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Aryans and We
Archi Devi Dasi (Ekmekchjan Adelaida)
Community living arrangements require correct understanding of human psychology. Daily wants of a human are not different from those of animals, but a human inherently is gifted with much more developed intelligence. If a human is another species with the purpose to assure existence by means of natural selection, then the question arises: why are we given the intelligence and the emotional life which do not stop searching for recipes of happiness and justice? Every nation at some point of its evolution feels as having found this recipe. What was it like for the Aryans? The Aryans are among those rare nations with the culture addressing the inner life of all living beings in this creation. This Book invites you to travel to the world of the Aryans. Hope, it will be enjoyable and helpful. We are sure that every “traveler” will be delighted at and respectful of the inner life of the Aryans and will find solutions for many psychological problems which hitherto have seemed nonsolvable.
Archi Devi Dasi (Ekmekchjan Adelaida)
Aryans and We
FOREWORD
If due to faults in its ideology religion fails to ensure the process of natural purification to give one happiness, it turns to violence forcing to follow its system of restrictions, thus, turning from the source of happiness into the source of sufferings.
The Author
The human history… So many nations and states rose and fell before its eyes. Our planet has always been the battle ground for the dominance of one person over the other, one tribe over the other, one nation other the other, one state over the other. People destroyed each other. For the sake of what? Who can give the answer? It is only clear that ever and again different nations generated certain doctrines and then by implementing them sought for the global domination. Ancient Egypt, Byzantium, Greece, Rome, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and now the United States of America. Each of these states offered the world an individual life style. But all of them had one thing in common. They enforced their life styles to the world by the sword. By the blooming history, any nation understands the time when by its sword and rape it had the domination over all others.
Mankind has entered the 21st century with a record of achievements in technology, the overpopulated planet burdened with the unprecedented scale of weapons, the evident inequality of living standards between developed and pauper countries, ethnic and religious conflicts, formed supercountries seeking for the world hegemony. Obviously, today like thousand years ago the decisive role is in the preponderance of force. Powerful, wealthy, armed and as a consequence protected nations are trying to expand their spheres of influence in order to achieve high living standards and enrich their people.
On the hard path of development, mankind has reached a level of democracy. We see that European countries have made significant advances in this field. The matters in hand include problems of human rights, uniqueness of and rights to life, economic health and other issues which these countries are trying to solve. At a first glance, achievements are rather great. Anyway, when citizens of underdeveloped countries come to European states, they feel socially secured. Taking into account the recent history of mankind, it is a great achievement.
The beginning of the 21st century sees rapid processes of the world reorganization. The main tendency is in the efforts of so called “developed” countries to release mankind from the “yoke” of religious and ethnic traditions and to spread the secular kind of society all over the world. Based on the sad experience of ethnic and religious conflicts, this approach could be called right because the more differences there are, the more causes of conflicts appear. But the practice has shown that nations rejecting their religious or ethnic traditions experience the rapid decline in reproduction which as a consequence eventually results in the problem of existence of such nations. And this problem is very serious. Democratic countries have followed the way of the actual rejection of religiosity. This has led to the fact that the population growth of so called “civilized” nations has stopped with simultaneous sharp increase in population of nations having respect for traditions: the Arabs, the Hindu, the Chinese.
Currently, the Muslim tradition is experiencing serous attacks with the aim of its democratization. No one knows how it will all turn out. The fact still remains that propaganda of democratization of the overall mankind burns out traditional thinking. Therefore, this is about a new doctrine which is striving for global power. Another experiment impending mankind. How much blood will be required, who can answer this question? A commoner simply wants to live a quiet life, experience all the happiness which is given to a human, do things he likes, live with his beloved woman, take care of children born by her, try to secure their future and peacefully and in due time leave this world. But at the same time there are other people who need to get more from this life; they are like a thorn in mankind’s flesh – they do not leave either people or the planet in peace, for satisfaction of their ambitions they develop plans on which lives and destinies of millions people are dependent.
There are two models of human society: traditional and free (democratic). Though, certainly literally there is no freedom. What seems freedom today, already tomorrow it turns into an enforced tradition. Usually the tradition means the life style rested on customs coming from the past and religious and moral precepts. Originally, religion is to provide people with morality and their connection with God. Religion implies the process of stable purification during the whole life.
