Such concepts as honor and conscience. Reflections on the conscience, honor, dignity and inner nobility of a person

They were inspired by the movie. I'll be honest, this question has always been relevant, but only after watching to the end, I emphasize, to the end of the film "Who benefits from the global conflict? Or ALLATRA IPM about honor, freedom and human rights", puzzles finally fell into place.

Ancient people had an idea of ​​inner freedom, they were inner free. However, over time, the concept of internal freedom was lost and people began to look for freedom in the external, which a priori cannot be. The body constantly depends on something: sometimes it’s cold, sometimes it’s hot, that is, it feels like it, then it’s thirsty, then the neighbor doesn’t like it, then the flies bite, then it wants something, but it doesn’t know what.

You can feel free only in the spirit. To be free from bindings, from templates, is another matter, of course, this is the place to be. And something else, without which there can be no inner freedom. Honor, conscience, inner nobility, dignity, self-respect, the ability to see only positive in others - these qualities are possessed by a real Man, a Man with a capital letter.

Over the past few decades, in the constant race for material wealth and in the relentless struggle for survival, we have lost these qualities, therefore there are not even sensible articles on this topic. Everything is somehow selective, but you still want to understand deeply, well, there is such a spiritual impulse.

These concepts should be basic in the upbringing of children, but above all, parents should be guided by them in their lives. Previously, getting into difficult situations, there was an acute question "what to do?". The film gave me even more than I expected. He taught not to be afraid to speak the truth, to defend one's honor and dignity, but also to respect the honor and dignity of other people.

He gave me that inner support on which all the foundations and principles of raising children are built. Everything ingenious, as always, turned out to be simple. Children should be given a code of honor as the basis of their moral education. Based on which they will intuitively find answers within themselves to questions about how to act in a given situation. And for this you need to create it yourself.
For myself, answer the question "what will I do if I see injustice?".

Life is a great school for the education of our souls. No sooner said than done.

First lesson

I'm standing at the cash register in the store, a quarreling couple enters. They approach the cashier and continue loudly, using obscene language, to sort things out. This situation is usually annoying, but for some reason we are used to being silent, because we have been taught to do so. Don’t get in, they’ll sort it out themselves, so we are silent out of fear, and maybe no one has ever told people that they don’t behave like that in public places. She calmly, tactfully, respectfully explained that they were in a public place and it was unpleasant for us, who were present here, to listen to their conversation, people also politely apologized and left.

Any situation is just a lesson. There are no errors. A person does not make mistakes, he is looking for the right way out of the situation. Life is full and harmonious when we are able to see a friend, teacher, God in another, even if it seems to us that he is mistaken. Indeed, in fact, he does not make mistakes, but goes through his lesson, but this is visible only when we look through the prism of Love and Knowledge, with full confidence that he has enough strength to pass it. Life brings only joy when we have passed the next stage with self-esteem.

What is it - the internal code of honor, of a real Man, which cannot be violated, no matter how external circumstances develop?

1. I, and only I, am responsible for the situation in which I found myself, for all my words, deeds and thoughts. And thoughts, as scientists have proven, are material, they form our future, so there is a special responsibility for them.
2. Respect the choice of the other person, whatever it may be. Everyone is responsible for their choice, and I am obliged to accept it with love and gratitude, as our Creator accepts it.
3. Appreciate the work of another person as your own.
4. Do not indulge evil, boldly speak the truth, even if it contradicts the opinion of the majority.
5. There are boundaries of permissibility that must not be violated, never, under any circumstances.

This is only a small part of the principles that guide a mature Personality walking along the spiritual path.

A mature, strong-willed Personality is one that lives in harmony with itself and the world around it, does not lie to itself and others, does not compare itself with anyone, it is spiritually free, open to eternity and infinite knowledge. Its maturity is manifested in unity with all, recognition of the equivalence of all people and their full acceptance. She sees the potential of other people and rejoices in its disclosure. Accepts the choice of other people entirely. Such a person takes responsibility for his words and deeds, for the situations in which he finds himself, with Love and Gratitude to the Almighty.

Conscience

God has endowed man with gifts. One of these gifts is Conscience. Only not everyone recognizes it as a gift, for some it is a punishment, and some do not use it at all. Let's see what it is.

In the book by A. Novykh "Sensei-II" there are wonderful words on this topic:

“But isn’t it easier to stop dreaming and choose a role in life worthy of the title of a Human? And be who you should be. So that when you fall asleep, you are calm, that your conscience is clear. So that, dying, you are not ashamed of your thoughts and actions. And so that even standing before God, as Christians say, at the Judgment of God, you have something to say. So that your basket with good deeds is full, and with bad deeds is empty. That's what it means to be a Human. For life is too short. And it is given in order for a person to prove to God that he is worthy of the title of Man ... "

The ancients said that Conscience is the degree of greatness of the Spirit.

Conscience is the pain that a person experiences when the internal code of honor is violated. The most paradoxical thing is that the animal component in a person really wants to break it, and at the same time it is very scary to do it. Here is such an internal conflict. But initially it was given by God as the ability to feel when he is doing the right thing and when he is not. So they say: "acted according to conscience or not according to conscience." Everyone chooses how to act.

"And honor is one of the signs of the general spirituality of a person, not only a warrior, that is, when he lives by some highly moral values. A person without honor is nothing and no one."

"Rigden: People don't need to waste time searching for the guilty, entertaining their Animal nature, or waiting for someone to do something for them. They need to start acting themselves, becoming a good example for others. In society, people are drawn to those who have Honor, Dignity, who help other people for free, who live according to Conscience, who really serve the spiritual world, ignoring material priorities. This is the kind of person you need to be, first of all, working on yourself.

In a civilized society that has a spiritual vector of development, every person from childhood should be able to ignore thoughts from the Animal nature, understand their dual nature, their energy structure and its capabilities. He must know that he is directly connected with the spiritual world, that God is one and there should not be any intermediaries at all for communication with Him, this is the sacrament of two: man and God. It is necessary to create conditions in society so that new Personalities who have come into this world understand the main meaning of life: to increase their spiritual strength, to observe the cultural and moral foundations natural for a person, to show more humanity, kindness in their thoughts, words and deeds, to improve in their inner work on yourself and, ultimately, save your Soul."

“A person is initially free and there is no sin behind him. After all, what is sin? Sin is something that burdens us inside, at the subconscious level, it is something that separates us from God, makes us fear, feel guilty about ourselves. That is, it is natural a consequence of the action of your psyche after violating the universal moral laws. This is a sin. These laws are the code of your honor, your conscience. And if you yourself violated it, you yourself must become better and cleaner in thoughts and deeds. "

From book A. New "Sensei-I"

Honour

From the word honest. Honest with yourself and others. In ancient times in Russia there was such a thing as "Honest merchant's word." It was given by merchants and it was valued above all else. It had weight in society, they believed it, more than today they believe notarized documents. Bonding a deal with a handshake was stronger than written agreements, and reputation was valued more than not only money, but also life.

The background of the merchant's word of honor was not only economic considerations. It was a kind of code of honor. Many merchants of the past were illiterate. To deceive such a person, who could not sign the bill of sale of the fortress and other financial documents, cost nothing. It was extremely difficult to issue a bill of sale legally. However, an honest merchant's word was just as significant as honor or noble origin in a noble environment.

The honor of a person is an internal concept and it is connected with respect, self-respect. If a person respects himself, then he will respect others, value in them such concepts as honor and dignity, freedom of choice. Under any circumstances in which such a person finds himself, the code of honor is untouchable.

