The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation

arbitrariness or forced choices.
Aliveness, not deadness or the mechanization of life.
Uniqueness, not bland uniformity.
Perfection and necessity, not sloppiness, inconsistency, or
accident.
Completion, rather than incompleteness.
Justice and order, not injustice and lawlessness.
Simplicity, not unnecessary complexity.
Richness, not environmental impoverishment.
Effortlessness, not strain.
Playfulness, not grim, humorless, drudgery.
Self-sufficiency, not dependency.
Meaningfulness, rather than senselessness.
While these qualities are for the most part universally acclaimed as desirable ,there
are some that appear to be quintessentially Vedantic, especially those dealing with
qualities such as Unity, wholeness, transcendence of opposites, and self
sufficiency. There are quite a few who have remarked on the relationship of the
Vedantic, in particular the Non dualistic approach, to the transpersonal psychology
espoused by Maslow.
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