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An edition of The Human Planet (2009)

The Human Planet

a philosophical political essay about a only one government in the world and a new definition fo policy as the art of choosing the best ruler.

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THE HUMAN PLANET
Íñigo Miguel de Aranzadi y Pérez de Arenaza.
Dedicated to all the mankind
Third English edition.
ISBN “El planeta humano” of Spanish first edition 978-84-934245-6-5
Legal Deposit: M-26423-2009.
© Íñigo Miguel de Aranzadi y Pérez de Arenaza.
The copyright it is in order to protect the moral copyright, the right of the author of not be modified the work by others.
It is freely sharing for all the mankind.
INTRODUCTION
This work have taken to me a lot o years. I tried to do a lot of meditation in writing it, correcting it, perfecting it. I do not that the world to be like I outline in this work. Just I try to sketch a model, a reflection, perhaps not entirely successful, taking a little look back to pick up some knowledge and wisdom. There is a Roman proverb that says: “when you do something new do not forget the good old”. The Chinese proverb says: “do not build a new ship without old wood”.
Different religions have many values, many virtues. The secular state has forgotten them. And are very important these different sources of human values. These values do not appear in our legal texts. One purpose of my job is to structure a model of society with another fundamental value than freedom. Love is more important than freedom. And love leads to many values, many virtues, many principles. Without removing the freedom, of course, which is very important, but not as much as we wanted to think and especially what is not so much important is the press freedom that seems can run any other right or even cause damages.
I do not try to lay dogmas, eternal truths, it is time that is responsible for making the sieve. And in all teachings there are eternal truths and truths that depend on time and place, on circumstances.
If the reader sees an inconsistency or contradiction among the content of chapter one and the content of chapter two, you should know that the most important is chapter one, chapter one is based on the sacred texts, in the spiritual experience and in the words of the great ones. And chapter two is only a ideal concept built with imagination over the idea of an author.
Honestly, I think that from the social point of view, the highest philosophy of all is Christianity when is applied, really practised. And the higher law, the law of love, the law that Jesus of Nazareth gave to the world. If all our thoughts, words, actions and omissions were expressions of this law of love, this book would not be necessary. But such is not the case yet, because here's this work is in order of any worth.
Chapter one is for rulers. Chapter Three is for the people.
Chapter I
THE UNION
Only one nation: the planet Earth. Only one race, the human race. Only one World Government. A single Army. One religion; the religion of God, regardless of the form and names. One philosophy, the philosophy of Love, Truth, Respect and Reason. A single currency. Many regions. Many languages. Many traditions. A unique system of weights and measures. One space agency.
It is a very good way to achieve peace in the world. And not only peace.
Albert Einstein said: “I am firmly convinced that most people around the world prefer to live in peace and security [...]. The desire for peace of humanity can only be realized through the creation of a world government”.
In the world politics, for this union would be the first and foremost peace and security.
PEACE
World peace would be the main objective. Its Maintenance.
“Or we walk together towards peace or we'll never find” said Benjamin Franklin.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama said: “Peace makes us think about life and growth, while violence aims only to misery and death”.
THE ARMY
This term is related to birth, nation has more to do with people than the term country that has more to do with the territory.
If the Earth were a single nation, then the army would not have the function of destroying the enemy, because there would be no longer enemy countries, but regions and one nation. The only function of the single army, would be to keep the world order. The order would be mandatory, no country -region- could invade another country with the arms or without its.
The only army, then, could be fundamentally humanitarian to combat the effects of natural disasters, thirst and hunger. Or for example, the mines left in the past military conflicts could be removed. It's curious, the value of a anti person mine is a dollar. But removing a person anti mine price is thousand dollars.
A problem like Tibet; Gibraltar; the Falkland Islands; Ceuta, Melilla and the Parsley Island; Israel and Palestine, for example, could end up being a problem of municipal or regional terms; administrative and not political.
The case of New Moore Island or South Talpati, disputed for years among India and Bangladesh, would not be a problem whatsoever, because global warming has finish it, the island has sunk into the sea with the rise of the waters caused by global warming.
The Tao Te Ching says, “Who knows how to guide the ruler on the path of Tao, does not try to dominate the world by force of arms.
It is in the nature of military weapons turn against those who manage.
Where camping armies, grow briers and thorns.
After of a great war, bad years invariably happens.
What you want is to effectively protect your own state, but not claim your own expansion.
When you have reached your goal, you should not be proud of your victory, nor boast of your ability; rather you regret not having been able to prevent the war.
You should never think of conquering others by force.
As is expanding too is precipitate the decay, and this is contrary to the Tao, and what is against Tao will soon cease to exist.
Sophisticated military weapons portend disaster.
Even things and beings hate.
Therefore, the person observing the Tao does not set his heart on them”.
There is an island in Oceania called Aitutaki. It is a beautiful island that has ceded the defence. Each country would be as Aitutaki, in the sense that would have given the defence.
In addition, the destructive aspect of the army must continue to exist. Because of two reasons: outside defence and homeland defence.
External defence
In the old regime, the nobility was responsible for the defence of the realm. Linked to the king, to whom he owed obedience. Nobility earned in battles in the conquest of territories. In Spain, the nobles, then, did not have to pay taxes. But that was in peace days, if would be war then they had to pay taxes, because they had other obligations, the retinues. That is, they did not pay taxes if there was peace. But it was they who had to finance the armies in battles if there was war. That is why the heritage of the nobility was linked to the eldest son, with the entail, as equity linked to the peerage, for only the eldest child, for the defence, because the nobles were those who actually constituted the army who defended the kingdom. It was obvious that the more wealth has the nobility, more power had its army and therefore could conquer more territories or cold better defend the territories in where they lived. Thus, the noble, far from having very limited resources, only the fair to live, that was the idea of Socrates, they were the richest and therefore the more wealth, more military power, more defence means.
Many of the inventions that have occurred in the world, from the running of the saddle, shaving, canned ... to Internet, have been inventions with a military purpose. With a purpose of defence.
With the industrial revolution, great inventions like the steam engine was created, the internal combustion engine ...
So the defence today is not like the feudal society clear. The defence today is closely linked to technology. There are military secrets. Secrets that nobody knows and give more power to those who have.
The schema of Rousseau, in fact, is a nonviolent scheme, because it equalizes the nobility with the people, in some way he demilitarized the society. Neither the idea of defence, or the warriors, are on the ideal scheme of Rousseau. However, today almost all countries have their own army, even Switzerland.
Today, collecting the ideas of Socrates, the warriors do not have big salaries, however, as in the feudal society, has been linked much of the national budget of each country to the defence, using huge amounts of money to these defence purposes. Like the feudal heritage of primogeniture was linked to the peerage. The purpose of defence is the protection of society, of the country. The purpose has not changed, despite the passing of the centuries and the changing ideas.
If we unite every country on the planet in one society, one nation, then the purpose of the defence remains the same, but outwardly, ie towards the universe. Then we can have peace and security on Earth.
In external defence, imagine that an asteroid that has not been anticipated by the astronomical observatories in due time, come to our planet. The army should be prepared to divert its path, or turn it into many small asteroids so that when they reach the atmosphere disintegrate in the heat. This is not a fictional scenario. Our astronomers have expected to be crashing asteroids on our planet for the XXI century, but as there is no global political faculty, as there are different political faculties of the countries in this regard, looking only small interests and not the interests of all humanity, es because we are not prepared for this event yet. It appears that the dinosaurs became extinct because an asteroid fell on the Yucatan peninsula, creating an explosion at a power of millions of megatons.
American astronomer Jim Shoemaker discovered an asteroid, the SL-9 which hit Jupiter causing a flare, which was shown live on the press, half the size of Earth. He stated that it was a great privilege, because that is something that happens in a millennium, not in a life. In fact, in 2004, an asteroid passed close to the Earth, at the height of communication and meteorological satellites.
America is doing something about it, their astronomers are making a catalogue of asteroids that can be directed towards the orbit of our planet, studying their paths. But so far only they have been catalogued and studied sixty percent. If all be studied, one could know its size and predict when collide. If they are small they disintegrate in the heat of friction with the atmosphere in contact with her.
The only one I know that could have any chance of collision is Apophis, but has been completely ruled out a possible collision or 2029 or for 2036. Various institutions in the United States and other countries are doing scientific studies regarding the various forms of power away to possible asteroid could bring to our planet. Many astronomers and scientists involved in it, belonging to different institutions as NASA, MIT and others have computers with very high computing power and collaboration of astronomers around the world. There are astronomers volunteers in all over the world helping in this task.
But there have been other, the DA14, discovered by a Spanish astronomer, Jaime Nomen, Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Sagra, which has passed under communications satellites on Friday, February 15, 2013, a dark asteroid with a iron mass, almost the size of a football stadium. And we know that will return again.
And the astronomical observatory has discovered the 2013TV135 Ukraine could hit the Earth by 2032, although the odds are 3 over 100,000.
Interior defence
The interior defence would have a new meaning. The current hosts of the countries would, over time, to be a single state police, humanitarian and defence army under a single joint command under the command of the central government, the Union government. But the change would be gradual. Whereby the borders still exist and competition on immigration would be a matter for the countries at first. Everyone in his own home (country) and God in all of those says the proverb. There is another saying that goes; all together but not scrambled. Thus, if a country had excess immigration problems could be helped by the state police -the global army- to avoid it.
The world army should have certain weapons to help if a country needed it in maintaining its borders. Borders still exist on the principles of unity, before all his gradual changes.
The interior defence would be to ensure and monitor the maintenance of world order, with the power of weapons, too, for it.
In interior defence, imagine that a small population is infected with a deadly virus transmitted very quickly and the only way to save the rest of mankind is destroying the small town. There is no other way, we can not let that population in quarantine, isolate it, because the virus is transmitted at high speed through the air. Because, of course, one should always look for the least destructive means of population. So in this case, the army must have arms to do it and save the rest of humanity. In this case, deny the destructive aspect of the army would be like taking a scalpel to the surgeon and tell him to open a body is an act of violence and not allow it to operate. If a group of cells that forms a lethal tumour and rapid growth, it is very simple, you have to open and remove it. We must use the scalpel, if no other means to solve the problem, of course.
The Mahabharata says that an individual can give up or sacrifice for the sake of a family, a family that can be sacrificed for the sake of a people, a people can be sacrificed for the sake of a nation and so on.
He also claims that the rancour never brings happiness. That where there is dharma there is victory (is a Sanskrit word meaning law of duty). And in the end, the dharma will triumph.
War and human evolution
In the Iberian Peninsula, the paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, during excavations at Atapuerca, has found traces of cannibalism in human remains dated eight hundred thousand years ago.
In World War II, at the Battle of Stalingrad, they were collected testimonies from people on both sides, who have confirmed that they ate meat ass of the bodies, not having anything to eat, to survive in a cold climate. One of these people said, God forgive me. This can make us think that at this stage of human evolution, war practice is a step backwards in the evolution of hundred thousand years, almost a million years back.
Moreover, wars can give rise to a vary big shortage. If life is not easy in times of peace, we can imagine how extremely hard could be in wartime. The psychological damage produced after the war are felt even after generations. War generates extreme shortages and then people that has passed has a tendency to accumulate things in excess, that is, in the long term produce much greed.
Epigenetics has shown that over a period of shortages caused by the Second World War in the Netherlands, in what was termed hunger winter food, made the children born in these conditions of scarcity, at maturity have certain illnesses such as for example diabetes. While subsequent children, born in a time of absence of shortages, had not. And these symptoms persist, but more attenuated, in the next generation of grandchildren, whose parents were developed within the womb, in a period of scarcity. Epigenetics has introduced the concept of free will in genetics. Everything we eat and smoke affect successive generations.
Hari Prasad Sastri, to explain that the spiritual is superior to the material, he told the Mongolians were a very warlike people, why the Chinese built the Great Wall of China, in order not to be invaded by those. However, the Great Wall of China failed to prevent the invasion of this town. By contrast, the benefits of Buddhist teachings, lamas living in monasteries, built by the Chinese in the north of his country, if he succeeded.
Compassion is stronger than the Great Wall of China.
THE NATIONAL FLAG
As a planet-nation would be a light planet a white flag is proposed. White light contains all the colours, which represents all the colours of the flags of all the countries on Earth. It represents the light. It also represents the resignation of all countries to any war, disarmament, peace. The creation of a single nation, the planet Earth, with one army whose function is to protect the political union in exterior and interior defence, the common and indissoluble union of all regions that comprise it, its territorial integrity and the integrity of elements that form (earth, water, fire and air), and also protect the planet from disasters, calamities, famine and lack of water.
Within the area there is a clear blue green circle. Light green circle represents the face of one human being proposed in this book. Is green because have to represent any inhabitant of the planet Earth, all of them, that is because is no white, no black, no red, no yellow. Can not be blue, because the circle is blue.
Inside the circle is a light white arch. Represents the inner smile of all inhabitants of Earth have reached inner peace. It is white because the teeth of any human being, whether they are sub-race, are white. And above two small circles representing eyes, because the bottom of the eyes of all people are white, regardless of the sub-race they belong. What we call black, white, yellow and brown race are but sub-races of a single race, the human race. In each eye, there is a pupil with four concentric circles: green, blue, brown and black around it, which are the colours of the eyes of any citizen of the planet. (One smile is superimposed on the image of a circle representing “half” of the globe, in which continents are seeing the whole or part of pole).
Above the smile on the circle representing the Earth, there is a semicircle rainbow. It represents God́s promise not to destroy the earth by water and intent of all inhabitants of the planet to help God in the fulfilment of this promise, trying to respect, care for, love and protect at inhabiting it.
In the Viking tradition the rainbow represents the connexion among gods and human beings.
The set is the only person who would be all humanity on planet Earth who is proposed in this book. Here humanity is seen as one person, to give unity. With a smile.
THE RELIGION
Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said that the water in Latin is called aqua, English is called water, in French is called eau and in Hindi is called pani ... that God is called Yahweh, Jehovah, Brahman, Allah. .. but not for be given different names cease to be the same substance.
They call Balearic Sea, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Mitoic, Aegean, Ionian; but no longer the same body of water, the Mediterranean Sea.
All religions lead to God, Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, Vishnu, Brahma, Shiva, Brahman, to Toiwa, Ahura Mazda, the Holy Spirit.
If a person show an apple to an Spaniard and asked him what is, he would answer: manzana, if the same man show the apple to a French, he would answer: pomme. If the same man shows the apple to an Italian would say: mela. But Apple would remain the same. Would remain the same type and colour, the same texture of skin, with the same spots, with the same pulp, with the same seed and the same taste. Not because they have been given different names, Apple is no longer the same thing. It remains being the same apple.
Likewise, if a Muslim had the vision of God, would say; I had the vision of Allah. If were a Christian would say; I had the vision of God. If were a Jew would say; I had the vision of Yahweh or Jehovah. If I were a Vishnuite say; I had the vision of Vishnu. If I were a Shivaita say; I had the vision of Shiva. And if an Indian of North America say; I had the vision of the Holy Spirit. If an Indian Hopi say, I had a vision of Toiwa and if it was a Zoroastrian say I had a vision of Ahura Mazda. But all would have seen the same Supreme Being, the Absolute, God. That would not be the same because they have given different names. Although you may have acquired various forms of manifestation, like a woman can appears with a stewardess uniform, with an evening gown or a print dress, but still the same woman.
A German can say the sea is cold, blue and has lumpos, a Brazilian can say that the sea is green, warm and has Pampos. But the two are talking about the same Atlantic Ocean.
A Christian can not call a Hindu as pantheism, because have many gods like Brahma, Saraswati, Vishnu, Lakshmi, Shiva, Parvati, Ganesh, Hanuman, Varuna, Agni, Indra ... because for the Hindu, they are only different forms of manifestation of the one God, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omnipotent, immortal ... Brahman. In the same way that a Hindu can not call a Christian pantheism, because have many Virgin: as the Virgin of Carmen, the Virgin of the Pilar, Our Lady of Akita, the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Virgin of Garabandal , Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Lourdes ... because they are just different manifestations, invocations or apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
There is no such thing as the God of the Hebrews, or the God of the Muslims, or the God of the Christians, or Hindus God ... God is not as small as a people have manifested or just a sub-race. God is great. And its true nature is Love. God created us all. All of us, are sons of His Love. God is one. While it is true that we have given many names in different cultures and traditions, that of course, may be different. Traditions that are just different ways to worship the One Heavenly Father, the One Supreme Being. The one God of all human beings belonging to the one human race.
In fact, any religion to consider that is the only way to reach God, should be qualified as sectarian. Any religion may well say it is the best way of approaching God. If a practitioner of a religion would feel that other religion is better then he would go to those that him understand is better. But you should not say or should feel, that's the only one.
In this regard, we read in the Qur'an: “The say: Only Jews or Christians enter paradise. But it is nothing more than their wishes. Tell them: Where is the evidence? Show it, if you are truthful”.
The verses 59 and 60 of Sura II the holy book the Koran say: “Verily, those who believe, and those who follow the Jewish religion, and Christians, and the Sabians, in short, everyone who believes in Allah (Allah meaning God) and on the final day and has done good: all these receive a reward from their Lord, fear not reach them and not be distressed”.
60. “Remember the day you accept your alliance that rise above your heads Mount Sinai; then we said, firmly Receive laws (referring to the Ten Commandments) that we give and remember what they contain. Perhaps you will fear Allah”.
All major religions, such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and religions, cults, philosophies and spiritual paths of India, have been founded by great Beings. By wise, holy and deeply loving God and human beings persons. But in his teachings there are eternal verities and truths that depend on time and place.
Islam, for example, banned alcohol and pork to his brothers. The important thing is the end to attending the ban. Guidelines given to people living in a desert or very warm weather. If someone drinks alcohol then they dehydrate. And they can drink the water of others, and that can create a conflict or people can die for this reason. Eating pork can fill the body with toxins and then you may need to drink more water to cleanse your body.
Just about the headscarf worn by women in the head. In warm weather, man's libido is much more active. The woman's hair can be grounds for a strong attraction. Let alone his body. In fact the Bible also talk about the beauty of the hair of women. Amish and Mennonite women wear scarf or cloth cap, but the reason is modesty that creates mystery and creates attraction. The Mennonites women carry a white cap if they are single and a black cap if they are married. For example, in the Russian tradition, unmarried women wore braids and the married woman not. It's curious, but in the tradition of India when a woman was separated from her husband wore a braid.
In the not so warm climate, it would not be necessary to wear the headscarf, because man's libido is not so close to the skin. But there should be no problem if these women want to preserve their tradition in another climate. In fact it is a sign of respect for the purity of man.
Then it is also true that cultures do not merge both and this woman will not be integrated so much in the society to they have migrated. Freedom is very important, but respect for the freedom of others too.
Instead the Russians water abundance and lack warmth. It is precisely the heat produced by alcohol making them addicts. Drink, alcohol gives them warmth, but then gives them cool, then they drink more, and so on. They are better some hot potatoes with spicy, new insulating fabrics and vodka without excess. Nothing is good or bad, it depends on the time, place and dose.
In India there are many people and few resources. If someone kills the cow, to use his body as food, no milk will leave many people for a long time. Cows are sacred in India. They are vegetarians, and for them to kill the cow, it is like killing the mother who gives you milk, that gives you food, the mother that feeds you.
Tibetan Buddhists respect both plants and animals. Eat cooked meat to avoid violence, because otherwise it would be very difficult to survive in Tibet, in a so cold climate.
The Indians of North America, asked forgiveness from the spirit of animals before killing them to use his body as food and clothing.
Chinese macrobiotics, advised to eat animals that are further away from us in the evolutionary scale.
In the Bible, in Leviticus in the Old Testament, there are restrictive rules of eating blood and eating the flesh of certain animals. Jehovah's Witnesses have as a rule never take blood from animals (eg sausage). The Jewish people have a policy not to take pork.
All forms of life are sacred, even a plant, an ant. So they say the Jains.
In India 70% of the population is vegetarian.
Each culture has been gestated in a different environment, with various fauna and flora, different climates, different latitudes, with different genes, blood types ... and this has greatly influenced in its formation. Not the same a Spanish North than a South one. In the South have after the lunch a nap, because after the lunchtime in summer, in the South, it's hot and working with these temperatures is not profitable, the people there are more open and less secretive than the people of the North, for instance, within the same culture. The differences are greater if are different cultures of distant places.
THE SISTERHOOD OF RELIGIONS
Every religion should respect other religions.
Paramahansa Yogananda, said:
“There is only one Heavenly Father, the Creator of all beings; and true religion of man is to seek and find.
Only if we approach religion from this perspective, one can say its universality. Particular customs and conventions, in contrast, can never be universalized. Only element common to all religions can be universalized; only that element can be followed and obeyed by all. And it is in this case when you can, indeed, declare that religion is not only necessary, but also universal”.
The rituals may be different, not the same prayers and prayed in different languages, the name of God can be also different. But in essence we all pray to the same God, although we use different media and we call differently.
God is universal. Some say that dwells in the heart of every living creature. Others say that in the heavens. Others say it is everywhere. Some says that God have form. Other that is formless, or without attributes. Ones that is dual, others that is one.
What is clear is that God has appeared around the world in different ways. Let's say He has sent several emissaries, depending on time and place. What is sin for one religion to another is not and vice versa.
We see elements of religions which can be universal and others that can not be universal. Love or compassion, is the essence of most religions. Love for God, love yourself, love others.
Immanuel Kant, argued that self-love is a universal principle.
The law of only one woman
Montesquieu said that the law of one woman only applies in countries which are not warm. About marriage also governs the time and place. Everything depends on the moment.
Mormons, for example allow polygamy. Mohammedan allow up to four women. But in Islam, this rule was not created to sponsor polygamy. But to protect the children were born of extramarital unions. A extramarital women and children of widows. And also to increase population after big battles, as remain many widows and few male survivors. Then is allowed to the survivors men to take the widows as their women.
In India, the Laws of Manu (Manava Dharma Sastra), for example, establishing polygamy, the possibility that a man could have more than one wife. But these laws were given in 1280 BC, a vast territory almost totally depopulated. Today the circumstances in India are quite different, to the point that the Government, in the twentieth century, gave a mantra -briefly prayer- to the population, “only two of two” (only two children of each pair).
When Jesus of Nazareth was asked about the bill of divorce, he replied that at first was not, but it did so “because of the hardness of your heart”.
In this regard the Quran says: “Your hearts have hardened after; they are like rocks and harder still, because of the rocks out torrents; the rocks are thrown down and make water flow; no one who humbles himself for fear of Allah, and Allah will certainly not neglect your actions”.
We can see that there is some relationship among polygamy and war. Or among polygamy and violence.
In fact, a point of doctrine of Nazism was that every German would have more than a German or even they wanted to have. It was a doctrine too expansionist and made many allies turn against it. This expansionism, along with the idea of trying to create a superior sub-race, unlike any other, created a great separateness respect to all others who made many allies turn against it.
But regarding polygamy, there is at least one exception, the case of King Janaka of ancient India, that had 700 women. However, despite this, he was a just, wise, detached and a unparalleled realized master in his time. Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was talking about the very great austerities that made King Janaka in his youth, and said that has not returned to have another Janaka. It is the exception that satisfies the rule. Ramakrishna says:
“272 In a householder you can see God, as was the case of Raja Janaka, the great sage king. But one can not rise to the height of King Janaka suddenly. Janaka spent many years in solitude, away from the hustle and bustle, practising spiritual exercises. We do immense good men in the world, occasionally retired into solitude, in order to see and realize God.
