| From The River Of Heaven |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| VEDIC SOCIAL SCIENCE : THE SPIRITUAL BASIS OF CULTURE | |
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Through the pursuit of wealth we can only gain wealth. It will gives us
bigger houses, better cars, more jewels, but it will not give us true
happiness or immortality. A simple man may gain the same feeling through finding a beautiful rock on a
hill, as a wealthy man through his latest million. Through the pursuit of
status we can only gain status. This gives us
fame, recognition and adulation. But it cannot provide peace, integrity,
and a true sense ofself-worth. The recognition by society of our
being a famous person may be less genuine than the recognition by our wife or
partner of our
integrity in life.
Though the forms of these values can change their basic nature remains the same and the type of
life we can experience from them is of the same order. For example, the life of a merchant in ancient
Egypt and one in the United States today does differ greatly in form but
the basic mentality and emotions is going to be the same. Hence as long as we pursue these same
values we are only expanding our society horizontally. We are not actually bringing in any ascent or
spiritual evolution.
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