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In these present times of era called kli-yug,
we all humankind do all our kARm in
life mainly for the sake of earning wealth to sustain one's own life, to fulfill
one's own desires and wishes. And then after doing that we do all our
kARm to sustain and fulfill the
desires and wishes of others at our own freewill of discretion and pleasure.
This is what veD calls
aDHaaARmik way of life. The
DHaaARmik way of life is to do all our
kARm in life as per the rules and requirements of
DHARm as stated in
veD = SCIENCES OF CREATION AND LIFE.....
The above lifestyle leads the majority of humankind to say if one has luxury
in life or not. Also that mean if one does not have luxury in life then one is
in poverty or at the gate of poverty....In Webster's Third International
Dictionary, LUXURY is defined as:
- Leacher, Lust
- an habitually sumptuous environment or way of life
- an elegant appointment or material aid to the achievement of luxury
- a nonessential item or service that contributes to luxurious living : an
indulgence in ornament or convenience beyond the indispensable minimum
- Extravagance
- a means or source of pleasurable experience or personal satisfaction as in
COMFORT, SELF-INDULGENCE
- of or relating to luxury or luxuries or catering to luxurious tastes :
SUMPTUOUS, NONESSENTIAL as in luxury liner or luxury resort or luxury goods or
laughter, a luxury reflex, is without survival value.
- the absorption of nitrogen or potash from the soil by a crop in excess of
crop needs.
- LUXURIOUS: of, relating to, or expressive of especially unrestrained
gratification of the senses often : LECHEROUS, SENSUAL, VOLUPTUOUS
- pleasure loving : fond of luxury or self-indulgence : SYBARITIC
- LUXURIANT ; synonyms LUXURIOUS, SUMPTUOUS, and OPULENT can apply
to something obviously or ostentatiously rich or magnificent.
- LUXURIOUS implies choice and costly and is often used to refer to
that which provides unusual physical ease and gratification
- synonym: SENSUOUS
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above please click on the next line to understand
deistic life philosophy of Jean Rousseau (1712-1778) which will make
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DEISTIC PHILOSOPHY OF
JEAN ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)
The following is a quote from Jean Rousseau
(1712-1778) who was a French deistic philosopher and author of great
fame through his contribution to the social and religious thinking to be
practiced by humankind in Europe in his times.
"Luxury either comes of
riches or
makes them necessary.
Luxury corrupts at once rich and poor,
Luxury corrupts the rich by possession;
Luxury corrupts the poor by covetousness;
Luxury sells the country to softness and vanity.
Luxury takes away from the State all its citizens,
to make them slaves one to another, and
to make one and all slaves to public opinion."
Deistic means one who believes in deism. Deism means: a rationalistic movement
of the 17th and 18th centuries whose adherents generally subscribed to a natural
religion based on human reason and morality, on the belief in one God who after
creating the world and the laws governing it refrained from interfering with the
operation of those laws, and on the rejection of every kind of supernatural
intervention in human affairs
Rousseau reacted against the artificiality and corruption of the social
customs and institutions of the time. He was a keen thinker, and was equipped
with the weapons of the philosophical century and with an inspiring eloquence.
To these qualities were added a pronounced egotism, self-seeking, and an
arrogance that led to bitter antagonism against his revolutionary views and
sensitive personality, the reaction against which resulted in a growing
misanthropy. Error and prejudice in the name of philosophy, according to him,
had stifled reason and nature, and culture, as he found it, had corrupted
morals. In Emile he presents the ideal citizen and the means of training the
child for the State in accordance with nature, even to a sense of God. This
"nature gospel" of education, as Goethe called it, was the inspiration,
beginning with Pestalozzi, of world-wide pedagogical methods. The most admirable
part in this is the creed of the vicar of Savoy, in which, in happy phrase,
Rousseau shows a true, natural susceptibility to religion and to God, whose
omnipotence and greatness are published anew every day. The Social Contract, on
the text that all men are born free and equal, regards the State as a contract
in which individuals surrender none of their natural rights, but rather agree
for the protection of them. Most remarkable in this projected republic was the
provision to banish aliens to the state religion and to punish dissenters with
death. The Social Contract became the text-book of the French Revolution, and
Rousseau's theories as protests bore fruit in the frenzied bloody orgies of the
Commune as well as in the rejuvenation of France and the history of the entire
Western world. (Extract from
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Jean Rousseau)
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