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How different will it be?
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Hare Krishna
Namaste Vgane ji,
To start a civilization, there must be a starting point -- such as considering certain salient features to be the foundational building blocks of a new civilization. When I think about such building blocks, as you rightly hinted, 'religion' seems to play the key role (that is, to me). I am unable to 'think outside the box' and think of any other factors playing the vital role as the key constituent for a new civilization. Thus I vote for religion to be the building block for a new civilization -- but the thing is that, if it is 'Hindu', it is going to be one again 'Indus Valley Civilization' and nothing else.. therefore it will not be a new civilization.
But I tend to think that religion, with its ability to lay down the code of conduct for people with its specific set of 'rule books' in the form of stories (puranas and ithihasas), its history of its practitioners, etc, is thus the foundation for a new civilization. Besides, religion goes beyond mere laying down of code of conduct for living, it also hands down a 'way of living' and provides mankind with 'goals', 'aspirations' to strive for, etc.. precisely what a new civilization needs.
To start a civilization, there must be a starting point -- such as considering certain salient features to be the foundational building blocks of a new civilization. When I think about such building blocks, as you rightly hinted, 'religion' seems to play the key role (that is, to me). I am unable to 'think outside the box' and think of any other factors playing the vital role as the key constituent for a new civilization. Thus I vote for religion to be the building block for a new civilization -- but the thing is that, if it is 'Hindu', it is going to be one again 'Indus Valley Civilization' and nothing else.. therefore it will not be a new civilization.
But I tend to think that religion, with its ability to lay down the code of conduct for people with its specific set of 'rule books' in the form of stories (puranas and ithihasas), its history of its practitioners, etc, is thus the foundation for a new civilization. Besides, religion goes beyond mere laying down of code of conduct for living, it also hands down a 'way of living' and provides mankind with 'goals', 'aspirations' to strive for, etc.. precisely what a new civilization needs.
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Dear Vgane ji,
I feel the situation would be no different from now.
The cyclical patterns that we see will still come into play and every action and reaction would be the same.
Humanity goes thru various phases which at times seems almost compulsory.
The problem is we humans in our quest for happiness and perfection do not want to face sorrow and imperfection and we are always trying to look for change when the "unchanging" is right inside of us.
Life isn't about being happy and perfect or even religious to start with..life is all about sailing tru the phases and duality without allowing its side effects to stain our mind...religion might just be of some aid but it never has all answers cos the questions are formed by us and answered by our ownselves and the Q&A is different for each person.
Everything we see and we experience is part of the game of the Universe..just play the game without getting too attached to the outcome for the match and its results have been "fixed" for the entire existence.
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LOL!! I replied.
I do think about this as playing a fixed match. I also think, when things go completely out of hand or plan gets struck - things like accidents, tsunamis and others come to wipe the complicated game. Some people commits suicide to escape from the problem - not sure whether Suicide itself part of the fixed match - they may get into further unknown by doing a mistake of terminating their life.
You are right.
Frankly speaking the more we try to decode anything..the more we realize that there is so much we do not know.
So I guess we only "know" the present..cant link it with the past or the future and live on daily basis with the principle of Love Ever and Hurt Never.
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