Such a person sees the inner potential of other people, their value and resources, he feels unity with other people at the internal level. Protecting the honor and dignity of other people is an internal need for him, the number one task in communicating with other people. Violation of moral and ethical principles causes internal discomfort, mental pain and suffering in him. So they say: "conscience torments." Can she hurt? She tells you - you're not going the right way, not there.

Dignity

A person with dignity respects himself and others, he is able to recognize the inner equivalence of others, to feel the potential and inner beauty of people.

He is in harmony with himself and the world around him, without exalting himself or humiliating himself. Such a person stands firmly on this position, and it is his self-esteem that prevents him from falling into one of these extremes, he does not seek to prove anything to anyone, to try to influence the choice of other people. He is full of inner nobility. This manifests itself in everything and affects all aspects of his life. Moral and ethical standards, instilled from childhood by parents, a noble person cannot cross under any circumstances. All the thoughts of a noble person are connected with helping their neighbor.

Visually, such people do not stand out in any way, but inner warmth and light emanates from them, next to them it is good and calm, as if it is easier to breathe. And one more detail that I noted for myself, after talking with such a person, I want to live, create, love the whole world, enjoy every moment.

If each person, to the best of his ability, sincerely, with his whole being, strives to develop in himself such qualities as: honor, conscience, dignity, inner nobility, then our life will become brighter, we will be able to build a creative society, life in which will bring only joy. Such a society is by no means a fantasy, but the only correct reality. And I am sure that we will be able to unite in spirit and it is in our power, if everyone tries, then the fairy tale will come true.

Isn't it worth it?

"All people are simple and consist of the same material. But, depending on personal choice, one becomes a Hitler and the other a Buddha. So, if you want to live in a better society, start first with yourself, become "Look inside yourself, think about why you live in this world, who you really are. Look with a clear look at the world around you, without Ahriman's veil. Watch for the purity of your thoughts. Replace your mental slander with kind words, instead of sincere envy rejoice for the success of another person, instead of empty evil discussions, it’s better to go and do good to other people, simply, silently and disinterestedly.Instead of wishing harm to another and longing for his death, it’s better to share a piece of your bread with him and just sit down together and talk about what is in everyone's soul, about life, about Love, about God. Send the rays of your goodness into the world, share your pure knowledge, and many souls will be warmed by their warmth.

two, there and the third will flare up. And when there are a lot of such sparks, a real flame will ignite. So one person can do a lot of useful and good things! And he does not even imagine how large-scale his deed will be and how valuable his work before God will be for the benefit of his soul.

A. New "Sensei-IV"

Mobile lesson on the topic:

"To live with conscience and honor"

The severity of Russian laws is mitigated by the optionality of their implementation.

M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Kindness, love and compassion, mercy and understanding

Russian is inherent in man. Value does not lose age by age.

For people living in our school, there is no other person's anxiety, sadness, pain.

These properties of a righteous nature are brought into our lives by literature:

Pushkin's divine word, Chekhov's melancholy, Tolstoy's vow,

Saltykov's caustic satires and Nekrasov's calls to fight

They will live forever in our hearts.

Lesson Objectives:

Introduce M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin as a prominent political figure;

Familiarize yourself with the punishment for acts of corruption;

Motivate students to live according to the norms of morality and morality.

Lesson objectives:

Demonstration by students of behavior that does not violate legislative and generally accepted norms;

Formation of the need to comply with norms and rules;

A statement of the consequences of breaking the law;

Expansion of knowledge in the field of anti-corruption legislation of the Russian Federation.

Which of these great writers do you think we will talk about today and why?

We will talk about Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, because the building in which we are located is named after him.

Quite right. Let's turn to the photographs and documents that you see on the stand. The great literary figure Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin lived and worked in this building in the distant 19th century.in Ryazan The streets and the library bear the name of the Russian writer, and a monument has recently been erected. The satirist writer entered the history of the Ryazan province as a prominent political figure.

- Let's remember what connected him with the Ryazan region?

On the screen is a slide with photos of the writer.

- In 1858, Alexander II signed a decree appointing Saltykov-Shchedrin vice-governor of Ryazan. The city then had about 50 streets. Saltykov-Shchedrin knew people and their addresses so well that legends still circulate about his knowledge. According to local historian Igor Kanaev, there is a known case when the courier could not find a person, and Mikhail Evgrafovich sent him to the church. There they found the wanted man.

According to the memoirs of Ryazan officials, at the very first reception of employees of the Provincial Government, “Saltykov-Shchedrin, frowning and looking around at everyone, said: “Gentlemen, I will not allow taking bribes, and I will exact more severely from better-paid ones. Who wants to serve with me - let him leave this manner and serve honestly ... ". It is noteworthy that many inveterate "clerks" had to part with their places in the Provincial government. The vice-governor himself, in friendly correspondence, complained: “Such a collection of all kinds of illegalities and nonsense can hardly be found, and Vyatka swindle is nothing more than good nature compared to Ryazan swindle.” For his irreconcilable attitude towards all sorts of abuses, the inhabitants of Ryazan nicknamed Saltykov-Shchedrin "Vice-Robespierre." For two years of active work, the great satirist so got the local bureaucratic brethren so that a plump folder gathered from the complaints and slander written against him. The crown was the complaint ... of the Ryazan governor himself. In 1860, the troublemaker was removed from the post of vice-governor out of harm's way and transferred to Tver.

In 1867-1868 M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin was again sent to our city to the post of Chairman of the Treasury Chamber. In those years, he lived in modest apartments in the old one-story house of the Starodubskys (house number 49 at the intersection of modern Svoboda and Shchedrin streets).

It was during the Ryazan period of his life that Saltykov-Shchedrin first received official recognition as a writer. As a vice-governor, and later the manager of the Ryazan State Chamber, he paid attention to educating the population: he was engaged in the publication of the newspaper "Ryazan Gubernskie Vedomosti", was a trustee of the local library. By the way, it was Saltykov-Shchedrin who initiated the construction of the theater in Ryazan.

Tell me, please, with what did you not stop fightingMikhail Evgrafovich and how do we call this concept now?

Working as vice-governor in Ryazan from 1858 to 1860, he always fought against bribery."Vice-Governor Saltykov. Knowledgeable, active, disinterested, demanding of employees, demanding of subordinates; with these qualities he gained special trust and attention of the head of the province; he was met with the same attention from the people of the local elected society, and according to his literary fame ... He sincerely desires the abolition of serfdom and actively pursues its abuses, as evidenced by a significant number of consequences that took place in the past year, about the cruel treatment of landlords with serfs on important and unimportant reasons, the elimination of some of them from management of the estate and calling them to live in the provincial city.

Let's now turn to our textbooks on literary Ryazan and read about the abuses that the author describes. This is a real commentary on Saltykov's later story "Misha and Vanya." It happened in Ryazan, at the end of 1859. The retired major Velyashev and the captain's wife Kislinskaya, who lived together in Ryazan, treated their serfs cruelly. In September 1859, two serf boys of Kislinskaya, Ivan - 14 years old and Gavrila - 11 years old, brothers, unable to endure the torture, decided to commit suicide and stabbed themselves in a nearby garden with a table knife. The younger died, the eldest was cured. Upon learning of this suicide, Saltykov wrote a "very necessary" official paper, in which he reported: “Yesterday, September 27, two boys in the service of Colonel Kislinskaya, who lives in Ryazan near

g.Velyasheva, encroached on their own lives. At the same time, there is a rumor in the city that this attempt occurred as a result of repeated cruel tortures both on the part of their owner and on the part of Mr. Velyashev ... And therefore I order you to carry out the strictest formal investigation about this incident, after submitting it to me "In addition to this case, another one is also known, closely connected with the upcoming reform in the peasant case and with the attempts of local Ryazan landlords to bypass the impending liberation of the peasants by various machinations. Saltykov remembered this case of the factory owners Khludov brothers so much that exactly thirty years later he "Told about him as a typical case of the era of the beginning of emancipation.

