CHAPTER XI: Harmony In Existence - Understanding Existence As Co-existence 

HUMAN VALUES AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

LECTURE NOTES

UNIT –IV : CHAPTER XI 

               

UNIT (ikai) : All the things in nature are called units. All units big or very small are limited in size.

For Example, a small blade of hair to the large galaxies (each unit occupies limited amount of space and has a boundary and is countable).

SPACE(Sunya/Shoonya) = empty space found everywhere

For example : What is there between you and your book? Nothing. This “Nothing” or empty space is called Shoonya or Space.

Space is not a unit. It can’t be touched, smelled or seen. We can just see through it. Space exists everywhere.

EXISTENCE

All the units of all orders in nature, along with the empty space constitute

the Existence. Hence,

 Existence = Space + Units (in space)

We can also say that all the units of all the orders ‘exist in space’, ‘are in space’ and ‘submerged in space’.

Therefore Existence = Nature submerged in space

Nature = Four Orders

Being in space, all the units in nature, lead to the Complete Existential Order (Samagra Vyavastha)

Existence = Co-existence = Units submerged in space

DIAGRAM SHOWING VARIOUS ATTRIBUTES OF UNITS AND SPACE:

·         All nature is submerged in space. Nature has four orders and there are units in each order.

·         Each order is limited in size from being as small as an atom to as large as a galaxy. Space, on the other hand is unlimited. Space has no size like the units and it is not bounded.

·         Each unit is dynamic and active whether it is a physical activity or physic-chemical activity or sentient/conscious activity. Space on the other hand, doesn’t have any activity.

·         All the units are active and hence, energised. There is a transfer of energy from one form to another. Since space has no activity on its own, it is not energized. But all the units are energised in space. Hence, “Space is energy in Equilibrium” or it is Constant Energy. This energy is available to all the units.

·         Each unit recognises and fulfils its relation with other units. For instance, the air recognises its relationship with the soil, the soil with the water, the water and soil with the tree etc. this is called living in harmony with all the four orders.

The space on the other hand, is reflecting. Every unit is reflected in the other units in space. This is why human being feel related to one another and to the units of the other orders. Space is also transparent. There is no obstruction in space. Thus it is reflecting, helping all the units to recognise each other.

·         Every unit is an organization. Smaller units such as atoms, molecules, cells etc. combine to form bigger organizations. All these units are self organised.  No one is supplying this organization externally. Since all the units exist in space,  we say that Self-organization is available in space.

The following figure depicts how all the four orders co-exist in space. The units are of two kinds – Material and Conscious(I). Material units are the ones that are recognising and fulfilling while the Conscious units also have the activities of knowing and assuming along with recognising and fulfilling.

Realization and understanding ensure harmony in desires, thoughts, expectations.

·         Understanding the Self(I), the activities in the I and their interrelation, understanding the reality of ‘I’ as distinct from the body is called KNOWLEDGE OF SELF ( JIVANA GYANA)

·         Understanding the harmony at all the levels of Existence is called KNOWLEDGE OF EXISTENCE (ASTITVA DARSHANA GYANA)

·         Understanding our relationship with every unit in Existence and fulfil it is called KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN(E) CONDUCT (MANAVIYATA PURNA ACHARANA GYANA)

The knowledge of all the above three is called right understanding. With this right understanding, we develop realization and understanding, and we call this as ACTIVITY COMPLETENESS or KRIYA PURNATA.

When there is completeness in the ability of ‘I’ to live with right understanding at the four levels, leading to mutual fulfilment, it is called, CONDUCT COMPLETENESS or ACHARANA PURNATA.

Our role in this existence is to understand the co-existence to reach the state of KRIYA PURNATA and live accordingly to attain ACHARANA PURNATA.

Right Understanding =

Understanding of Existence + Understanding of Self + Understanding of Human(e) conduct

= same as Harmony at 4 levels

              The following diagrams help us to understand  the three questions:

What are we doing today?

Where we are?

Where we really want to be?

                                                                   DIAGRAM 1

                                                                             DIAGRAM 2

DIAGRAM 3

With lack of understanding, we are investing ourselves in growing things that do not grow and trying to stop what anyways grows. We are trying to develop what is already cyclical in nature and not trying to develop what is not cyclic.

We need to work on the material order for composition and construction, on plant order for growth and development. We need to work for right understanding. This is where we really want to be.

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