If due to faults in its ideology religion fails to ensure the process of natural purification to give one happiness, it turns to violence forcing to follow its system of restrictions, thus, turning from the source of happiness into the source of sufferings. Traditions founded on such religion eventually have become a heavy burden for common people. Why did it happen? It can be baldly stated that nations following traditions have the structure which is designated for protection of inheritance privileges without allowing persons with the talent but of “low” birth to realize the talent. Such approach becomes the cause of numerous destroyed destinies and ultimately the entire society suffers. To overcome such a flaw (when a nation or society loses its potential due to religious conservatism), mankind has gone through a hard and sometimes slaughterous path for an individual to get the opportunity to realize the natural potency regardless the origin. In the traditional society when a person is a low-class representative, all doors of success, education, opportunities to show talent and move society forward are closed on him/her. All opportunities are given only to high-class people as the saying is “what is legitimate for Zeus is not legitimate for the ox”.
But democratic countries also meet a large amount of problems for which no solutions have been found as of today. Where is the psychological root of these problems? What is awaiting mankind ahead, well above the religion line? The Eastern wisdom tells us that trying to solve the problem without knowing its origin is like trying to do good for a tree by watering its leaves. At first, the leaves seem to have been cooled and fed, but later the wet leaves are turned out to burn from direct sun rays. To feed the tree, the roots should be watered. For this one needs to know where they are.
Thus, strong, scientifically and economically developed countries are striving for the power. Each of them has got its own model of life and each tries to expand it as much as possible. In this regard, the Aryans managed the whole planet and in our opinion it is very interesting which principles they followed and what they offered to all those who were under their protection (not the yoke).
The Aryan literature states that the Aryan civilization is original. All other civilizations appeared on its foundation. We will try to present the principles which guided the Aryans while arranging their society and we will also try to trace origins of different civilizations which put themselves on the record of mankind. But all these will be viewed from an angle unusual for the reader – psychologically. We won’t be interested in the historical point of view. This historical view of the topic can be presented by experts who are much more learned than your humble author.
The psychological view of the Aryan civilization is presented directly in its literature which secrets are understood only by those who study it maintaining the purity of this knowledge, following the traditions of the Aryan disciplic succession still presented on our planet to this day. The historical view won’t allow to understand the moral values of the Aryans and their intrinsic meaning. While the psychological view allows to conceive intrinsic regularities of life of the Aryan society, the knowledge of them can be the basis for one who is willing to replicate them.
The human history consists of a sequence of unjust societies. Heaps of people were ruled by cruel kings, untruthful religious figures, greedy merchants and unqualified laborers. One person replaced another. The human history is like a carpet which is made of people sufferings and colored in red primarily (the color of human blood).
The foundation of injustice was religious societies containing violence and forcing to follow certain principles regardless of people’s desires. Unqualified but powerful people are the ground for injustice, the source of the overall poverty and dissatisfaction. European nations have tried to cease this injustice and give all members of society the possibility to show their capabilities, become useful for the community and in return enjoy all benefits which can be provided by such community.
The main concept is the Christian idea that everybody is the child of God and has the right for a decent and happy life. This idea seems the foremost desired and perfect. But its realization faces different problems. For instance, society protects homosexual freemen rights. The argument in their favor is that the most talented people have been like that. Further, having protected their rights, homosexuals begin to pervert everyone they can and already then society does not know how to defend itself from them. There are some efforts to settle all arising problems within legal frameworks. But no law can annihilate vice. It only makes vicious people to search for more intricate methods of realization of their desires. Currently, none of the global applicable doctrines possesses methods to extirpate vice and that is why the world is pursuing the path of its propagation.
The community, however, can have the sustainable prosperity when people living in it are pious. The fact is that human relationships are full of faults. These faults create a great number of problems which at all times have been the focus of mankind to solve. It is the undeniable fact that any relations, whether parental, work, friendly or loving, include both pleasant and unpleasant moments. We enjoy pleasant moments and do not know what we can do with unpleasant ones. There are three ways out:
1) taking positive moments as the basis, tolerate negative ones.
