{"id":7142,"date":"2013-08-17T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T08:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2017-09-11T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T10:15:01","slug":"clash-of-heritages-why-renunciation-is-the-key-to-fulfillment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/clash-of-heritages-why-renunciation-is-the-key-to-fulfillment\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolving the clash of heritages within us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hp\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Man can be seen to be a product of two heritages \u2013 his spiritual heritage born of consciousness and his material heritage born of biological roots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hp\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central question is \u201chow do these two heritages \u2013 spiritual and material \u2013 interact\u201d?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When these two heritages interact fruitfully and harmoniously, then the output is a deeply fulfilled existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the spiritual and material dimensions of man are in conflict, then the output is anxiety and alienation from self and society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hp\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, how to achieve a positive and fruitful interaction and synthesis between the spiritual and material dimensions in a human being?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The answer seems to be acceptance of the journey of renunciation of the \u2018narrow I\u2019 and the gradual adoption of a larger \u2018collective I\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-bottom: 0px;\">In such a synthesis, renunciation is viewed as a joyous, positive process of expansion of self from a finite biological individual (individual &#8216;I&#8217;) to a larger collective-centered individual (collective &#8216;I&#8217;), and further to an infinite spiritual identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7165 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/002_clash-of-heritages-pierre-mail3.jpg\" alt=\"Clash of Heritages\" width=\"537\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/002_clash-of-heritages-pierre-mail3.jpg 537w, https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/002_clash-of-heritages-pierre-mail3-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/002_clash-of-heritages-pierre-mail3-210x126.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man can be seen to be a product of two heritages \u2013 his spiritual heritage born of consciousness and his material heritage born of biological roots.<\/p>\n<p>Achieving a positive and fruitful interaction and synthesis between two seems seems to be in the renunciation of the \u2018narrow I\u2019 and the gradual adoption of a larger \u2018collective I\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}