BBC - Be Blissful and Conscious News
What is secular news? It is news that
treats individuals like mere agents, as quantifiable actors in a
world of atoms and machines. Secularism itself is based on a
presupposed Christian view of the individual. There is simply no
escaping this fact. In the ancient Vedic times there was no talk of
“human rights” as it was understood that the individual is not
just some agent of will in a world of objects, but is part and parcel
of supreme consciousness, and is in essence one with all of
existence. There is no need of rights of some limited self to act,
rather there is a call towards one and all to realize the Self
through the best means available according to each individuals unique
persuasion.
In vedic times there was no need of
separating religion from state governance since there was never an
imposition of beliefs by any religious center. On the other hand,
the very foundation of Abrahamic faiths, by creating exclusive claims
to truth along with the command to covert others to these exclusive
claims, creates the conditions for persecution, control and abuse.
The Vedic way of thinking has no exclusive claims of truth and
instead creates the conditions for a variety of traditions to be
created and practiced according to the needs and desires of each
individual and community.
Modern pseudo-secularism is used as a
subversive means of undermining Vedic culture and traditional
practices. It makes religion about claims of truth rather then about
practical and verifiable means of realizing consciousness. The Vedic
tradition sees no conflict between spiritual traditions and rational
thinking. It is founded on insights into the actual nature of
existence, not through dogma or beliefs, but through supra-mental
experiences of Enlightened sages and rishis that can be tested and
proven by anyone through their own direct experience.
There is no true or false views, just
what is beneficial to realize higher consciousness and what is
detrimental to realizing consciousness. Since the conditions in
which we exist are continually changing, the means and methods of
realizing higher states of consciousness are continually evolving
along with human nature. Therefore, the Vedic tradition can be
updated and enriched by each individual according to the conditions
of their present situation and can work in harmony with modern
objective science.
Since the concept of “secularism”
confuses and dilutes the very foundation of Vedic religious thought,
it is intrinsically detrimental to the realization of consciousness
for both the individual and the collective. By flattening out the
concept of religious experience into mere claims of absolute truth,
it disconnects people from the practical methods and teachings that
can assist one in realizing consciousness.
This flattening out makes governments,
religious institutions, and corporations mere instruments of greed
rather then instruments of conscious upliftment and individual and
planetary enlightenment. Modern news and history are mere inventions
that promote and maintain a world view based on mundane
consciousness. At the same time they weaken and withhold the
practices and understandings that lead to higher states of
consciousness.
At the heart of the issue, hidden
within the depths of the collective consciousness, is the way these
belief systems and spiritual traditions introduce us to ourselves,
the way they define the individual. Again, all modern ideas of
secularism are inherently founded on the presupposed belief of the
individual based on Judeo-Christian ideologies that see the
individual as a fallen self, a limited fragment, a soul divested of
its divinity to be completed only by taking on the belief of one
particular claim of truth among a variety of other opposing “false”
claims of truth.
All secularism does is remove the
religious element, and provide ways for the fragmented individual to
complete itself through materialistic and rational means. However,
these efforts inevitably fail, and most are left feeling empty and
depressed as they stare off into a manufactured world of lifeless
matter and self-limiting social organization. This dis-empowerment
of human consciousness has left those with the most money and power
the greatest control while the masses are unconsciously manipulated
by fear and greed.
The vedic way of thinking is based on
spiritual traditions that introduce the individual not as some
limited agent fallen from God's grace, but as a complete and divine
reflection of the cosmos, a Wholeness filled with unlimited
knowledge, endless life, and eternal bliss. The measure of truth is
what opens us to this profound experience of Self. It is a radical
shift from the secular and Judeo-Christian point of view that is
trying to control and suppress the consciousness of the planet
through powerful institutions, religious organizations, governments,
corporations and media networks.
We must begin as individuals and as a
collective to question whether the presupposed understanding that
these institutions are promoting about ourselves is accurate or
beneficial for the continued evolution and development of humanity on
Earth. Without most knowing it, this is the most pressing and
fundamental issue of the modern era.
If we must have an “ism” let us
make it “Enlightenmentism”. Instead of media and governments
flattening our existence through secularism, Enlightenmentism shall
create the foundation for individuals and the collective to
continually expand, enrich and evolve human consciousness. Starting
with the fundamental understanding that we are divine, that we are
full of consciousness, existence, knowledge and bliss, all aspects of
modern culture can begin to be aligned with this understanding.
Real news will be globally recognized
as that which makes people more blissful, aware, alive, conscious,
compassionate, creative, intelligent, intuitive, sensitive,
expansive, powerful and loving. Education systems can also be
aligned to bring out all these aspects of our real Self while
observing, testing, and implementing the practical means by which
human consciousness can be raised into higher levels of thought,
creativity, and cosmic consciousness.
To see into and expand the future of
consciousness, we must address the origins of consciousness, to
question the deeply held beliefs and assumptions about our self that
linger unnoticed in the noise of modern civilization. If we want to
have a more positive, uplifting, and enlightening future for
humanity, we must transform the fundamental view of our self and
others. Don't just take my word for it, take the responsibility and
look deeply into this yourself. You are divine!!!! All those around
you are divine!!!!! The world is a vibrant play of consciousness!!!
Be blissful and enjoy!!!!!!!!! OM
