| Salient Features of the Jeevanvidya Philosophy
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| Secular, Universal and Eternal |
- Jeevanvidya philosophy is secular, universal and an eternal
philosophy.
- It is secular because it is intimately related to human
culture and not to any religion.
- It is universal since it is useful to the whole of Mankind.
- It is eternal because it is based on the Universal laws
of Nature.
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| "You are the architect of your
destiny" |
Jeevanvidya teaches Man to accept the truth that
he alone is responsible for all his actions and also the results
or reactions that boomerang from such actions; in other words
Man himself is responsible for creating his own destiny. Satguru's
entire philosophy revolves around his important message that,
"You are the architect of your destiny". Jeevanvidya
philosophy stresses on the importance of making efforts as opposed
to becoming victims of fatalism. In fact, Satguru maintains
that, "Efforts have the potential to achieve everything
in life including "Self-realization" and, therefore,
efforts may be considered even more important than God".Therefore,
the common man has been empowered to change his destiny with
the guidance of Jeevanvidya and can experience peace and happiness
in his life.
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Equal emphasis to material
development & psycho-spiritual progress
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Jeevanvidya gives equal emphasis
to material development as well as psycho-spiritual progress
of human beings. Traditionally, spiritualism has neglected and
discouraged material development since it was considered to
be a hurdle in the path of spiritual progress towards Self-realization.
Further, people who were drawn to spiritualism often became
escapists from the world or turned into fatalists. Satguru Shri
Wamanrao Pai rejected this negative world-view and asserted
that both material development as well as psycho-spiritual progress
were absolutely essential if Man is to lead a successful and
happy life. In fact, Jeevanvidya philosophy emphasizes that,
"Just as a bird needs two wings to fly happily in the sky,
similarly Man too needs the two wings of worldly life as well
as spiritual life to dwell blissfully and gracefully in the
‘sky’ of Life.
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| Boon to the poor, strong
support to the rich and extremely useful to the whole world. |
Rich people have at least enough
money to depend on but poor people are even deprived of this
facility. Further, a majority of poor people are illiterate,
superstitious and wallowing in utter poverty and, therefore,
they hanker after Godmen, perform futile rites and rituals,
etc. in the belief that they would be delivered from their troubles.
In the process, the poor are invariably cheated and fooled.
Satguru was deeply pained to see this happen and wanted to empower
the common man so that he could learn to depend on himself and
have the tools by which he could overcome the difficult circumstances
and achieve progress, peace and happiness in his life. The Jeevanvidya
philosophy which he evolved is a boon to the poor, a strong
support to the rich and extremely useful to the whole world.
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| Absence of Blind faith |
There are neither any superstitions
in Jeevanvidya philosophy propagated by Satguru nor are false
assurances given nor false miracles performed to mislead people.
Instead Satguru teaches the seeker how a beautiful harmony can
be maintained between worldly life and psycho-spiritual life.
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