273 Some young Brahmos (people of a modern Hindu sect) told me that they followed the example of King Janaka. They lived in the world but very detached. I answered that it is very easy to say that it is like Janaka, but really very difficult, is to become like him. It's so hard to live surrounded by worldly objects uncontaminated. How tremendous austerities Janaka practised in his youth, I do not advise you to do the same, but you will do well to practice spiritual exercises for some time in a lonely place. After reaching the knowledge and devotion that had King Janaka, you may return to the world. The best curd formed when milk is at rest. The slightest shock and even if the changes from one pot to another spoils. Janaka was completely detached, so one of the epithets applied to it was videha, which literally means `disembodied́. He lived as a jivanmukta (liberated while living). It is extremely difficult to destroy the idea of the body. Indeed, Janaka was a great hero. Easily wielded two swords, one is the jnana (knowledge) and the other of karma (action)”.
But this is a very rare exception, that can help us understand the rule.
In fact, there are wars beginning with the lack of living space or lack of resources. And a concept of large families (polygamy) causes the population grows excessively and then have to find new living space or more resources and conflicts that may arise because of it.
Polygamy is good in a society that has a high mortality rate, either because a society is not well developed in medicine (eg because no available antibiotics, vaccines ...), or in a society in which there are few men and many women. But it is not good in a very advanced society in a developed society, or a society with a high birth rate and low mortality rate.
The human body, completely natural, produces a hormone called vasopressin, a neurotransmitter, which rewards the man when he always have relations with the same woman or to a woman when she always have relations with the same man. The body tells the man or the woman, that he or she, is doing well. Rewarded with the hormone. They call monogamy hormone. Alcohol addition to errors in brain functioning and memory, have an inhibitory effect of this monogamy hormone.
Birds, simple birds, creatures born from an egg, like the crane, the gull, condors, albatross, blue macaw, mansur Owl, Cuban Amazon, all species of hornbills, the grebe Clark, the jabiru, Penguin ... once they have choose his partner, keep it throughout their lives. The swan and the crow usually keep their partner throughout their lives. Other birds maintain the same pair, at least until the chicks are able to fly. Clark's grebes make a nuptial dance in which run above the water next to each other and beside each other, without taking flight, moving its wings, celebrating that they, one to the other, have chosen as partners.
Immanuel Kant tell us that there are two trends in society that happen. One is the tendency for women to show the body, widely popular in this time and then the tendency to hide the body, a modest attitude of women. He states that the first trend, curiously leads to disinterest because it not creates mystery. And the second is more in tune with nature and procreation and produces mystery. And the mystery creates interest. And when the second trend is present, procreation increases.
We can see the true of this statement in these times of uncovering and very low birth rates, abortion, contraceptives and speculation in the West.
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy means love to wisdom. Pythagoras was the one who used this term for the first time, with the sense of love to wisdom.
Love.
There is nothing greater than love. From love born all virtues. The only mandate of Jesus of Nazareth is “Love God with all your soul, with all your strength and your neighbour as yourself”. Although loving others, we also love ourselves. Buddha or Christ are paradigms of Compassion, Love. And perhaps this is the main value to be considered by a society. That is why philosophies are high.
The Dhammapada says: “Hate never ceases by hate in this world; it only goes through love. This is an old eternal law”.
When the Spaniard Ramiro Calle, approached to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and asked him a question that would benefit all mankind: What wisdom is higher, the wisdom of the mind or the wisdom of the heart ? His Holiness the Dalai Lama replied: there is only one wisdom, the wisdom of the heart.
So many great beings on this planet have spoken of Love. Unconditional Love. Universal Love. The love that asks nothing in return. Love is not selfish. From love born all virtues. If you persevere, it is because you love a goal. If you are patient, it is because you love the present and detachment from what is to come. If you are poor it is because you love God's greatness is infinite. If you have faith, it is because you love God and trust in God. If you love it because you recognize and love the divinity in others. If you hope it is because you have an open heart. Ovidio said the hope is borned from love...
In fact selfless service, without a selfish purpose, the service that is offered to God in the heart, is a form of love, such as volunteering.
Love was the only mandate of Jesus of Nazareth, his main teaching. It is a very important goal in Buddhism (compassion) and other traditions also appears as the supreme goal. In some traditions it is considered that the true nature of God is none other than the supreme happiness (Satchitananda.-supreme Existence, Consciousness and Bliss-).
In Sanskrit there are many words for the word love. It is divine love (prema), family love (priya), compassion would say Buddhist or Christian charity (karuna), erotic love (kama), passionate love (madana) ... and only one word for universal love, Shiva.
The wisdom
The Spanish word wisdom, sabiduría, comes from the Latin word sapere, to know. And according to the Dictionary of Language, the significance of the word wisdom is:
“Prudent behaviour in life or in business”.
It's curious, what defines prudence is the behaviour, not the intellect, according to the dictionary. Prudent behaviour.
Wisdom is related to prudence, that is the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
Etymologically, prudence comes from the Latin; pro uidens, consisting of pro: forward, forward and uidens, present participle uideo, to see. See ahead. Forecast.
The dictionary of the RAE says it is: 1An of the four cardinal virtues, which is to discern and distinguish what is good or bad, to follow or run from it. 2 Temperance, caution, moderation. 3 Sense, good judgment.
In the Bible there is a good example of prudence in its etymological sense, when the Pharaoh of Egypt had a dream. In the dream, seven lean, ugly cows ate seven fat kine cows. But Pharaoh had a good advice, he come to know that in the prison was a man who knew how to interpret dreams. So Joseph was called before Pharaoh and Joseph was able to interpret the dream saying that lean cows represented seven years of famine and fat cows are seven years of plenty and thus, keeping the fifth of the grain that was harvested during the seven years of plenty, save Egypt achieving a time of famine. For this the Pharaoh had to create a tax on farmers, twenty percent of the grain for seven years, sure did not like farmers, although this nothing tell the Genesis.
In Sanskrit there is a word that is naya, which is political wisdom and its meaning is driving (eg an army), guide, wise or prudent behaviour, political, civil and military government; wisdom, prudence, reason. In a prudent manner. Plan, design, guiding thoughts, maxims, principles, system doctrine.
Prudence is not acting with improvisation. But act with reflection, meditating, thinking before making decisions. To have a plan of action, having a program of action. Think before you speak.
One thing is a genius, a man with an exceptional mind, has an extraordinary mental ability to create or invent new and wonderful things, such as Albert Einstein. Another thing is a science man as it could be Ernest Rutherford, a man of knowledge. But another thing is a wise person such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama or Mahatma Gandhi, a virtuous person and with deep compassion. Their behaviour is what has given his prudence, wisdom.
A scholar or a scientist is a person with a lot of knowledge, but a scholar or a scientist or a man of knowledge, does not have to be a wise person. It may be a selfish, proud, swearing not to have a prudent conduct, unless a kind and compassionate person and misbehave with others, but you can have a lot of knowledge in the mind.
Is not having much knowledge so important, but good knowledge. The right knowledge, the wise knowledge, knowledge is not wrong, good knowledge. So Seneca said, “do not read many books, you have to read good books”.
In Sanskrit there are many words for the concept of wisdom, as vijañana, bodha, Viveka, prajja, niti, rishi, naya ...
When the Spanish Ramiro Calle asked the Dalai Lama: what wisdom is higher, the wisdom of the mind or the wisdom of the heart? His Holiness the Dalai Lama said, there is only one wisdom, the wisdom of the heart.
The sense that has this word in the East is different. It has a deeper meaning. Wisdom comes when we left still and silent the mind and connect with the heart. After that one can gain knowledge that will be seen from the stillness of mind. Meditation gives much wisdom, purifies the mind and with a pure mind, there is more light in mind.
The Bible says: “If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, even though I have all faith, a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing”.
St. Thomas Aquinas said: “The truth is the ultimate goal of the entire universe and the contemplation of truth, the principal occupation of wisdom”.
The truth
The fundamental teaching of Jesus of Nazareth is Love. What good is truth without love? Mahatma Gandhi called his autobiography “My experiences with the truth”. Sanskrit is called Sathya truth, but it is a higher Truth, is a truth with a capital T, the supreme Truth. Sathya actually comes from the Sat root meaning Existence. The name of the movement that created Mahatma Gandhi was Sathya Graha.
Yudishthira, a character from the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic, believes that truth is much greater than all the riches of the world.
There is a higher Truth, that very few know and they who know well may not have much interest in everyone else know, but only those who truly want to know the truth.
The truth, can not be a convention. If all mathematicians agree that 19 = 20, 19 thus not be equal to 20. Because 19 is not the same as twenty. But of course everything depends on the value that also attach to everything. Perhaps, from a certain point of view, 19 equals 20, but only from a certain point of view. There is a scale in truth and in all things. They are ways of approach. It is also the false, what is not true.
For example, you can set by convention, the assertion that if you want to improve your health you have to take much poison is true. But not this statement will become true, because it is a convention. You can also tell the truth with a lie or an exaggeration. There is a beautiful film that some events happen and is called to testify witnesses and each witness tells a different thing. There is a saying that nothing is truth or lie, because everything depends on the eye of the beholder. But yet there will be eternal truths.
Mathematicians, for instance, have come to the convention that infinity divided by zero is infinity. It is not true, it is an approximation to the truth. It is a convention, a way of saying, well, this really is not, but to walk home, so in petit committee ...
In science, scientists, establish what they call principles or laws. But then after comes another scientists and actually show that these principles or laws were not entirely true or real. And then comes another and even more.
A scientific theory is valid if it is correct, a scientific theory is not correct because most scientists agree on a hypothesis or a thesis or a theory or a principle. One scientist, contrary to all previous ones, can have the correct theory and no one has agreed on it. And this, of course, is verifiable. Word that comes from Latin veritas, veritatis (truth). Check that is true, that is correct, that is right.
Newtonian physics made universal laws of physics. But Newton's gravity could not explain certain physical effects but Theory of General Relativity of Albert Einstein could explain it.
For example Albert Einstein formulated the law of conservation of energy which states that energy is neither created nor destroyed but is transformed. However, quantum mechanics, showed that is not entirely true this statement is not entirely true because there entropy. But nevertheless, this law still very valid for many practical applications, such as in thermodynamics, in engine construction.
A bright, wonderful and great scientist like Albert Einstein thought could not exist neutron stars and astronomer Fritz Zwicky on the contrary thought it could exist. The time gave the reason Fritz Zwicky, there are neutron stars that have lost their electrons and protons and a star with the size of Brooklyn would have a mass 500,000 times the mass of our beloved planet.
Things may be more or less truthful. Thus, we see that what takes place at a time like true, accurate, real time can be shown that it was not quite so true, true and accurate.
The theory of evolution Darwin was considered valid for a long time by scientists, but now a growing number of scientists are questioning it by Intelligent Design Theory.
Desmond Morris explains in his book “The Naked Ape” the only function of the volume of the breasts of women is to attract the opposite sex. Because to fulfill the function of breastfeeding do not need the volume and the function creates the organ. And therefore it concludes that the only function of the volume of the breasts of women, is to attract the opposite sex. But this is false idea, because when a woman is pregnant and therefore biologically, no longer have to attract the opposite sex for reproduction of the species, is when more volume have the breasts of a woman.
Rectify is wise.
The convention is a convention, not the truth. If all human beings on Earth agree that God does not exist, therefore will cease to exist.
With regard to the truth is a story:
“The truth ... is the truth? A king summoned a wise ascetic who lived in one of the forests of his kingdom. He said to him:
- I wonder how people get better ?.
The hermit replied:
- May I say, sir, that laws alone are not enough to make people better. The human being has to practice certain attitudes and methods to reach the truth of higher order. That higher truth has very little to do with ordinary truth.
The king replied:
- What is not in doubt is that I can at least get people to tell the truth; I can at least get them to be truthful.
The king decided to establish a scaffold on the bridge was the entrance to the city. A squad under the command of a captain, checked everyone who entered the city. It was made public as follows: `Anyone who wants to enter the city will be previously interrogated. If you say the truth, you can enter. If you lie, you will be taken to the gallows.
The ascetic moved toward the bridge. The captain was in his way and asked him:
- Where are you going?
- Ím on my way to the gallows so that you can hang me.
The captain said:
- I do not believe it.
- Well Captain, if I lied, hung me.
Puzzled captain said:
- But if we hang him for lying, we will become true .... the lie”.
If the truth hurt, we retaliate, disqualify, destroy, ultimately, we let something that is not a virtue out of our hearts, then the truth becomes sin. How many religions have killed to honour his truth ... by fanaticism. So is that they had strayed from the real truth that is love. Because ultimately the most important thing is love.
Jesus of Nazareth spoke of inner purity and outer purity and said that man is not contaminated by what enters your mouth, but what comes out of his mouth. That what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart.
The truth can be taught with a representation, with a small non-wounding satire. With a joke.
There is a larger truth. The truth of the heart. Knowing what is in our hearts. It is essential to self-inquiry. See within. To know our truth. What we really want. What is the real reason that drives our actions. What is our true intention. It is often not easy. Many times, if we look, we can see the true purpose of our actions. Then that truth can be painful, but always constructive. Because then we can change the goals that before we moved.
That́s a good truth, look into our hearts. We can help with sweetness, but we can only look at ourselves, if we want.
The Respect.- Respect is just a way of expressing love. A very beautiful way. It is the essence of a reverence, of welcome, a greeting, a smile. If not you respect yourself how are you going to respect others? Respect is a way to honour others. If you respect others, you end up respecting yourself.
The reason.- Something could be reasonable and not be fair. Could be reasonable and be contrary to love. Could be reasonable and unforgivable. Could be reasonable and be destructive as modern economy. Discrimination is superior to reason. The reason is only an auxiliary instrument giving reasons, which gives arguments may be correct or not. But discernment, with wich criteria does it work? A war can start with reasons. In the Iraq war, for example, we have seen that behind the reasons, was falsehoods and economic interests.
Confucius said: “He who knows only the principles of right reason, it is below who loves them”.
The liberty.- is curious how many meanings that this word in the dictionary of the Spanish Language: “inherent power that man has to work in one way or another, and not to act, so he has liability” ... “spiritual liberty. Domain or dominion over the passions of the soul”.
From a philosophical point of view the position that freedom is ability to choose among various options is maintained. From this point of view no one has absolute freedom. All of us born conditioned. We are born in a particular place, at a certain rich, medium or poor family, with a particular sub-race, with a particular culture and with certain possibilities. So it seems that many things can not be chosen. Freedom, from this point of view is conditioned. From a philosophical point of view, then, in modern society wealth is freedom because it opens the range of possibilities to choose from.
The meaning of this word is quite new. Latin or Sanskrit there is a correlative of this word. The word liberty in the Latino culture, comes from the word liberto, is someone that his condition is no longer the slave, not the person whose will belongs to someone else, that is not a property of another person. Liberto is a slave who has ceased to be, not even refers to stop being in the prisoner status, as indicated by José Luis Armenteros in the song sung by Nino Bravo, free: “Free as a bird escaped his prison and can fly at last”.
In Sanskrit the word freedom is more like mukti, which is almost synonymous term of moksha, but more like the term liberation, within Christianity would be the salvation. The difference is that in India understand that salvation, liberation, can be achieved in life, as the Gospel of John says: the truth shall make you free. He is referring to salvation as liberation, salvation from the burden of sin. Liberation from earthly bonds. That is why those who want mukti, who wants the final liberation, emancipation, understood as liberation from the burdens of their sins-of his karma, have to do penance, penance such as prayer, to reach the final beatitude, the final achievement. The father of a great saint of India, Jnaneshwar Maharash, whose name was Vitthalpant, had four children to the first he gave the name Nivriti (mental stillness), the second Jnaneshwar (knowledge) Sopana to the third (stairs), and the fourth daughter he called mukti (liberation). So in the names of his four children there is a message: mental stillness and knowledge are the staircase to liberation.
Civil liberty is contained in a law principle: “what is not forbidden is allowed”.
In the twentieth century has come to an exacerbation of freedom above all other considerations, whatever. Whether religion, morals, good customs, tradition, reason, common sense, security, the perpetuation of the species, the nature of things, respect for others, consideration, education .. . It seems that nothing is above the freedom that has become the epitome of human behaviour, the maximum value of all our ideas, our culture, our entire idiosyncrasy. And the truth is that any philosophical principle, taken to its extreme necessarily leads to absurdity.
André Malraux said, a few decades ago, the twenty-first century will be spiritual or will not be.
From the spiritual point of view, freedom is the dominion over the passions. We can always choose. We can always choose the domain of the passions on the desires, if only one or a few. From the spiritual point of view, a truly free man would be a human being who has no passions, that has no desires. A man who has dominated all his passions, all their desires.
We can always choose. Mahatma Gandhi, said that when he was in prison, he was treated almost as if you were at home. They did not give meat or fish, or salt, no milk, no coffee, no tea, and so many other things we eat the common people who have not conquered desires. And he was happy about it, because that's just what we want a human being who seeks celibacy. Master's wishes about sex and about the food they are closely related, so that love God, to others and himself, with all his energy, with all his might. So the Mahatma was very happy in jail. This is the difference of vision of a great soul, a person who only wants to do what you want, regardless of others, not even he himself, that is the concept of freedom to which he was tending in the twentieth century.
Freedom is very important. But it should not be the main value of a social system. In law methods that work best are those that do not limit freedom. Are indirect methods, those are not mandatory, but watching these standards advantages or benefits are obtained. In my experience, all you have forced me against my will, even a very good thing and valued as riding, is just what we did not want to do, and then has come to not like. But freedom is also an inner state. The Telugu proverb says: “To have your heart calm as the sky, with no breeze or the sea without waves, deep and imperturbable, unchanging and unchanged, this is to be called freedom”.
THE SOCIAL PACT
Rousseau spoke of the social pact.
Public law normally does is take the institutions of private law, as the contract, for example, and bring them to public needs.
It might be well for all parties delegate for representation. But ideally they delegate at best, the best, in the most skilled in the fittest, in the experts, the wisest.
Rousseau, would form a body in which were represented the hearts of all. It's a beautiful idea. But from the point of view of function, from the organizational point of view, if we compare society with a single human being, this would mean that the heart has cells throughout the social body, all body tissue. If we see all humanity as a single human being.
Rousseau saw the law as the expression of the general will. As the representative expression of what people want. But the will of the people is not necessarily the most ethical, and most beneficial, or equitable, or more just. And the law is to bring order, to reign justice at least.
According to Rousseaús conception, the brain is only a servant of the heart, which is the sovereign, as a collector of the will, the desires that are in the hearts of all citizens.
But wishes are not always those who govern us, because we have the discernment (the president), who is the real boss.
For example, a man may have a desire to have a boat, because you he can go fishing with it, he can stroll to the family on weekends, he can go on vacation in it, and wishes to have a boat. That's in the heart. But the rational mind is the assistant to the president (discernment), makes calculations, see the price of the ship that would be fine, then see the item of income of the parent and items of household expenditure and concludes with not enough to buy the boat, without seriously impairing other basic needs of the family and the education of children, that the president, discernment, helped by the rational mind, that is the assistant money, decides not please the heart desires that are enjoying the benefits of having a ship to go fishing and ride.
So in this simple decision we see that the boss is not the heart, but the president. Discernment.
We do not grant all the wishes we have for many reasons.
Honestly I prefer the Aristotelian concept of law as reason without passion, long before the law as the expression of the general will. The general will is not the best, nor have to be virtuous, or ethical, or just, by the mere fact that the general will, the majority will.
If a majority of smokers are in a society, the general will be smoking, therefore, this society would approve a law that allow to smoke in all public places. But this law, an expression of the general will, that is to smoke, is not the most beneficial, ethics, fairer, more equitable, even the most respectful law, but the expression of the general will.
For example, in countries like the United States and Mexico, countries with very high rates of homicide, is allowed to carry weapons. It is the general will bear arms. And that's the law, which allows to carry weapons. Carry arms only produces violence, violent deaths and crime, but is the general will. And it is not the most beneficial, or more ethical, and more just or right decision, but the general will. And statistics show that in Mexico, the homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants, is more than ten times higher than in many European countries, which is not allowed to carry weapons.
The justice was not sponsored by Rousseau in his social contract value, although at the start of it, says that freedom and justice not to be divorced, then he says that the aim of the legislation is freedom and equality, no justice. He forgot to justice. Rousseau, in fact, was not a lawyer, nor university, his profession was engraver and watchmaker also had not finished his training in this office, although he lived from it. And today all our modern democracies are based on the ideas of this thinker. The values of this thinker was only freedom and equality. No justice. And justice was not worth of the French Revolution. What good is freedom without justice?
The first definition in a book of law of the time, is the definition of justice, after a chapter of history of law.
So with the ideas of Rousseau, no matter what the law is unjust, what matters is that is an expression of the general will, as the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen says, -in which the word justice appears neither one time-, the will of the community, collecting the ideas of Rousseau.
The idea of warriors does not appear in the works of Rousseau, for Rousseau was not a protector of society, his intention was not to protect society, but to create a civil partnership. It is the idea on which cover all public law, the idea of a civil partnership.
The Laws of Manu (Manava Dharma Shastra) say: “VII. 3. The Lord created the king to protect all this creation”.
The axis on which pivots the entire classical philosophy is virtue. That is the axis. Virtue, not freedom.
Have we forgotten the virtue?
Aristotle says that the law must be to punish vice and reward virtue. Aristotle, what you are saying is that the law must be issued from a heart free from desires, free from passion. And so, with Aristotle, the law is the expression of virtue that emanates from the heart of a wise person, a person who has no passions, because he has mastered.
Rousseau's ideas, based on freedom and equality as the main purpose of the legislation (forgot justice), were given to not have social inequalities, so that a few did not have privileges and others do not have, so all were equal in the relationship of the parts to the whole, citizens with power. Lest there was a nobility and privileges for citizens rather than subjects, free citizens were not subject to the absolute power of the king and only subjects of the general will in his own words. It has been more than two hundred years since. Almost the entire planet has received the ideas of Rousseau, directly or indirectly, however, we see that social inequalities still exist, some earn much, others earn very little, for instance. Maybe it's that some had more capacity than others for example and what we see is only the result. Social inequalities have not disappeared it, anywhere in the world. Remain. We live in a world full of inequalities. Precisely because there is freedom.
Rousseau replaced the freedom and equality for the first two laws of the time, they were: “and his first law that is the spirit of religion is king will seek and love the sovereign good that should be raised with all forces the spirit, and his heart, and made either to love him”. After saying that from this law all others derive, second law establishes that men love each other. And to set the second law, he do a biblical quote: John 17:21, in Latin. (“So that all may be one as you, Father, are in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us and the world may believe that you sent me”).
When a person is born the only thing he have is his parents. A child of Chad, may suffer severe acute malnutrition, taking his country ratified the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the United Nations, while the son of Bill Gates, the United States, which has not ratified the Bill of Rights of the Child, will swim in abundance. Tables rights guarantee nothing.
Equality is not a novelty of the French Revolution. Equality before the criminal law already existed in the time of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the third century BC.
In canon law, there is what is called waiver, i.e. the possibility of not applying the law to a situation exceptionable. For example, the marriage can not be given among relatives up to the third degree by consanguinity. However this restriction, prohibition, which follows a eugenic principle, to prevent birth defects, to avoid inbreeding, could be waived in certain circumstances. Equality however, does not support the exception, it is intolerant, it is in any case, always. Equality is stiffer and breaks under its own weight, because the laws have exceptions. There is a principle that the exception proves the rule, but equality is not supported, does not support the confirmation of the rule. Instead justice always tends to equilibrium. Canon law has many more centuries of experience that legislation based on principles, not virtues, of Rousseau.
