Ever and the River !

We have been talking of Sruthi and Smrithi. Canons of the Universal Principles and Books that deal with the customs, mores and habits of the people. That which deals with the eternal principles are the Vedantas or Upanishads or the philosophical Vedas. They tell us about Atman, Jeeva, Paramatman and the eternal life beyond. Why is Jeeva born in this world and what is his goal and how to reach it?

And basically who is Jeeva really? What is his real nature?
Your real nature determines what you must attain and in what way you must do it? If your real nature is something temporal. i.e., you exist by your very nature for sometime and simply go out of existence with nothing surviving, then you cannot think of eternal life and so on. When you yourself is just temporal, there is no point in breaking your head about that nature. But if your real nature is not temporal but eternal, then you must realise that nature and strive to attain the eternal life, which is your right by the very fact of your real nature. If you are really the eternal soul then what is that goal which you must reach?

What is the nature of that Almighty and what relationship connects you two? And what is that Way which you must choose? What causes the delay? and what are the impediments on the way? All these are explained in detail in Vedanta. These questions never change in time. They are the eternal spiritual principles of man's life.

But the social questions, viz., the social divisions, the problems of man and woman, the problems of the ruled and the ruler, the questions of family, the relationships of social living, all these are social problems which change with the time and they have to be updated based on the social realities and necessities by the societies concerned. The Books of Memory which deal with such things are the Smrithis, which are changeable in time and must be changed by the social heads retaining the best of the past and adapting to the present.

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