Understand the material and spiritual entities of consumerism

Understand  the material and spiritual entities of consumerism

To introspect on the above creed, one has to be a firm believer of austerity without sacrificing his essential needs. Austerity is a big measure in anyone’s life. Through this measure, you can bring in many changes, because this qualitative aspect tantamount to conservation and saving on everything you do. In this process of saving, all of us will be able to manage a substantial savings, which will be creating a good riddance when we or society as a whole, will pass though any type of catastrophe. For example, if we are able to conserve heat or energy, it is a saving of important resources. But to implement the austerity measure, it requires lots of discipline and dedication. It also points out towards your affinity for over consumption.  In the light of spiritualism, this interprets the saving of your inner strength to induce your desire of enlightenment. 

The austerities are classified into three different types. First one is, to show veneration for holy spirits, teachers, religious gurus, parents and to show straight forwardness in all your dealings with other persons. Further, you should not overindulge in sexual attractions and must maintain a physical cleanliness.

Second one is, you have to always ensure a control on your speech; through your speech, you should not hurt other’s feelings, you should not demoralize others through your communication and you should restrict yourself to communicate in a dignified manner.  Further, you must be very faithful to religious scriptures and always study them with full reverence and sincerity.

The third one is related to the mind.  You must always make your mind calm, serene, free from impure thoughts and try to subjugate the power of this forceful part of your bodily system. You must ensure your mind to be free from the evil senses to remain steady, so as to combat the distressed situations.  Through austerity, you must not punish you to live with constraints.  One should not think to remain in a harsh and restrictive life style, which is not at all the motto of the austerity measure. You have to only do self control and to see that your system is not getting sensitized to extraordinary needs. Your senses must not allure you to become more passionate. As per the religious scriptures, when you perform austerity giving pains in your life or showing stubbornness to your essential requirements, the same is construed as foolishness. The austerity does not teach us to harm others, snatch other’s wishes or even put you in a painstaking situation.  God reminds us that our senses are like horses; the more you energize your senses, the more this horse will move fast and at one stage, it will make you fall down.  So, the desire of your senses will make you addicted to many unwanted and unbridled things and so, the step of the austerity is very much needed.  Any desire is like an allurement, which makes your mind perturbed.  The uncontrollable desires are the root-causes of aggravating your senses like a restless horse.  Your body gets sick when the same is getting deprived from the requisite supply of energy. In the case of mind, it gets diseased by worries, anger, tension and fear.  Our mind is always restless when it is being fed mostly with negative thoughts and is devoid of positive one. Austerity is very helpful to cleanse your bodily system, which is the abode of different microbes and they are responsible to produce plenty of waste materials in the form of excrements.

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We remove these excrements on a regular basis, mostly to avoid not to get attacked with any type of serious illness due to creation of infection in the body. In the same way, austerity is responsible to clean your negative thoughts.  Religious gurus often teach us to keep body and mind as pure as possible. Why it is so? It is mandatory to have above thoughts as a benchmark to the progress of your life; you invite austerity to have a control on everything you perform. For example, when you desire to reach any summit, discipline is the main and foremost trait you follow. If you do not follow this trait, no matter how much desire you have, you cannot reach the summit. Non-adherence of discipline only leads to failures and gloomy situations in the lives. It is true that we dislike strict and stringent rules. We don’t like our bosses who scold for our negligence in duties. We also sneak away from our teachers who punish us for our wrongdoings.  We sometimes do not like the superiors who want us to obey them and follow the prescribed rules. Though there are many constraints and rules to follow, but the approaches people take to their adherence only cause negative feelings to higher-ups and superiors. Very few of us do a proper orientation to strengthen and resolve the hurt feelings. Mostly, we are insolent.  If you maintain discipline in all spheres of life in a systematic manner, it will be a pleasure for you and the continuance of the same will provide you all power to stick to the rules and the norms of the society. Then it will be a routine affair for you.  Believe or not, this discipline is the benchmark to achieve a goal. It soothes and simplifies all your manifestations as a simple process to adhere to and progress further.  It avoids you to distract from all addictions, laziness, procrastinations, anger, gratification and pleasure of bonding with worldly sensualities.

Discipline plays a havoc role in national building; energize you to become a good citizen.  It also leads you to a successful life.  It can even lead to win a war against enemies.

In pursuit of consumerism and more wealth, we run with speed and show greediness for everything.  Since we want to accumulate wealth within a short time, we forego the basic moral values of life. We want to spend more than we earn.  The impact of conserving energy and other resources are directly related to the longevity.  Here comes the austerity value, which provides us more power to move in the right direction of material and spiritual values of consumerism. 

When we consume more through the fulfillment of sensualities, we do not tend to save means we are not in the austerity mode.  The more we are guided by our sensual desires, the less is our energy level. When the energy level, replete, the frailties, flaws, shortcomings, less ambition, and procrastinations will be more and you will be always worried about the outcome and the future of your life.

So, the main formula of the consumerism is to maintain a strict discipline in life, which can take you to the correct path of material and spiritual and also make you to undulate in your career, profession and life.