For example, Chomsky made the generality of recursion of all languages as their own human brain, but now, Everett has found a tribe of Brazil, the Pirahãs whose language do not use this feature in addition to not have names for different colours. The world of linguists is shocked because all their wisdom falters when recursion does not exist in human language. It is simply the exception that proves the rule that is recursion.
The reality does not work only with mathematics and logic, but also physics and chemistry. In mechanics, for example, so that engine parts fit well, certain tolerances required, certain clearances, the pieces do not fit exactly, there are clearances necessary, as in the openings are fundamental in architecture. In the social sciences the same happens, the standard operators need a certain margin of appreciation of the circumstances of each case, which are often not the same. But if there is too much slack in certain engine parts, such parts must be replaced. Equality implies that the legal practitioner is objective. Which is a value in the rules, but it is very difficult to achieve in practice. One does not behave the same. The behaviour may depend even what has been eaten.
Today, in Spain, we see no fundamental rights such as the right to strike (non-work) which is a fundamental right, against the right to work, which is an ordinary law. So, what the Constitution says, it is that no work is essential and that work is not essential. That's what id telling us our value system. We see, as certain groups, use their right not to work in difficult situations, to bring pressure on a sector of activity and placed in a situation of economic inequality, making exorbitant salaries -if not sink companies- respect of all other creating a great inequality in wages. That is, to earn more, you do not have to work. And this of course, is contrary to all logic, is contrary to the very nature of things.
In Seven Partidas of Alfonso X the Wise the first title is the religion and the second the crown. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 the first title are the fundamental rights and freedoms and the second the crown. We replaced the love of God and love ourselves and others by fundamental rights.
Freedom is defined as the ability to choose and is attached, at least in the Spanish dictionary to the word responsibility. Because one is responsible for his actions. And Rousseau's work is linked to the word equality, in the sense that the same question to everyone, that all people are equal before the law.
Each person is unique and unrepeatable and different from all others. Some have capabilities, others have different ones. We are all different and unique. And maybe we not have to be treated equally. If I for example, could receive Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa or Mahatma Gandhi in my house, I would not have the same behaviour with them than with my sister. Each person is unique.
Equality is a quality property. In fact, we were created all different. No equals. Nature has wanted the body of every human being is different and unique and unrepeatable. So, we have a unique physical body, we have a certain character, a certain personality, a certain virtues, our own talents, our own merits (which is where the word derives dignity). Everyone has a different genetic code unique to everyone else, unique genetic characteristics, unique fingerprint and iris our unique and unrepeatable. We are unique and unrepeatable, we are not equal. The world is full of differences. Humans are full of differences. Led par until his last words, which is toward what is currently trending, leads to lack of distinction, lack of discrimination, lack of discernment. Why do you treat everyone equally? regardless of their status, their behaviour, their merits, whether it is old or young or girl, whether it is working or lazy, whether it is timely or untimely, whether his duty or fails in its duty, if it is neat and scruffy, whether rendered to the pleasures of the senses or is an austere person ... Equality of treatment it is not a virtue. Equality is not a virtue, it is a quality, equivalence, equal value. And not all worth the same, nor do we have the same conditions and the same talents. This does not mean that there do not treat all people with respect, consideration, kindness and above all, with love, that was the first law before Rousseau, love.
It is as if I say that the motto in the buses “elder first” had to be removed, because we are all equal without taking precedence any discrimination of any kind, including age. Not the same adult an elderly person. It is not the same as a young child. And it is not the same as a baby than a boy. Each plays a different and unique role.
Every human being is unique, unique and different from everyone else. Although, what really is the same in all people, it is the perfect divine essence that dwells within every human being, as the sacred texts of India said. In that yes we are equal. What happens is that perfect divine essence is not so obvious in a swindler than in a honest worker and yes there are differences, of course.
Shri Shankaracharya said: “Brahman (God) is the one Self in all. Brahman is the illuminator of all. The Light is in the heart of every one.
Law and politics are based to Rousseau, in the idea of justice, as defined in principle by the Roman jurist Ulpian, as “the constant and perpetual will to give each his own right”. The San Anselmo definition given is: “justice is righteousness”. Augustine says that “justice is love serving only to God and that, therefore, governed well the other things that are subject to man”. And Thomas said that “only God is perpetual. If justice is perpetual will, it is concluded that justice is in God”. That same says the book of wisdom from the Bible that says that justice is immortal.
In Sanskrit there are many words to the word justice, justice is a term equivalent to order, righteousness, virtue, faith in duty, religion, fairness, balance and -shas- correct, censor, punish, restrict, control, govern, administer laws (The Sanskrit words are dandaniti -Manage justice, dharmikya, dharmitva, Saddharma, samya, shagalukitaum, shagkhalikhita, shahs).
Locke and Montesquieu wanted to divide power, originally indivisible but essentially delegated. Thus, the theory was created by the division of powers, the only thing he has done is that power is lost, that authority is lost and that the policy is complicated. Probably the intention behind this theory of Montesquieu was beating the king, the king beat dividing his power. Today we can see even in schools, the gradual loss of power and authority, parents in families, teachers in schools, judges, politicians themselves, all for the sake of equality and liberty we've seen that are not virtues. And not only have they lost power, they have also lost legitimacy and authority. And the lack of authority is leading to chaos, anarchy.
Rousseau founded freedom and escape from the obligation of submission to the royal power, including exacerbation of the rights and obligations flee. We see this in our constitutions that only see the side of rights. No lists of fundamental obligations.
In the old regime, for example, the nobility had privileges, but the idea of justice was the governing laws, no freedom and, therefore, in return for these privileges had certain obligations that everyone else did not have, and so it was said: noblesse oblige.
Justice is balance. It is a give something and get something. Do ut des (I give to receive) is the Roman principle. Although this principle has four meanings: I give you to I receive, I give to you and you do for me, I do for you and you give to me, and I do to you and you do to me. It can not be just a receive. In fact, if the load is greater obligations, it must also be greater the burden of rights, so that there is balance, so that there is justice, so that there is equity. That's why the idea of justice is opposed to the idea of equality. Being equal, the ideal equality, should be a value equal loads, to reign, fundamental to a person, a fundamental balance in a society.
Proof of it is that today, the idea of rights and obligations first, instead of just the opposite, it was the classic idea, contained in countless sayings in all cultures, in Spanish, for example; first obligation and then devotion, you have to take the rough with the smooth and there is no greater satisfaction than the duty accomplished ... the proof is, for example, the economic crisis in Spain, has as its main base, an excess credit, too much right before the obligation on the part of those seeking credit, there have been many.
From the point of view of law, take freedom as a cornerstone from which the building of our values is built, it is that the various choices have the same value, since they are only manifestations of our free power of choice. For example, choose among prudish and lewd should have the same value, as they would have to have the same value the different choices among moral and immoral, among the ethical and the unethical, among the decent and unworthy, among the worthy and not worthy, just and unjust, among the righteous and what is not. The law and would have to give the same value to the different behaviours, because they would be only the result of free choice. Currently the law is unrelated to the moral order, and so what we have is an immoral law. And so what has been achieved is a tendency to set aside the distinction among good and evil. A what is good and what is evil are the same, having the same value. It is the actual trend, having as a cornerstone in the building of values, the value of freedom and equality.
You can exacerbate freedom, equality may be exacerbated, but justice is exacerbated if it ceases to be justice, because justice is balance, equal loads. When justice is exacerbated ceases to be justice, like so says the Roman principle that the law applied to its logical conclusion produces injustice (summum ius summa iniuria). Like any philosophical principle taken to its logical conclusion leads to absurdity.
Justice is balance, proportion, forecasting, protection. Justice is righteousness, is put first things come first. In all there is an order. And the order must be respected. A narrow door can not go two at a time, one has to pass before another. There is an order. And there must be order. A protocol.
If we start to think of the word justice comes to mind the figure of the judge with his club, as someone who delivers justice. From the point of view of the inner qualities of the human being who has to administer justice is prudence, fairness, neutrality, fairness, impartiality, straight vision and foresight.
But justice is not only in the courts, that what they do is to decide in cases of conflict of interest or apply the penalty system of a country. Justice is primarily political, fundamental rules, the laws, regulations, budgets. So is the word status. A statute is a set of rights and obligations, also existing. Rights and obligations. That is what constitutes the status of any activity.
Prudence should be the main virtue of rulers (the ability to distinguish right from wrong), justice the main value of the legal system, the fortitude main virtue of warriors and temperance (moderation), the main virtue from population. So, in a society they would be the four cardinal virtues, i.e. main, fundamental ones.
Freedom is not a virtue, freedom is a faculty. Spiritual freedom is an achievement. Freedom has led to immorality, lack of ethics, corruption. Justice leads to righteousness, the proportion, balance, harmony and equanimity. Justice itself is a virtue, and it is a cardinal virtue, that is, a fundamental virtue, a primary virtue.
However, this does not mean that freedom is not important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, “but like freedom is not license, but order is not the absence of freedom”.
DEMOCRACY
For this Union, democracy as we understand it would have to stop being our government system. But not all at once, the best changes are gradual. The political systems of the countries -current regions could remain democratic-. The target is not to make a violent revolution.
Parliaments represent that way, the people, because they have political parties in admist. In addition to voting discipline. We have parties and the parties have their own leaderships and normally are them who name the next leader.
Political parties need funding for their campaigns, and then owe their power to those who have financed their campaigns.
The party who do a better propaganda can win the elections and not the best party. Who pays decides. We have saw a ruler as Aznar (with all due respect), taking side in a war in which nine out of ten Spaniards are against. Then democracy once the people gives, at the polls, the representative mandate in a particular historical moment, is forgotten until the next historical moment. A day of democracy every few years.
Then the ruling party suffered a campaign of harassment and demolition by the opposition, and thus to rule becomes really difficult. Any glimmer of error will be used by the opposition, who will increase more and more the error, reaching distort reality if necessary and excessively exaggerate the facts, with the sole purpose to discredit and dismiss the government, making them lose credibility and legitimacy. Political opposition party are as they are, it seems like all they care about is to speak ill of the government. And so, it seems that politics is the art of slander. And so the policy becomes a constant curse. And the Bible says that when you want to correct your brother do it in private. The opposition politician says they would have done differently, they would have done in other way, because the bulls look very good from the sidelines, but when they has to rule, does what the other had done and that they said they would not do. Or even the opposition can play dirty and prepare small or large sabotage acts. So, the statements of politicians become genuine smear political campaigns to the Government from the opposition, and all of this with transparency, so everybody can see it. This, in fact, does no good to anyone, not even the politicians themselves, whether the government or the opposition, or the citizens.
In the Cadiz Spanish Constitution of 1812, the vote to illiterate allowed. Today remains the same. The illiterate or a person who has not read in his life, continues to choose the politician. Is that a person entitled to an election?
Imagine we have to do a boat trip. We must elect a captain to pilot the ship. There are two captains, one is popular and handsome but does not have the title of master, nor knows how to guide with the stars and the other captain, who is not popular or pretty, but has the master title and knows how to guide with the stars. In democracy the handsome and popular captain would be elected but without knowing how to guide with the stars and not having the master title.
Are the children the bosses on the parents? Are the Students the boss of their teachers? Are the soldiers the rulers of the general? Are the dependent about the merchant? Is the assistant on the judge? Is the worker who sends the employer? Is the officer to the notary? Is the actor over the principal? Does the boss ordinance on the minister? Is the janitor about the rector? The parishioners in the priest? Is the police detective over the captain? Is the officer bank over the banker? Is the body that commands the mind? Is the monk over the prior or abbot? Does the nun over the Superior nun? Is the sailor the boss of the commander?
Are the passengers who chooses the pilot?
Are the sailors who chooses the master?
The Turkish proverb says that a ship with two captains just sinking. Currently in democracies we have two leaders of two parties spending their time fighting to get the power. Like two captains struggling to steer the boat ...
The one-eyed man is the king in the land of the blind. It is a saying of course figuratively, not literally. Democracy would be blind who decide, by consensus and not be the one-eyed the king, that would be the only one who knows where to go. I am talking figuratively. But the problem is that they first need to recognize that the blind do not see, but as they have never seen, can not understand those who see, they do not know what that is the vision. The Bible says that “if the blind lead the blind, both end up in the hole”. This idea is probably taken from the Katha Upanishad, says exactly the same. In the ancient tradition of the monarchy there was a principle that a king could not be blinded. Maybe that was because he would not know where to go.
If there are five people in a motor vehicle and four are drunk and one sober. Would drive one of the drunks because represents the majority of drunks?
When the technique was not improved so much, with patterns of iridium and cesium, system time measurement accuracy consisted of three good clocks, the good measure were the common of two clocks of the three. NASA uses five computers to take decisions by majority to decide the direction, in order to prevent the failure of a computer by radiation. This is done because the production is very accomplished and they is understood that the abnormal is the fault and the proper functioning is the normal.
Once we were going to start an act, the clock was a time that coincided with the clock of a participant, my clock has a different time, five minutes delayed from those two. I doubted my watch because it was not time synchronized with the TV when I consider the best and why almost everyone is guided. When I got home I checked my watch, was fine, had the good time. My time was the right time and not the wall clock and the other participant clock in the act. The event began five minutes before time. Not because there is a majority of matches, it means it is the right choice.
Modern democracy in Europe was reborn with the French Revolution, a violent break with the previous regime, the old regime, the regime of absolute monarchy.
The definition of tyranny given Seven Games of Alfonso X the Wise is “both mean as Kingdom taken by force, deception or treason”.
Today we can see how can be imposted a democracy by force, as in the case of Iraq. According to Alfonso X the Wise, would be a tyranny. Tyranny overthrown by another tyranny. Although they call democracy. Democracy does not save all the problems, nor all attitudes, like the name of God nor does. The means used are very important.
From the French Revolution there have been governments based on representation. But representation only thing it does is bring together representatives not agree on cameras naps or lie down if not worse. That, if they are going to vote, because there are important laws not voted because the lack of attendance (quorum). Or parties that lose a political trick, because their representatives not go to vote and the opposition representatives do it.
Rousseau, theorist thinker of the Social Contract Theory, which has inspired all modern democracies, talk of Parliament as the heart and the government as the reason (brain). The heart is the place where wishes are housed.
Wishes are those who rule us. They may be legitimate and beneficial desires or may not. But in fact, the mind, discernment, in particular, is the one who choose among good and evil and protect the heart.
According to the theoretical Rousseau, the law would result in the hearts of all, the general will (volonté générale). However, the word volonté comes from the Latin verb volo, which means to desire. He wanted to get into the heart the desires of all, in his laudable effort. But the wishes of the majority, need not necessarily be beneficial desires, ethical and fair, only being the wishes of the majority.
If most people in a country smokes and pass a law that allowed smoking in all public places, because the general will is smoking, this will not have to be ethical and beneficial to all citizens, such in this case it would be the opposite; nor is it beneficial or healthy.
The wishes are who command us. Rousseau wanted to see the heart (parliament) as the heart of all.
The desire to interfere with the natural flow of things. For example, have you not noticed sometimes when trying to remember the name of an actress or an actor, you do not remember because you really want to remember the names? At the moment you stop wanting to remember the name (even to the point you do not mind re-remember anymore) and fail to give importance to this little fact, the name of the actor or actress comes naturally to mind. Well, it may also be by having breakfast little or bad, or by a illness or old age. Or by not taking enough food with phosphorus or age. The desire to interfere.
The Talmud says: “The passions are like iron cast into the oven, while in the oven, you can not do a vessel”.
In the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna asks Lord Krishna:
“36. But by what dragged on, O Varshneya, does a man, though reluctant, comit sin, as if constrained by force?
The blessed Lord said:
37. It is desire, it is wrath, born of the energy of Rajas, all-devouring, all sinful; that, know thou, is the foe here.
38. As fire is surrounded by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as the foetus is enclosed in the womb, so is this covered by it.
39. Covered, O son of Kunti, is wisdom by this constant enemy of the wise, in the form of desire, which is greedy and insatiable”.
St. Teresa of Avila said “denies everything you want, and you will find what you really want.
Buddhist Dhammapada states: “There is no fire like desire; there is no evil as hate; nothing is more ill than the body; no greater happiness than the peace of Nibbana”.
The Dhammapada also states: “He who conquers passions, not be defeated again; What could disturb the omniscient Buddha, free from any passion and whose path leads to Him?”.
The Tao Te Ching says, “Therefore, the Sage's way of governing begins with:
Emptying the heart of desires,
Fill the stomach with food,
Weakening the ambitions,
And strengthen the bones.
Thus, people will remain without knowledge or desire, and ensures that those who knows do not take action”.
“When human desires are moderate, peace occurs, and harmonizes the world of its own accord”.
In the Astavakra Samhita a dialogue among the master and his disciple Astavakra, the King Janaka, it is used the word lion to refer to a man without desires. Probably this is the reason that King Richard I of England, was given the name of Richard the Lionheart.
According to Aristotle the law is the reason without passion. The reason without desire. I.e. the law is pure reason. In other words, there is only law, when the heart has no desires. When desires, no law. This is just the opposite that when the man who rules does so at their particular wishes and preferences over the people. Man's desire dwells in the heart.
I am referring to the personal desires of human beings who rules, of course. It is clear that the policy must tend toward the common good, as St. Thomas Aquinas said in its definition of law: the ordinance of reason for the common good, issued by the head of the community and enacted.
As in humans there is only one organ that takes the decisions, it should be the same in the government of a nation.
If the heart́s ruling has no desire, if he have a pure heart, then why a representative camera? The camera merely reflects the different types of desires of the popular majority. The desires of the popular majority are not necessary the most beneficial, the most ethical, even the most balanced and the most righteous, by the mere fact of being that the wishes of the majority.
In democracy then who commands, in theory, is the majority (because the minorities can agree against the majority), men or women, blacks or whites, old or young ... In the case of a world government it would more complicate, because could be Asians or Africans, Muslims or Christians, etc.
It is curious that in ancient India, if the line of succession to the crown was extinguished, tradition dictated that a beggar was chosen to rule the kingdom. It may seem irrational, but it is not. What would you like a beggar?
Once I went to buy snuff, I had money, at night, when I was returning home, I found a beggar sitting on the floor on cardboard. I asked him if he wanted anything, money, snuff, food, he replied that he needed nothing.
Now the reason may appear lighter. The saying says that is no richer who has more, but who needs the least.
The wise are those who are not governed by the desire in his heart. They are those with a pure heart.
The power does not corrupt. It is a force that is sent in a given direction. This force can create different types of opposite forces, one adjacent other counterclockwise. Because there is the principle of action and reaction.
The power does not corrupt, which corrupts are the illegitimate and corrupt selfish desires of the ruler.
Today we can see very often as corruption affects almost all democratic governments.
In the Mayan tradition, which has had no contact with Western tradition to Colon, it was considered the king as divine or sacred.
In the Inca tradition, which has not had any influence of Western civilization to Pizarro, the emperor was considered the most sacred person, persons had to bow to him, it was the intermediary among the gods and men and was the one who ruled the empire.
In the Egyptian tradition the Pharaoh was regarded as God.
In the Sefirot in the cabalistic tradition of Judaism, the first of all is the crown (Kèter), which has assigned the number one and is followed by wisdom and understanding. In fact it is been know that the Ecclesiastes was written by the Salomon King.
In Chinese tradition, the emperor was considered divine and lived in the Forbidden City.
In the Indian tradition, the Bhagavad Gita says; “And of men the king”.
In Shinto, the emperor is the high priest of official Shinto, and is considered as tenno, heavenly sovereign and as the connection among the gods and men.
In the Latin tradition the four treatments that were given to the emperor were: His Excellency, most divine, pious and very terrible. And there was a principle (The King is from God, the law from the King). “A Deo rex, a rege lex”.
This principle also exist in the English tradition translated as “The king is from God, the law from the king” - quote attributed to James I of England.
In the Spanish tradition; Seven Partidas of Alfonso X the Wise, established:
“Vicars of God are the Kings, each in his kingdom, placed on people to keep them in justice and truth in the temporal, as does the Emperor in his Empire. This is shown fully of two ways. The first is spiritual, as shown by the Prophets and Saints who gave our Lord the grace to know things with certainty and grace to make them understand. The other is according to nature, as the Elders showed men who know things naturally. And Saints said that the King is on the earth instead of God, to fulfill the righteousness and give each one his right. And so they called heart and soul of the people of his Lordship. Moreover, as the heart is one, and he will receive all member unit to be a body, so too all of the kingdom, though they are many, because the King is and should be one, so they should also be all one him, to follow him and help him in the things he has to do. And naturally the Sages said that the King is the head of the kingdom, and the head and the senses are born because they send all members of the body, so also, by the commandment born King, who is Lord and head of all the kingdom, should rule and guide and have an agreement with him to obey and protect and save and enhance the kingdom, where he is the head and soul and those members”.
The following laws say that the king must love God, fear God, serve and praise God, should not covet riches, not to covet very vicious, how to say the words, if not inconvenient words should dress very handsome, should be virtuous, must not covet anything that is against law, should have love for knowledge, should be gratiated and frank, moderate in food and drink, how should the wife of the king, how to love their children, who should not have ill will ...
The monarch must be surrounded by wise people who instruct, control, and advice. A good example of this is in Alfonso X the Wise. The government can not be left in one person governing in accord to their own desires, not having in consideration the population. Power has divine origin and it destiny is to rule in favour of the people. But not only the power, wealth too. But either one or the other if not handled with due diligence leading to destruction. If not careful.
We were born to serve, every one of us. The king too, but more than anyone else.
John XXIII, said: “But the authority itself is not free of all law; further, since the faculty of to command it is born of the right reason, therefore the obligatory force comes from the moral order, founded on God, its first principle and last end”.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry also talks that the authority must be based on reason.
Power was originally indivisible and essentially delegated.
Parliament was reborn in the Middle Ages, with John Lackland Magna Carta, with a very specific purpose, to curb the power to impose taxes had the monarch. Why? Because the monarch is then no longer ruled in favour of the people, but to maintain an army at a high cost because of expansionist ideas.
Democracy is based on a system of absolute control limit the monarch.
It is a limitation of the power system and the results of this are obvious. The government of the one was replaced by the misrule of the wishes of the majority.
The current system of political representation, based on the power of the media and the financing from companies in favour of private interests must yield. Whoever has the information has the power.
In the practice of democracy in Spain, it has been found, as regional parties, have held the key to power and have agreed with the parties that did not reach the sufficient majority to rule in favour of regional interests and against the general interests of the country. Seek for themselves, more and more powers, until the point where one of them was promoting the separation of Spain itself, to become an independent country. And this is contrary to the unity of the country. And it would also be in the case of the creation of a single nation on the planet.
However, if the political systems of the regions of the current countries, want to remain democratic, there is no problem.
In humans, there is only one organ taking decisions. So would be in politics, and we must ensure that it is well advised.
THE BALANCE
In the old regime the people was subject to the royal power that was absolute. Living in a state of general restraint against the real power. So people had no rights, only had obligations, everyone, absolutely everyone, had an obligation to obey the king. Although some had privileges, but in return for these privileges, they had certain obligations that anyone else had not. Therefore it is said: noblesse oblige.
With natural law ideas, they switched to an awareness that man has innate rights, natural rights, rights that correspond to the nature of things. With the revolutionary ideas of the French Revolution and the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen, they did not look at a person as a subject, but as a free citizen with a series of fundamental rights that were not likely to be regulated by power, them are remaining outside the social contract.
Thus, we have gone from an imbalance on the one hand, on the side of the obligation of submission, to an imbalance on the other side, on the side of right. Now, following the ideas of natural law and the prevailing ideas in the French Revolution, there is an imbalance on the side of rights. Now, those rights are fundamental. A free citizen has the fundamental rights, but no fundamental obligations. And this continues to be an imbalance too. It seems that man, nothing more being born without doing anything, have rights. There is not the need of doing anything to gain it. No need to do anything to have rights. And so in this way the youth has been educated in the culture of rights, and they keep saying, I have the right, I have the right, I have the right. This is what has been taught.