2) enjoy positive moments in relationships and with occurrence of negative ones, cease any relationship taking some responsibilities upon oneself.
3) only enjoy positive moments without any responsibility for relationships.
The problem is that for a peaceful life there should be a system regulating desires. Contemporary civilizations are trying the approach of their satisfaction (point 2 above). The Aryans compare such approach with attempts to put out a fire by adding wood to it. At first, the great amount of fire wood makes the fire ‘choke’, but in a minute the fire blazes greater. One can see that such solution to the problem creates many psychological problems which extremely complicate communication. At the beginning people are happy to be free but a bit later they find out that together with freedom there comes loneliness. Without right methods for regulating human relations people start to avoid communicating. This is a dangerous situation when everything serves the principle of profit.
Depending on the purpose sought, human society accepts -standards regulating behavior. There are two tendencies: to lay special emphasis on happiness of an individual or the prosperity of the entire society. When the nation is powerful and wealthy, happiness of an individual becomes of primary importance. Otherwise, society has to sacrifice the well-being of people to become powerful and protected. These are inevitable processes containing many other problems. For instance, if the emphasis is laid on personality’s happiness and abilities to enjoy life, there appear people avoiding public duties even those concerning the family because childbearing implies the need to refuse pleasures. And a pleasure-prone personality does not want to forgo any pleasure. This in turn leads to decrease in natural birth rates. One can see that nations keeping religious traditions do not have problems with their population number.
But those nations which have accepted the so called “liberty principle” are practically all dying out. They replenish the shortage of their population growth by means of traditional nations. From this point of view we are likely seeing formation of new ethic groups in the situation of peaceful intervention of some nations over others which in the past used to happen via murderous wars. It can be easily taken if the target is to maintain the power of a group of people over a certain territory, but if the target is to keep a nation, then this is something to think about before accepting the European system of values. Since in this case not only can we have their achievements, but we can also have the bunch of problems inherent in this culture. Therefore, simply the level of the economic growth can be followed but a different life style is laid in the foundation.
We do not aim to criticize one system and oblige to accept the other. Those who find the contents of this book unacceptable can put it aside and forget about its existence. On the other hand, we will be happy to be useful for all those who will be enabled by the contents of this book to formulate acceptable individual and societal principles of a pious life which in our invincible belief is the only source of prosperity.
Any intelligent person is concerned with the accurate realization of national and panhuman interests. Life brings variety of problems. Being able to find the proper solution to these problems is important for an individual, a nation and the whole mankind. The Aryans held a rather interesting support system of the economic prosperity of their country. The description of details of this system could be impractical for an unprepared reader. Therefore, this book is compiled in a popular science fiction format. As required, the Aryan’s doctrine can be presented more completely and expertly, but meanwhile we will only review the possibilities of the Aryans’ philosophical concept of society building.
We intentionally omit external traditions of the Aryan society as they are practically not applicable in the today’s world. It is referred only to the principles of the Aryans’ inner lives which can be always applicable both for a person’s life and the entire society regardless of the time, place and circumstances. We will see what psychological patterns were used by the Aryans as the basis for arranging their social life. We will also discuss the process of breakdown of the Aryan system. Learning these psychological mechanisms will ensure application of the principles of the Aryan society with the clear understanding where to start their reproduction.
Community living arrangements require correct understanding of human psychology. Daily wants of a human are not different from those of animals, but a human inherently is gifted with much more developed intelligence. If a human is another species with the purpose to assure existence by means of natural selection, then the question arises: why are we given the intelligence and the emotional life which do not stop searching for recipes of happiness and justice? Every nation at some point of its evolution feels as having found this recipe.
What was it like for the Aryans? The Aryans are among those rare nations with the culture addressing the inner life of all living beings in this creation. We invite you to travel to this world. We hope that it will be enjoyable and helpful and we are sure that every “traveler” will be delighted at and respectful of the inner life of the Aryans and will find solutions for many psychological problems which hitherto have seemed nonsolvable.
The Author
INTRODUCTION
One person can lead the horse to water, but even forty people can’t make it drink.
