On the other hand, if people let themselves go (for the sake of enjoyment and power), then competition becomes the reason for a hard-fought battle. A person happens to accept cooperation and at the same time shows the mood of competition. This makes one’s life dangerous and full of anxiety with resulting suffering.
In the material world, a living being has got two forms of “egoism”. One is called concentrated egoism and the other is extended egoism. When a person fights for satisfaction of needs of own body and mind, such egoism is called concentrated. But when a person based on own attachments fights for well-being of the family, loved ones, members of society, nation and, finally, mankind, it is called the extended egoism. Any material activity is based on these two forms of egoism. When considering this fact from the point of view of the gunas of material nature, it can be said that those influenced by ignorance are interested in satisfaction of needs of their bodies and minds only. Those whose life is influenced by passion are interested in satisfaction of their needs and the needs of their loved ones. Those in goodness worry about well-being of society, nation and mankind in general.
Individual satisfaction depends on the external world and that is why one is in want of communication. Originally communication is the source of bliss of the soul. Bliss comes from the contact with perfect living beings, and in the spiritual world everyone is as such . Whatever our emotions might be, when we approach the Lord and His confidential servants, the result is the bliss only. In the material world, according to the principle of reflection, the emotional approach to any object causes many troubles, disappointments, tension and other negative feelings which are not inherent in the soul. This happens because of the imperfect consciousness of living beings in the material world. Expectations of sense pleasure, self-centered consciousness make communication devoid of bliss. In the spiritual world, the soul strives to satisfy everyone approaching it and in the material world it strives to satisfy the self using capabilities of other living beings. In the material world, therefore, there appears the need for regulating principles of behavior which are called the etiquette. This happens for the simple reason that material consciousness in the uncontrolled state strives to subdue everyone to its will. When all are obsessed with this desire, there appears the need for the “queue”. The Aryan philosophy states that the “queue” acts from life to life: today I’m a master – you are a servant, tomorrow it will be vice versa.
The low position or, in other words, bad destiny causes envy. The superior position or good destiny causes arrogance. This is the basis of all psychology of the material world. These two positions transfer human relationships to the field of enmity and humiliation. Psychology of a living being in the material world is the expression of the desire to be God and includes the aspiration for leaderiship battle and the inability to accept higher position of another individual. What does leaderiship provide? The pleasure to be the supreme enjoyer and ruler. And what is unwillingness to accept another’s position driven by? By the desire to be in his/her shoes. Those who reach leaderiship develop pride and “enjoy” the pleasure to dictate their will to others. Those who fail develop envy and hatred to lucky ones. If society does not follow certain rules of behavior, these two feelings will make society filled with violence and make people’s life impossible. When people are uncivilized, the natural selection law is in place where the strong oppress the weak. Subsequently, the weak understand that by uniting they can get the strength to overthrow the strong. The weak, therefore, try to unite and the strong do their best to prevent it. This happens when society is secular or pseudo-religious. According to the Aryan concept, humanity does not make progress but degrades from God-centered, and consequently from the civilized society, to society that has rejected God and, consequently, is uncivilized. This topic will be considered in the chapter “Epochs and Qualities Manifested in them”.
Material consciousness seeks for power and enjoyment; if no regulating principles of behavior are accepted, it gains the liberty to get desired things through violence. If behavior rules are accepted, they always focus to put envy and arrogance under control. A secular society solves this problem with the help of two ideologies:
1) Power and enjoyment belong to the elected and commoners are meant to serve the interests of elected ones. The basis of this concept is violence (a dictatorial regime which inevitably implies revolutions).
2) Power and enjoyment belong to the strong, gifted, skillful, rascals (depending on the social system) and are available to all those who are capable to take possession of them (“democratic” states which often change their leaders giving the possibility for many to enjoy the power).
Piousness contains the component of awakening the spiritual consciousness which is based on faith. With such consciousness, a person can quietly face the other’s superiority and when meeting such personality think that the Supreme Ruler had some grounds (past lives) to reward that person with one of the six opulences: beauty, noble birth, education, strength, wealth, renunciation.
The Aryan society was based on the guna of goodness and searched for satisfaction of needs of all members of society but since it was God-centered it subordinated such satisfaction to Lord’s satisfaction. When there is no any personality capable to focus everyone on the self due to unique qualities (God), the fight for sense pleasure gets started which excludes the principle of justice. A strong individual attains the power and then begins to use this position and power to keep it. The God-centered society has got very interesting specifics. In the secular society, the one who is in power loses fear and develops the mood of all-permissiveness. But the God-centered society due to the real communication with God does not let such mood be developed even by world rulers because everyone understands the dependence on God. Such consciousness significantly reduces the competitive spirit. People with the secular habit of mind destroy each other in this competitiveness, but to get the same result a God-centered person tries to be pleasant to God. To destroy rivals, vicious qualities are required but to satisfy God pious qualities are required. In one case a person tries to destroy all pious qualities to be able to withstand harsh laws of competitiveness and in the other case a person tries to destroy all vicious qualities to be able to appease the Lord. From the point of view of the attitude and the target, these positions are absolutely different.
In this world, the material body obliges everyone to solve the problems of existence (food), peace, reproduction and protection. There are two types of activity which ensure the settlement of problems of existence: subtle (activity of mind) and gross (activity of body). Activity of mind ensures knowledge. And on the basis of this knowledge activity of body ensures existence. Influenced by different gunas, people refer to different knowledge and, respectively, solve problems by different methods and get different results.
Animals solve these problems according to their bodies in which they have appeared using that very little intelligence that is given to them and being under the power of respective instincts. Instinct is God’s help to those living beings who lost the possibility to use their intelligence as the result of their sinful activity.
Humans are different from animals in the level of development of intelligence and the ability to have faith in God. In all other desires, humans and animals are alike. They want to exist, rest, be protected and reproduce, but unlike animals humans base themselves on intelligence. For existence they develop agricultural and industrial sectors, for rest they build homes (motherland), for protection they make weapons, for reproduction they amass riches. When these four types of activities are done with the intention to enjoy and have domination over the nature, society is secular, but when the same activity is done in compliance with religious principles and for the sake of achieving the highest objective of religiosity, society is called the Aryan or God-centered. This is the difference between a secular and God-centered society. A secular society is focused on the search for all kind of new methods of sense pleasure, but a God-centered (the Aryan) society is focused on application of principles of liberation from this world. The only goal of a secular and pseudo-religious society is sense pleasure.