A fundamental right, any one of them gives birth, completely natural, obligations in whom are not holders of that right. And then such rights will have in the other side, obligations in those who have not the rights, and this obligations with the principle of parallelism of legal forms, need to have the same grade of fundamentals. This happens with any fundamental right. But the fundamental reciprocal obligations generated by the fundamental right are not recognized. Because it seems that the rights are good, they are recognizable and worthy of protection. But not the obligations, which need not be declared, nor listed nor mentioned because they are bad. It seems that the obligations are bad and should not be recognized and rights are good and they do have to be. But the obligation is the other side of the right, it is very simple. If a person has a right, another person or persons will have reciprocal obligations with the same consideration of the fundamental right. If not recognized mutual fundamental obligation, if it is not recognized as an obligation of all citizens, to respect this fundamental right, a fundamental right will have not the same efficacy, it will not be properly protected.
His Majesty Isabel II, Queen of England, told his Prime Minister Tony Blair, that she had educated him in that duty comes first. So, we all obey the Queen or the King, but to the monarch, also a duty comes first.
His Majesty Juan Carlos I, King of Spain said that his father (Don Juan) taught him, what is service and what is duty. He remained in the exercise of his office until age 76, at which time he abdicated in favour of his son His Majesty Don Felipe VI, arguing that it was time to make way for the new generation, but wanted to keep working, but as He said, he would have to get permission from her son. A great example of work and duty.
This can be contrasted in almost every job, where to collect the salary, you first have to work a month. That is, the obligation is first required, an then the right is born. As much can be simultaneous as in the sale. But if first is the right, certainly an obligation is born, that will be fulfilled after the contracts. What is not logical that certain rights are fundamental but not its parallel obligation that are not fundamental, because de obligations are not good.
There is a saying: you have to take the rough with the smooth. It not tells the smooth and the rough. No. Says the rough and the smooth.
There is a saying: there is no greater satisfaction than the accomplishment of the duty.
Satisfaction generates happiness, joy. When you feel contentment or satisfaction, you feel happy, even only for a limited time. Duty is what should do, your obligation, which is binding and to do it is essential in the life of a person.
There is a Spanish proverb: first the obligation and then the devotion.
Kauthilya Hindu sage philosopher said, “the root of happiness is the dharma” (the duty).
Today we have many tables of rights, but we also have many antidepressant prescriptions.
ELECTION OF THE RULER.
The system of choosing leaders can not be based in representation. But eligibility, the qualities that should have the ruler.
For example, a private company, has a distinctive characteristic, in theory, the aim of unlimited profits, desires for wealth. These desires are the bosses, those desires are represented by the committee of shareholders (the heart). These shareholders elect or contract a headhunter to choose him a director, a manager (the brain). They demand the highest qualification to run the business; qualifications, experience, masters, languages, etc ... And great pains are taken to choose the best, not someone. In fact in the private sector there is evidence of other human qualities such as honesty, loyalty. And psychologists company used to put people in the most convenient positions. They make many efforts to choose the best for each position.
In this great nation, which is the planet Earth, the blue planet, the same applies. But the lustful for unlimited profit committee is replaced, for the soul that has a great desire to reach God. Religious and spiritual leaders choose a ruler with a pure heart. And then it is replaced by the heart of the ruling, by a pure heart.
The ruler should be a very balanced, calm, balanced, flexible, fair, moderate, fair person. This gave the meaning of justice (aequitas) the Romans.
The president has to have a great capacity for decision, distinction, discernment, analysis, self-inquiry, leadership ability. You must have an upright heart, wisdom, desirelessness at heart. You owe much care for your soul, you must have a pure heart. That is why the wise are those who must govern. Those who have a pure heart. Must be a person with a great capacity for rectification. Because rectify is wise. He should not be tied by his word, even a king or president. The saying goes that one are the owner of what silent and slave of what you say. More important it is the wisdom and respond to the priority needs that very word, even the word of a king or president. Recognize that one was wrong, humility is very important. And correct, especially if the circumstances that have led to change our previous decision.
The Titanic was the largest ship ever built in 1912. It was captained without humility, at high speed, claiming another victory, another success. It was not enough to be the largest ship ever built, he had to beat a speed record. Then a big boat was very little manoeuvrability, they spotted an iceberg and did not have time to turn because they were going very quickly. The captain was radioed by other ships had already sailed in the area, they had spotted icebergs in the area in which the Titanic was sailing hours later, but the captain did not slow down, continued all machine.
Perhaps the captain of that ship had not trained himself first, had not trained his senses, had not conquered his desires. And he had a desire to win, a desire for conquest. Or maybe it was the navy owners who wanted this victory and pressured the captain who is under his command. It is likely that the sinking of the Titanic happened by the will of God who wanted to give a memorable lesson in humility to employers and shipowners.
Humility is the ability to recognize onés weaknesses, own mistakes, onés limitations and act on that knowledge.
But do not worry, marine engineering has come a long way. These limitations have been overcome. Currently transatlantic thrusters have the direction of travel, on the keel and driving propellers are able to rotate in all directions (azimuthal electric thrusters). These propellers endow them with great manoeuvrability, to the extent that they do not need tugboats to enter the port (I do not speak about the Queen Mary II, to enter the port of Sydney needs a tow, but is for the little space not by the manoeuvrability). And one, gives the feeling that the captain, rather than performing a docking manoeuver of a transatlantic, is parking a small car with ease and precision.
A leader must be clear about what want for his nation. In politics we talk about evaluative axiological priority. That is, a leader has to have priorities. It must be very clear what their first priority as it somehow. You should know make good prioritization. But perhaps the best policy is to prioritize be moderate.
For example, a ruleŕs priority is the environment. It is sacrificing the environment industry. Then the industry becomes less splendid, so buoyant, it has less income, then a decrease of the economy, state revenues occurs, is an economic crisis, increased unemployment, internal market shrinks ... Moderation It is magnificent, even on the political agenda in the way forward. In assessing priorities. Do not be rigid, stern, overly rigorous and expertise corrections, see no harm deviations from plan, rectify, and to correct the course. And the best changes are gradual changes, because they generate stability. Not wanting to change everything at once. Have patience. “Piano piano si arriva lontano”, says the Italian proverb Slowly, slowly, you get far away.
Normally in politics what is done it is to manage a budget, apply energy (the energy of money, economic power) in an orderly manner different purposes. But on a budget, increasing any budgetary item necessarily mean the decrease of other items. Because the budget is limited. Increase all budget items can only be done by increasing state revenues. That can happen when the results of a natiońs economy when the economy is going well, when the economy grows. Knowing run the economy of a nation. And the wisdom of the Bible teaches us that at that time you have to fill the “granary”, so that when the bad times come there are still grain too.
The self-confidence, is not a quality that should be taken into account, since a confident human being, can make wrong decisions, being confident.
Socrates says that should govern the philosophers, who love truth, who hate lying, they do not have a vile, greedy and vain nature, with an expedited learning mind and good memory, to be carried away to the contemplation of being in everything, moderate, expeditious in the study, high-minded, well disposed, friends and relatives of truth, justice, courage and temperance, magnanimous, generous and with a related nature to everything excellent. And it also says to choosing the strongest and bravest and if possible to the most beautiful. And you have to choose them when they have reached maturity by their education and years.
Aristotle said: “Nature has willed that being endowed with reason and foresight send as owner”.
A surgeons are required ten years of study in order to practice as such, because they have in their hand the lives of thousands of people throughout their lives. But a leader who can command death to millions of people in a war will not require studies.
A very good system of choice, would be similar to the selection of private enterprises system, but with a group of religious and spiritual leaders of the major religions and spiritual paths of the world or the people they appoint, that would leave a Spirituality and Religion Congress.
They may know who can rule better among whom?
Ideally, it was a very balanced emotional and rational person.
The Ramayana says: “Only a virtuous man should be crowned king”.
The Chinese philosophy of yin-yang, yang states that what is masculine, centripetal, alkaline, dense, straight, while the yin is the feminine, centrifugal, sour, thin, left. For there to be balance in an egg, for example, the substance more yang (shell) occupies the most yin place (outside). And the most yin substance (yolk) ranks most yang place (inside). For example, in the human body, the right side of our brain, governs the left side of our body and the left side of our brain governs the right side of our body, this is so in order to have balance.
In power is the same. For there to be balance in politics to occupy the highest place, the person has to be very yin (very humble, obedient, reverent, helpful, patient, must listen ...). That́s why in the tradition of ancient India, when a royal lineage was extinguished, a beggar was looking for, someone who was anyone, a beggar.
Also rendering. It is just the meaning of Islam. Surrender to God. In fact, Muslim, means person surrendered to God. Rendering produces a devastating effect if used with inappropriate as the war ends. But can produce excellent effects, when delivery is to rule with justice one people, one nation, as Planet Earth.
The Tao Te Ching says, “So, just who is willing to give his body to save the world deserves to be entrusted with the world, only one who can do it with love is worthy of being manager of the world”.
The captain of a ship is the first mate. But curiously, the captain of a ship must be the last to leave the ship. (The last shall be first and the first shall be last?).
What is essential is the ability to take decisions and to love humanity. Although equal, training and language skills are not others.
You have to test the ruling before giving the government. For candidates should take into account the legitimate representatives, whether kings or princes, current monarchies, or the historical heirs of countries that have been monarchists, in any case, but, of course, not only to them.
In this work the monarchy term used to mean the government of one, and Pharaoh, rex, re, king, roi, ri, konge, kuningas, könig, kung, koning, sultan, emir, Inca call emperor, Tenno, Kaiser, Tsar caliph Mfalme, thiudans, sha, adhishwara ...
We see the government of a nation compared to the government of a person. That is, compared to how we govern ourselves. A person has a soul, has no mind, has discernment (who decides, the decision maker) and has a heart (where wishes are housed) and also, of course, have a body. The soul would be represented by religion and spirituality. Discernment by the king or president (with a pure heart so that Parliament would not in the sense that we understand it today), the mind would be the set of ministers (mind) and body would be the people.
Shantanand Saraswati, tells a beautiful story:
“A king who had grown old decided to abdicate his throne and became a recluse. He proclaimed that he would give away his kingdom to the first man who came to see him at eleven o’clock on the morning of the seven day. Many people were attracted by his offer and they set out with the intention of appearing before the king at the appointed hour.
But the king had laid out a well constructed plan to select the most suitable person. On the way to his palace, he had built a beautiful pool with lotuses blooming -so beautiful that people were tempted to stop there and have a dip in it. Then the way led through a market which contained the best possible garments, which anybody could take free. The third stop was a big dining hall with luscious foods and drinks laid out. The fourth was a big bedroom containing voluptuous furnishings and bedding. In the fifth was beautiful music provided. The sixth contained gold and jewellery. At all these places, people stopped to help themselves, and lost time or forgot their quest.
But one man, who was the last to start, overcame all these temptations, went through all the gates and meet the king at the appointed time. To him the king formally handed over his throne and went away to the forest. The first act of the new king was to put under arrest all the people who has started out to see his predecessor, on the charge that they had taken things which did not belong to them. Thus renunciation brought him a kingdom”.
The Tao Te Ching says, “to win the world you must give up everything”.
In the world there are many religions and spiritual paths, which form the soul, but one king or president is proposed because it is a in the image of man. And a good test system, is the system that gets the person with a pure heart. One who has mastered his passions. This story may illustrate how you can choose the ruler of the nation on the planet, which is proposed in this book.
Socrates said that should govern the best.
The Shrimad Bagawatán. 01/18/41, states:
“The king is the best of all human beings. He is the representative of God, and he is never to be condemned for any of his actions. In other words, the king can do no wrong. The king may order hanging of a culprit son of a brahmana, but he does not become sinful for killing a brahmana. Even if there is something wrong with the king, he is never to be condemned. A medical practitioner may kill a patient by mistaken treatment, but such a killer is never condemned to death. So what to speak of a good and pious king like Maharaja Parikshit In the Vedic way of life, the king is trained to become a rajarshi, or a great saint, although he is ruling as king. It is the king only by whose good government the citizens can live peacefully and without any fear. The rajarshis would manage their kingdoms so nicely and piously that their subjects would respect them as if they were the Lord. That is the instruction of the Vedas. The king is called narendra, or the best amongst the human beings”.
The Ramayana declares that “the four virtues of a king or resources are: Sama (conciliation), Dana (gift), Danda (physical force or coercion, rod) and Bheda (division), which lie at the heart of all kings; so they say the Vedas”.
At present there are many religions. And this, of course, is not at all bad. Roman law, can serve as a reference point for very long, reach a unitary state. Roman law was extended by a great empire, consisting of territories with different religions, cultures, languages and traditions.
The definition of the Roman jurist Celso is: “ius est ars boni et aequi” (the Law is the art of good and fair). That is, the law is not the art of the very good, no, not of the optimal or the best. No. It is the art of good and fair. The best could be then the attribute of the soul. In the end, what remains is the best, the soul.
In the story of the king who asked his advice the hermit, the good (the king) seeks advice from the best (the ascetic, the soul). So, in this way, we separate the soul from the discernment. Roman law, respect other religions of many different traditions. We must bear in mind that the Roman jurists were great jurists and we can make use of their science, their art. But one thing is the Roman legal science, which was received mainly in continental Europe is the private legal science, and other is politics.
The best for one may be the worst for another. For example, in the traditio, Roman quintessential business (is like a purchase), represented by the balance, is the concept of fair value, the price had to be just right, neither too cheap nor too expensive. So business is good for both and what is best for one, do not become the worst for another.
There is a proverb, which is in almost all cultures, which says that the best is the enemy of the good. This has been translated into many languages. With that sense. However the Latin proverb that inspired it: Spe meliori amittitur bonum; whose translation; the best hope is lost with the good.
I sincerely think that the best is not the enemy of the good. In the case of the best having enemy, his enemy would be the worse. A different matter is that sometimes elections are exclusive, like the worst may be, in this sense, the enemy of the bad, if the choice among the two possibilities is exclusive. And the fact is that if the characteristic of an election is that is exclusive do not convert the options in enemies or in contraries necessarily. It is as if a man has to choose among a sweet pine nuts or a sweet hazelnut, the better is the pine nuts, hazelnuts is good, but the pine nuts are not enemies of hazelnuts.
The law is the art of the good. It is not the art of the best. True. But in politics we do not want -we have a desire- to lose the hope for the best, keeping what is good. If the law is the art of good and fair, the policy should be the art of choosing the best ruler. The art of choosing the best among the good ruler, for the good, for the common good.
If we think of the best as the soul (the ascetic), then we might think, to choose the best, why not choose to His Holiness the Pope, His Holiness Shri Shankaracharya, His Holiness Ayatollah, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a Guru, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community leader of the World Council of Churches, the leader of the Orthodox Church, the Coptic Pope ... For a simple reason, because they are spiritual fathers, whose function is to guide spiritually to the people. The role of a leader is not that, is not guide people spiritually. Its function would be to create a structure of power, manage public funds well, to do general laws and more specific, more specific rules of lower rank.
But we have seen that the person who has to take the top of the pyramid has to be a person “with light weight” in the sense given in the Tao Te Ching. A person almost without proud, almost without arrogance, almost without jealousy, almost without greed, almost without lust, almost without vanity, almost without anger, almost without envy. And humble and better if it is well prepared person. To be up there to weigh little, then we can support his weight well.
It is in the nature of power duress, coercion. When it is over there is what people call oppression, which is a concept that is similar to physical pressure. The pressure is expressed in a fraction: weight divided by the surface. Y is expressed in pounds per square inch. Here the concept of pressure is similar, but in a more subtle level, in the field of personality. A strong personality can do there too much pressure on the people.
But of course, he have do not have to weigh so little that the wind takes him. Some pressure have be to be done. Any political system necessarily involves some pressure over the people, so, it is the nature of law and order and the law.
The domain of sex has a lot to do with the study, primarily because memory depends on the capacity for celibacy, purity. A part of the innate conditions of the subject.
It is not logical that a judge who can have in his hand the responsibility to make decisions affecting thousands of people throughout their lives, will require a run and then five years of opposition (to choose the best) and a President is not required nothing. As currently it happens in democracy. Just be friends with someone, to reach the pinnacle of power.
Currently in any company is selected applicants for jobs. Many companies use headhunters to select candidates for the positions they offer. That is turning to specialized persons in the selection. To elect a director, companies take great pains not elect anyone, not even a good or very good one. A good one can be right. But they want more, they want the best.
Imagine a car company. Create a new type of direction. Before selling cars to the general public, to the people, do all kinds of proofs to test this direction. Subjected to twisting, pressures ... to verify that offer more than enough security for peoplés lives. However, after doing all these very difficult trials, the material is fatigued and they have to install other parts in cars, of course, not those that have been tested.
Instead, the jeweller, to test the purity of gold expressed in carats, use an acid. In the test some gold is lost, but very little. That same piece of gold remains the same value, after the acid test, only then we know its purity. All that indicates the test, the degree of purity. If the jeweller wants to make a gem, he will not use pure gold (24 carat) because it is too soft. He alloy with another metal, and it is normal to be used 18K gold (75% pure), because it is harder.
Actually what I am proposing in this book is a group of headhunters. But to choosing the best, the best who knows how to govern himself. A person who is able to control his sexual energy, will be a very good leader. Sexual energy is the most difficult to govern for a human being, especially if male, because males are sexually active and have much more sexual energy to master. If the person is able to govern this ungovernable energy, sexual energy, he have a very good ability to rule. The best person is one who has conquered himself. But this is not enough. Must have love in his heart. Self-control is not the only test, although it is a very important test. It has to be a fair person, with a great capacity to love all mankind, with detachment. But it also has to be flexible, patient and wise with ability to recognize their mistakes and correct person. And humble. Indeed humility is closely linked to intelligence indeed.
And here what is sought is the pure heart, free heart desires.
The test is necessary to test the mettle as ruler. There are a sailor saying goes, “you know who is a good driver by how pilot in the storm”. It is what makes us know that someone is a good leader is if you know rule, make good decisions in difficult circumstances, in adverse circumstances.
Confucius said: “To govern well a state, they must first rule well their own family. It is impossible for a man who can not instruct their own family, to educate the rest of the people”.
“He who governs himself is able to govern the world”. (Chinese proverb).
His Holiness the Dalai Lama often says where to return to embody and before his appointment, often make object recognition tests that belonged to the previous Dalai Lama, with soaring rates of mathematical probability. In fact His Holiness the Dalai Lama is not only the spiritual leader but also the worldly leader. This is not the model proposed here. The model proposed here is a model made with the image of man. And this model is proposed here and now because today, in the world there are many religions and because the democracy prevails. Why we degrade a little the location of power.
Confucius said: “The superior man never abandons the path of virtue, either in good or in bad times”.
If a sailor has prediction systems can not predict the storm and not navigate in these circumstances. It is a prudent, farsighted decision, sailing near the coast.
A good sailor knows even recognize early symptoms predict a storm, the first symptoms of a difficult situation, while browsing, even before the storm occurs. An inexperienced even in the midst of the storm sailor can not recognize who is in the midst of a storm, because it has never been a storm at sea.
A rigid navigator can not even change its course, despite seeing the dangers of the storm and endanger all passengers and crew, wanting to stay the course, just as must the change when a new need arises, to save the lives of passengers and crew and the vessel itself.
These two behaviours; which it does not recognize the storm and which does not change its course, despite having acknowledged the storm have something in common. Are both dangerous behaviours for passengers and crew and both pose continue to maintain the same course, just as there is a great need for change.
Therefore it would be put to the candidates in difficult situations, to know whether govern well know, in these circumstances.
Polygamy of the ruler.
Regarding polygamy ruling in Eastern systems was and is allowed and rajas of India, the Emperor of China, the King of Siam (now Thailand), the Bhutan or Hawaii. The reason for polygamy is based, I understand, for several reasons: first and foremost is definitely ensure the continuity of the dynasty. Another reason is the possibility of establishing alliances by marrying princesses from different kingdoms.
Another reason it may be based on the ideas of Socrates who said, “And to those young people who distinguish themselves in the war or something else, we must give them, I suppose, among other awards and prizes, the greater freedom to lie with women; which will be both a good excuse for this kind of men born the greatest possible number of children”. I sincerely believe that there is a contradiction among this statement and his statement that the warriors had to have a fair living wage, because the children have to be fed and a fair living wage could not keep many children. In addition this idea far from being a eugenic improvement, resulting in more in small societies, is that there is much variation in genetics, which is precisely what makes the genetic improvement of a people, apart from other conditions. In other words, it is endogamic.
Solomon was famous for his justice. Once fought two mothers for the maternity of a baby. They appeared before him. He command his royal guard to cut the child in half with his sword. The guard raised his sword obeying the orders of the king. Then one of the two contenders said renounced motherhood child. Solomon then command the guard to stop his action and realized that she was the real mother and gave her the motherhood of the child.
Solomon had a forty-year reign, he had seven hundred queens and three hundred concubines, but his kingdom entered a decline in the last times.
From this point of view, one of the most invincible warriors who have been in the history of mankind, have been the Knights Templar, because they made a vow of chastity. Could only be overcome by deception, Saladin sent them a pigeon with a message saying they could not get reinforcements and the Templars surrendered.
Socrates also owe that politicians lie, he said to them should be allowed.
Probably the best politician who has had this planet until now has been Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi always tell the truth. However, the Mahatma (great soul) was not the president of the Congress Party. I think that the Mahatma, as the treatment they gave him Mahatma (great soul), was the soul of power than the power itself.
Aristotle said that the soul must rule over the body: “The living being consists of a soul and a body, naturally made it to command and to obey it. At least that proclaims the voice of nature, which imports study in the unwrapped beings according to their regular laws and not degraded beings. This predominance of the soul is evident in the perfectly sound mind and body, one man who must examine here. In corrupt, or willing to be men, the body seems to dominate at times as sovereign over the soul, precisely because their irregular development is completely contrary to nature”.
What is the best quality for a ruler?
Best is a relative term. There are many qualities that has to have the ruler. In Sanskrit political wisdom is fundamentally supported on prudence. The most important authority for a ruler is prudence.
- Prudence
Prudence etymologically means looking ahead. Have forecast. The dictionary of the RAE says it is 1An of the four cardinal virtues, which is to discern and distinguish what is good or bad, to follow or run from it. 2 Temperance, caution, moderation. 3 Sense, good judgment.
Temperance is one of the four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance) consisting moderate the appetites and excessive use of the senses, subjecting them to reason.
Socrates also says that temperance is a virtue that must have the warriors.
It has already been said here that the man has more ability to govern in principle to women, because it is sexually active and have much more energy that govern self-government, in moderating their appetites, because they have more appetite. And it has also been said that if he is able to govern this energy, will be a good ruler.
There are many qualities that a human being that are good for politics. In politics come are very appreciate prudence (insight) -is the main virtue that has to have a ruler- courage, humility, intelligence, discipline, integrity, selflessness, strength, purity or moderation - temperance, equanimity, neutrality, detachment, unselfishness ...
A person can be firm and flexible. You can be firm in almost all situations, but there will be some times when you have to be flexible. Because otherwise, it would be an inflexible person. Firm is not inflexible. However, there may be issues on which we must be inflexible. It all depends.
I think the three most important virtues of a ruler are prudence, courage and humility. In that order, in this case, that is the government of the warriors, because it will become the world leader in the Supreme General of all the Armed Forces of the planet.
