Vanity is Fair

Its all for me?

The title to this piece … should have been simply … human vanity.  To indicate an approval of vanity … is certainly to draw on much in the way of a positive view … of the article … with the clandestine hope that it will shore up the reader's need for such. That raises some issues … that ought to concern us all. For vanity doesn't stop in front of the mirror … its the very stuff of life.

 

We have for instance … encountered the outrageous view that … everything that takes place … takes place for our benefit. Its the message fathers give to their children … and in the innocent light of belief in the child … he does comes to see that. What adolescents say in response to such an experience … is simply … ' my father is a great man for having brought me into the world.' Its the hallmark for such a view … and many a carpetbagger … later in life … searches in vain for that door … that will lead him back to the hall of being.

 

Is that the ultimate achievement in life … that we refashion in many ways to change its form of innocence … into achievement in the real world? Or is it the glimpse of the blueprint of life … its design … that includes many other people … events … and team achievements … which when put together … points to the organization of life … for its successful accomplishment? Is that the way a civil society … brings itself to work … in raising the center … in the life of one … who then occupies the seat of being … as the cog in the wheel of society?

 

The practice is not unknown. Tibetan lamas scour the country for a boy … they then install as the Dalai Lama … and draw their inspiration from his being of existence. In royalty … they confer the same to the King or Queen. In a democracy … we do that for 5 year periods … in respect of the winning political party. Its the culmination of good organization … that is alive … in the way we relate to its center.

 

However if we were to promote the view that such a life of being is the right of every individual … surely that can only take place … at the risk of a weak social cohesiveness. This rings a chord of familiarity with the way the Aryan ethos … seemed to think … whether that was in Sparta or in pre-war Germany. The Indics … who claim to an early Aryan ancestry … and continue to use the swastika in their temples … record their experiences with King Kamsa … who was in such a position of being …  in respect of society.

 

However the King … grew to love his position too much … with the usual consequences. Thereafter … in disposing of their King … the Vasudeva … brought the possibility to the mind of man … that such a state of being is the right of everyone. Today this echoes through the halls of Congress of the American republic … and is certainly a vain promise to people all over the world. Its not the right of one man … but until we make that achievement as a society … we are obliged to organize ourselves with a responsible individual at the center.

 

We ask ourselves today … whether such an organization is possible … and whether we are training people right in our societies … to understand that … absolute power can corrupt absolutely. Or have we lost all hope in such an organization … in which we as members of society … give our trust and faith to the man we appoint to the center? And if we have … are we going back to the cornfields of upstanding individual self pride … to confer on ourselves … the right to the being of life?

 

Whether it was in Lebanon … Bosnia … Somalia … or the jungles of world  … man and beasts … continue to experiment with the possibility … that its the right of everyone to their individual being of experience.  But which comes first … the cart or the horse? The Indic thesis on this appears to promote the view that … a social organization exists in that way … with one man in the center … conferred the right to being … and all else to follow. Anyone seeking to express his full rights in society … is technically exiled from society … to live in a heap of his ambitions … but away from interference in the delicate fabric of the society.

 

I think what it says about us … is that … we apply a common sense … to what we do in social organization. Wouldn't it be a wonder … if the man in the center … is trained in the arts of humanity … and brings about a professional practice of the being … without getting it over his head? Isn't that what we continue to practice in our societies today? Perhaps it'll be an achievement in the future … for we all know what we think about politics … don't we?

 

A lighted torch of positive encouragement … will burn up the entire country … if its not moderated with the view of individual self-realization of the issues … that govern the world's societies. And the monolithic statue of liberty … holding a lighted torch … is properly viewed in that way as a promise … for the future. We would certainly be better served by understanding how that can be accomplished … in the civil natures of our lives … rather than the battlefields of provocation.

 

I hope what I have brought to this article … is to note the fair nature of vanity … in the life of man. Its a vanity that is of mind and of heart … and we need to come to understand that better. I encounter in the ordinary lives of the average man in society … such dreams ... and wishes for life ... that raises the most profound love and adoration for the all. But its sad that we also have to keep that down to manage the life we encounter in these times. Its important that we all wake up to that ... and keep trying.