Guilt and Pride
GUILT AND PRIDE The social connection If you kill an ant and you develop guilt in your mind that you have done something wrong, your mind will start working against you. But when you kill people of an enemy country on the border in a war and you have enough reasons to have pride that you have done something right for a greater good or that you have performed your duty, which is your Dharma, your mind will start working in favour of yourself. You know that your society/ country gives you security, work, freedom, subsidies and above all the most important thing is that you belong to it. This is your society. You are part of it. You share the collective consciousness of it. The human experience is characterised by an inherent, often unconscious, connection to the collective consciousness of society, which can shape individual thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in profound ways. You may deny the sense of belonging, but it is there deep inside in subtle form because you share the collective ...