Eastern wisdom
The Aryan civilization… The Vedas…
For thousands of years, this mystery attracted minds of the greatest thinkers of mankind. Many nations tried on these beautiful attires and the same number of nations suffered defeat after touching this eminent ideology. One cannot dally with the Aryan concept; it is a holy thing which shall be treated reverently to unveil its mysteries merged with eternity.
The value system of the Aryan civilization and its history are described in the Vedas, the Puranas, the Mahabharata and the Shrimad-Bhagavatam. These scriptures were composed five thousand years ago by the great ascetic Shrila Vyasadeva, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We are sure that for traditional Christian nations this truth is unacceptable as they do not admit that in this world God can have other incarnations than Christ. Anyway, every book gives the exhaustive information about itself. According to this information, in the world there is no any other most ancient and complete ideology than the Aryans’. Straight away we need to express a reservation that it is not our purpose to prove in our book the ancientry of the Vedas compared to other scriptures because neither ancientry nor the ethic background can be the criteria for perfection. The standpoint can be very ancient but absolutely incorrect or unacceptable for today’s realities. For instance, the Aryan society had the external structure which can be hardly applicable today due to the modern high technology and the life style dictated by this technology. When approaching the Aryan civilization, typically know-nothing people take this very external structure. They, thus, conclude that being an Aryan is the matter of origin or being an Aryan means to be brave and predominant over the rest. And to achieve these, it is enough to have the white skin, the relevant scaffold of skull and so on. According to opinions of such people, the nation which will prove its Aryan origin owing to the “superiority” of its blood will get the right to instruct others and seal their fate.
To put it mildly, this conception is not very correct. Being an Aryan is not a matter of origins but of life style. Those unable to get the insight of the psychology of this life style do not understand what it means to be an Aryan. We will try to present to our readers the basics of the philosophical concept of the Aryan civilization and implied social and public traditions, will try to describe those requirements which were laid out by the Aryans for members of different social classes and then it will be up to the reader to decide if he/she is an Aryan or wishes to be an Aryan.
Any civilization is connected with the prevailing ideology by invisible strings. In return, the ideology should as much as possible address in detail the set of the following issues:
1) How did life originate?
2) What is the meaning of life?
3) What laws govern the material world?
4) How to extend life?
5) How to build a society where everybody could be happy?
6) Why are all living beings born in different conditions?
7) How to protect lucky people from envy and intrigues of unlucky ones?
8) How to protect unlucky people from contempt and violence of lucky ones?
9) What social framework is required for the right interaction in human society?
10) What purpose does the community development serve?
11) What is death and how to meet it?
12) Is there anything beyond the death strip?
The answers on these questions become the basis for the behavior both of each individual and society in general.
On the one hand, one can say that to sustain the existence a living being (or a nation) should ensure:
1) food,
2) rest,
3) reproduction,
4) protection.
To achieve these four conditions of existence, all living beings behave differently. What does the choice of this behavior depend on? The experience shows that this choice determines the further destiny both of an individual and society in general, and the answers on the raised questions have a great impact on aspects of the behavioral choice. In this respect, the Aryan culture is of great interest as it possesses the complete philosophical concept for dealing with the above mentioned questions
We will try to present the Aryan philosophy, the system of values and the social and public structure in order to understand their psychology with the resultant life style.
CHAPTER 1. PHILOSOPHY
It is vitally important to study the nature and the psychology of soul as only knowledge of its nature and understanding of its needs can resolve all differences in what is called “life”.
The Author
This is a must for any society to have a philosophical concept based on which it forms its life style. The Aryan philosophy is presented in their Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita. It is the earliest scripture which complete presentation here may not be appropriate. In general, the ideology presented there may be described as follows.
One is born in this world and at first sight it does not depend on him/her in which conditions he/she is born. Someone is born dark-skinned and lives in Africa, someone is red-skinned and lives in America, someone is white-skinned and lives in Europe. One is born in a poor family, another is born in a rich family, one is beautiful, another is ugly, one is healthy, another is ill. All living beings are born in different conditions and they do not have an answer on the question: why does this happen? Despite differences in living conditions, all living beings in this world show three common tendencies:
1) The intention to exist eternally and have the perfect body.
2) The intention to be happy (via pleasures and power).
3) The intention to develop the knowledge (or be always able to acquire it).
By contrasting these three intentions to real conditions in which we live (a temporary and completely defective body; the whole chain of sufferings: birth, illness, ageing and death which cannot be escaped by anyone; imperfect senses which are not capable to give the objective information on the surrounding world), the Bhagavad-Gita leads us to search for a certain element which is the source of the above mentioned intentions of any individual.
This brings up the question: if we are only these bodies, then why are we striving for eternity? Be that, our consciousness would indifferently refer to the idea of disappearance like the dead (inanimate) matter. Why do we resist the idea of disappearance? Why did the Mother Nature (of course, if it was its initiative) have to give us temporary bodies and the desire of eternal existence? Where do these contradictions between our desires and capabilities come from?
Everything in the material world is imperfect because it is temporary. Nothing that is temporary can ensure in contact the perfect happiness which we are so striving for. Where from do we take this strive for continuous happiness? In fact, we do not stop to desire happiness even a single second. It never happens that a living being in the material world is looking for sufferings! On the other hand, though, in this world no living being has got the experience of such happiness. Where do we take such striving from? And why can’t any amount of suffering and disappointment make us stop to desire happiness? A comprehensive consideration of the given questions shows that striving for continuous happiness is the integral part of consciousness (i.e. life) irrespective of conditions of material body.
Our senses are so limited and imperfect that actually no one can tell which portion of truth related to the external world they might convey. For instance, the Sun seems to us the circle with the size of a simple coin but actually it is huge. Similarly, we are not able to hear certain sound frequencies, not able to see subtle energies, etc. Our body, therefore, is a very fragile and imperfect data transfer instrument, but our consciousness always strives to be knowledgeable about everything going on around us.
Having investigated the strivings coming from consciousness and having become convinced of their full contradiction with the abilities of the body, the Vedas came to the conclusion that consciousness (life) was not the integral part of the body (the dead matter). The Vedas put forward the idea of the soul, namely of an element which differentiates an alive body from a dead one and which is the carrier of consciousness. At a time when soul leaves body, the latter becomes the harmonic part of the nature (a corpse) with no any contradiction of it. A dead body like matter in general is absolutely indifferent to whatever is done to it. It has no more strivings for happiness, existence or knowledge. Consequently, it is vitally important to study the nature and the psychology of soul as only knowledge of its nature and understanding of its needs can resolve all differences in what is called “life”. In return, when the idea of soul is accepted, it means to answer such questions as:
1) What are the nature and characteristics of soul?
2) How did soul appear in the material world?
3) Where is its true home?
4) How can one return there?
To be fair, it should be noted that no other religious or philosophical concept in the world than the Aryans’ has got a more complete system of answers on the given questions. It is likely the reason why it has got a close attention of great minds of all times ever.
Now, according to the Aryan concept, if a living being is a spiritual parcel which is striving within us to eternity (as it is eternal), happiness (as it is blissed) and knowledge (as the knowledge is its integral part), consequently there should be the world where it possessed all these. Otherwise, where do all its strivings come from? And why did the nature endowed us with qualities which are absolutely unused in this world? A living being cannot strive for anything which is not known by it. Everything we are striving for is the proof that we are aware of it.
On the other hand, if a living being is of spiritual nature, why did it happen to be here? The answer on this question is in those intentions which a living being is trying to realize here. As have been already said, by its characteristics a spiritual parcel is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. At first sight, this statement sounds contradictory. If soul is eternal, why did it come to this temporary world where it has to obey the inviolable law of birth and death? Here one is suggested to carefully examine what soul strives to realize in the material world. This striving explains the reason of our appearance in this world which has become for us more important than eternity.
If we are attentive, we can notice that in the material world all living beings have the thirst for domination and enjoyment. To enjoy means for us to use all encountered objects (both animate and inanimate) for our pleasure. In fact, there is no one single moment when we stop striving for enjoyment. The term “dominate” means that we are able to obligate everybody (both animate and inanimate) to fulfill our will. In this situation, our attitude is rather interesting. Each of us thinks that his/her mentality is so perfect that by obeying it everyone can be happy (Freud called it “the sense of worth”).
