You can’t “moralize” your way out the material worlds.
Ultimately, sets of morals and ethics could be said to be like yogic practices . Voluntarily controlling one’s mind and senses , for the benefit of one’s own self mental well-being, and other’s mental well-being. It can be understood as a commitment to a higher cause , other than animalistic uncontrolled exploitation for one’s own personal sense gratification .
The uncontrolled mind and senses are actually a great danger to us , warnings are discussed elaborately in the Bhagavad Gita by Lord Krishna who says our minds that cause our actions can be our greatest friend or our worse enemy. Although , in Western cultures, we are repeatedly given the narrative time and time again to accept libertarianism as a great device for real freedom. This is foolhardy. Western litratures , the arts , social media, and mainstream all bring this idea to the forefront of everything. “Take your mind and senses, and do what you will …freedoms to do what you like , is a great happiness ,don’t let anyone or anything bring any form of suppression ” You live once and die once is the underlying message.
The Vedas give an entirely different picture of freedom. Freedom from the material mind and material senses and an aquiring of a spiritual mind and senses if the goal . If you put iron in fire, it acts like fire . Ultimately, to gain association with Divinity and regain our spiritual identity, one has to learn to love God and understand His qualities and become familiar with His form and activities along with all His associates. The platform of yogic practices, as well as morals and ethics, are an essential step in freedom from the dictates of our conditioned nature . One automatically experiences a higher taste in a spiritual dimension , so lower tastes are automatically discarded .Bhagavad Gita discusses that path . Divinities association along with His associates , is so trancendentally intoxicating , and with grace and humility one can be fortunate to receive it , but not if we are proud of our morals, ethics and learning without God , or if we consider rather proudly, Divinity owes His love and reciprocation to us because of our practices . All pride has to go . If one feels himself low and unworthy , the highest consciousness of Divinity is attracted because in love, there is dependency.
So , cut glass or diamonds?
When one has a liking for diamonds, the cut glass is automatically discarded. By Chanting the names of Divinity in a humbled spirit, one can begin to enter the Pastimes and activities of the Lord .
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