So what is bribery now called?

At the present stage, we are also faced with this concept, and it is called "corruption".

Screen slide about corruption .

1) "God-opposing delicacy" Peter1

2) "Arbitrary self-reward" S.S. Uvarov

3) "Service Sweets" M.E. Saltykov - Shchedrin

As you understand, this social phenomenon arose a long time ago, but still exists. Let's turn to the presentation and work with the handout (Appendix No. 1 Proverbs about corruption ). Think about what illegal activity is referred to in proverbs and sayings?

About corruption.

Quite right. We study law, participate in the regional project “Meet the Judicial System of the Russian Federation” and we know what corruption is. Like any complex phenomenon, corruption does not have a single canonical definition. This concept in the scientific world and in the practical sphere still does not have an unambiguous interpretation, a generally accepted characteristic. Discrepancies are determined by the difference in positions from which this phenomenon is considered: political, economic, legal, moral, domestic.

There are different approaches to the definition of "corruption" on your handouts, read (Application №2 ). Analyze all definitions and highlight the main features that are present in all definitions. Name them.

Abuse of official position;

For personal enrichment;

Theft, embezzlement, appropriation of state property by an official.

It is believed that only the greedy bribe taker is to blame for corruption, and the one who gives the bribe is an innocent victim. Do you think it is?

No. Any corrupt transaction has two sides: the one who gives a bribe (bribes), and the one who receives it (who is bribed).

Let's look at the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Article 290 (taking a bribe), article 291 (giving a bribe). What is a bribe?

- Bribe- these are material values ​​(objects or money) accepted by an official, or any property benefit, or services for action (or, conversely, inaction).

What are the four groups of bribe recipients highlighted in the article?

An official whose actions are included in official powers.

Official for illegal actions (inaction).

An official holding a state position in the Russian Federation.

Public position of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation or head of local self-government.

What is the maximum punishment determined by the UKRF for taking a bribe for each of the groups? Let's analyze for this article 291 (giving a bribe). What is the maximum punishment here? (Appendix No. 3) .

Analyze the level of corruption in different countries. What do you think are the reasons for the persistence of corruption?

The desire of officials to enrich themselves at the expense of the state.

The legal framework and the mechanism for implementing anti-corruption laws are not effective enough.

Psychological factor and morality (immoral antisocial phenomenon).

What steps is our state taking in the fight against corruption. I propose to consider the legislative framework of the Russian Federation (Application No. 4 ). Here is a handout of laws, decrees, resolutions, the entire legislative framework in the fight against corruption. It is noteworthy that many documents are based on the experience of countries that are effectively fighting this evil. I propose to get acquainted with the experience of Japan, South Korea.

Listen to student messages.

So, the first step has been taken, there is a state legislative program, a whole system of executive power has been created in the fight against corruption, an anti-corruption council, a working group to establish interaction between the government and business groups. But, unfortunately, there is an opinion in society that it is pointless to fight corruption and an ordinary citizen does not have the opportunity to resist its manifestations in any way. Is it so? (Application No. 5 ). I suggest that you analyze the following situations related to any manifestation of corruption in everyday life:

The examination of the passenger and his luggage at the airport was not carried out by the employee in accordance with the established rules;

Driving license obtained with an unsatisfactory mark in the exam;

A less capable applicant was enrolled in a medical school for a bribe.

- And nowthink and answer the questions:

What motives guided the direct participants in corruption?

What personal selfish benefits would you like to receive?

What socially dangerous consequences can such a situation lead to?

So, what conclusion can be drawn from what we have now analyzed?

- Everything depends on the upbringing of a person, it is necessary to form an anti-corruption worldview, anti-corruption behavior as a way of life.

Shortly before his death, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin said: “Before my death, I would like to remind everyone of the once valuable and weighty words: shame, conscience, honor, which are now forgotten and have no effect on anyone”...

Our dear graduates, each of you will soon enter adulthood. I really want you not to forget what the great Russian writer said in the 19th century so far from us. But his words are still relevant today. I want them to always help you choose the right path in life and make the right decision. I would like you to never pass by injustice and, if possible, fight it. We have high hopes for you. You are our future.

The prestigious provincial Action "Nobility" announced the names of the laureates for the sixteenth time.

December 2, at the awards ceremony at the Palace of Culture of Railway Workers. A.S. Pushkin, we again heard stories about noble deeds, heroic deeds, amazing people.

The Association of Creative Unions and the regional Union of Journalists, with the long-term support of the Ministry of Culture of the Samara Region, are looking for people who are not indifferent, compassionate and noble in all corners of the province. These people are special. They do not pass by someone else's misfortune, acting according to honor and conscience and bringing goodness and light into this world.

The motto of the Action "Nobility-2013" is "With love for the province!". Of course, any noble deed is dictated by love - for children, veterans, the disabled, nature, and they were all done for the good and to help those who live nearby, to the residents of the Samara region.

The Organizing Committee of the Action this year received more than 200 applications from 8 cities and 17 districts of the region. Regional ministries and departments, public organizations, mass media, as well as residents of the province helped in the search for nominees.

The winners of the 2013 Action were traditionally determined by the Public Council, which was headed by the co-chairs - honorary citizen of Samara, WWII veteran N. Fomenko; laureate of the Action "Nobility" V. Yakovlev, Hero of Russia, chairman of the Samara regional organization "Heroes of the Fatherland" I. Stankevich. The Council also included many respected and well-known people in the province. Among them are I. Tsvetkova, M. Levyant, L. Eroshina, Sh. Kerimov, A. Kolesnikov, O. Korol, V. Likhachev, A. Sergeev, I. Skupova, R. Almazov, E. Bogdan, Yu. Galochkina , M. Fedoseev, L. Kurgan, E. Khegay, O. Yakovlev, E. Krylova, N. Kambarova, A. Rusakov, E. Orlova, I. Tulgaeva, O. Kochubey, D. Sazonov, E. Reshetova and others .

Based on the results of five meetings, the Public Council of the Action selected only 43 people for awarding. Every year people of different ages become laureates of the Action, so this year the difference between the youngest and the oldest laureate was almost 80 years.

The nomination “People in uniform”, traditional for the Action, has become a nominal one this year. Now it is dedicated to the memory of Police Lieutenant General Alexander Senopalnikov. A participant in counter-terrorist operations, a veteran of military operations, for his services to the Motherland, he was awarded a number of high state and departmental awards, including the Order of Courage, the Order of Honor, the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree, the medal "For Military Valor" , "For valor in service".

10 people became laureates in the nomination "People in uniform" at once - all of them, of course, are worthy of the memory of a military general. Among them are employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who took an active part in rescuing people in the village of Nagorny this summer, when live shells stored at a military training ground near Chapaevsk detonated.

For the first time this year, one nominee was presented by several residents of different cities and districts of the province at once. The letters spoke of good deeds, responsiveness and sensitivity to any issue, someone else's misfortune. Thus, the governor of the Samara region, Nikolai Ivanovich Merkushkin, became the laureate in the nomination “With love for people”.

Among the laureates of the current ceremony is the actor of the Samara Drama Theater Oleg Belov. More recently, the entire province was worried about the health of the artist. And Oleg, despite a serious illness, began to do charity work. He organized musical performances in which children with disabilities take part.

