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6. These are the inputs through which our experiences are recorded. Every conscious being tends to hold on pleasing colour, smell, taste and touch These are properties from which human being is affected most. Usually, if a person succeeds in retaining the desired sensual pleasure giving material, he finds himself in a happy psychological state. If not he feels frustrated and dejected.
7. It is true that without matter sustenance of life is not possible. mere indulgence, sensual pleasure does not lead one to truth or reality. The more the indulgence in material pleasures, the more sorrowful and painful will be the result. It will lead to dissipation of energy leading to fatigue and tension. Ultimately it will cause minimized awareness of reality. Such person gets entangled in prosperity of self-alone. Selfish out-look pervades his personality. He accumulates more and more defying other's good, becomes more violent and cruel, loozes peace and internal bliss, creates artificial demands which damages the natural resources. Social and personal health also gets vitiated.
Nature of Our Existence CONSCIOUSNESS, MATTER
Colour To know to be Aware
Smell To feel, Bliss,
Taste Free will-power
Touch
Over indulgence in materialistic world Results
IN
Consciousness
Personality
Society and Environment 1. Minimized awarenes Fatigue & tension
Social disparity 2. Distorted Bliss Selfish outlook
Damage to nature 3. Lack of will-power Accumulation of Wealth
Lavish life-style Violent and cruel behaviour Lack of Peace and Bliss
Disintegration of Personality Personality disintegration
8. Each person is a composite of conscious and non-conscious elements. Our awareness to environment and intended information is retained in our consciousness. The nonconscious element attached with our consciousness is in the form of material body. According to spiritual science, the material body is in three forms which occupy the spectrum from the gross to the subtle. The subtle-most body is
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