Universal Human Values - Harmony in the Society

Harmony in Society

Building upon the understanding of harmony within the human being and family, the next step is achieving harmony in society.
A society is defined as families living together with mutual fulfillment, distinguishing it from a mere crowd or conflict zone.

The goals for human beings living in a society:
- Right understanding in every individual.
- Prosperity in every family.
- Fearlessness (trust and affection) in society.
- Co-existence (mutual fulfillment) with nature.

Prevailing false assumptions about happiness (e.g., equating it with money) lead to:
- Seeking happiness through accumulating physical possessions.
- Focusing on bodily sensations and external validation.
The pursuit of prosperity is often distorted into endless accumulation.
This leads to:
1. Obsession with consumption.
2. Obsession with profit.
3. Obsession with sensual pleasure.
Instead of fearlessness and trust, society is characterized by domination, exploitation, and fear.
The relationship with nature is one of exploitation rather than mutual fulfillment.

There is a need to understand and live in harmony within society.
The correct sequence for fulfilling the four goals:
1. Right Understanding.
2. Prosperity.
3. Fearlessness.
4. Co-existence.

Education: Developing right understanding of harmony at all levels of being (self, family, society, nature/existence).
Sanskar: Developing basic acceptance of harmony at various levels.
Education provides commitment, preparation, and practice for living in harmony.
Preparation includes learning skills and technology for harmonious living.
Living is an expression of one's sanskar.

Self-regulation: Feeling of responsibility towards the Body for nurturing, protection, and right utilization.
Health: Body acting according to the Self's instructions, with harmony among its parts.

Work: Effort a human being does on the rest of nature
Production: Physical facility obtained from work
Two key issues:
1. What to produce?
  - Produce physical facilities for nurturing, protecting, and rightly utilizing the Body.
2. How to produce?
  - Process needs to be cyclic and mutually enriching (eco-friendly).
  - Justice needs to be ensured in relationship with human being (people-friendly).
A production process is cyclic when resources return to their original state.
Resource depletion occurs when resources are used faster than they are produced.
Pollution results from producing substances that don't return to the natural cycle or do so too slowly.

Justice: Recognition of human-human relationship, its fulfillment, and evaluation leading to mutual happiness.
The feeling is central to human relationships.
Ensuring justice requires developing the competence to understand and ensure justice in every individual.
- If someone commits injustice:
  - Stop further injustice.
  - Help them develop competence for ensuring justice.
Preservation: Recognition of the relationship of human beings with the rest of nature, its fulfilment, and evaluation leading to mutual fulfilment.
Preservation means enrichment, protection, and right utilization of nature.
- It ensures:
  1. Prosperity in human being
  2. Enrichment, protection and right utilisation of the rest of the nature
Justice ensures fearlessness (trust) in society.
Preservation ensures mutual fulfilment (co-existence) with nature.

Exchange: Sharing physical facilities with mutual fulfillment in mind, not profit.
Sharing within family or accepted relationships; exchange beyond that.
Mutual fulfillment achieved when each family has what it needs through sharing and exchange.
Storage: Preserving physical facilities after needs are met, for future use, with mutual fulfillment, not accumulation/exploitation in mind.

Society ranges from family order to world family order.
Every person has a role in social systems, from family to world family order.
Family order: Responsible people living together for the common human goal.
Family cluster order: System evolved by a group of families to fulfil goals needing more participants than a single family has.
The progression:
Family Order \implies Family Cluster Order \implies Village Order \implies Village Cluster Order \implies … \implies Nation Order … \implies World Family Order

Happiness: Ensured by right understanding and right feeling in the Self.
Prosperity: Feeling of the availability of more than required physical facility. To ensure it, Right understanding is required at the base, along with physical facility.
Tradition of happy and prosperous living starts with the family order and can be continued through universal human order.

Children intrinsically desire to understand what is right, learn right skills, and do what is right.
They seek guidance and ask questions to understand and relate to the world.
Contradictory thoughts and actions are unsatisfying.
Children expect help in learning and understanding with affection.
The learning process involves imitating, following, obedience, and discipline, assuming elders are right.
Validation leads to self-discipline and self-confidence.
If inputs are wrong:
- Children doubt elders and try things on their own.
- If knowing doesn't occur, conduct remains indefinite and inhuman.
- Restraints, domination, and bad habits may develop.
- Children seek happiness or escape unhappiness, leading to dissatisfaction, lack of confidence, opposition, revolt, struggle, and war.
It's important to find a naturally acceptable way forward.

Societal goals: right understanding and feeling in individuals, prosperity in families, fearlessness in society, and co-existence with nature.
These are achieved through human order: education-sanskar, health-self regulation, production-work, justice-preservation, and exchange-storage.
These systems begin with the family order and extend to the world family order.
Understanding and fulfilling the natural development process of a child within a relationship is crucial for them to participate competently in the universal human order.