The actions of two other laureates, Salamaddin Nagiyev and Marat Rakhmetov, are also shocking. At the cost of their lives, each of them saved the drowning girls. As they say, a noble deed has no place of registration. So it was in the case of our laureates - even if these young guys were not residents of our province, but the members of the Public Council could not ignore such heroic deeds. Young guys, and they were just over 20, of course, are an example of real courage for all of us.

Misha Sidorov, Dima Vedyokhin and Dima Fedenev- the youngest laureates of the current Action - are taking their first steps in life, but their actions make us believe that real heroes will not end up on Samara land for a long time to come.

We thank the partners of the Promotion "Nobility-2013": Rusfinance Bank, FC "Zhiguli", a branch of OOO "Nestlé Russia" in Samara (KO "Russia"), Samara BKK, "Garden Center of Vera Glukhova", GTRK "Samara", TRK "SKAT", TRK "TERRA", TV channels "Gubernia" and "Samara GIS", radio "Samara Maximum", "Autoradio-Samara", "Russian Radio in Samara".

We also thank for the support: Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Samara Region, Rotary Club "Samara", Department of Youth Affairs of the Samara Region, Ministry of Health of the Samara Region, Ministry of Social, Demographic and Family Policy of the Samara Region, Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Samara Region, GUFSIN for the Samara region, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Samara region, the Federal Drug Control Service for the Samara region, the Babylon Gallery, the regional magazine Samara and Gubernia, the SSU, the Association of District and City Newspapers, the newspaper Volzhskaya Kommuna, Samarskaya Gazeta, radio Russia”, “Social newspaper”.

Irina Tsvetkova, chairman of the Samara regional organization of the Union of Journalists of Russia, organizer of the Action:

This year the Action "Nobility" is held under the motto "With love for the province!". And I also want to say why I love our Samara region. Because amazing, caring people live here. Over the years of the Action's existence, more than four hundred people have become its laureates, and today there are real heroes in the hall. I am glad that over the years they do not become smaller, just as the number of those who support the Action does not decrease. Many of those present here stood at the origins of the "Nobility" and now, after so many years, remain its constant friends and partners! Thank you all very much!

In the modern world, there is a trend of depreciation of spiritual values. This is especially true of such concepts as honor and conscience. It is noteworthy that many people do not even fully understand what honor is, and what is conscience? They are familiar with these concepts only in words, forgetting that they need to be used in practice. How are these two concepts interpreted in words, and how do modern people understand them?

Dictionaries provide rather lengthy definitions for these categories. For example, conscience, according to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, denotes an ethical category characterized by moral self-control. That is, a person feels moral remorse associated with one or another of his actions. Remorse of conscience is familiar to us, people, from childhood. For example, a child who lies to their parents for the first time may feel remorse, and this is normal. But in the future, these most conscientious impulses seem to dry out in a person, and the voice of conscience becomes quieter and quieter.

Honor is associated with the evaluation of the nobility and justice of the individual. According to Dahl's dictionary, honor is primarily associated with self-esteem. Thus, honor is a more complex category, it implies the right of a person to evaluate himself within the framework of self-respect, to protect his personality from outside harassment. Since ancient times, it was believed that a person, regardless of his gender, should have honor and never forget about it. Honor could inspire a man to a feat on the battlefield, and a woman to loyalty to her husband.

These two concepts are deeply interconnected and cannot exist without each other. Imagine a world without honor and without conscience, a world in which these two concepts do not even exist. It is safe to say that the crime rate will skyrocket, because a person will not be ashamed and conscientious for killing or stealing something. Without honor, people will be ready to do anything to achieve their own goal, jumping over the norms of morality and law, as if they did not exist at all.

In order to better understand the place of these two concepts in the life of a modern person, it is necessary to find a connection between them and find out how to cultivate honor and conscience in today's conditions?

How are these concepts related?

1. inner nobility;
2. justice;
3. self-esteem;
4. purity of conscience

A person distinguished by nobility must adhere to his convictions, speak the truth and live according to his conscience, without betraying the ideals of society. If a person experiences remorse, it means that she understands that an event has occurred that is contrary to the norms of modern society, an event that can demonstrate the negative traits of a person’s character.

For example, a child stole a toy from his friend and feels remorse at the same time. Of course, for a parent, this is a wake-up call, because the child has committed, albeit a small, but still immoral act, which can have its consequences. If the child independently admits to such an action, then it is necessary to find out the reasons for the theft and the characteristics of the emotions that the child experienced. If in his still young mental organization there is already such a thing as conscience, it means that the process of education is going in the right direction. You should push the child to return the toy, apologize and resolve the problem situation. In this case, conscience will help in the future to be born an honor that will never leave a child. One can speak of honor only if the child corrects what he has done, because otherwise he himself will not be able to feel respect for himself, which is an integral part of the appearance of dignity.

Of course, these two concepts are an integral part of the modern social system. So, for example, the expression often flashes "man of honor". It means someone who can keep his word, stand up for the weak, defender of justice. This expression in Russia has always been one of the biggest compliments. A noble gentleman must meet this criterion. A man of honor does not always win in life, since it is much easier for a dishonest person to violate the dogmas of society. And yet, a man of honor is in harmony with himself and with his own inner world, which means that he is not afraid of remorse.

Conscience is linear, but honor is multifaceted. Both honor and conscience are directly related to. Honor does not allow even thinking about non-virtuous deeds, conscience controls actions in their possible implementation. A man without honor and conscience is definitely an egoist. His egoism is manifested in absolutely everything: in relation to society, relatives, relatives, acquaintances, life in general. Conscientious people are for the most part altruistic: they are ready to help their neighbor, providing him with everything they need, they are afraid to do something that will dishonor their honor or violate the moral standards that exist in their head. Man is a deeply social being. If his circle considers certain norms of behavior to be correct, he will psychologically strive to fulfill its requirements.

What is the role of these ethical categories for the life of modern man?

1. They help overcome obstacles. Sometimes, in order to succeed, people lose their face, stepping over the norms of morality and other members of society. Honor and conscience make it possible to remain human no matter what. Personal benefits fade into the background when you realize that because of them you can lose yourself.

For example, an egoist, a person without honor and without conscience, is able to slander his colleague for the sake of a new position and step over other people's interests. A man of honor would never do that. Perhaps his path to career success will be more thorny, but honest and conscientious.

2. Honor and conscience are associated with respect. They contribute to the growth of authority in any circles. This is especially true now, when "people of honor" is becoming less and less.

For example, in business it is very difficult to become successful without honor. You can make one deal and deceive your partner, get the so-called instant profit. However, the rumor about the dishonesty of the businessman will quickly spread, and in the future, hardly anyone will want to cooperate with him, fearing deceit and meanness.

3. Moral categories give freedom and peace of mind from insincerity, lies and baseness. A person who is confident in his purity and rightness is much happier than those who achieve their goals with dirty methods.

4. Honor and conscience provide reliability. A person tested for strength receives a huge "credit of trust". In the future, this is beneficial to him himself due to mutual assistance for the shown honesty. He is ready to be entrusted with any important matter in the work team, entrusted with a large project or management issues. Honor is the best recommendation in any field.

What are the reasons for minimizing the categories of honor and conscience in our time?

1. The growth of careerism.

The modern world is a world of money and career achievements. Often, in order to survive in such conditions, you have to become tougher and more cynical. The phrase "go over the heads" is no longer perceived as critically as it was 50 years ago. People now not only go against their conscience, breaking promises and using lies and cunning as a means of struggle, but also do not defend their honor. For example, under the yoke of superiors, most junior employees are ready to bend over and put on a mask of hypocrisy, because otherwise they will lose their jobs, and, therefore, they will have nothing to feed their families.
Moreover, a conscientious person is often left without work and livelihood only because he is not capable of a mean act towards other people.

