Eastern guide to East

Ronit Ramdam BK
Sep 1, 2018 · 3 min read

In my exploration of truth, I found that most important thing to study a culture is to understand mindset. With this story I am trying to reframe modern mindset to ancient indian mindset and explore the society that is long gone.

So in the world before enlightenment, europe was under an organized religion that have prohibited many endevours to know the true nature of reality. Like everything, there was a good and a bad side of such organization. On one hand it created an order in the society, there was stability, but on the other side there was no progress.

Meanwhile, on the land beyond indus river, ‘hindus’ (the persian word that literally means people beyond indus river) were unaware of word religion. In fact their language have words like dharma, which resembles duty then religion. There were sects of aasthik, believers and naasthik non-believers; Yogis, one who have realized and pundits, one who have studied... what I am actually trying to say is Hindu wasnt a religion but was named as religion by those who didnt understood it. In fact one can be a hindu and still follow every other religion as a devotee. But devotion wasnt the only sect ruling everyone at that time. There were four actual schools or way of life claiming enlightenment. Key being everyone in land beyond indus were seeking samadhi or enlightenment.

So these four sects were devotee, scholar, tantrics and karmics. At that time, in the europe, devotees and scientific scholars were fighting with each other. There was and still isnt any understanding of dying tantric ideology and way of life. In europe, the concept of heaven and hell did induced karmic ideology among people.

So lets start with devotion. Devotion is all about believing in higher power that will raise good over evil. It is said that devotion is the only force that could exist in dark ages. Through different narratives the idea of good is established. These narratives mold the mindset of peoples. Not everyone will or must know everything, but with the righ mindset one could be happy and good member of society. The order and moral leadership flourish with devotion. But it prevents the progress and numb the devotee from breaking the believe and exploring. It is most dangerous in organized form to control mass.

Karmic ideology, says action is the most crucial part of being alive. One must be making stuff happen. Concepts like collecting good karma, or going to heaven or hell is kind of concepts that influrnce these mind set. Karmic ideology increases productivity, progress is minor but better then devotee. The action taken by karmic person can be ruthless to achieve the end goal.

Scholars were the care taker of wisdom, these group of people were doing research on psychology, mindset, politics, mathematics, science and arts. They were scientists with stories and hymns and metaphors. Using art to present wisdom, they preserved and distributed great deal of knowledge. They are much like artistic scientist with not as much hatery to devotee. They understood devotion’s presence in the society as they had been evolved in very different context. Their major flaw was the objectified truth. They never explored the universe inclusively.

Finally we have Tantrics, people who explored universe inclusively. This mindset is missing in context of world we live in, therefore I would express it as being aware to the shakti, which is similar as saying being aware of energy. The best way of interpretation is through the law of karma or modern day law of preservarion of information. How it can be said is: every cause have consequence. Now what a tantric would add is the consciousness exists between each cause and consciquencess. And tantric persist to control this consciousness and in turn control the flow of shakti, similar to energy, from cause to consequence.

Now, none of the above would lead one to true enlightenment. But it is only when all of them come together one may find enlightenment, or samadhi, the ultimate liberation from all cycles. One would need faith on forces of good, determination of actions, knowledge of the world and realization of self to find the ultimate redemption.