious aspect) and Body (physio-chemical)
- Jeevan is the seer, doer and enjoyer in existence
- Body is an instrument
- Has been recognized as belonging to the 'knowledge order'
- A person in illusion is free while doing actions and is slave for facing the results of those un-awakened actions.
- Humankind on this Earth is in Awakening-Progression - and it has got the opportunity, expectation, and possibility for attaining Awakening-Completion. An awakened-person's being helpful for less-developed is its most important trait.
- A human-being itself is primarily helpful for another human's decline or progress.
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