Social morality and self-education

by CR (057)

Activities in this planet are varied and many are the ways by which evolution is processed.

Equal possibilities are not available to everyone but, above all, what really matters is to dignify the meaning of life, even though engaged in the roughest, humblest jobs.

Social morality is defined by high spiritual values, the uncompromising support of sound behaviour, and effective exercise of healthy habits.

Each people has its own concept of life. But the further we proceed, the more we advance on the road to civilization, the safer, the stronger the precepts of morality and honour prove to be, especially with regard to the home, whose formation constitutes an undeniable duty of every citizen.

The education of human beings is not restricted to childhood, when the role of parents is paramount.

Once prepared to rely on themselves, as adults, people should gather as much experience as possible

through observation and the witnessing of events around them or of which they have become aware of. 

Success or failure of others, the causes, the reasons, for their joys or sorrows, are valuable lessons. Everyone should benefit from such examples in order to avoid bring upon themselves the same mistakes which caused pain and loss to others. Also, good examples should lead people to take the same roads that led others to success and well-being.

 

If someone demoralizes and humiliates himself in the eyes of his fellow-men by doing something which reveals lack of morals or good principles, he would feel even more ashamed of himself, if his spiritual awareness were more alert and watchful, in order to better analyse his wrongful actions.

The existence of various social levels on Earth is partly justified not only by the fact that we live in a  school-world, but also because of the shortcomings in the education of its inhabitants.

The bad-mannered or uncivil individual restricts his field of action to the very level at which he lives, and becomes undesirable among people of higher levels of upbringing. Hence the need for the reincarnated spirit to spare no efforts to improve his social conditions, in order to help raise the degree of morals and spirituality in our planet.

References

[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984

[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese