Vedanta

23.07.04

Vedanta

When we have a “Vedantic” outlook, we tend not to bring within our vision the negatives of anyone or anything. Vedanta itself being a stage arrived at after negation of so many coarse stages on the way up to the subtler stages, being ignorant of the negatives is not prescribed in Vedanta. If we have to realise the negative in order to transcend, then social negatives too need not be shied away from by the prospective Vedanti, unless of course it is believed that the Vedanti has no need to consider the social aspect of the human reality. But the Vedanti cannot be indifferent to the sufferings of other living beings. He would certainly intervene to ease their suffering. For that he has to be concerned about the happenings about and around him. Vedanta is not about an individual escaping the suffering world, it is also about the individual, being free from suffering, bringing the light of freedom to others. It is not possible that an enlightened being would have anything else to do but to bring enlightenment to others.

Once you are free, you are a new being. Then you don’t have anything to do. You will simply cause things to be done.