2. Influence of modern cinema and literature.

People have long moved away from classical art, sincerely loving the alternative as a genre. In many modern films, the hero does not have to be honest, positive characters have long ceased to arouse the love of the viewer, asociality, nihilism and the ability to get out of difficult situations with the help of cold cynicism and logic are in vogue. Of course, many people want to be like their favorite heroes, take an example from them, be more spectacular and more interesting. Often this leads to exaggeration and unnecessary obsession with fictitious ideals of selfishness. Sharp and complex negative characters create false ideas about how to behave. For example, a very smart and interesting series "House Doctor" shows us a character who is absolutely cynical and able to bypass any familiar social norms. In some moments, he still behaves nobly, but his popularity is not great because of such "gaps". The same can be said for the new Sherlock Holmes film, where the sociopathic Sherlock is recognized and respected not for ideals of honor that he can ignore, but for logic and cold rationalism.

3. Family trouble.

Children from dysfunctional families and orphanages grow up "according to the laws of the street", where the concepts of honor and conscience are distorted. It's not that they have to grow up and become antisocial people, but their emotional rigidity. If such a child was able to break out, become a wealthy person, this does not mean that he has forgotten his past. Half of these children, on the contrary, will have a heightened sense of justice, they will become full-fledged members of society, start a family and zealously defend their honor and social cells, but the other half will get stuck in a pit of anti-morality, where the strongest wins, and not the one who is right.

4. Lack of proper ethical education.

The concept of honor and conscience should be inculcated from childhood, as part of the question of what is good and what is bad. If there is a gap in this section, the consequences will be very tangible over the years. For example, a teenager may see at school how older children offend kids. With proper education, honor will not allow him to stand aside. As a man of honor, he will definitely stand up for the weak. A more banal example: a child has lost some important thing. He is faced with a choice: lie to his parents about the loss, or tell the truth. He confesses, otherwise his conscience will torment him.

How to instill in a child the concept of honor and conscience?

To begin with, it is necessary to answer the question of why to bring up honor and conscience in a child from childhood? It has been repeatedly noted above that it is much more difficult for a conscientious person to live, because he is not able to step over the moral and ethical norms of society. However, the education of conscience and honor in a child should be manifested for several reasons.

1. a child brought up according to all moral and ethical rules will treat his parents more respectfully;
2. such a person will be less inclined to criminal activity, since he will consider it immoral;
3. a person who is guided, first of all, by the concepts of honor and conscience, will be able to build his own family and friendship relations much easier;
4. a child brought up according to such rules will be able to quickly and easily find the work of his life, which he will do not for pleasure, but for the sake of money.

How often can you hear from someone the phrase that, they say, "you have no conscience." In fact, this is a global problem of the modern world that needs to be addressed urgently. The lack of conscience and honor among the values ​​of modern man leads to an increase in the level of crime, to an increase in the percentage of divorce and elementary loneliness. A person who is ready to step over all the rules and norms for the sake of his personal pleasure will easily change his spouse, step over the interests of a friend and go to crime for the sake of enrichment. I have no future for such a person, because he morally corrupts and destroys society.

That is why now parents must raise their children in the spirit of conscience in order to create a completely new society in which the guarantors of freedom and honor would not be an empty phrase.

How to carry out such education?

First of all, parents themselves must have a clear understanding of what these categories mean and what they expect from the child in the future. You cannot demand from a small member of society what you yourself do not believe in.

Methods for instilling civil and moral standards are varied.

First, this a television. Instructive cartoons and shows can help a child recognize positive and negative actions.

Secondly, literature. Fairy tales and stories often give rise to much more reflection than other visual media. The child empathizes throughout the reading, forming their own opinion about their actions.

Thirdly, conversation method. This is probably the most important way to instill the concepts of honor and conscience. Through the family, the child learns the world and learns to be a part of it. Parents can discuss books that have been read by the child, or simply start an unobtrusive conversation about morality. Simplicity of presentation and worthy examples will lead to the desired result. Now there are also numerous games that contribute to the development of moral foundations in preschoolers, including honor and conscience.

Fourth, personal example of parents who live according to their conscience. From childhood, the child is explained why lying is bad, but the parents themselves do not hesitate to use lies in communicating with the child. Moreover, parents, often without hesitation, set a bad example for the younger generation. For example, how can a father who raises his hand to his mother in the presence of his children talk about conscience and honor if he himself has never been familiar with these concepts? So that, in this case, the parent does not speak, the child will be guided by his actions. As a result, in the future, an adult child will consider it absolutely normal to raise a hand against someone who is weaker and lie to someone who sincerely believes you.

Of course, there are different methods of educating honor and conscience, but an adult should start with introspection. Does he have the qualities that he wants to cultivate in a child? Can he somehow acquire them?

Is it possible to cultivate honor and conscience in an adult?

Returning to the problems of our time, it is worth emphasizing the fact of the existence of a whole layer of people who are disillusioned with the old ideals and deny moral values. Nihilism like a disease struck society. How to return such a person to the path of life in honor and conscience? Statistics show that this is possible only with the help of long-term persuasion and motivation. That is, if a person who is not afraid to tarnish his honor and does without remorse falls into the company of noble people who honor these qualities, there is a chance for "correction". But basically, adult personalities have already formed a worldview, so it’s too late to change them.

If a person suddenly realizes that his shamelessness and selfishness are poisoning everything around, he is able to change his own life. To do this, you just need to think about each of your actions. A spiritual and moral role model should be found. Each person should have such an example, it can be the closest relative or friend with a heightened sense of justice and conscientiousness. When performing any act, the egoist should think, how would his moral example act in this case? When relying on such a spiritual leader, you can easily change yourself.

And yet, the malleable brain of a child soaks up ideas like a sponge. For example, an instructive story told to an adult may not affect his thinking in any way, dissolving in the stream of consciousness. But if you tell a child a simple situation about a person who dropped a wallet in the middle of the street, which was picked up and returned by a passerby, praising such an honest act, the child will remember this example for a long time. He will want his parents to be proud of him, and the very fact that you can not return the lost thing will become unacceptable for him, because this is an act against honor, causing remorse. An adult, on the other hand, comes up with millions of reasons why leaving a wallet to yourself is profitable and good, and returning it is stupid and imprudent in such difficult times. Will your conscience torment you if you do not give change to the old woman? Or will you walk past her, rushing about your business, thinking that she is deceiving people or giving the proceeds to someone else? In a world where material values ​​prevail over spiritual ones, it is difficult to find support for the return of old truths.

Thus, the concepts of honor and conscience are a stumbling block and the basis of moral principles. Honor gives birth to conscience, and conscience serves to observe the ideals of honor. With the depreciation of these categories, the world is waiting for the dominance of injustice and lies, leading to the decay of society. For the past few years, the media have been talking about the impoverishment of culture and values. This does not happen by chance. The lack of work on oneself, self-control, the search for simple solutions to problems, incorrect education - all this inevitably leads to the fact that the words "honor" and "conscience" turn into an empty phrase for the majority.

People do not understand that sooner or later, a chain of vile and shameless deeds will lead them to loneliness. At this very moment, you will have to think about all your wrong actions and deeply regret them. The modern generation is given a great chance not to follow the path of their ancestors and continue the development of the impoverishment of society. By cultivating honor and conscience, modern society can reach a new level of development without crime, humiliation and oppression.