Aristotle stated: “It is therefore the discipline of the republic and prudence same habit, although the status of each one is different. On prudence, then, that is used to govern well a republic, head and main part is the one that consists of making the laws”. Precisely because as he said, the law is virtue to reign in society, punishing the vicious and rewarding the virtuous behaviours. Therefore it is essential that the person who rules has a great understanding, a great ability to distinguish good from evil, vice from virtue.
When God appeared to Solomon in a dream and told him he could ask what he wanted, Solomon asked only one thing: “Give your servant prudence to judge the people and to distinguish among good and bad; for how otherwise I may rule a great people?”.
Cicero said that the etymology of the word law “is said to well legendo, as this Latin word means choosing: to command to chose because the good is noble, and prohibiting the contrary”.
In order to be able to distinguish among a person who has insight and who does not, that is to distinguish what is good and what is bad, you should first define what is good and bad. However, God has willed that there is good and bad. Although the evil can not exist forever because it has the seeds of its own destruction within. A little bad is good, if only to give contrast to these two opposites. The poisons in small doses are restorative.
The first meaning that gives us the word dictionary prudence, that is, the ability to distinguish among good and evil, would be equivalent to the word viveka (discrimination) in Sanskrit. To develop discernment we must be humility. Humility is a virtue necessary but not sufficient for the existence of discrimination in a person. In India there is a play called. “The Crest Jewel of Spiritual Discrimination”, showing the way, the means by which a person can have discernment among Being and non-being is a sublime work, as its own name, to achieve the discernment among Being and not being in the path of realization of God. But in politics we do not want to go that far. We are satisfied with discernment among good and evil. What is ethical and what is not, considering ethics as the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
A person with the highest discernment, a spiritual master, better distinguish among the real and the unreal, among being and non-being, as well as among good and evil. Therefore, you have a greater choice and therefore of selection, whose we could have any of the common people who populate this world. It is for this reason that spiritual discernment is higher, so it is proposed in this work that it is precisely the leaders of religions and spiritual paths who choose the president.
The poisons are bad, but in small doses are restorative. No poison but dose. No evil, but proportion. In fact prudence should guide the virtue to virtue excess does not occur in society. Nor clear excess of evil, crime, poverty.
The definition in the dictionary it is: as it should be, rightly or rightly perfect. And evil is the opposite of good, which is illegal or dishonest.
We all have an idea of what is good and what is bad, just an idea. But for a clear distinction, one must have a very good heart.
In this respect there is a story, “a pundit lived directly opposite a prostitute. Pandit was devoted to his task with purity and recite the hymns of the Vedas, but looking out the window to see how many men they slept with the prostitute who lived opposite. Each man entered the house of the prostitute, the pundits put a stone and every day was dedicated to count the stones thinking how bad it was the prostitute, how lost she was. Meanwhile, the prostitute, thought how good was the pandit, how spiritual efforts made and every time she slept with a man offered that act to God for forgiveness for his action, which had taken her life. Both left their body, after physical death, the death of the body. Pundit body was buried with the honours an individual for such a high status. The body of the prostitute was burned as was traditional in India. When commissioned to see the merit in life to access the sky examined the hearts of both people denied entry to the pundits, saying he had led a life of sin and allowed to enter the prostitute because her heart was pure and her Heart lived a life of virtue”.
It is really very difficult to make a clear distinction among good and evil. Often hidden virtues really well. Only a person with a great spiritual discernment can distinguish. That́s why you should be the spiritual masters who judge who is the best leader.
- Courage
Courage is breath, effort, vigour. Fact or heroic feat performed with courage. Action tangible or intangible strenuous and vigorous that seems to exceed the natural forces.
And value is the quality of mind that moves resolutely undertake large enterprises and face dangers.
Socrates talking about the selection of the ruling said: “But do not be necessary -I continue- third to do a seduction test, and observe their behaviour in it? The same as the foals are carried where there are noise in order to check whether they are skittish, also have to face our men, when young, with things that cause fear and then introduce them to the pleasures. This will test much better than gold with fire and check if the test is shown incorruptible and decent in all situations, good guardian of himself and of the music he has learned, and if it always behaves in accordance with the laws rhythm and harmony; if, in short, as if the man should be the most useful both for himself and for the city”.
- Humility.
We have seen that humility is the knowledge of our mistakes, limitations and weaknesses and to act according to that knowledge. In Rome, the monarchy ended with Tarquin the Proud, after comes the republic with the Senate. Cicero said that the higher you are, the more humble you have to be.
voters and candidates
Each place has its spiritual leaders and worldly leaders. So Hindus have their spiritual masters, in the current Arab Islamic spiritual leaders, who in the case of some monarchies are consistent with the monarch. In the current Western countries there is freedom of worship and therefore are represented almost all religions, on religious freedom. In old Tibet, the country's leader was His Holiness the Dalai Lama and was and remains their spiritual leader, while worldly leadership recently he has delegated. There are many cases where the spiritual leader is also the worldly leader, even in democratic regimes.
The model Ím designing in this work is new, however, it is based not so new ideas. It is based on the man himself. It is a unitive model, looking at all of humanity as a single human being.
Currently in Islamic countries, it is creating a democratic movement. The most logical thing is, given the influence of the principles of the French Revolution and Rousseau, that democracy is imposed slightly worldwide. Even a country like Bhutan, will leave the monarchy to convert in democratic its system of government. Almost everything is born, develops, goes into decline and die. Democratic ideas possibly pass them the same.
In this model the question is to unite all the world́s armies into one. The leader therefore become the Supreme General of all the Armed Forces of the planet. The military will respect more a military than a civilian. I think that should be a military or a person belonging to a royalty who will hold this position. There should be a transfer of sovereignty to the central government. Maybe thá's the hardest thing to achieve because it could cost to do transfers of sovereignty. But in the European Union this has been done, and the Cook Islands do the same.
In addition, the central government would be more military than civilian government, initially. All the armies of the current countries of the Earth would unite to create a single common army, which the current armies would cease to be having no enemy other than the astronomical threats or internal threats, joining all armies into one. It would also be a single army, which being only cease to be an army in the proper sense, over time. There is a proverb that says: “divide and you shall conquer”. This is just the opposite, unite and you will conquer.
It is very easy for a civil sending their men to war, when he was not prepared for war, when he not has to risk his life for his country, which is very easy to say, but then you have to do. It is very easy to send men to war when one does not quite know what war is.
In Spain, the Civil Guard -Guardia Civil-, has not any problems until a civil served as its manager. The result was that this civil, ended up in jail accused of various crimes. While the leadership was military had not any problems.
The military are disciplined, determined, courageous, generous and honourable persons.
The leader who would impose world order on the planet. Whereupon the military to join the armies of the world, they would no longer have an enemy to fight against. Doing this would cease to be military in the proper sense of the word because there would be an external enemy, there would only enemy threats or astronomical asteroid for example. But they would remain military. And so, they would become a sort of peacekeepers to end up being a militarized police, something equivalent to what in Spain is the Guardia Civil a militarized police. Although the defence always exist in its own right as we have seen before.
So, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, despite being the legitimate leader of Tibet, could not become part of world leaders to be elected because he is not a father, nor a soldier. He is a monk. He would be an elector, he would be member of the Soul. The same would happen to His Holiness the Pope, is a celibate priest, who would be an elector, he would be member of the Soul. His Holiness Shri Shankaracharya is also celibate, a monk, would be member of the Soul, he would be an elector. The Orthodox Church would have to appoint a representative, the Jewish community as well. Each religion or spiritual path would have to appoint a representative in the Soul, a celibate one.
Their Majesties: King of Thailand, would still be the king of Thailand. The King of Swaziland would still be the King of Swaziland. The King of Spain would still be the King of Spain. The Queen of England would remain the Queen of England. The King of Morocco would remain the King of Morocco. Saudi King would still be the King of Saudi Arabia. His Holiness the Dalai Lama would be the leader of Tibet. The Emperor of Japan, would still be the Emperor of Japan. His Holiness Pope would remain the Vatican leader. The Grand Ayatollah of Iran would remain the Grand Ayatollah of Iran. Same happens with the Commander of the UAE. With the Sultan of Oman. With the King of Kuwait, the King of Qatar, the King of Jordan, King of Holland, the King of Luxembourg, King of Denmark, King of Norway, King of Belgium, the King of Sweden, King of Bhutan , King of Cambodia, King of Malaysia, the King of Bahrain, the Sultan of Brunei, the King of Lesotho, King of Tonga, King of Mount Vema ...
The same would happen with the presidents of the republics, they would remain the leaders in their respective republics.
When a man asked to Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa: who is greater, a monk or a house holder ? Ramakrishna replied:
“Each one is the king in his own place”.
Here you can say the same.
Each one is the king in his own place.
But there is a king who is above all the kings and presidents. A king of kings. A supreme king.
But what about the monarchies whose leaders are both the spiritual leaders of their respective countries? In what capacity they would enter in the selection, as members of the selection committee, as the Soul or eligible? I think the two natures of spiritual leader and worldly leader could not join in one person for the purposes of the central government, because this model has weathered the location of power. They are more worldly leaders than spiritual leaders, they are not celibate monks or priests, are mothers or parents. They could not be both voters and candidates time, that́s clear. They should be candidates if they wanted to, rather than part of the Soul. Because the Soul would be represented by religions and spiritual paths of the world.
Thus, Her Majesty the Queen of Swaziland who is considered as Great Elephant (Indovuzaki) and is the spiritual leader of her country, could not be part of the Soul, because she is not a monk, not being celibate. Currently it is not, it is the mother of the king.
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan is regarded as the divinity connection with the people. In fact, he is the high priest of official Shinto. He is regarded as heavenly sovereign (tenno), but he is not celibate, he is married, so he could go as eligible, not as a member of the Soul.
Or with His Majesty the King of Morocco who is the spiritual leader (Amir al-Múminin) of his people. Being a parent would be part of the selection as eligible, not as a member of the Soul.
The same with Her Majesty the Queen of England, who is the leader of the Anglican Church in her country. As a mother, She would go as eligible, not as a voter.
There is another case, the case of countries that had a hereditary monarchy but to left it. In these cases it would be allowed to enter into the selection two candidates; military and the legitimate heir of the historic dynasty. This would apply, for example, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, China ...
Whereby the selection would have to make among very high ranking military and royal people of all countries in the world today. There are countries that have no monarchy or royalty, or have had since its inception, including the United States, for example. In these cases the country would be represented in the selection for military, chosen by the Head of Statés country, with the help of military intelligence.
Countries with a queen or a king, have more options, namely; they can leave the king or queen in your country and send a princess or a prince or leave his country's monarchy as is and send a military.
It would be the Head of State who decides who will enter the selection. In the event that there is no Head of State, the person who would decide who goes into the selection, who would be holding the presidency of the organ with the powers of the management of the defence of the country in question, aided by military intelligence .
The outcome of the election is that the elected, would be the Head of State of the planet Earth. The Supreme General of all the Armed Forces of the planet Earth. Choose his ministers.
Would use the army to the peace of the world and for the protection of the planet, its territorial integrity, in the component parts and also protection against external astronomical enemies.
With the Cold War it has been shown that multimilitarization can lead to the destruction of the planet and what is involved here is precisely to protect it.
The Laws of Manu (Manava Dharma Shastra) say: “VII. 2. The duty of a warrior is to protect the entire world”.
“If we were to define a true warrior we would say:
He who has the wisdom not to judge.
He who does not accept the fear.
He who fight to help others.
He who is faithful to the death to defend the good”
Shri Krishna said: “43. Bravery, boldness, fortitude, promptness, not flying from battle, generosity and lordliness are the duties of the Kshatriyas (warriors), born of nature”.
The commentary to this verse, Shri Adi Shankaracharya said: “Fortitude - that by which upheld one is not subject to depression, under any circumstances whatever. Promptness: the performing, without confusion, of duties which present themselves quite unexpectedly and demand ready action. Not flying from battle: not turning away from foes. Lordliness: exercise of ruling power over those who are to be ruled”.
Leadership skills, ability to govern, noble character, is Iswara Sanskrit bhava (noble spirit) is one of the natural duties of the warrior. The military men.
Indeed in Sanskrit the word sovereignty is aishwarya, is an attribute of Iswara. And one of the kinǵs words adhishwara ( supreme lord).
When Shri Krishna, talk about God, the word used is I, but when He reveals his cosmic form to Arjuna uses the pronoun He, and uses the name of Iswara. It would be like when Jesus of Nazareth talk about God as his Father and speaks of Him.
Iswarás love expects nothing in return. It is a selfless love, a love that loves excellence for some other person nor by the deal, even for a selfish end waiting for a reward. It is a love that expects nothing in return.
Hindu sage philosopher and economist Kauthilya in his Arthasastra said “the root of happiness is the dharma. The root of dharma is wealth. The root of wealth is royalty. And the root of kingship is the dominion over the senses (indriyajaya)”.
The Laws of Manu (Manava Dharma Shastra) -also called mamusmriti- say: “VII. 44. The king, day and night vigorously should strive to conquer his senses, because only he who has conquered his senses, can keep his subjects in obedience”.
Confucius said: “A man who knows how to govern himself, knows how rule the people. But if he can not rule himself. How will he be able to rule others ?”.
The draw
We are choosing the head among the heads. The most important quality for the head is the ability to rule. But the ability to rule depends crucially on having a pure heart, a heart without desires, that is, should be a person who has conquered himself.
Testing pure heart is what matters most. Those tests are exposed to very essential and simple way the story told by Shantandand Saraswati, these are the guidelines. That́s the best wisdom, have a pure heart. Almost a renunciative would be a military head. Indeed it is, why almost all the kings are also spiritual leaders, because they are almost more resigning and military, from the point of view of desires. And is so in almost all traditions.
And that́s why have to be the spiritual leaders who elect the head, because from the standpoint of the conquest of desires they are superior, having a higher discernment.
The test would be like choosing between diamonds. How to choose a diamond among the diamonds?
What if there are many who have shown that they have given up everything for the world and have a great ability to govern?
How do you choose among them?
Socrates said that if possible, we should choose the most handsome. I sincerely believe that beauty is relative and so, for a man a certain actress is the most attractive and beautiful and another man more attractive and beautiful is another actress. Besides the criterion of beauty is different for men than for women. For example, I'm Spanish, I like the Nordic women, but my German friend, likes brown or dark men with mustache. And would be people of different sub-races. Whereby; Which of the sub-races it is the most beautiful? And for whom? Is it more beautiful or handsome to whom the ruler or the rulings?
René Mey said: “The most beautiful is invisible to the eye”.
How do we choose one of them?
How to choose a diamond from Diamonds?
How to choose a king among kings once they have shown to have a free heart desires?
So would the soul who finally have their own selection criteria, as it has more insight, but it could take account of their love of justice, his love of truth, his mental and physical strength, his memory, his studies or knowledge, wisdom ...
The parity.
A society, the more it evolves its economic system has more resources. If you spend a good portion of those resources constitute a great army there, you have much power. You have the power of a great army. So what we see in history as Rome, developed his trade, its industry, its engineering, architecture, biologic, medicine... and all these sciences and arts came together in the creation of a large army, who dominated many areas, creating more wealth. Such is the history of mankind. An empire arises, develops, goes into decline and fall.
Currently the largest empire to todaýs United States, which has had a great economic development and has devoted much of its resources to create a large army. However, it is now in crisis, you will have to divert resources for the support of his army and therefore will decline.
Emerging power is now China. China are beginning to conquer the world, from an economic point of view.
The biggest obstacle to the creation of a central government, a single central government for the whole planet, is that countries are not equal from the point of view of defence. There are countries that have sustained great efforts to have a large military technology, countries with nuclear weapons, the most destructive of all weapons and therefore give more power weapons. From the military point of view the countries are not equal. Not the same United States than Kenya. USA has made many efforts of all kinds to have a great military power, that́s for sure. And maybe from the point of view of defence, not all countries should have the same consideration.
What is the base for the union of all the armies in the world heading into one?
The only starting point, curiously, is disarmament, each country would have to disarm to be the only army. Then not be the country who has the supreme command of his own army, but the central government. The army would be an exclusive competence of the central government. Each country would have to be willing to be a region, not a nation; being dependent and therefore lose their independence and military sovereignty. It is the only starting point, disarmament (this does not mean you have to throw away all weapons, but those weapons are to be used to protect the world from the central government and not for destruction.
When I studied Public International Law, I studied that one of the characters of the structure of the international community, is that it is equal, i.e. the international community considers all countries on an equal footing. However, in the United Nations Security Council there are five “permanent” members who are no longer peer, because they have “special powers”. As the international community is equal, the national community should be equal in terms of future regions that integrate. That would be the ideal starting point. It́s the first thing you have to admit, despite the nuclear weapons.
The only independence that will exist on the planet would be the independence of the only nation that would be the planet Earth. That would be the only independence.
Each country will therefore have to accept these two starting points: disarmament and dependence as a single region of central state, of a global military authority to protect the planet and could mitigate revolts.
REQUIREMENTS
The requirements to establish a single world government, the model here is being designed, the first and foremost, that all or a qualified majority of the countries want it. Who would lose sovereignty, leaving the command of the army to the central government. And the second one is that spiritual leaders want to do the selection.
BRAIN
The government has to be advised by humans wise. Here a government (brain), where the ruling represents the choice and decision between multiple or more options, the broad guidelines and the rest of the government represents the rest of the brain with its own margin proposes free manoeuver is clear. Central government ministries may be current United Nations organizations, such as UNESCO in education, FAO on agriculture and food, WHO in health, the Security Council would be the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defence who depend space agencies, the United Nations Development would be the Ministry of Development, the United Nations Environment would be the Ministry of Environment, the United Nations for Industrial Development would be the Ministry of Industry, would have to establish a Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Funds management and control of the seabed and fishing in national waters (current international waters) would also have to become a Ministry of Communications will manage all matters relating to satellites.
In English it is very easy, just remove one s, so that United Nations remain as United Nation.
This wise human brain would have to be made up of:
Emotional.- rational and mind are the people who form the government and represent the rational mind and the emotional mind (charitable, loving). Serving these people would have to be available to be called by the Administration, scientists and post graduates and experts of all the sciences, letters, arts and crafts available to the government of mind.
The memory.- formed by a group of historians and some expert journalist (recent memory).
Creative mind.- exists in the mind the creative aspect therefore should be part of an art expert Brain: conductor, musician, painter, filmmaker, actor, grammarian, sculptor, poet, writer, theatre director , actor, oratory expert.
The opposition.- a faculty of the mind that leads to the soul is the reflection, analysis of what we do or done, before or after (self-inquiry). It occupies the role occupied by the opposition in a democracy, but it would be a purely constructive opposition. It would have to be made by a person of ideas contrary to the members of the government or contrary to its policy plans. It would be a constructive opposition. Because this government is not to be famous, or to have more votes. Already it has the power. But to examine, investigate, ask yourself if what you are doing is good, ethical, constructive, beneficial.
The dialectic between the government and the opposition will work out the synthesis or the light of what is false, what is right and good. To join self-inquiry, you just have to have ideas contrary to those of the Government, be a good professional in your field, have analytical skills and exposure and be a sweet person. As for what comes is to sow the seeds of constructive doubt, they would not be many people.
The ratio among the artistic and the rational part depend on the needs.
Reptilian.- brain limbic system rewards the human being when you exercise, when you eat, when you sleep and when you have sexual play. So there should be a group of people based on the exercise that do the population, the level of food consumption, the level and quality of sleep and the birth rate, to reward the government.
The body
A sociological research institute is dedicated to conducting researchs and surveys in the social fabric taking into account the views of the people belonging to different professions, sub-races, ages, religions, sexes and conditions. It is the way for the government to listen to the body.
Many times we have to do what the body commands, there is no choice.
Leaders must be capable of self-control should have conquered themselves or have a high degree of conquest, as in the case of the story of the king who wanted to become a hermit. And they must have analytical skills, decision and organization.
The Soul members would be the persons nominated by the Congress of Spirituality and Religion.
Historians and artists are part of the government and vote at meetings and participate in them and have all honours, dignities and distinctions that have ministers.
The Soul may request to be heard by the Minister of the corresponding branch at any time or around the Council of Ministers and must be heard. Although as in this case would be a collegial spirit, due to the different religions and spiritual paths on the planet, it is the best to the Soul appoint a speaker to represent the Soul in the government.
Regular meetings between the Government and the Soul must exist. Equivalent to when a person prays or meditates.
“The worst thing you can be a king is blinded by his power. But only they lose the trial those rulers who have tasted power and have never attended a meeting of holy men”.
The selection of the members of the brain.
The University College Government serve to prepare central ministers and politicians.
Ideally, members of the global “brain” should be elected from among persons having studied a university degree had been selected to enter the College of Government. No matter what career you have studied, as there are many ministries of many branches that are related to many sciences. This would take to create the University City Government, National, for the entire planet. On the university philosophy, religion, law and politics, economy would be studied and should show sincere politicians who were able to confess their terrible mistakes and his small errors, and of course, their successes, though time who handles see the successes and mistakes, so history is fundamental; also should have all the great religious traditions: Christian (Catholic and Protestant), Islamic, Hindu (Shivaita and Vishnuite), Jewish, Buddhist (Mahayana and Theravada), Taoist and Shinto mysticism. And that city have beautiful, proportionate and harmonic temples of all these traditions, except that belongs to all mystical traditions (Christian, Sufi, Zen, Hindu, cabal ...).
The function of this university would not only be imparting theoretical instruction. But prepare candidates to get their hands on the government, either of the whole nation, regions (current countries) or municipal entities.
Currently there are different universities where instruction is received in many sciences. But today politicians need not have gone through one.
When political reform came to Spain in 1977 there were people who was scandalized because was the government of the lecturers instead the government of professors as before. The are a saying “the devil have more knowledge for being old than for being the devil”. And the knowledge, are not in excess in government. There was a tribe in Central Africa, the tribe Esatop Abere which was ruled by Etó Mebimi, the oldest and wisest.
There must be a university where you select the most suitable people to have the power of the nation and the instruction in many arts and sciences such as politics, law, economics, philosophy, history, logic, budgeting technique, religions, spiritual paths (soul), metaphysics, demography, oceanography and seabed, fishing, space-related (astronomy and satellites) science related to atmospheric sciences, environmental sciences and ecology related to energy, hydrology, food and agriculture sciences, traffic drug and arms trafficking. No need to be an exhaustive study. Ideally to be worldwide knowledge.
Socrates proposes that govern the best of the warriors, the best of the guardians. Global ministers would study in the Government College. They will have to study at the university and then in the College of Government. After that would be assigned to a political office at regional level (current country) -the current or municipal cantons would have to go and join the regions- future. And after having the experience may be elected as a global minister.
In the Bible it is said: “Those who walk in the path of righteousness will be my ministers”.
THE TERMINATION OF RULING.
In the current policy, what happens is that the political, the apex of the hierarchy that occupy the highest point is temporal. But he is an acting with respect to persons who are to pursue their plans, policies and programs, who very often are permanent. Then eventually change the political above and previous plans have to be suspended.
In some parliamentary monarchies the king have an very important role in politics for two reasons, is the Head of State and is permanent.
I understand that spiritual and religious leaders have a particular function that are engaged with care, spiritual guidance, be the heads of their respective organizations. We can not involve them in the selection of the Head of State on a permanent basis.
Therefore it could be a hereditary monarchy. The choice then would be done once.
If the selected person is a person belonging to a royalty, to a royal family, loses that, all his ties with his home country, leaving that family linked only to the world monarchy and the country should proceed in a similar way as has been done here, but among military, just to that country. While hospitals, welfare centres, foundations, museums, universities, research centres ... civil, may continue to carry their names.
