Devotion vs Knowledge vs Actions vs Duty

[Kashmiri Pandit]

In this poverty , War , Hate stricken world , Do the concepts mentioned in the Title hold any importance in the modern man's life ?

Devotion to Supreme ( Can be God , Nation , Truth , Any political figure )
Knowledge ( Can be Secular and Spiritual )
Actions ( Selfless actions and Right actions )
Duty ( Performing duties like Student must study , Teacher must teach , Guru must Guide , Humans must love )

 

[Nilgiri]

In this poverty , War , Hate stricken world , Do the concepts mentioned in the Title hold any importance in the modern man's life ?

Devotion to Supreme ( Can be God , Nation , Any political figure )
Knowledge ( Can be Secular and Spiritual )
Actions ( Selfless actions and Right actions )
Duty ( Performing duties like Student must study , Teacher must teach , Guru must Guide , Humans must love )

For Devotion can you add Truth (i.e devotion to finding truth)? To me Truth and God are the same.

I think they are all equally important overall (so maybe give an option for all?) and which one is more important depends on the specific situation.

Together they are combined and this is known as Virtue (Dharm).

 

[footmarks]

Knowledge.

Without knowledge of what you are doing (or ought to do), without knowledge of the real purpose, without knowledge of what your actions are intended for, without the knowledge of what your duty leads to- one can easily fall for devotion of the evil, actions leading to harm, duty done just for the sake of it.

All ill-will in this world is because either we are not knowing enough, or are not using our knowledge to think, deliberate and act freely.

 

[Srinivas]

All the above

 

[Laozi]

Actions ( Selfless actions and Right actions )
Duty ( Performing duties like Student must study , Teacher must teach , Guru must Guide , Humans must love )

Your duties must guide your actions. Therefore to me there seem some confusion in choosing the given option.

BTW 4th option should have been the next logical step of 1st Option.

Anyways all of them are indispensable though Knowledge is considered supreme.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

In this poverty , War , Hate stricken world , Do the concepts mentioned in the Title hold any importance in the modern man's life ?


Devotion to Supreme ( Can be God , Nation , Truth , Any political figure )
Knowledge ( Can be Secular and Spiritual )
Actions ( Selfless actions and Right actions )
Duty ( Performing duties like Student must study , Teacher must teach , Guru must Guide , Humans must love )

@Laozi @Nilgiri @Srinivas

These concepts are for normal times and normal situations

What happens when anger and grief cloud your mind ; thinking and judgement

 

[Nilgiri]

@Laozi @Nilgiri @Srinivas

These concepts are for normal times and normal situations

What happens when anger and grief cloud your mind ; thinking and judgement

Don't get angry, get even

 

[zip]

In this poverty , War , Hate stricken world , Do the concepts mentioned in the Title hold any importance in the modern man's life ?

Devotion to Supreme ( Can be God , Nation , Truth , Any political figure )
Knowledge ( Can be Secular and Spiritual )
Actions ( Selfless actions and Right actions )
Duty ( Performing duties like Student must study , Teacher must teach , Guru must Guide , Humans must love )

Like one cooks his food through fire knowledge is best way to attain supreme.. When our ignorance starts to disappear our world too change..
Devotion or bhakti, duty or karma are other ways to attain same..
Now for modern age(???) karma suits better but every way should lead us to knowledge of supreme..

 

[Laozi]

@Laozi @Nilgiri @Srinivas

These concepts are for normal times and normal situations

What happens when anger and grief cloud your mind ; thinking and judgement

What does one get by "Anger " which is ones biggest enemy though grief is a passing emotion of not so intelligent.

When your mind is clouded with anger then you act like a computer which is infected by multiple deadly viruses

Like one cooks his food through fire knowledge is best way to attain supreme.. When our ignorance starts to disappear our world too change..
Devotion or bhakti, duty or karma are other ways to attain same..
Now for modern age(???) karma suits better but every way should lead us to knowledge of supreme..

All of them are needed to attain His grace.

Even My Excellent Knowledge of cooking won't give the desired results without right amount of Karma and Devotion

 

[Nilgiri]

My Excellent Knowledge of cooking

Whats the best dish you can cook?

Or is this all from the observing/sampling standpoint ?

 

[Laozi]

everyone has different views according to my resarch
We are sent by God (creator of matrix) in the ( matrix) world to do training learning of good manners for justb50 60 years acquiring good karma to live permanently in heaven like a gentleman .There is nothing in this world to be proud people love to eat but they have diabetes . Tensions in this life loans ,ur child got diseases, most of our day spent working . Headache how can I have fun when I have pounds of load on me . Because matrix world is designed for good karma not enjoying. After death person who spent his life doing good karma gets to karmic heaven where u dint have to work all wish fulfilled imagine all wish fulfilled in karmic heaven u don't get tired no need to use washroom.if u spend ur life in good karma life also become satisfactory. After death ur dimensions changes u see heaven and hell angels unseen world spiritual real world .we go in next phase of life .the biggest pain in karmic hell will be when residents of hell see the life and technology atmosphere of karmic heaven. There will not be any going back .if u are selected for karmic hell because u would want to go back to matrix because of unimaginable pain in hell so u can acquire good karma and achieve karmic heaven has different views according to my resarch

In these matters of life and death, I would recommend you to go with the established researches done by established masters

Or is this all from the observing/sampling standpoint ?

You nailed it mannn