Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration
Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration
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<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Really</strong> Happened <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> – M. M. N<strong>in</strong>an<br />
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The dialectical method therefore requires that phenomena should be<br />
considered not only from the standpo<strong>in</strong>t of their <strong>in</strong>terconnection and<br />
<strong>in</strong>terdependence, but also from the standpo<strong>in</strong>t of their movement, their<br />
change, their development, their com<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>to be<strong>in</strong>g and go<strong>in</strong>g out of<br />
be<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
c) Contrary to metaphysics, dialectics does not regard the process of<br />
development as a simple process of growth, where quantitative changes<br />
do not lead to qualitative changes, but as a development which passes<br />
from <strong>in</strong>significant and imperceptible quantitative changes to open'<br />
fundamental changes' to qualitative changes; a development <strong>in</strong> which the<br />
qualitative changes occur not gradually, but rapidly and abruptly, tak<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the form of a leap from one state to another; they occur not accidentally<br />
but as the natural result of an accumulation of imperceptible and gradual<br />
quantitative changes.<br />
The dialectical method therefore holds that the process of development<br />
should be understood not as movement <strong>in</strong> a circle, not as a simple<br />
repetition of what has already occurred, but as an onward and upward<br />
movement, as a transition from an old qualitative state to a new<br />
qualitative state, as a development from the simple to the complex, from<br />
the lower to the higher.”<br />
Dialectical and Historical Materialism: Joseph Stal<strong>in</strong> (September 1938)<br />
This approach br<strong>in</strong>gs us to the social ethics. There are no absolutes <strong>in</strong><br />
morality or behavior. These are constructs of the society <strong>in</strong> order to<br />
ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong> the function of the society determ<strong>in</strong>ed by the dom<strong>in</strong>ant group<br />
and persons. They have no eternal validity and are a mere social<br />
convention. There is no after life, heaven or hell. Moksha is a myth - an<br />
ideal developed by man. These are constructs of the exploiters to exploit<br />
those who are gullible. Hell and heaven are here and now. Moksha is<br />
liberation from the pa<strong>in</strong> and suffer<strong>in</strong>g of now. But <strong>in</strong> pragmatic level<br />
pleasure may be maximized and pa<strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>imized by vairagya<br />
(detachment). Enjoy your life now for they are the only truth.<br />
Immortality is the fame one leaves beh<strong>in</strong>d when the posterity remembers<br />
you and your contribution to the society.