Aristotle after studying in his policy, various forms of government as tyranny, oligarchy, democracy and aristocracy, from different points of view, in his Ethics work Nicomachean concluded: “The kingdom is the best of the forms of government of the republic”.
Thomas says “The best government is the government of only one person, because governing is to direct the governed to the fin, which is the good”.
The advantages of hereditary monarchy are many, including:
- The mandate is extended in time, thus, this allows a thread in the long-term policy, and this gives a lot of stability and allows to have long-term goals, which are very beneficial.
- Hereditary monarchy is a system of government with a foundation based on knowledge. The great advantage of hereditary monarchy is that it has a prior knowledge, we have more knowledge, as it is known in advance who is the person who will occupy the Head of State, or the nation, of the world and can be his training start from childhood. And as the Spanish saying goes, “the tree since it is little”.
- The president does not have to be doing the ball to certain sectors of society that determine all its political, so that you vote in the next election. That is, the permanence dissociates in politics ruling on decisions to be taken, and so decisions are made taking into account the common good of society as a whole and not only certain sectors of the same whether professional sectors, age, religious ...
- A huge amount of money is not spent on election campaigns or financing of political parties.
- A huge amount of money is not spent on paying salaries, temporary salaries, expenses, allowances, salaries of secretaries, drivers salaries, expenditure on cars, phones, computers ... a large number of parliamentarians.
- The president does not have to buy votes by unexpected returns of taxes, so more taxes are collected.
- The government does not have to lower taxes to gain popularity and be voted in the elections coming seasons.
- No need to enact Prohibition in order to not permit to buy the votes in taverns by a glass of whiskey and a cigar.
- The president does not have to promise things that he knows well that certainly will not be able to fulfill.
- The ruling does not suffer a constant campaign of harassment and demolition by the opposition and thus, can rule from the serenity.
Well Íve only saw the benefits, I have not noticed the disadvantages.
Except for Henry VIII, who is the exception that satisfies the rule, the monarchy has worked very well, until freedom began to roam. The results of freedom are obvious.
The disadvantages of hereditary monarchy are, among others:
- The ruling may make wrong decisions, but are tired of seeing that in democracy.
- The royal family is closely linked to power.
- The ruler when young, does not have the experience or maturity. Therefore there should be a Council to counteract the immaturity and lack of experience.
- As we can see in modern history and as the Bible says, is not always transmitted by hereditary legitimate means. In fact, in the Vedas it is well known that. “Everybody says that among the sons of my king, get the throne who his father grant it”.
Aristotle says that after democracy is tyranny. We can see in history, yet in times close, after de Rome democracy and the senate, comes August with who use the emblem of “Senatus et Populus Qui Romanorum” (SPQR). Hitler and National Socialism was born in a democracy, Hitler was democratically elected. Napoleon emerged from a democratic government. And this is not about making a tyranny, but a monarchical government.
Professor Ángel Menéndez Rexach tells us: “For its part, the newly formed states and replacing the monarchy with a republic, adopt a monarchical head of state stamp, with the notable exception of Switzerland, although the French Revolution had offered no head of state models. The reasons for this are many and have their nuances in each country. The influence of theoretical (Montesquieu over all), mimicry (obsessive towards the English system) and even sometimes the blatant desire to open the door for the restoration of the monarchy (as in the French Constitution of 1875) determined the consolidation of a supreme Republican magistracy whose competence content is copied from the monarchy, although it is on the whole more limited”.
The Head of The State, since there are many religions and spiritual paths in the world would not be a religious or spiritual leader. It would only be a world leader.
The advantage would being a hereditary monarchy is that the selection would be made once and then the spiritual leaders would not be involved in successive selections.
Spiritual discernment is superior to ordinary human discernment of the normal humans. I honestly think that any of these saints men, Pope a Shankaracharya or the Dalai Lama, have more discernment than me. And so they are better able to select or elect than me.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NATION
It would be great to be a place that he was very well connected and to be central. Currently the headquarters of NATO is Belgium. Belgium has a very interesting quality is that anyone can get there by sea. It could be the temporary headquarters.
It is a fairly central location. If you noticed on Earth, roughly half of the area is the Pacific Ocean. And the other half is the rest, the Americas and Europe-Africa-Asia-Oceania. Belgium is a fairly central location and has good access by sea. It could be the temporary headquarters.
We must take into account global warming.
THE ECONOMY
From the economic point of view, in the current democracy, the important thing is that you vote for a party, not the economy. You can not make a long-term economic policy, say ten years or more, because politicians do not last long in power. There is no thread in the temporal, in politics. You can not do a long-term policy.
Economic systems we have known in recent centuries are based on purpose or achieving personal wealth and consumer goods or production goods (capitalism), or the participation of workers in production systems (communism). But both communism and capitalism, are based on materialism. We need an economic system that is based on materialism, but you have to bear in mind the satisfaction of the basic vital needs of man. And also, of course, their spiritual needs.
Capitalism is the economic system that has been most widespread and most enduring in time. Perhaps the best economic system is a moderate capitalism.
But the basic need of man is happiness, that was what was intended to achieve in the Spanish Constitution of 18 that fixed the object of government the peoplés happiness. But it has been proven that happiness are not given by money or power. We must find the happiness of all.
A Buddhist prayer reads “May all beings can attain happiness and its causes”.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama said:
“According to my experience, then, the principal characteristic of genuine happiness is peace: inner peace. By this I do not mean some kind of feeling of being `spaced out́. Nor am I speaking of an absence of feeling. On the contrary, the peace I am describing is rooted in concern for others and involves a high degree of sensitivity and feeling, although I cannot claim personally to have succeeded very far in this. Rather, I attribute my sense off peace to the effort to develop concern for others”.
Today there are studies showing that the more money you have, you are not happier for it, you can even be a source of harm.
His Majesty the King of Bhutan said: “I do not care to increase the gross domestic product, but the Gross National Happiness of the people”.
Material possessions are not going to give the happy, but helps, especially if used to meet basic needs. For example, soybeans could solve the problem of world hunger.
There is a Central judgment of the Fang ethnic group, that says: “The content depends on yourself”.
And Patanjali Yoga Sutras (42) says: “from contentment comes superlative happiness”.
From the point of view of Buddhism, popular wisdom and common sense, virtue is in moderation. In avoiding extremes. Plato said that prudence (the ability to distinguish among right and wrong) must guide the virtue (charioteer virtutum). The economy has as a principle the minimum investment and maximum profit. That is, the base part and a lack of moderation. When this principles are applied to agriculture, for example, we find that not begin planting native trees, but very profitable and land demineralizating, absorbing all the water, disappearing rivers that watered populations, and alter the natural environment, but provide many benefits (almost all use the paper coming out of them).
The Peter Principle also affects moderation, to the point of reaching formulate a principle that incompetent people do not join organizations, but in the same way, overly competent, not integrated too. Only are integrated into organizations the moderately competent persons. Today there are studies in which it is clear that workplace harassment is not just about the moderately competent, but on too competent people. Typically, it is the company that is responsible to dismiss excessively incompetent.
Here there is an example to explain the Peter Principle: A metal worker makes a wonderful metal parts with high precision. Then as hés a good worker will rise. But he has not leadership qualities or organization. Fails. Or a mechanic, an expert in diagnosing faults difficult to recognize. So as it is a very good mechanical officer, they will rise and will make foreman. So then, what happens is that he continues to recognize vehicles difficult to diagnose and the others men are not able to diagnose and other mechanics are doing nothing, waiting for him to assign them work. Fails. The Peter Principle says that one rises until one reaches the limit of its competence and then if rises above that level, fails.
In the economy, the free market system, if a company does not obey the law and evade taxes example, is already competing in regime of disloyalty with the other companies do not evade taxes. Sometimes companies to become more and more competitive, what they do is to use techniques that have a lack of moderation, as not pay suppliers, pay later, defraud taxes, neglecting social obligations, pollute more because it is more profitable, felling trees without replanting because it is more profitable economically ... So what is the evil cousin healthy competition. Savage capitalism. But it is tending towards making capitalism, all for the sake of competing, profitability, to achieve maximum benefits with minimum incomes. Then the economy becomes a source of harm. It seems to only have short-term goals rather than long term. It does not take into account important interests such as the environment, which if left to care for, in the end what will cease to exist. And then we will not have what sustains us, what making us to sustain life, giving us air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat and the sun that warms us and gives us the light and vitamin D (it is the only source of vitamin D and is necessary for the bones absorb calcium).
In the wild the species that survives is not the strongest. No. It is the species best adapted to the environment. For example, in African felines, the lion has developed especially fortress, and the cheetah speed, but the species best is adapting to the environment is the leopard, because moderately developed strength and speed. The species that survives is the best suited to the environment. But the human being as a specie, is not adapting to the environment, no, it is destroying the environment which gives life, that is the means by which feeds him, giving him water to drink, giving air to breathe and also we are altering the climate that is an essential element for survival.
We believe that life is assured. But it́s not like that. It really depends on us that life is assured. At the time in which the elements of that life depends, such as land, water, fire and air begin to be more polluted, wéll just poisoned more and more each time. But everything has a threshold. Not poison but dose. And when the dose become very large we can reach the threshold of self-destruction for our specie and others.
Money or a measure of value, is a good way to measure reward our efforts. But it loses its meaning when it is allowed to accumulate in a few hands most and the rest starve. Money has to be related to justice and needs.
There is enough wealth and technology to all the world́s people live well, serving others and enjoying comforts without polluting. But the actual human being could have is a huge gap among their developmental level in ethics, philosophy and religion with respect to its great technological development. Which is not bleak.
On our planet there is enough technology to use a cheap and clean energy. But with the Global Warming it is very urgent and necessary to plant trees.
PARLIAMENT
If you do not want monarchy, the government of one, the government of the head, the rule of the discernment, the rule of the pure heart. If a camera that could issue general legislation, for everyone is set, this, today could be based on direct democracy, with an online voting system. But democracy, we have seen that it is not the best system of government.
Internet, when more implanted, can do very accessible popular consultation (listening to the people).
Parliaments are not very suitable tools for decision-making, due to the great amount of interest (desires) and how ineffective they are already involved in decision-making. Modern parliaments represent a heart with many desires. Parliaments are too big, with too many people, who makes decision making very long. The cause of parliaments are so big is double: because Condorcet said that more eyes see more than a few, and because the principal character of the parliament is to represent the people.
What is the wisest, appropriate and beneficial decision: the opinion of a majority wrong or correct view?
The dialogue with the scholars and experts before making decisions is very important. It is also important dialogue with the recipients of the laws or rules before establishing them. While most of the times you can not satisfy everyone. Politics is like a cloud that almost never rains to everyonés taste.
Before taking a decision in action it is good to have previous knowledge. Knowledge must precede the decision. Studying the reality that is to implement the standard. And that is fine to talk with the recipients and also samples if the recipients are many.
As His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI said, “It is no so important to take steps forward, such as knowing where you are going”.
We need to reflect before taking decisions and carrying them into practice.
For example, a government wants to regulate the hours of trade. The supermarkets and hiper-markets ask to open on Sundays and holy days. The trade unions refuse to do so, because workers wants Sundays and holy days free. Small traders also because they claim they have no infrastructure to compete with them. Families where the woman does not work do not care to open or Sunday, young working couples both prefer to open on Sundays. But open on Saturdays. Whereupon, the fairest decision might not open on Sundays or holy days or just the last Sunday of each month. Whereby workers are pleased, the small traders too and so not many jobs disappear. To the older couples is not important, but not for young couples or
shareholders of supermarkets.
Napoleon Bonaparte said; “If you want something to be done, as responsible. If you want something to be delayed forever, appoints a commission”.
The parliament is the current commission. Only it́s not about conquering external enemies, but internal enemies. In the process of decision making, but the fact that many people give different points of view, if the decision depends on agree, things change a lot and all you get is wasting time.
Besides not so much that many people agree, but people familiar with the matter than are talking about and are able to take good decisions, or to do a good advice. Today there are parliamentarians who did not even read the legislative provisions that they sign.
It́s okay to listen to people before taking decisions. Because the government is to make the people reign in virtue, harmony, goodness and for all or most of us we benefit from living in society.
Indian philosophy represents an inexhaustible source of wisdom. Shantanand Saraswati, tells a beautiful story:
“There was once a baron who had a private army. It was very ambitious and always wanted to cross their own borders and subdue neighbouring territories. Its people supported him and were very loyal to him, so it was always a pleasant adventure for him. Each time he returned to his castle, all praised him and his associates celebrated the glory of his victories. After listening to all her mother came to ask for his blessing. But it was not happy and never gave it.
After this happened a few times, gathered all his courage to ask her mother why she was upset. She said, `Dear son, you go astray. Would be very happy if you had it up to your real
enemies are within you. In fact, thanks to these glorious victories, you've given them back and you're back to your internal enemies even stronger. Actually, you're losing the battle every day. If you tried to overcome your greed, your lust, your futile ambitions and your desire to be a great man, I would say you would have done a good job and deserve it a blessing?”.
The Dhammapada says: “104-105 Better conquer oneself than conquer others. Neither a god nor a demigod, nor Mara nor Brahma can undo the victory of one who has trained himself and always leads in moderation”.
201. “Victory begets enmity. The defeated live in unhappiness. Renouncing both victory to defeat, peaceful live happily”.
ENEMIES OF THE EARTH
Who are the enemies of the Earth? They are not in strict order of importance but I think they are:
1st The degradation of the environment. We do not realize we live livelihood that the Earth gives us, the most important thing is the food.
Today appears amply demonstrated that the environment, the climate is global. That what is done in one country can affect everyone. The atmosphere is one and only one, has no borders. What is done in the atmosphere of a country, it can affect the entire global atmosphere that is unique and global to all citizens of this beautiful planet.
2nd The generalization of weapons, illegal arms trafficking and illegal weapons
3rd Illegal drugs.
4th The thirst and hunger of so many millions and millions of people on our planet.
5th The technology is almost exclusively in the service of profit and corporate and individual, not collective or global interests. As a new invention occurs, usually it is transmitted immediately to the market so if you can only produce an economic benefit to shareholders of corporations. Our technological level grows geometrically and the market does not have time to absorb it and all that is achieved is to create technological waste.
A new invention could cost them hit the market, because there are vested interests.
6th Commercial companies base their operation in the mood for unlimited profit, personal unlimited wealth of the founders or holders. We must create a means by which to make its goals come to the end of humanity.
7th Continue the reader.
LAWS
For the government the power is needed. Power is control. The most important of these laws is to be accomplished not only to be there. Currently what the parliament is to create an enormous amount of paper, then not used, is not known, is not respected, is not fulfilled and only serves to that many people have to study very complicated and multiple laws, with potential application conflicts and gaps that arise. Cutting down forests and woodlands for it and contaminating many rivers. And then they are useless, because they simply are not met or are ineffective or both complicate things a judge to make a decision in a particular case, almost have to do a pre-thesis. Laws, after them, we must apply.
The more complicated the law, will be more difficult to apply.
If in addition to complicated laws change much, then that must apply, instead of applying what they have to do is stop studying instead of applying them.
There are parliamentarians who sign laws are not read. Only they signed. It seems that the only role of parliamentarians is to make laws, and laws if they do not justify their work. Therefore, whenever a problem arises, they do a law to solve the problem. Though the problems usually arise because previously other law has been violated. And so we entered the phenomenon of the multiplication of laws intended to enforce other laws which have previously been breached.
You should first study the subject on which you want to legislate, talking with experts and scholars on the changes to be done as well as the recipients of the same. But after making the law, observe compliance and deviations presenting reality.
René Descartes said: “It is better governed state that has few laws, and in which those laws are strictly observed”.
Reality changes better with education than with the law.
Tacitus said: “There are many laws in a corrupt state”.
The English jurist Jeremy Bentham: “Every law is an infraction of liberty”.
Montesquieu: “Useless laws weaken the necessary”.
Napoleon: “There are so many laws that no one is sure not to be hung”.
And the wise philosopher Lao Tzu said: “The more laws more thieves”.
SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES OF THE UNION.
The Ten Commandments are:
You have no other gods before Me.
Thou shall not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of what is in heaven above, what is below on earth, what is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
You shall not take the Lord́s name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. The Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Honour your father and your mother.
Thou shall not kill.
Thou shall not commit adultery.
Thou shall not steal.
Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
You shall not covet your neighbouŕs house, the woman, servant, servant (today slavery should not exist), ox, donkey, or any that is thy neighbour thing. (If this command provides you shall not covet, much less take the steal, the steal, of course).
In fact in the West, these spiritual laws are accepted by Christianity, for Islam in his holy Koran and Judaism. They are common to the greatest number of different major religions and spiritual laws. I understand that almost any Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto accept them with the exception of religions in which statues of gods or saints to revere, which have to be respected are used, of course. And the Sabbath could be understood as the religious festival, either on Sunday for Catholics, on Friday for Muslims, or Monday for Saivites.
These nine commandments could be set today to everyone. In fact this law, the Mosaic law still in force. And is the point of union among Christians, Jews and Muslims. I think they are more commonly spiritual laws accepted in the planet.
Polygamy, now, with the number of inhabitants that exist today on the planet and how humanity is using natural resources, is not recommended.
The commandments established: Honour thy father and thy mother, which is a tradition in Hinduism and Buddhism and Shintoism. You sanctify the holidays (the Orientals also sanctify holyldays). You love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind and do not bear false witness to your neighbour (the East are as a rule not even speak ill of your neighbour).
I understand that I may worship the statues of saints. In fact in most churches often have statues of saints. And in other traditions statues of deities or saints or Buddha is also worship.
While, for the atheist, agnostic or non-theistic as the Buddhists, there are only eight commandments, since no one can be forced to love God, because God has given us free will, even to deny or not love.
CHAPTER II
ANTHROPOMORPHIC WORLD MODEL
There is a beautiful comparison: compare society with humans. It looks like a Renaissance comparison, but it is not, in terms of time, another to the extent that it takes the human being as the measure of all things. As in the revival in the city thought the measure of man, the anthropomorphic city, Rodney Collin, compares the entire society as if it were a single man. Here we will see the whole world population as a single human being. This is a functional model.
The human being has a soul, that soul would consist of religion and spirituality in society worldwide. By religious and spiritual people. Physically, perhaps, by the monasteries, cathedrals, temples, ashrams ...
Man has mind, that mind would be made up of universities, colleges and academies, on television, newspapers and books are passing thoughts.
Man has heart is pumping blood. Blood carrying amount to trade things from one place to another, as needed. In fact the amount of blood pumped by the heart depends on agitation or exercise the body or mind. Before you start the body, there has been a desire in the heart and discernment has ratified and thus the body has been moved.
People who practice meditation, can notice as they enter into meditation, heart rate decreases naturally. The great yogis of India may even completely stop the heart for a few seconds or several minutes, at his will, without suffering physical death for it. Currently we have an example, although not a yogi of India, René Mey who was three minutes flat EKG, his heart stopped at will three minutes and 16 minutes with 27 seconds without air to breathe.
The body has arms, which would be the army, police, workers ... has legs that would transport. It has eyes that would be astronomical telescopes, the cameras or microscopes, according to look inward, outward or under investigation. The body has a mouth (transmitter) and ears (receiver) that would telecommunication systems. It has nervous system, any system that would transmit information from the body to mind or vice versa.
The health system represent all organs and glands that cause the body to go to homeostasis.
The secret services would be white blood cells (leukocytes), the immune system, which defends the body from external agents already inside or also from external aggressions. And also against cells that have genetic information destructively varied by varying the altered genetic information.
The immune system can cause the body rejecting a transplant, that we drop all the hair maybe just to tell us that there are bio-compatible metal is not in our body such as nickel for example, when the temperature of the whole body, which increase or decrease the heart rate and / or breathing, which sweats ... has great power to defend the body from foreign elements, viruses or bacteria or to protect cells that have altered their genetic information.
The immune system also could be represented by biotechnology research centres or epidemiology investigating viruses and bacteria and then produce vaccines and antibiotics to combat them.
The police maintain peace, peace is an attribute of the heart, hence its from it his power. It also control, monitors and researches, which are qualities of mind. And it has the power of action, arms and legs.
Agriculture would be the stomach and the mouth, which feeds us.
The cleaning function in the mental field would be represented by prayer or meditation, and temples. On the emotional level, clean heart would be represented by music audiences (-there is a Mexican song called Cielito Lindo singing: ay ay ay ay Sing and do not cry, singing hearts rejoice Cielito Lindo, and there a Spanish saying that their sentences: who sings scares his hardships). If the buildings are built with shared walls that almost seem paper, then people can not sing like without disturbing the neighbours.
In terms of the physical, the cleaning function would be represented by the immune system that protects us from foreign bodies that enter the body and the elements that are not with biologic compatible and bacteria, fungi and viruses. By the kidneys at the level of the circulatory system. In the area of the digestive system through the anus. Sweating from general physical view point.
Anyone who has or had an illness in the foot, can know how important your feet. The feeling of insecurity that comes from having a weak foot. The lack of a secure point of support to propel the body. The feet may be farmers and workers, because they are holding the whole body.
As we see, each profession or industry can be represented by a particular organ as the most representative, but not only by that.
In democracy is supposed that rules the body. In fact that́s the name that was given to Parliament in the French Constitution of 1791, Legislative Body (Corps Législatif). Desire of the body, desire to will be accomplished. The king was not suppressed by the French Revolution, but was subject to the law, the result of the general will, emanating from Parliament, representing the people, the body. But he ended up killing the king and queen. And after the French Revolution, there were seventy years changing among republic, monarchy and empire. It was not a gradual change.
Wishes there are in the heart are the bosses. The judgment confirms the desire all it does is give you strength, is like the “enter” computer, only key that we must first think if pressed or not. You can also delete the instruction before pressing the “enter” key. And also it directs energy from the force of desire with thoughts and actions. That is why the boss has to have a pure heart, to know what is best and not what people want or feel that need not be equal or the same, or simply match. Namely, to distinguish the beneficial desires from the desires are not.
An economist writer compared the economy to the liver, he said that we only realize that the economy is bad when it́s too late, when the liver is already sick.
For example, when the body has weakness in the liver, what it does it is ask for refined sugar or chocolate or a muffin or a sweet, which is just what will energize in the short term, but then will harm the liver in the long-term. However take a tablespoon of olive oil with a squeeze of lemon fasting benefits the liver, but is not so nice to the taste like chocolate or a cake. But if we have done exercise or sport or we will do it, take sugar it is a correct option.
It is much like economic choices, what works in the short term, usually does not work in the long term. Although medicine also states that in a situation of shortage of sugar (eg Africa or India), is better a excess than a defect for not fainting occurs.
The light of heart and love, make willpower and self-control are sweet and restrained. So discernment, choose and opt for the decision not to sugar the body and take the tablespoon olive oil in getting out the fasting. That is how the will is slowly trained and strengthened. The heart glows discernment. The heart and discernment are closely related. When one does not fulfill its function well, it leaves the other helpless.
Tyranny, would, in this interpretation, when humans do severe austerities and damages the body. When fast. Disappear cells, the body is damaged. Although the soul gains many merits and much soul benefits. We must care and protect the soul and the body also. If the soul is not cared for, the body surrenders to the pleasures of the senses and almost always there are exceptions the normal is fattening, but that́s not healthy, then there will come a time when you have to go to “the doctor” to put a regime that will not be a taste for the senses.
The lungs would be giving breath, the life-giving, which oxygenate. Maternity centres would be who give oxygen to the body. Where children are born. If children are not born, the human race would die out. If enough air to the body, the body will live. The human race would die out if there is not air in the lungs. In fact respiration has to do with sex. When sex is practised there is hyperventilation.
