​The Death of Conscience: Why Modern Society Fears the Truth?

​I wish to share some serious reflections on a growing crisis in our modern society. 

We are witnessing a trend where a majority of individuals, even when their conscience tells them a piece of news or an opinion is true, choose to turn a blind eye to it. Even more distressing is the rising tendency to boldly support and justify things that their inner voice knows to be false.

​Why does humanity exhibit such hypocrisy today? 

Let us examine the reasons behind this, supported by two world-renowned parables.

​The Challenges Facing the Truth

​Our conscience is the ultimate court—either divine or natural—residing within us. When we suppress the truth that stands clear in that court, it is usually due to three factors:

​Fear of the Majority: The dread of being isolated or "canceled" for standing by the truth.

​Self-Interest: The temporary gains achieved by aligning with a popular lie.

​Echo Chambers: The urge to blindly believe whatever our chosen social or political groups dictate.

​To clarify this, let’s look at two illustrative stories.

​1. Salt in the Pudding: A Lesson in Pretense

​Once, at a grand feast, a cook accidentally added salt instead of sugar to the pudding (payasam). The first guest who tasted it realized it was salty and bitter, but fearing he would look foolish or offend the host, he exclaimed, "How sweet! I have never tasted such delicious pudding!" Following his lead, every other guest repeated the same lie. They betrayed their own senses to compete in praising a falsehood. Today, aren't we seeing many "salty puddings" in society being defended as "sweet" with the same desperate enthusiasm?

​2. The Poisoned Well and the 'Mad' King

​In another tale, a wizard poisoned a city’s public well, declaring that whoever drank from it would lose their mind. Every citizen drank the water and went mad. Only the King and his Minister, who drank from a private source, remained sane. However, the majority—the mad citizens—rebelled against the King, shouting, "Look! Our King has gone mad! He does not speak or act like us!" Eventually, to keep his throne and his life, the King was forced to drink from the poisoned well too.

​Today, those who speak the truth are often branded as "mad" or "out of touch." To belong to the majority, we frequently sacrifice our own reason and sanity.

​Perspective from Faiths

​Acting against one's conscience is not merely a social compromise; it is a direct opposition to the divine order.

​Christianity: Hiding the truth is seen as the way of Satan, the "father of lies." Conscience is regarded as the voice of God within man.

​Hinduism: Sathya (Truth) and Dharma (Righteousness) are the pillars of life. Betraying one’s conscience is viewed as Asuric (demonic) behavior and a path toward Adharma.

​Islam: Those who say one thing while believing another are called Munafiqs (hypocrites). The innate sense of right and wrong (Fitra) is a gift from the Almighty that must not be corrupted.

​The refusal to listen to the voice of conscience and the "courage" to support falsehoods signal the moral decay of a society. Whose side are we on? Are we with the truth, or with the convenient lies manufactured by the crowd?

​A human being experiences true peace only when they live without wounding their own sense of justice.

Let us strive to be individuals who refuse to sacrifice the truth for the sake of the majority.

(​Please share your thoughts and comments  below if you have the courage to uphold truthful voices publicly supported by your inner conscience) 

Primitive Human Society and the Modern Society: Should We Seek and Stick to Our Past?

Some time ago I wrote the adapted history of the first humans who got in to existence on earth in BC 991474. 

That was a piece of history hitherto unknown to modern humans. Fortunately, it got revealed to us by the efforts of some of our celestial supervisors (difficult to believe, is n't it?)  and is now in the public domain in the form of my favorite book of life guidance, the Urantia Book.

In today's blog, I would like to tell you about some of the early factors that paved the way for development of civilization in the primitive society. It is not my invention. It is the facts and conclusions deduced by our unseen divine supervisors.

The descendants of the first pair of humans-Andon and Fonta-soon multiplied on earth to form the first human race whom we now should call as the Andonites. 

The primitive Andonite human society developed in to four major divisions of primitive organizations essentially dealing with livelihood (industry), law and order (regulative governance), worship (primitive religions) and power (military). These divisions developed as a result of the primitive human learning in the use of fire, animals, slaves and property. 

The first invention or discovery ever made by human beings was fire. 

In fact, fire was the first human discovery ever made and it was by none other than the first man on earth whom we call now as Andon. Andon and his twin sister turned wife, got curious with the sparkling that got produced when flint stones were struck together and later got an inflammable bird's nest to kindle fire from their spark producing flint stones. They learnt how to preserve their fire by keen and curious experimentation.

The discovery and the art of producing and preserving fire forever separated man from their animal cousins. Fire helped humans to stay on ground rather than living on trees, because fire scared the wild animals and humans soon realized it.

Andon, the discoverer of fire, did not treat it as an object for worship. But his later generations began to treat the flame as ghosts and gods. Early myths of fire as originating from the gods developed as humans observed the natural phenomena of lightning and caused the early humans to resort to fire worship. Fire worship later led to the custom of walking through fire.

Fire myth continued as a great bonding force among humans and remnants of that persist even in the modern society of humans.

Fire caused ancient humans to taste cooked food and later develop the culture of cooking. Cooked food caused humans to save internal energy needed for digestion and provided the early man the strength for social culture.

Learning the art of domestication of animals reduced the efforts required for securing food by the early humans. This also helped them to have time for social activities.

Dog was the first animal to be domesticated by humans and it happened accidentally when a wild dog following a primitive hunter followed him and became a member of his household.

When the primitive humans were hunters, they were relatively kind and considerate to their women. But after the domestication of animals, many primitive human tribes began to treat their women shamefully bad. 

Earthly man's brutal treatment of women was perhaps one of the darkest events of history in human progress. Women became the first objects of slavery adopted by primitive humans. Later it progressed to the practice of enslavement of other tribes who lost in the primitive tribal warfare.

Primitive hunters never enslaved other humans. They either adopted or killed their captives. But when the primitive man learnt the techniques of animal domestication and the art of farming, slavery progressed.

Slavery became an indispensable link in the human history of civilization and progress.

Slavery compelled the backward type of humans to work and provide the necessities and leisure for those of their fellows who were superior in mind and body.

Slavery also caused humans to invent systems of government.

Slavery was oppressive, but this oppression forced man to learn more on production and industry.

In the modern world, social slavery has almost declined. But over ambition and other factors are enslaving more and more modern people to industrial servitude of their own choice.

Slavery and domestication of animals have declined in the modern era. But modern humans are going back to seek wealth and power from the elemental store house of earth through fire!

Primitive society was essentially communal. But modern man is seeking the development of private property and wealth. 

But it is important to remember this. None of the social orders of progress as happening within the human society are sacred or divine. They are the outcome of the thoughts and acts of humans beings. The social orders that humans have developed so far through experimentation and by their own thoughts may not be right always. 

But it would definitely be better when people change and seek better solutions when they find better alternatives to some of their older cultures and systems.

It is not a recommended thing to experiment and revert back to the discarded practices and cultures of the ancestors under the false impression that old is gold. 

Divine mandate for humans is to go forward and not backward.

It is not a wise thing to stop human progress and the dynamism of human thoughts.

Human beings would do a much better thing by adopting better and better progressive ideas!

[Idea Courtesy: the Urantia Book]