It is worth remembering that if a person does not respect himself, does not fight for his honor, does not act according to his conscience, then he does not respect others. Without respect for each other, it is difficult for people to coexist together in closed spaces. Asocial people on a large scale cannot serve as raw materials for a vast world demanding great things. What our ancestors sacredly believed in is overgrown with moss and longs for restoration in the eyes of millions of social units. Therefore, it is necessary from an early age to teach the growing generation to realize the high value of honor and conscience. Then we will be surrounded only by worthy people, altruists who raise life to a new level.

This word is often used in everyday communication of people. They say "it's on his conscience", "he has no shame or conscience", "his conscience tortured", "remorse", "a conscientious person", "acts according to his conscience", etc. But what does this mean? What is meant by this?

Let's see how conscience is written in dictionaries.

Big encyclopedic dictionary:CONSCIENCE - the concept of moral consciousness, the inner conviction of what is good and evil, the consciousness of moral responsibility for one's behavior. Conscience is an expression of a person's ability to exercise moral self-control, to independently formulate moral duties for himself, to demand from himself their fulfillment and to make a self-assessment of the actions performed.

All words seem to be familiar. But it's not very clear. Too superficial. Moral obligations and self-assessment of the actions performed by each person can be different, especially in modern society.

Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language V.I. Dalia:CONSCIENCE - moral consciousness, moral instinct or feeling in a person; inner consciousness of good and evil; the secret of the soul, in which the approval or condemnation of each act is recalled; the ability to recognize the quality of an act; a feeling that impels to truth and goodness, averting from falsehood and evil; involuntary love for the good and for the truth; innate truth, in varying degrees of development.

This is clearer and much deeper, makes a person think. Think not only about your actions, but also about the meaning of your existence, about your destiny.

What is the purpose of man? What is the sense of life?

At each stage of life, a person consistently faces different goals and tasks that he solves. For example, to learn and finish school, to enter an institute (technical school, college), get a specialty, choose a profession and direction of work, achieve success in it, start a family.

When you reach a certain step, you move on to the next one. But if you look ahead, the question arises, what next? What to strive for when you pass these steps? What's next?

Sooner or later, every sane person thinks about the questions:

Why was I born?

What is my purpose, what is the purpose of my life?

After all, each person, passing through different steps, and solving some local problems, strives for something important for himself.

People have different aspirations.

Some strive to achieve only their own benefits, their well-being, in order to get a good job and live comfortably (very often at the expense of others). You achieve great material wealth and live happily. The more property, money you have, the happier the person is, the more you can afford, the happier you live ... until old age ...

Others strive to make the world around them better, to bring benefit to close and familiar people, the people of their homeland, and finally, the peoples of the entire planet. Such a person cannot live only for himself. He sees the meaning of his existence and feels satisfaction when it is good not only for himself, but also for the people around him, when he benefits and does good for others.

Two different positions. And each person has the right to choose his main goal and what he sees the meaning of life.

What determines what position a person takes, what aspirations take possession of him?

Conscience. It is she who determines which way a person goes. And his actions, deeds are closely related to whether he listens to his conscience.

Here are quotes from some famous people who left their mark on history, in the development of society:

"I believe that it is impossible to live better by trying to become better, and that there is no greater pleasure than to feel that you are really getting better. This is the happiness that I have not ceased to experience until now and which my conscience testifies to me."

Socrates

"Do not do what your conscience condemns, and do not say what is not in accordance with the truth. Observe this most important thing, and you will fulfill the whole task of your life."

M. Aurelius

"The human conscience prompts a person to look for the best and sometimes helps him to abandon the old, comfortable, sweet, but dying and decaying - in favor of the new, at first uncomfortable and unlovable, but promising a fresh life."

A.A. Blok

" There are two desires, the fulfillment of which can constitute the true happiness of a person - to be useful and to have a clear conscience.

L.N. Tolstoy

In the statements of these famous personalities, it sounds that conscience for them was their guiding star in life, directing them to deeds.

Some will ask: why is it all - to live for the sake of something common, incomprehensible? And what does it give you? Life is short, you have to have time to live for your own pleasure. Why do something for others? And why listen to this conscience, it only prevents you from knowing all the joys of life.

Let's figure out what conscience is, where its roots come from.

Our ancestors about conscience

We Russ (and Russ are not only Russians, but also representatives of other Slavic nationalities), are the descendants of the Slavic-Aryans. Our history goes back to deep antiquity - hundreds of thousands of years, not 1000 years, as modern historical science represents. You can learn more about this from the books of V. Chudinov, N. Levashov, V. Demin, A. Tarunin, L. Prozorov, O. Gusev and other authors.

Our ancestors - Slavic-Aryans - passed on their wisdom in ancient writings, they say a lot about Conscience.

For example, one of the most ancient sources has been preserved - the Slavic-Aryan Vedas, some sections of which are over 40,000 years old (the Vedas were translated from runic writing and Glagolitic into modern Russian and published for the first time in the form of brochures in 1944).

In the "Santias of the Vedas of Perun" from the "Slavic-Aryan Vedas" it says:

Human Children from the Clans of the Great Race
and, you, the descendants of the Heavenly Family,
be pure in Soul and Spirit,
and let it be clean Conscience,
the measure of your deeds will be...

The "Word of Wisdom of the sorcerer Velimudr" of the same source says:

“Why does a person need to go against his Soul and conscience, because they are above everything in the world, and a person should always take care of them. Is it possible for someone from outside to fill the Soul of a person with Joy and Happiness or Conscience his".

"Who lives in conscience that person is sinless. The human soul and Conscience has existed since the Ancestral years, and by their will a person lives.

« Conscience- this is the highest gift of God, you can’t run away from her, you can’t hide, you can’t deceive her and you won’t speak. For good deeds she gives Joy, for worthless deeds she gives suffering.

“Remember, children of the Great Race, and you, descendants of the Heavenly Family, that Life must be lived in Joy, for it is only a single moment. A bright life in the World of Reveal, a person is given by his bright Soul and Conscience. All people Soul and Conscience revered and how can a righteous person in the name of something, for someone to destroy a Pure Soul and Conscience my".

That is, our ancestors attached great importance to conscience. And the attitude towards it was reverent, as to something very important that must be preserved. But why?

Why do we need to live according to conscience

If you carefully look at the word CONSCIENCE, then you can distinguish two parts in it “with” and “message”.

"So" means jointly, together, together. For example, co labor (joint work), co existence (co-existence), co experience (experience with someone).

"Message" is a message, a message.

In the connection of CO-VEST, a joint message is obtained. What's the message? From whom?

Let's figure it out.

Throughout the long history of our Motherland, our people had to endure so many wars, so many attacks, as no other people had to endure. Our people have always repulsed enemies, always emerged victorious from wars, although sometimes at the cost of many sacrifices.

And this is due to the fact that the Russians have a special inner core that distinguishes us from other races. What is this rod?

Now few ancient sources, legends of our great ancestors have been preserved. They, along with the chronicle of the events of our past, reflect the wisdom, national traditions and culture accumulated over millennia. Many of the sources were mercilessly destroyed. Those that have miraculously survived to this day (on gold plates, wooden tablets, parchment, etc.), are currently trying to be recognized as fake by “official” science, although there is irrefutable evidence of their truth. And most people don't know about these sources, or don't believe they exist. History has been deliberately rewritten and is still being rewritten. What is it for?

This is done in order to defeat the Rus, only in a deceitful, mean way. Take away their national traditions, culture, in other words, the wisdom accumulated by their ancestors, make them “blind, helpless kittens” who do not know how and why they live, and thereby deprive the Rus of cohesion, divide them. And then it will be quite easy to break the people, whose unity is broken.