As a human being, there is only one organ taking decisions. Similarly, in a society should be a single authority to take decisions (and well advised course). There are a sailor saying: “to command do not admit par”.
I am referring only to the important decisions. Many body functions work themselves without the intervention of the decision organ of the mind (many organs function without the mind has to decide anything). The liver, for example, works perfectly without the mind, without the mind saying anything, but is the mind how will decides which ingest, knowing if is a short-term or long-term option to the liver. They are great “guidelines”.
The autonomic nervous system causes the heart to beat, to breathe naturally and regulates many functions of our body. There are yogis who come to even control the system.
The word synergy is a word of Greek origin, meaning cooperation. In biology, the cooperation of the organs to perform a function.
The mind has a lot of control over the body. You can choose suicide (eg nuclear world war). You can self-mutilation (Great War), but has no control over many functions of the body.
THE MODEL
All this is a model that explains things. Only one model. However I believe that the best theories I studied in law are models from other sciences applied to law, as the Theory of the legal system of Santi Romano, comparing the legal rules with the laws governing the cosmos.
Or the Theory of Elemental Simplicity of Legal Bodies of Rudolf Von Jhering, comparing the concepts and legal institutions with chemical elements of the periodic table. Or by the same author Alphabet Legal Theory, in which abstract concepts are the consonants and applying the concepts are the vowels.
Legal Theory of Personification, what it does is compare the State with an individual, where the body of the individual represent all the society composed by different organs. This is the case. The only thing that has changed is the perspective and point of view. Taking all of humanity as a single individual, to give unity. And we have seen that this theory is entrenched in the roots of history.
In this model it is difficult for a profession or industry exactly match with an organ. A organ may be the one who most identifies, which represents more. But will participate in other organ functions. Because manual occupations require Mind and certain concepts to be applied, for example.
Thus a comparison is relative, not absolute. This absolutism of the concept is what made them look like closed castes or classes. Actually they never were, because by war merits could gain noblesse titles, honours and wealth, for example.
Every profession or certain functions can be explained with the functions of various organs, such as the police.
It is very important to help the human to choose a profession that will fill in which him feel happy, cheerful, comfortable being. That́s what will make the cell (whatever its nature may be), the individual, sits well within the social tissue and within the entire body.
If we give a little wine to a child when he is seven years old, one day in the holidays, when he is quiet, at a meal, can then listen him or her and see what them talk about. The talk may be related to the profession for which they has come to this life.
The function creates the organ. If an organ does not fulfill its function, it disappears.
Everyone must know his place in society.
When a man asked the sage Ramakrishna: who is bigger, a monk or a house holder?, he replied: “Each one is the king in his own place”. Here you can say the same. Each one is the king in his own place.
The Dhammapada says: “Not by left braided hair, nor by lineage, nor by birth one becomes a noble, but whom are truthful and straight, pure, this is a noble one”.
One of the greatest empires that have been on this planet was the empire of Genghis Khan. He eliminated the system of classes or castes and implemented meritocracy, which was important were the war merits. But I insist that this is not about making war, not to conquer territories.
In the Astavakra Samhita, a Hindu text, that is a dialogue among Astavakra, the master and his disciple, King Janaka, the sage tells his disciple: 5. “You do not belong to the upper caste (Brahmin) or any another caste or any ashrama. Yoúre no the organ of perception. Yoúre unattached, formless and witness of everything. Be happy”.
In the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic, states that knowledge makes no distinctions of caste or creed.
What is important is not so much the circumstances of birth, but human behaviour. The important thing is how you serve, how each person performs his function.
In the Bhagavad Gita declares that the birth in the family of a sage is very difficult to obtain. Krishna was born in a royal family, he was the eighth son of King Vashudeva. Buddha was born in a royal family, he was a prince, the son of a king. Jesus of Nazareth was born into a family that belonged to a royal line, Joseph was a descendant of King David. Although when Jesus of Nazareth spoke of his Father he was not referring to San Jose.
The human body is wonderful, a great divine creation. NASA has been able to send humans into space, but has not yet been able to mimic human hand in a robot. We still know very little about the human body. All intelligence is all over the body. And the body influences the mind, such as the mudras (postures) of hand. A hand posture gives courage, another removes depression ... But it is the mind that makes the body adopting that position, that is suitable to the purposes of the mind.
It is very important to feed the mind with good thoughts and good impressions. Television is important. Censorship must exist. Censorship is the ability of a person with discernment not to feed his own mind with negative and degrading thoughts. That is, for example, the non-issuance of bad violence programs. There is a film technique called ellipses that can eliminate the degrading content of violence. Positive, evolutionary, not only negative news. While some violence is not bad. For example, we can see the violence of war in the “Brave Heart” movie.
Nor is it to have deceived the people, but take care as one cares to see it degrading programs. Like you take care of your body by exercising and eating healthy meals.
In fact, the whole body is connected. Amalgam fillings in the mouth can cause a mental illness such as depression, insomnia, rage or personality disorders. From the point of view of the model, this would represent in agriculture (mouth) the use the most potent poison in nature (mercury) and further put a stack of electricity (five metals in saline) that interferes with the subtle electrical signals which controls the central nervous system to all organs and tissues.
Acupuncture has been established among all organs of the body there are energy meridians. Acupuncture seen medicine as energy, not from a mechanical standpoint of view. The Doctor Voll, -Austrian-, electrically proved the existence of these meridians with a device called electro-acupuncture device. He confirmed the existence of the meridians of Chinese acupuncture and found others. Meridians are electricity highways circulating in our body. An expert in electro-acupuncture and other medicines may know much about the mind of a human being. For example, in the brain, ears, eyes, dental pieces, hands and feet, are represented and energetically connected all the organs of the body. And with that, for example, the big toe of the right foot of a person is related to the head, who rule all the body.
One of the main features of the electro-acupuncture device, which was discovered by chance, is that if we introduce the remedy in the electromagnetic field of the patient, the electrical balance that was originally balance is restored. And so you can know what remedy is most beneficial.
Normally religions, cults set rites. Here religion is seen from the point of view of politics. Under a model of spiritual beliefs also. Because the human being has a soul.
I assume that is the soul that, depending on the merits you have, select the body. By choosing the body where you have already chosen will be born, according to their merits and in what conditions. But any decision is not more understanding. The soul is made up of religious and spiritual people in society. But political power is above the soul. Power is in charge. And command for the whole body, mind and indeed for the soul. Although we must bear in mind that there is also the subconscious mind. It would be the set of impressions from other lifetimes.
So If we decided not pray, do not meditate, do not do a devotional song or do not participate in a rite or practice a relaxation (any of us) we do not do it. We ignore our soul - that little voice (we shall see what happens, what effects have, but in principle is our decision). Power, discernment, should listen to the soul. But it is not bound by it. In fact, for example, in India, the highest caste is the priestly caste, the Brahmins, but royal Caste is above it, above the highest caste is the highest caste, however royalty members belong to the warriors caste that is just below the Brahmins caste. Although the highest caste of all is the royal caste. If His Holiness the Pope is the Vicar of Christ. The King is the vicar of God.
Power can negotiate. The soul may be asked to meditate or go to church in the early morning . But the body is a little weak (because of previous and wrong decisions or for other reasons), then the discernment can tell that little voice of the soul, rather than meditate or go to church first thing that requires more effort, you can pray or to do other spiritual practice that requires less effort for the body and mind, such as pray or make a small ritual.
There are many prophets and saints, and many traditions, but one supreme king, in this model. To reign supreme, they have all its citizens, even agnostics, atheists and the supreme king does not care how citizens love God. And besides existing one or more vicars of Christ, there is one or more vicars of Mohammed and Buddha and Tao and Shinto, Sikh, Protestantism, Shankaracharyas ... But there is only one supreme king. One king of kings and presidents.
A terrorist cell would be harmful to the body. A cell that has altered their normal genetic information and creates a cancer or other disease. Against these cells must apply medical remedies that are least harmful to the body and mind.
But we have to treat everyone the same?
Not to judge people by what they seem. It can cost you see, sometimes, but we all have within us the divine essence, the Self, the Great One. That is what is meant by the principle of equality, we all have the perfect divine essence within us, not because we are all equal, that in fact we are not. Each person is unique.
Or you have to treat everyone the same.
Also in this Union must fit all. Yellow, copper, blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Slavs, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Latin, American, English-speaking, gypsies, Indonesian, Caucasians, even the Nazis. You can not take anybody out the planet. Over time, the pain of exile could not be possible to perform, cease to exist. In the international space station Mir can not be anyone for long time.
Differences exist and are real. Although there is to do it is to treat people with respect and with order. The supreme king must occupy both the prostitute and the lama. For him both are citizens. And you should not judge either by appearances, because appearances can be deceiving.
From the point of view of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth there is only one sin, not to love. The Bible says do not judge and not be judged. And if you and judge you will be judged. Because when you judge you are not loving.
It would be an internal trial, that does not mean that we do not need courts or tribunals. That means that we should not make us false ideas from others, just by appearances, because appearances can be deceiving. And as we have seen, the virtues can hide really well, and can cost appreciate.
Miyagi said, “Things are not they seem”.
CHAPTER III
THE PEOPLE
The village is the body, gives shelter to the soul and mind. It is said that the body is the temple of the soul. In the scriptures of India it is said to be dwelling in the heart of every human being. We all have heart.
We must protect the body. Caring for the body is very important.
The Ramayana says: “It is despicable king who has no knowledge of politics and who does not love his people as his own life”.
For the people I want the four goals of life. The Mahabharata states that the four goals of man are righteousness and the fulfilment of duty (dharma), wealth (artha), pleasure (kama) and liberation (moksha).
DHARMA
The root of this word is dhar Sanskrit, meaning:
“To hold, to carry, to preserve, to practice”;
“Fulfilling the duty”;
“Firmly established: what is right and good and virtuous”;
“Natural character, own or essential quality of something”.
Dharma is a Sanskrit word meaning what is set or firm, firm decree, statute, ordinance, law, usage, practice, custom observed or prescribed, duty, law, justice; virtue, morality, religion, religious duty, religious merit, good deeds; according to the law or rule, according to nature. Law, natural law. The duty. The right thing. What is right. Righteousness. What holds together, which is mandatory.
Sanatana Dharma is permanent as the laws of nature, as the law of gravity, so is the eternal dharma.
It is said that there is no greater satisfaction than seeing the duty accomplished.
Have relation with time. In general, with the present time. It is knowing what to do at all times. For that we must be in the present. Here and now.
In the Hindu scriptures there is a promise that every time the law is weak, the duty; an avatar, a divine incarnation, born, take an incarnation:
“Whenever the principle of duty is weakened and injustice prevails, I take bodily form to come to life”.
In essence it is very similar to the concept of law in Christian philosophy. Jesus of Nazareth said He did not come to bring a new law but to fulfill the present Law.
Hinduism assumes that there is one God, Brahman, all pervasive, eternal, immutable. Even while it is taking various manifestations.
Jesus of Nazareth was saying that every time we gave food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, hospitality for the pilgrim, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned ... we would be doing with Him.
This can only mean that we are all Him, that He dwells within of every human being. You just have to uncover, awaken the divinity, that is the highest dharma. Jesus of Nazareth told his apostles, everything else will be added unto you.
Dharma, in essence, is the fulfilment of the law and the duty. Duty is related to service. In Eastern traditions we talk of selfless service is charged for it- though. It is an inner attitude. In Buddhism this attitude is called Kun Long. It is the inner motivation of the actions, not the outside.
The Mahabharata says that love is superior to duty (dharma).
Tulsidas in his Ramayana says that the four pillars of dharma are true, external or internal purity, compassion and charity.
There is a beautiful story, once one person died and went to heaven. He saw that there were large amounts of food and very long spoons to take it, everyone was fat, well-fed and happy. Then he went down to hell. There was the same amount of food and the same spoons but everyone was thin, starved or died of hunger. Our person asked them why they ate so little. He was told that the spoons were long and therefore could not eat. All that happened was that in the sky, is that some were they fed the others.
In the Bible it is said: “you earn your bread by the sweat of your brow”, however, this statement is not a curse as some believe, all that means is you have to exercise, to eat without exercise is not Well, that says any doctor, but the doctor is not like the Bible, then is not a curse. If we understood as a curse, then the minimum wage in Spain for 2013 is 645.30 euros per month or 21.51 euros per day. Which means that for eight hours can not pay you less than 21.51. Therefore if we divide 21.51 by eight hours we have a figure of 2.69 euros per hour. So the minimum price is 2.69 euros an hour. So if we divide 2.69 euros from 0.50 which is the value of a loaf of bread, the result is to eat a loaf of bread a day have to work equivalent to 5.38 fraction of an hour that is 11.16 minutes a day. So it́s a curse from eleven point sixteen minutes a day to eat bread, nothing more. Of course, then we would have to sleep on the street.
Do work that requires physical exertion or sports is very good, in climates where they do not require extreme efforts. Purifies the body, leaving the healthy low heart rate and mind in a healthy state (mens sana in corpore sano). And you sleep better. It generates some of the physical effects that produce the meditation. A macrobiotic doctor, said: “If you play sports you can eat whatever you want” (referring to the type of food not quantity). And if you do not like, do not feel like or not suit you, you can exercise. Can be avoided only practice sport and exercise, eg walking or swimming, if we do not pollute the body with too many toxins. If the body is fed red meat, sport or exercise or the exercise of the work is good. You can also take fish and play sports and meditate. There is a wide range of possibilities. The body is the temple of the soul. It is the instrument we have to evolve in this live. Take care of it is important.
The Italian proverb says “primum vivere deinde philosophare”, first live and then philosophizing. And the Bhagavad Gita says that not even normal life is possible in inaction.
This also tells what Buddhism within the Eightfold sender: right livelihood.
Buddhism is the way of the eightfold path is the right view, right thoughts, right words, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right concentration and line resolution.
What you need to know what role does or should occupy you. Knowing what́s duty (Sanskrit swadharma).
As the Master Ramakrishna said when asked: “Each one is the king in his own place”.
It is therefore very important that in education the most appropriate criteria continue to help choose good a job each one, to meet the real needs of the individual, the person, the citizen. In this way all of us can be a king, each one in his own role. Everyone in our place. For this must not necessarily follow the profession more like a person. Is the parable of the talents, talents should not be hidden. We should develop and set at the service of others, to make our society better every day.
ARTHA
Means wealth, cause, motive, reason, advantage, use, useful, thing, object, object of desire, substance, being, property, wealth, money.
Wealth, abundance, is very important. Must flow. We must ensure that the impediments that prevent flow, go away (eg customs, eventually). No equality is necessary. It is also right that those who work more, earn more. But it should reach everyone. And most who have more need (for example, a father of nine children). Not to be people who die of hunger or thirst. What should not be is poverty. A ethic wealth is those that is used in the good of those who have a complete lack of it.
It could be achieved an economic system that would give work for all and also meet the basic needs of all.
What about wealth? Some are born rich and others poor. Some are born into a wealthy family and others in a poor family. Reincarnation gives explanation for many unexplained things. Such as the fact that some people are born in very poor places and other places instead born with glut. If God is just, and are born with different conditions, it is because there are a previous cause. The explanation lies in the samskaras (it is a Sanskrit term for the whole of karmic impressions, karma literally means action, in this case actions of previous lives). In our merits. But this does not mean we should ignore such people who are born in very poor places with malnutrition.
When the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna asks Lord Krishna:
“37.- He who strives not, but who is possessed of faith, whose mind wanders away from Yoga, having failed to attain perfection in Yoga, what end, O Krishna, does he meet?
38.- Having failed in both, does he not perish like a riven cloud, supportless, O mighty-armed and perplexed in the path to Brahman?
39.- This doubt of mine, O Krishna, do Thou dispel completely; for none other than Thyself can possibly destroy this doubt.
The Blessed Lord said:
40.- O Partha, neither in this world nor in the next is there destruction for him; none, verily, who does good, My son, ever comes to grief.
41.- Having attained to the worlds of the righteous and having dwelt there for eternal years, he who failed in Yoga is reborn in a house of the pure and wealthy.
42.- Else, he is born in family of wise Yogins only. This, verily, a birth like this, is very hard to obtain in this world”.
Today there are psychiatric studies like Dr. Brian Weiss, or the professor of neurology at the University of Virginia Ian Stevenson, or psychiatrist and philosopher Raymond Moody, who go in that direction. That is demonstrated, although not in terms of “scientists” that exists in our subconscious memories of previous lives, you can even check, sometimes, by documents and facts. And that some phobias and diseases are caused by other lives, especially in violent deaths in past lives and not in our present existence.
Socrates, in the Phaedo, dialogue is about the immortality of the soul, talking about it is equally true that after the birth, death comes, like that after death comes birth.
The Bhagavad Gita says: “He is not born, nor does He ever die; after having been, He again ceases not to be; nor the reverse. Unborn, eternal, unchangeable and primeval, He is not slain when de body is slain”.
Jesus of Nazareth said: “Do not fear those who kill the body, but can not kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in the Hell -Gehenna- ”.
Life is like school. To go to a good college one needs to have certain qualifications. As in life, to be born within certain families, we must have certain merits.
God knows what is best for each individual soul.
Once a human being had much money, but had no one with whom to spend it, to share it with. A sad fate for his wealth.
No matter whether or not exist the money. Money is a good way to reward our efforts. But the economy make the mistake of thinking on unlimited growth. To think of housing as something fungible. To believe that competition is a principle that can lead to its ultimate consequences. And do not think about things like family, which is the basic social unit and that could now be endangered in the West, or things like the environment. What if we cess to have the thing that give us support and sustenance -the Earth-?
Basic human needs are very important. The human being is a social being. It is social in nature. To me what I serve the rights of active political participation and voting, if I have not to food to take in my mouth or a roof to cover me? What good is having all fundamental rights and do not have a job, a house to live with a roof that covers you? What I serve all fundamental rights if I can not live peacefully in my house thinking that any day can come to my house to steal?
Today we see large cars circulating, but also see how many people are on the streets begging. There is nothing wrong in the existence of big cars. But, when people ask of the lack of a decent job is not so god.
Economists may create a good tax system. But what good is a good tax system without education? The important thing, as always, lies in the practice of theory. Not in theory. Lies in the application of the law, not so much in that the law exists. And in essence, in education. In the educational system.
It is not wrong to have wealth. What is there should be no poverty, it is that people starve in Africa or India. Wealth is not bad. It should not be is the poor or very poor, unless they want for his soul (monks, nuns and the like).
There is a talk of giving a fishing rod instead of giving fish. But it is better to teach the knowledge of how a fishing rod is made. As Swami Vivekananda said, the best thing you can give is knowledge.
Shri Adi Shankaracharya said the temporary wealth is transitory.
Finish one day. Not us we can take with us when we leave the body.
Koran says: “But for the fear that all men one people of infidels change, would have given to those who believe not in Allah (Allah means God) silver roofs to their houses and stairs to them ; 33 silver doors and comfortable seating for relaxing, 34 and gold ornaments. All this is nothing but a passing enjoyment of this life, the afterlife because the book now Lord pious”.
In the New Testament it is that Jesus of Nazareth gathered said, it is easier to pass through the eye of the needle camel, a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. There is a Bible commentator explains that the needle is a needle door, where the camel download and tilt to pass.
Currently we see as a major technological inventions, we have great communication systems and information, many services, but there are people who no roof and no food.
Most importantly, spiritual abundance. The abundance of virtue. The abundance of values and principles. And the abundance of living examples of these values and principles.
Hindu sage philosopher and economist Kauthilya in his Arthasastra said “the root of happiness is the dharma. The root of dharma is wealth. The root of wealth is royalty. And the root of kingship is the dominion over the senses (indriyajaya)”.
KAMA
Kama is a Sanskrit word that literally means joy, love, affection, pleasure, especially sexual or sensual love.
The Kamasutra is only a book of short and doctrinal statements (sutras) about pleasure (kama).
Almost everything we do in our lives are done with the goal of searching happiness or pleasure. There are the pleasure of the senses, the pleasure of the body. There is also the pleasure of the soul. Fundamentally there are a difference among the two. The first one, at the first is sweet, then after is bitter. The second one is just the opposite, it is first bitter (you have to make many efforts) and then after is sweet. That says the Bhagavad Gita.
Pleasure is important. There is a spiritual pleasure and worldly pleasure. The Bible says that “narrow is the road that leads to salvation”. The Katha Upanishad says to walk the path of realization is like walking on the edge of a blade. (Narrow too).
But the pleasure is necessary, if we do not get spiritual pleasure, the pleasure of the soul, the pleasure of the heart, then we seek in foreign objects.
In the measure is the virtue, even in pleasure. As Buddha said, do not tighten the strings of the guitar while breaking nor so little tension them not to produce music. He said this after making very great austerities in the forest.
There is a story, which tells how God wanted to hide the key to happiness, thought in the high mountains, but eventually saw the man arrive there, thought in space, but saw that man would also come there, the deep oceans, but the same. So he hid the key to happiness inside of the human being. You just have to look inside. So say the sages.
Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, spoke of knowledge by the opposition of opposites. He said that only know what is health, when we are sick ... Health gives much pleasure, but seldom do we realize. It is a natural pleasure that accompanies us. Only we realize when we are sick, when we lose our health. There is a pleasure that seems natural, and that is a great blessing it is to eat well and sleep well, that we only realize when we lose.
We seek pleasure. Where is the limit of pleasure? Like everything in life, it has its measure. As the Oracle of Delphi “Know thyself, nothing too much” it said. The same goes for all the pleasures. Since taking a sip (of any pleasure), to become an addicts. Everything has its measure. Everyone should make efforts to know his own measure. Each person is unique.
Even if we saw pleasures like poison, like a poison for the soul, all the poisons are restorative in small doses. It is said that no poison, but dose. In fact, this principle is the foundation of homeopathy healing: a substance to a healthy individual produces a certain symptoms, diluted and energized, cure those same symptoms in a sick person.
A glass of a spirit drink or wine can replace as a substitute of the love do not given by a man or a woman and could prevent a marriage or a couple breaks, for example. Now, before finishing with cirrhosis is better to go to a marriage counsellor. Alcohol makes us lose memory, so it was said that he drank to forget. Besides alcohol errors in brain functioning and memory, so you can drink as much as you want fail in your life. But mistakes occasionally is not bad, gives humility, and we realize we are not perfect, we have to always to learn.
Michio Kushi, a macrobiotics master once had a disciple who wanted to commit suicide (he was yang in excess), so the Master quoted him in a bar and ordered a beer (yin). He spent the desire to commit suicide. Just he had an excess of yang and yin needed.
Leonardo Da Vinci wrote in his “Notepad”, if wine is drunk is also to drink water so you do some good to the head (the head is controlling). Much difference drinking alcohol at a meal, than drink alcohol only. When you drink alcohol only, the error rate increases.
There is talk of the principle of value. Something lacking is valuable. For example a glass of spirit drinks. In a special occasion and had a drink becomes ambrosia. But if we take that cup every day, we could end up becoming a addicts and could damage our liver and possibly end up sick. The North American Indians called the whiskey crazy water.
Good wine and olive oil significantly reduce the level of cholesterol and produce many beneficial effects on our body. Now it is discovering that a glass of wine a day helps guard against depression.
The wine is used in nuclear submarines because it is good to reduce the level of radioactivity. But introduce an element that is good for the body, protecting it from the radioactivity, but give errors in the functioning of the brain, in a activity in which an error can produce a nuclear war, I do not know if it́s good.
Good wine is good for contemplation. In my experience, in contemplation, take a little wine helps you tell yourself the truth, to see things as they are, and not as you would like them to be. In short, do not deceive your own self. If you want, you can then write the truth has been said to yourself and then correct, because you will have one or more errors. It is a work of contemplation to the truth in two phases: opening and correction.
