Sins according to Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi's list of deadly sins-
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice
That last one stood out the most to me- Worship without sacrifice. Guess it really depends on what you consider scarifice- is taking out a couple of hours on a sunday to worship a sacrifice? Is helping someone in need a sacrifice- I don't really like that way of thinking about it, puts the 'giver' in a position of 'moral highness' compared to the 'reciever' and also a more negative spin on something that should be done 'with a joyful heart'.
Maybe it's more getting at the fact that we are not always going to enjoy or feel like worshiping but we should continue anyway- hence the sacrifice!? But still I think to a really large extent- it's more about a state of mind- You go to church seeing it as a great sacrifice on your part your more likely to not enjoy it and not take anything in. You go to church with an open mind, expecting to learn something and with the view that you can learn and see God in everyone and everything then I think you'd get a whole lot more out of it....... more than you 'sacrificed'!
Maybe thats the idea behind sacrifice- you sacrifice a little (eg. negative thought process about how much you've had to sacrifice and therefore how morally good you are or how crappy the church/people are that is such a drain on your time and recources) and get a whole heap back.
Anyone got any ideas as to what Gandhi was getting at?
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice
That last one stood out the most to me- Worship without sacrifice. Guess it really depends on what you consider scarifice- is taking out a couple of hours on a sunday to worship a sacrifice? Is helping someone in need a sacrifice- I don't really like that way of thinking about it, puts the 'giver' in a position of 'moral highness' compared to the 'reciever' and also a more negative spin on something that should be done 'with a joyful heart'.
Maybe it's more getting at the fact that we are not always going to enjoy or feel like worshiping but we should continue anyway- hence the sacrifice!? But still I think to a really large extent- it's more about a state of mind- You go to church seeing it as a great sacrifice on your part your more likely to not enjoy it and not take anything in. You go to church with an open mind, expecting to learn something and with the view that you can learn and see God in everyone and everything then I think you'd get a whole lot more out of it....... more than you 'sacrificed'!
Maybe thats the idea behind sacrifice- you sacrifice a little (eg. negative thought process about how much you've had to sacrifice and therefore how morally good you are or how crappy the church/people are that is such a drain on your time and recources) and get a whole heap back.
Anyone got any ideas as to what Gandhi was getting at?
posted by Mim @ 1:37 PM
3 Comments:
At 2:56 PM,
waynemus said…
Ok Mim I've been meaning to respond to this post for ages. Was going to respond three times in the week after you put it up on your blog. After reading what I hade typed, I wasn't happy with it, so never posted.
I believe that worship is an act of devotion. It is an extrinsic expression for an intrinsic love, adoration or respect for something of value.
In order for one's worship to be authentic one must assert priority of the thing worshiped over other things. Be they emotional, mental, or material. For this reason sacrifice must enter into one's worship experience. This enables the value of one thing to be held over another.
By spending great time, effort, and possessions worshiping a divine being, one is physically expressing the value one holds it over say friends, ambitions, or material possessions. In this form it is not really sacrifice but exchange for a greater being/thing.
Just some of my thoughts. Could go on with lots of different threads from this statement. Not sure what Ghandhi meant, but hopefully later on I will.
Thanks Mim for the thought provoking post.
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