But it's not so simple. In us, in Rus, the wisdom and orders of our ancestors are also stored on another level - in the genetic memory. And the role of this "guardian" is played by conscience. It retains the core of the "mysterious" Russian soul.

Exactly conscience tells us where to move and how to act in a given situation, gives direction. Deviation from the right direction causes so-called pangs of conscience, i.e. a person feels that he is doing something wrong. This is a hint-direction to a person on his life path, stored in his genetic memory.

But what does our conscience? What is its direction? What is the deep meaning?

Conscience tells us act in the name of one's kind. To act according to conscience means to act in the interests of one's kind, in the interests of its preservation, development, and improvement.

It is this core that makes the Rus invincible, helps the Rus to preserve their family.

What is meant in this case by the word genus?

The word ROD here means the people of the Rus, the people living in our native Russian land, which at different times was called Rus, Rasseniya, the Land of the Holy Race. A people united by common traditions and culture, maintained over many millennia.

"People live in nations, and they cannot live in another way - this is the way of existence of our biological species ... The totality of people makes people common to them culture is the "genotype" of a given people. Every nation is unique and unrepeatable. People characterize him psychological wholeness, which distinguishes one people from another ...

Our harsh nature and our harsh history have taught us to understand clearly: we can survive and live only together, as a single people and on the basis of the priority of society.

For the Russian nation, at all times characteristic the meaning of life, which goes beyond the satisfaction of the physiological and everyday needs of people ...

… the main values ​​for us are People, Motherland, Mip (i.e. society), Truth, Justice, Friendship, Peace:“First think about the Motherland, and then about yourself”, “Die yourself, but help out a comrade” ... " (A.S. Volkov)

Thus, CONSISTENCE is a joint message, a joint message of our ancestors, fixed at the level of genetics, written down by the genetic code. This code has been formed for many thousands of years. It has been accumulated by many generations of Russ, Slavic-Aryans. He helps to preserve and develop his family.

What do “Western values” bring with them?

Recently, Western values ​​have been intensively introduced into our society. And it is pushed into the minds of people, primarily through the media, that a free society is a society in which every person is free to do what he wants, without binding himself to any moral obligations or moral principles.

Success comes first.

This means standing out from others by achieving some material benefits - a monetary, highly paid job (it doesn’t matter if you like it or not, money is honestly earned there or not), the ability to buy an expensive car, a cottage, go abroad to relax on a prestigious resort, to educate their children in prestigious educational institutions (mainly abroad). This is what is valued (or rather imposed, what is valued). The moral principles behind everything behind this are relegated to the background. Good and honest relations between people, joint creative creative work for the benefit of the native country are forgotten. But what is behind all this? Emptiness. Living only for your own pleasure is the satisfaction of your own physiological and simplest emotional needs. And that's it. This is a dead end in human development.

But the worst thing is that disunity is being introduced into our people through Western values. This is the destruction of us from within. This, in fact, is an invasion with the aim of dismembering our united people, violating its integrity and cohesion. There is an imperceptible substitution of high moral principles (conscience, honor, striving for truth and justice) inherent in our people, with the introduction of concepts alien to us deceit as the norm of life(relationships in the same business), career development and striving for power for profit(the higher advanced, the more material wealth), enrichment at the expense of others.

This is a direct attack on our inner core and the desire to kill in us. conscience. Again - to defeat us, decomposing from within, directing us to the path of moral degradation.

The fundamental principle of Western culture is the unlimited "freedom of the individual", i.e the priority of individualism. It's a culture "wars of all against all" even within the same nation. The main goal of man is recognized self-assertion, victory over others at any cost: you can push with your elbows, trample others with your feet, climb up their heads - and even more so this is permissible in relation to other peoples, and even more so to “our smaller brothers” (American Indians are far from the only people destroyed by Europeans , whales in the northern hemisphere are far from the only animal species they have destroyed).

Unbridled consumerism and enjoyment, openly proclaimed by Western culture as the highest values, not only completely emasculate the basic value of precisely human life (after all, it cannot consist in stuffing the belly!), but also directly threaten Life on Earth: the resources of the planet will not be enough to satisfy their unlimitedly growing appetites very soon. (A.S. Volkov)

In this regard, it is very appropriate to quote from the statements of Hitler, who came to power in Germany in the 30s of the 20th century:

"I free man from the humiliating chimera called conscience."

What path did people take, led by such a motto and forgetting about conscience, and what it led to - everyone knows - the most destructive war in recent centuries, which claimed tens of millions of lives.

Knowledge, development and conscience

Let's go back to the question of the meaning of life. What is he in? Why was life given to a reasonable person?

Thinking people will agree that a person came into this world to develop, to become more perfect.

Real development opens up new possibilities for a person, inspires a person to more and more new stages of his improvement. And there is a special charm of life in this.

After all, when a person improves and achieves something that was previously inaccessible to him, which he could not do before, when he creates something new, he experiences incomparable satisfaction, spiritual uplift, joy. And this is true happiness! It's worth living just for that!

But in order to develop, you need to learn new things, you need to to know.

The "Slavic-Aryan Vedas" says:

… Awakening of a person only in Cognition,
and the eye of Knowledge saves him...

Reaching Knowledge,
The Child of Man looks again at the Vedas,
and becomes a debt again
striving for Spiritual Life,
and the head of all deeds becomes Conscience...
Heeding conscience, he hates everything evil,
from this Conscience becomes strong,
and man creates his Happiness,
in Happiness the man himself is created...

That is, learning something new, a person understands the world, its laws, and develops deeper. But the path of real, deep development, to the achievement of wisdom, lies only through high morality, the path of goodness, truth and justice, where base manifestations of lies, deceit, betrayal, meanness are unacceptable. On the path of development, "the head of all deeds becomes conscience". These are the laws of the evolution of the mind, which our ancestors knew about.

To learn and improve, you need to make efforts and constantly work, work on yourself. Nothing can be achieved without your efforts.

But then again, there will always be people who will say: why? It is better to enjoy life without much effort - it is easier to follow the path of less resistance.

Let us turn again to the Slavic-Aryan Vedas:

“The dark forces use two ways to lure people and prevent them from developing in the Explicit World of Midgard, creatively creating for the benefit of the Family, improving Spiritually and Mentally: the first - ignorance, and second - ignorance.

On the first path, they do not allow people to know, and on the second, they say that knowledge is unnecessary and harmful to people.

It is ignorance that makes people not free, does not allow them to develop.

And here is what our contemporary academician Nikolai Viktorovich Levashov said about this at one of his meetings with readers of his books:

Real knowledge can make people free. Knowledge can save man and humanity from disease, poverty, and hunger. A person who knows is a person who is free from the fear of the unknown.. A person enlightened by knowledge is a person who controls and creates his own destiny. The awakened ones are guided by their conscience, and the light of their mind allows them to distinguish good from evil. A society armed with knowledge and common aspirations is invincible in principle.

And a person who does not know, does not want to work, does not seek to change himself and improve, more easily succumbs to vices - envy, greed, the desire of someone else, which leads him to the path of moral decline, destroys him:

"Greed destroys Knowledge,
when Knowledge is killed - Shame dies ...

… When Shame is killed, Truth is oppressed,
with the death of Truth and Happiness will perish ...
When Happiness is killed, Man dies ... "

(Santia Vedas of Perun, Santia 8)

The meaning of development, life and death

There is another position: why develop, improve, because we will all die anyway, what's the difference?

But who proved that life ends after the death of the physical body?

