It doesn't matter how little or big you play your own role in the advancement of mankind-according to your ability. To agree that we are all parts of one WHOLE and, therefore, must each play useful roles for the good of the WHOLE and consequently for the good of each is to submit to the collective destiny of the entire human race wherein lasting peace and joy is predicated first on individual efforts, then the collective efforts, for peace and progress. Let n...o one be deceived that he/she can shift his personal responsibility to others and yet live joyfully without having to account, here or in the hereafter, for his/her indolence and or antics. AB DU RU-SHIN put it more clearly in his book, In The Light of Truth:
" This question (of responsibility) is always one of the first, because the vast majority of people would be only too glad to throw off all responsibility, and cast it on anything rather than themselves. That this is in fact self-humiliation causes them no concern here. In this respect they are really remarkably humble and modest, but only so that they can go on living all the more merrily and unscrupulously.
It would indeed be so wonderful to be permitted to gratify all one’s wishes and calmly to let all one’s desires run riot, even at other people’s expense, without having to atone for it. If necessary, the earthly laws can be evaded and conflicts avoided. Under their cover the more adept can even rake in quite a successful haul, and do many a thing that would not stand up to any moral examination. In addition they often even enjoy the reputation of being especially capable people.
Thus with a little shrewdness one could really live very comfortably according to one’s own ideas, if ... there were not something somewhere that awakened an uneasy feeling, if from time to time there did not appear a rising disquiet that after all many a thing might be somewhat different from how one’s own wishes shape it."
It would indeed be so wonderful to be permitted to gratify all one’s wishes and calmly to let all one’s desires run riot, even at other people’s expense, without having to atone for it. If necessary, the earthly laws can be evaded and conflicts avoided. Under their cover the more adept can even rake in quite a successful haul, and do many a thing that would not stand up to any moral examination. In addition they often even enjoy the reputation of being especially capable people.
Thus with a little shrewdness one could really live very comfortably according to one’s own ideas, if ... there were not something somewhere that awakened an uneasy feeling, if from time to time there did not appear a rising disquiet that after all many a thing might be somewhat different from how one’s own wishes shape it."
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