If we are attentive, we can notice that if we do not make any efforts (based on upbringing and rules of conduct), we spontaneously “radiate” these very two moods. If we try to realize here our desire to bend other living beings to our will and use them for our pleasure, it means that we did not have such an opportunity in the spiritual world. At first glance, this statement sounds contradictory. This brings up the question, if we did not have any opportunity either to enjoy or dominate, then where does our striving come from? As a living being can strive only to the things which were seen or known.
At the beginning we have told that consciousness of living beings expresses the constant desire to be happy; then we noted that in the material world we try to realize this desire by means of power and pleasure. This fact points out that we did not have such an opportunity in the spiritual world. This, in turn, means that the bliss of living beings in the spiritual world did not depend on both abilities to dominate and enjoy. But then where do we take this striving for power and pleasure?
We were to know the One Who was able to enjoy and dominate in order to start striving for these by ourselves. Hence, we can make a conclusion, that in the spiritual world there is some living being who dominates and enjoys the possibility to associate with all other living beings who do not dominate but serve Him and feel the bliss from it. This personality is usually called the Supreme Personality of Godhead or God. According to the Aryan philosophy all living beings are inherent parcels of this Supreme Personality. They have the same qualitative nature as He does, but differ from Him quantitatively. This quantitative difference does not allow living beings to take upon controlling functions without creating disharmony. But the qualitative unity maintains this tendency in all living beings to take controlling functions. When this demand from living beings arises, God, so to say, has got two choices:
1) suppress this desire and bring into line with His will (violence).
2) give the opportunity to realize this desire (generosity based on the absence of envy).
One of the qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the complete freedom from envy. By virtue of this pure and sublime nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives all living beings free choice. Those living beings who misuse this freedom and prefer the material existence come to this world. The point is that the Aryans consider the material world as the place where living beings realize their desire to live without God. Where does this desire appear from?
According to the Vedic scriptures, the Lord in the spiritual world is surrounded by numerous devotees who have special feelings for Him. Many of them are called personal associates. They have got particular close relationships with the Lord. This intimacy depends on the extent of love they have developed for the Lord. The Lord treats all living beings equally and fairly. This means that He always exactly sees the “amount” of living being’s love for Him and always fairly responds everybody according to this criteria. It would not be possible that a novice devotee should receive the special attitude of the Lord and an elevated devotee – the neutral one. This is the true criteria of justice.
Living beings are very small and the Supreme Lord is infinitely great. Therefore, a tiny spiritual parcel is not always able to understand or correctly assess the Lord’s behavior and the motives of His deeds. This limited perception becomes the reason why some spiritual parcels fall into a state of disagreement with the Lord, “rebel’ and feel hostility toward Him. Thinking that the Lord is unjust, these jivas (living beings, spiritual parcels) feel the need to appear in such a place where He is not there and try to confirm their own ideas of justice. Such justice as a rule consists of the fact that a personality desires to see him/herself in the center of all events (the feeling of own sense of worth). This way, some part of eternal inhabitants of the spiritual world shifts their God-centered consciousness to self-centered. As said, the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s nature is completely free from envy. This means that when someone does not want to associate with Him or connect his/her happiness to Him, it does not make Him angry. He does not punish such personalities or taking advantage of His power force them to conform to His absolute power, but He gives them an opportunity to make their own society and realize their ideas of justice. For the Supreme Personality of Godhead it is not worthy to have a humble behavior and a psychologically browbeaten condition at the point of the sword of His power. He values only and only free ostents of love.
Being parcels of the Supreme Personality, living beings possess His qualities. The Aryan literature is the only one on the planet which contains comprehensive details about the Supreme Personality of Godhead: descriptions of His appearance, character, environment, behavior. This takes place because only they really communicated with Him! This is the uniqueness of this literature! The Vedic scriptures state that the Lord demonstrates 64 qualities:
1. His features are beautiful,
2. all auspicious marks can be found on His body,
3. His features are pleasing the eye,
4. He is effulgent,
5. He is strong,
6. ever youthful,
7. wonderful linguist,
8. truthful,