If with the wine you love, even if yoúre wrong a little, drink wine is a virtue. If you hate when you drink wine, to drink wine is a sin. Often when we lie, or when we do not say the truth is because we have deluded ourselves first.
I can love much to a plant, a cactus, I watered a lot, because I love it very much. At last the cactus dies by excess water, the roots will rot. True love is very attentive.
The same can happen to our children when we give them love, but do not give them discipline. Their education could fall, the “roots” can be rot. Mahatma Gandhi, the paradigm of nonviolence, once had to hit one student. He had no other choice. Otherwise would not learn the lesson. The teachers must have authority and a lot of left hand and above all, much love for her students. But love is not to allow negative qualities. And each person is unique. Maybe not give a clout, when you have to give it is a violent act, and hit without anger when you have to give it, it is a non-violent act. But perhaps most important of all, it is to give it without anger, without anger, as if we were an actor doing a performance. Today it seems that all teachers must have more non-violence than Mahatma Gandhi is required. The results are visible. The first definition in the Oxford English Dictionary the word discipline is: “1 [mass noun] The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience: a lack of proper parental and school discipline. More example sentences. 1.1The controlled behaviour resulting from such training: he was able to maintain discipline among his men”.
The real pleasure is in doing our duty with dedication, our worldly duty or our divine duty to seek God, to love God. Other pleasures depend on the degree of perfection that everyone wants to achieve and how is everyone, because every person is unique. But the pleasure in itself is not bad. God has created for something. For a special occasion, when we make a celebration, we buy something special. But we do not buy those special things every day. In fact, Jesus of Nazareth, on a special occasion -a wedding- turned water into wine. But He was not turning rivers into wine. (In India, many rivers are sacred).
In Seven Partidas of Alfonso X the Wise, it states that there is no good more precious than water. They are now beginning to call the blue gold. There is a Spanish saying: “Something good must have the water when they bless it”. And did you know? there is nothing more false than “equal as two drops of water”. Did you know that each water molecule is unique and different from all others?
Hebrew proverb says: “if there were no passions no one would build a house, marry, would raise children, or open businesses”.
The Tao Te Ching: “When human desires are moderate, peace occurs, and harmonizes the world of its own accord”.
In the Katha Upanishad it says: “The good is one thing, the pleasure another; these two, having different purposes, strung man. The man must remain in the good, for the one who chooses pleasure, spoils his destiny”.
MOKSHA
Its meaning is emancipation, liberation, freedom from something as mundane existence, transmigration. Release or final emancipation. In astronomy, the end of an eclipse or a planet hidden. Payment of credit or obligation.
Salvation called Christians. The -dipankara- Buddhists call enlightenment. The -moksha- release, performing, called Hindus.
Jesus of Nazareth said: “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”.
In India it is said that if someone wants to obtain liberation needs to find a realized master.
Swami Vivekananda, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, said that spiritual knowledge is not transmitted as physics or mathematics, but as light or heat.
This is the most difficult goal. In India it is said that if someone wants to come to the realization, have to find someone-a Master-that's is yet realized, which is already released. It is the Sanskrit term guru (literally light in the dark). It is what Jesus of Nazareth said of himself, “I am the light of the world; Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life”. When Jesus said this He was saying, I am a guru.
One can approach a source of light or heat. To a realized master. To an enlightened Master.
The love of the great masters is indescribable. Being in love to everyone, regardless of social origin, colour or gender. They love the Self in a rich, in a poor, in a man, in a woman, in a criminal, in a drug addict, in a prisoner, in a duke, in a worker, in a farmer, in a rancher, in a merchant, in a policeman, in a soldier, in a millionaire ... alike. They have spent all their desires in the fire of austerities. They love everyone unconditionally. Their inner smile is permanent. Their state, a state of ecstasy. Their teachings light to the hearts of human beings. Their words, nectar, ambrosia. Their hearts generous and desires free. They breathe the scent of freedom. Instead of walking, almost floating on the floor. They pour blessings to everyone they watch. Their fill with love those who are close to them, to the point that some can not do anything but weep love tears. They feel the people with God. They make experience to the people their own inner divinity.
Currently there are many religions, there are many spiritual paths, that are not religious in the traditional sense of dogmatic. Everyone is free to choose a religion or spiritual path or personal growth that best suits you according to your personality, character and attitude.
Brian Weiss said: “As the spokes of a bicycle wheel, all paths indicated by the great religions lead to the same centre, devotion and lighting.
There are no way better or worse”.
Peace, peace and peace will spread everywhere. Peace, peace, peace. Paz, paz, paz. Ho-Ping, Ping-ho, ho-Ping. Salam, salam, salam. Mir, mir, mir. Heiwa, Heiwa, Heiwa. Paix paix paix. Frieden Frieden Frieden. Pace, pace, pace. Shalom, shalom, shalom. Vrede, vrede, vrede. Paqe, paqe, paqe Fred, fred, fred. Rahu Rahu Rahu. Kapayapaan, kapayapaan, kapayapaan. Rauha, rauha, rauha. Beke Beke Beke. Friður, friður, friður. Perdamaian, Perdamaian, Perdamaian. Síochána, Síochána Síochána. Miers, Miers, Miers. Taiko, taiko, taiko. Keamanan, Keamanan, Keamanan. Paci, paci, paci. Pokój, pokój, pokój. Mier, Mier, Mier. Amani amani, amani. Baris Baris baris. Hoa Hoa, Hoa. Binh, Binh bình. Heddwch, Heddwch, Heddwch. Bakea, bakea, bakea. Pau, pau, pau. Pax, Pax, Pax. Om, shantih, shantih, shantih.
GLOSSARY
In the text are many Sanskrit words, some Latin and there is also an English, French and Mongolian. When there is nothing say is a Sanscrit word.
Sanskrit is expressed in dewanagari characters, not the Latin alphabet. Foreign language was mainly Hindus learned English, why, his books were written in that language to be known by the rest of the world. The first dictionary of Sanskrit Sanskrit into English was done by Sir Monier Monier Williams.
The terms are Sanskrits ones. If nothing as talk about it, are Sanskrit terms.
TERMS:
aishwarya.- the status of a powerful lord, sovereignty, supremacy, power, influence, control, superhuman power.
Arjuna.- Prince and disciple of Shri Krishna, a character in the play Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita.
ashrama.- they are each of the four stages of Hindu life prescribed by the scriptures: Brahmacharya or student life. Garhasthya or life of the parent. Vanaprastha or forest life and life Sannyasa or renunciation. Each of them is an Ashrama, a stage of life.
brahmin.- person belonging to the priestly caste. A Brahmin priest is an individual who is married and has children in order to convey knowledge and recitation of the Vedas.
Bhagavad Gita.- main part of the Mahabharata, the great epic indica, is a dialogue among Krishna and Arjuna (Arjuna), his disciple, is considered the Bible of the Hindus and the essence of the wisdom of the Vedas.
bhava.- become, be, exist, happen, apparently. State, condition, range. State of being anything. True condition or state, truth, reality. Way of being, nature, temperament, character. Mode of action, conduct, behaviour. Any state of mind or body, the way you think or feel, feeling, perception, disposition, intent.
chakra.- literally wheel. Are the energy centres of subtle energy that the human being and the principal is seven.
Corps Législatif.- French expression that literally means legislative body.
Dalai.- Mongolian term that literally means Ocean.
dana.- the act of giving, giving in marriage, donation, gift, liberality.
danda.- a cane, staff, bar, bat, club, a mast, a form of military organization, the application of power, violence, power over, control, restraint, power embodied the army, as a symbol bar the judicial authority and punishment, punishment (physical, verbal and taxation; punishment and imprisonment, reprimand, fine).
DVD.- acronym for digital versatile disc. Digital versatile disc.
ellipsis.- English term. In cinema is the elimination of unnecessary time in the telling of a scene.
Jnana or Jnana.- literally knowledge. Knowledge. By extension also ordinary knowledge. It is one of the ways to find release. The roads to find the release are: Karma Yoga leads to the release by the practice of selfless action. Bhakti Yoga through devotion. And Jnana yoga by knowledge, knowledge of the Self.
graha.- to hold, obtain, receive.
gunah.- the three forces at work in the universe. Satwa is associated with the quality of purity, rajas is associated with the quality of purity-impurity, Tamas is associated with clumsiness, with inertia.
guru.- literally light in the darkness.
homeostasis.- English word. Set of phenomena of self-regulation, leading to the maintenance of relative constancy in the compositions and properties of the internal environment of an organism.
indriyajaya.- victory over or restraint of the senses
Ishwara.- God, the Supreme Being. Capable of, able, responsible, exposed to. Master, Lord, prince, king, lady, the queen. The supreme soul; Shiva, one of the Rudras, the god of love, number eleven.
ius.- is a Latin word that designates the law created by humans, justice, as opposed to Fas or sacred law.
Janaka.- name of a king made of ancient India, whose life is told in the Yoga Vasishtha and the Ramayana. In the Bhagavad Gita 3.20 There is also a quote from him.
jaya.- conqueror, winner. Conquest, win, win, win, win victory (in battle or dicing or in a lawsuit) The 3rd or 8th or 13th of any month average solar day. Flag of Indra.
jivanmukta.- liberated in life (ie, before death released from liability for future births).
jnana or jnana.- literally knowledge. Knowledge. By extension also ordinary knowledge. It is one of the ways to find release. The roads to find the release are: Karma Yoga leads to the release by the practice of selfless action. Bhakti Yoga through devotion. And Jnana yoga by knowledge, knowledge of the Self.
Mahabharata.- epic work that tells the struggle among the Pandavas and the Kurus. For Hindus it is a sacred historical text.
mahatman.- “Great Soul”, magnanimous, who has a great nature and a noble nature, noble, highly gifted, extremely wise, eminent, strong, powerful, elegant. The Supreme Spirit.
maharaja.- a great king, the current ruler, supreme sovereign.
manava.- descendant of Manu. Human.
mantra.- is a sacred formula. A brief and repetitive prayer.
mens sana in corpore sano.- Latin expression meaning healthy mind in a healthy body.
mukti.- establish or become free, liberation, final liberation or emancipation, the final bliss; abandonment, postponing, give up; shoot, shot, sending. It is almost synonymous term moksha, one of the four goals of life established in the Mahabharata.
naya.- lead (an army), conduct, prudent behaviour, government, civil and military government; wisdom, reason, in a prudent manner, plan, method, teaching, design, guiding thoughts, maxims, principle, system, method.
nibbana.- same meaning as the term nirvana (qv).
nirvana.- literally a breath off, dead, dead. Word that the ultimate state of happiness, bliss is designated. It would be equivalent to the Sanskrit word moksha; enlightenment or liberation. A state of divine ecstasy, in which the mind is free of thoughts, the heart is supremely quiet and only bliss is experienced. Last stage of the discipline of yoga, the state of liberation from all attachment, overcoming the dualities, extinction of desires, final emancipation, calm and serenity. Nirvana is the state, moksha to the person who lives constantly in that state.
pacem in terris.- Latin words for: peace on Earth.
pandit.- is a person, usually belonging to the Brahmin caste or Brahman, who is dedicated to the recitation of the Vedas and knowledge of dharma shastra, codes of conduct. Until 1864 were advisors to the courts of British justice. Although this word originally applied to people who had achieved Self-realization and would be a title equivalent to sage.
paramahamsa or paramahansa.- literally means supreme swan. Or, one who has conquered himself.
partidas.- Spanish word. The Seven Partidas of Alfonso X the Wise had as first name, Book of Laws, but by the fourteenth century was given that name because of the divisions or sections in which the work was divided. Is a division, as it can be a parva of the Mahabharata or sura of the Koran.
pax.- Latin word for peace.
PNN.- acronym, non-tenured professor. The lowest level of the faculty of the University until 1983, date on which the University Reform Law was passed in Spain.
quórum.- Latin world. Number of individuals needed for a body deliberative take certain agreements.
RAE .- acronym for Spanish Royal Academy, is a public corporation that belongs to the Institute of Spain, whose motto is “clean, fixes and gives splendor” and whose main task is to bring his wonderful dictionary new words to be incorporated into the Spanish language.
raja.- Sanskrit word for the royal caste. One of the castes in India are: Raja real caste, Brahman, or priestly caste, Ksatriya or warrior caste, Vaysha or caste of traders and farmers and Sudra or caste of workers, is the lowest caste, also called pariah. And then there are the outcasts. Gandhi was outcast by traveling abroad, he belonged to the caste of vayshas.
sabean.- subject of the ancient kingdom of Saba currently Yemen.
salam.- Arabic expression that means peace.
salom.- Hebrew expression which means peace.
sama.- Regular, always the same, constant, invariable, fair, impartial, have the right size, average, normal, right, fair, neutral, indifferent, equidistant from the ends, ordinary, ordinary, mediocre, just, righteous, good , honest, upright, easy, smooth, flat, level, level, parallel, equal, like, like, equal, like or identical or homogeneous with convenient, full, complete, whole, peace.
sannyasa.- throwing it aside, resignation, abandonment, renunciation of the world, profession of asceticism, abstinence from food, deliver the body, sudden death, exhaustion, deposit, trust, compact, compact, gambling, betting, Indian tuberose .
satya.- true, real, genuine, sincere, honest, faithful, pure, virtuous, good, successful, effective, valid.
serendipity.- English noun. The emergence and development of events, by chance, a happy or beneficial way. Examples: `a fortunate stroke of serendipity` a series of small serendipities
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1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by the three princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not looking.
shantih.- peace.
shastra.- order, mandate, precept, rule. Dharma shastra complete book of laws.
shree or shri.- radiate light, radiant, beauty, splendour, glory, beauty, grace, adorable, prosperity, auspiciousness, senior, majestic, royal dignity, good fortune, success.
shloka.- stanza.
sura.- is each chapter of the Koran.
sutra.- aphorism (short and doctrinal statement).
traditio.- Latin word for a Roman legal business, is the act by which the tradens delivers a thing to the accipiens with the respective intentions to transfer and acquire ownership or other owning right. It is mainly represented by the Roman balance.
upanishad.- are sacred Sanskrit texts, auxiliary to the Vedas (Rig Veda, Krishna Yajur Veda, Atharva Veda, Sama Veda). Upanishad literally means teaching that is received at the feet of the Master.
vicar.- English adj. Who has the time, power and other faculties or replace him. Person in regular orders have the time and authority of any of the major superiors, in his absence, absence or illness. Of Jesus of Nazareth.- One of the titles of the Pope, as one having the time of Christ on earth (Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy).
yin.- is a term that in Chinese philosophy designates the feminine, the acid, centrifugal, outside, as opposed to yang, masculine, alkaline, centripetal within.
yang.- is a term that in Chinese philosophy means the masculine, alkaline, centripetal, the interior, the gross.
yoga.- comes from the root Yug which means to unite, gather. Has the same meaning as the Latin word religion, comes from “re ligare” (rejoin), re-unite with the divine, is its meaning. Also has the meaning and occurs in the Bhagavad Gita cut union with pain.
LIST OF BOOKS QUOTED.
Adi Shankara: his Life and Times. H. H. Jagadguru Shri Candrasekharendra Saraswati Shri Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Pitha. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Bombay. 1988.
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World. Ethics For a New Millennium. Tenzin Gyatso. His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Little, Brown and Company. 1999.
Astavakra Samhita, Editorial Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata, India.
Comparative Etymological Dictionary of Personal Names. Gutierrez Tibón. Economic Culture Fund. Mexico. 1988.
Dhammapada, http://jorvilanova.galeon.com/enlaces601380.html
Dictionary of the RAE Real Academia Spanish, Twenty-first edition.
Eastern proverbs and emblems. Illustrating old truths. By the Rev. J. Long. London Trubner & Co. Ludgate Hill. 1881. http://archive.org/stream/easternproverbse00longrich/easternproverbse00longrich_djvu.txt
History of Legal Thought. José María Rodríguez Paniagua. Complutense University School of Law. 1977.
History of my experience with truth, Gandhi (Autobiography), Arkano Books.
In the Fang forest, Inigo de Aranzadi. Plaza y Janes. 1962. Editorial New Athens. 1981.
Indian Spiritual Stories, Ramiro Calle , Editorial Eyhras.
Las Siete Partidas, Alfonso X the Wise, Andrea de Portonaris Press.
Law and Regulation in the continental public law, Alfredo Gallego Anabitarte, 1971, INAP, Madrid.
Mahabharata, spiritual vision, second edition 1997, Vyasa, Edicomunicación. Barcelona.
Manava Dharma Shastra. The Laws of Manu, c. 1500 BCE.
Translated by G. Buhler. Source: Indian History Sourcebook.
Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian Weiss, Ediciones B, Barcelona.
Meditation: its Theory and Practice, Hari Prasad Sastri, nineth edition 1974, Shanti Sadan, London.
New Economic Policy. Reforms & Development. Siddheswar Jagdish Prasad & Prasad. First Edition. 1993. K. M. Rai Mittal Publications. New Delhi.
Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle. http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/% C3% 89tica_a_Nic% C3% B3maco
Notebook. Leonardo Da Vinci.
Only love is real. Brian Weiss. Ediciones B. 2002.
“Pacem in Terris” (Encyclical) Pope John XXIII,
Peter Principle. by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. 1969 .
Phaedo, Plato, Editorial Tecnos.
Politics, Aristotle. Editorial Alba. 1987.
Public International Law Institutions. Manuel Díez de Velasco and Vallejo. Fifteenth edition.
PUBLIC LAW WRITTEN IN FRENCH BY M. DOMAT, AND TRANSLATED BY CASTILIAN Dr. DON JUAN ANTONIO Trespalacios, Prebendary of the Holy Church of Cordova. VOLUME I. TREATY OF LAWS AND PRELIMINARY BOOK. LICENSED IN. IN THE PRINTING OF BENITO CANO. MDCCLXXXVIII.
REAL RIGHT ILLUSTRATION OF SPAIN ORDERED BY JUAN SALA, Provost OF METROPOLITAN CHURCH OF VALENCIA, AND LAW PROFESSOR OF PREMIUMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SAME CITY. SECOND EDITION, Corrected and addedby its author, and arranged appointments Novisima laws to the Gathering. Volume I. Licensed. In Madrid. IN THE OFFICE OF DON JOSE DEL Collado. MDCCCXX YEAR.
Reflections on the configuration of the Head of State in Comparative Law. Angel Menendez Rexach. Miscellaneous memorial. Cantoblanco University Press. Madrid 1982. Offprint.
Sanskrit English Dictionary, Sir Monier Monier Williams.
Silent Music. The Science of Meditation, William Johnston, 1974, USCC.
Life After Life, Raymond Moody, Edaf.
Sum of Theology. St. Thomas. Fourth Edition (Reprint). Library of Christian Authors. Madrid MMI.
Summa Theologica. St. Thomas. http://hjg.com.ar/sumat/
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu. Version of John C. H. Wu., 2003, Ark of wisdom, Edaf.
The Beautiful and the Sublime, Immanuel Kant, Universal Collection.
The Bhagavad Gita. With the commentary of Sri Sankaracharya. Samata Books, Madras. Translated from the original Sanskrit into Inglés By Alladi Mahadeva Sastry.
The Bible, Bible Christian Authors Library.
The binomial auctoritas-potestas in Roman law and modern law. Rafael Domingo Oslé. Lecture given on 6/14/1997 at the University of Salzburg.
The crest jewel of spiritual discrimination (Viveka Chudamani), Shree Shankaracharya, 1990, Editorial Kier, Buenos Aires.
The Golden Proverbs. Seneca.
The Holy Quran, Mohammed, 1997, Ediciones Obelisco.
The holy teaching of Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, 1988, Editorial Kier.
The legal, Santi Romano, 1963, Institute of Policy Studies, Madrid.
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery, 2003, Ediciones Salamandra, Madrid.
The Man Who Wanted to Meet God. Myths and Stories That Explain the Inexplicable. His Holiness Shantanand Saraswati. Vega. 2002.
The Peter Principle. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull. Plaza y Janes Editores. 1975.
The Republic, Plato. Editorial Partnership. Seventh reprint. 2008.
The Science of Religion, Paramahansa Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship.
The Seven Partidas, Alfonso X the Wise, Andrea Press of Portonaris.
The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Edaf.
The spirit of Roman law, Rudolf Von Jhering, short for Fernando Vela. 1997, Marcial Pons. (Der Geist des römischen Rechts. Rudolf Von Jhering).
The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu, 1820, the Press of Villalpando, Madrid.
The superior man and statecraft. Confucius. Norberto selection Tucci. Editorial E.L.A. (Editions Bookseller Argentina). 2007.
The Theory of Celestial Influence. Rodney Collins.
LIST OF ORIGINAL BOOKS QUOTED IN SPANISH.
Adi Shankara: his Life and Times. H.H. Jagadguru Shri Candrasekharendra Sarasvati Shri Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Pitha. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Bombay. 1988.
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“Karate Kid”. 1984. 126 min. United States. Director John G. Avildsen. Screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. Bill Conti music. Photography James Crabe Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, William Zabka, Randee Heller, Martin Kove, Ron Thomas. Columbia Pictures / Delphi Films / Jerry Weintraub Productions.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To my father who told me that the best jobs are the ones that have been targeted.
To Fernando de Cuervas-Mons y Coballes by giving me the advice to develop this work.
To Marisa, my mother, for the advice she has given me and the questions that made me and the conversations I've had with her who have helped me to develop this work. To Ana Diaz Pintos for her clever question to me. To Juan Antonio Cerrato for making me see that there may be exceptions to the rule. To Luis Macia Vals also by the correction I did. To Alberto Pacheco. To Pilar Gómez.
A very special thanks to Nuria Dorrío Rúa for the critics who did to this work. Also her expressed the desire that contained a great tip.
A public and private television all he has taught me with his wonderful documentaries. And especially the program “To know and to earn” in the second channel of the Spanish Public Television and the program “good law” of Telecinco. And also to José Mota.
Respectful and sincere thanks to all the teachers I've had in my life.
To the Wikipedia for everything they taught me.
To the Trivial Pursuit, for the things that they taught me.
To Blas Aguera, my psychiatrist, without whose support this work would not have been made.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
When normal single quotes within quotes on a quote from a text by an author, is that the text was in quotation marks in the original text.
The terms in other languages are explained in the text or in the glossary.
In this paper I have tried to use the term state or nation to refer only to the state of planet Earth that is designed in this book and the term nation to refer to the current countries would be the future regions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
CHAPTER I: THE UNION.
THE UNION.
PEACE.
THE ARMY. External defence. Interior defence. War and human evolution.
The national flag.
THE RELIGION. The law of one woman.
THE SISTER OF RELIGIONS.
PHILOSOPHY. Love. The truth. Respect. The reason. Freedom.
The social pact.
DEMOCRACY.
THE EQUILIBRIUM.
ELECTION OF RULER. Polygamy of the ruler. Qualities of the ruler. What is the best quality for a ruling? Voters and candidates. The draw. The parity.
BRAIN. The opposition. The selection of the members of the brain -government-.
THE TERMINATION OF RULING.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NATION
THE ECONOMY.
THE PARLIAMENT.
ENEMIES OF THE EARTH.
LAWS.
SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES OF THE UNION. The ten Commandments.
CHAPTER II:
ANTHROPOMORPHIC WORLD MODEL
THE MODEL
CHAPTER III: THE PEOPLE.
DHARMA.
ARTHA.
KAMA
MOKSHA
GLOSSARY.
LIST OF BOOKS QUOTED.
LIST OF ORIGINAL SPANISH BOOKS QUOTED.
LIST OF MOVIES QUOTED.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
CLARIFICATION.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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