Academician N.V. Levashov in the chapter "The nature of life after death" of his book "Essence and Reason" writes:

“Man, like all living things, is doomed to death, and nothing can be done about it. Such is the law of nature, although man has always dreamed of eternal life, sought to find elixirs of immortality, secrets, the solution of which would help to deceive the “bony old woman” who is gathering her “harvest”. First of all, I would like to point out that immortality, which most people dream of, is actually death, more precisely evolutionary death, while death is the cause of evolutionary immortality.

Paradox?! Yes and no.

If we assume that everything disappears with the death of the physical body: the experience accumulated during life, knowledge, wisdom, our emotions, our memory, everything that allows us to realize ourselves as living, in this case there will be a paradox.

But, if we assume that with the death of the physical body, the essence is freed from the ballast that hinders further evolutionary development, no contradiction, no paradox arises.

"Reset" of the physical body does not mean the death of a living being.

The death of the physical body is only a transitional moment for any living being. A legitimate question may arise. If life does not stop with the death of the physical body, then why is life in it necessary at all? Why do you need to incarnate again and again, starting almost from scratch? Why does an entity incarnate into a new physical body?

The answer to this question is very simple: without a physical body, the entity is not able to develop. The physical body is a source of potential necessary for development. In the cells of the physical body, the process of splitting molecules and the release of the primary matters of which they are composed takes place. Primary matter, saturating the bodies of the essence, ensures their work, they are a kind of "fuel".

So, the moment of death of the physical body is a transition point from the active phase of evolution to the passive one. The transition point, but not the death of what we call personality, individuality. When a person dies from natural aging processes, the so-called natural death, there is simply a “dumping” of the old physical body, which is no longer able to provide evolutionary development, in order to gain a new physical body and continue evolution. The old physical body is discarded by the entity, as a shell that has worked its way out. And you shouldn't regret it."

In the book "Essence and Mind" N.V. Levashov in detail, on the basis of generalizing the knowledge accumulated by society, an explanation is given of what the soul (essence) of a person is, death, reincarnation, conception in a new physical body, the essence of other “mysteries” of human existence, including karma, is set out, so far nothing unexplained by modern science. And as a result of this, the seemingly supernatural phenomena attributed by religion to the almighty “Lord God” become understandable, which in fact are objective processes.

In particular, when discussing the topic of karma, N.V. Levashov explains how a person, committing unseemly acts (deceit, theft, murder), destroys his personality and, for objective reasons, degrades, weakens the essence, blocking the path to its development with his own hands. A person who read this topic in the book by N.V. Levashov, it becomes clear why one should always strive to act according to conscience and why people, committing certain actions, determine their own future fate.

On this issue, N.V. Levashov writes:

"In order to preserve your essence from destruction, you can advise in a nutshell don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you . If a "normal" person adheres to this rule, it is very likely that he will avoid "hell". A person receives the punishment for sin at the time of committing the sin, and not after death. The changes that occur in this case, both with the physical body and the essence, are real processes occurring at the level of the physical body, the second, third, and so on, the bodies of the essence.

At the moment of conception, the essence enters the biomass, the genetics of which corresponds to the evolutionary level of the essence. This happens automatically at the moment of conception, so that in this case the Lord God "did not hold a candle." Therefore, nothing accidental and undeserved happens. The appearance of injustice arises from a misunderstanding of what life is. Each physical body is a temporary garment for an entity. If a person, having committed a murder, changed his costume, he does not become innocent from this. The crime is committed not by the “suit”, but by the wearer of the suit - an entity that is in this physical body ... "

In the Vedas we find the same thing, but said in other words:

“Each deed you commit leaves its indelible mark on the eternal Path of your life, and therefore create, people, only beautiful and good deeds ...”

(Word of Wisdom of the sorcerer Velimudra)

The development of man, his essence is not limited by any framework. In his development, a person can reach more and more peaks, acquire new, seemingly fantastic opportunities. Our ancestors knew all this well. People who possessed "superpowers", who entered the path of creation by the power of their thoughts, were called earlier gods.

Development of personality, development of society.

In isolation from society, a person cannot develop to a high level (an example of this is children raised by animals - Mowgli children who could not even really learn to speak). For development, a person must absorb the experience of his ancestors, assimilate the necessary knowledge accumulated by previous generations. The mechanism and conditions necessary for human development are also described in detail in the book by N.V. Levashov "Essence and Mind".

That is, human development is impossible outside of society, outside of a kind.

But developing and improving a person must contribute to the development of the family. In turn, developing his kind, a person develops himself. Everything is interconnected. Only together the clan develops and gives rise to even more talented, creative people. Moreover, if a person strives to give his strength to his family as much as possible, this gives him additional potential, accelerates his development many times over.

Here it is appropriate to quote from one of the Eastern currents about the genus:

"The Strengthening of the Clan occurs through the strengthening of the Spirit of each individual member of the Clan. Each descendant of the Clan received the greatest Power of his ancestors. He did not have to accumulate the Power from scratch. He was born already with a great potential for good luck - supporting the Forces of Life. Each of the ancestors served the Clan, fulfilling their destiny "our duty. We all have a duty to our ancestors. They gave us the Power they accumulated in advance. With the help of this Power, the descendants receive the status that their ancestors deserved with their spiritual work. The duty of the descendants to continue to serve the Family.

Rootless people are those who do not care about their Family. They are weak in the Spirit, are not supported by their Family, and, accordingly, have no luck in life. A direct consequence of the absence of the Force of the Family is a low level of responsibility. The stronger the Rod, the more responsible people make it up ... "

This quote reflects the ideas of our ancestors about the inseparable connection of each person with his family. And although the quote is taken from the so-called "Eastern knowledge", it is known that the origins of this knowledge come from the ancient knowledge of the Slavic-Aryans, transmitted by them to the Dravidians and Nagas during a campaign in Dravidia - ancient India.

Man develops and at each stage of his development conscience tells you how to move forward. The more a person is developed, the more opportunities he has, the more he must take responsibility for himself - so orders conscience. And inaction, if you can do something, also causes "remorse." If you can, act, make the world a better place, help others develop and move forward, otherwise you will not develop yourself, these are the laws conscience.

Religion and conscience

Very often the concepts of conscience and religiosity are identified, i.e. a believer is equated with a highly moral, moral person.

And does it always happen in reality?

Of course, one cannot say that all believers are bad and dishonorable people. But such people have practically cut off the path to knowledge for themselves, they have limited themselves. Blind faith, not confirmed by knowledge, does not give a path to development.

Yes, in the commandments of Christianity it is forbidden to commit sins (do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not covet someone else's, do not bear false witness, etc.), and hardly anyone will doubt the correctness of these prohibitions. But here lies a trap: it does not explain why it is impossible to do this, but it is said that the "Lord" ordered it, otherwise there will be punishment. Who will be punished and for what? People do not have a complete understanding of objective processes, what is happening and how. An "information vacuum" is being created. They demand from people "stupid" acceptance on "faith", not allowing to know, suggesting that this is not accessible for understanding by "mere mortals".

If you carefully read the stories from the Bible, you can see that the actions of the heroes from this "holy book", from which it is proposed to take an example, do not at all shine with high morality and purity. Unfortunately, most believers have never even read the "holy book" of the Bible themselves.

If you look at the "highest officials" of the Christian Church, there is also no sense of respect for their high spirituality and infallibility. Patriarch Kirill's recent statement about the Slavs that "these are barbarians, ... they are second-class people, they are almost like animals" does not delight any native inhabitant of our country. And if you look into the biography of Kirill, then unpleasant facts become known, in particular, that he participated in the duty-free trade in alcohol and tobacco products from abroad.

And this person has the status of "Patriarch of All Russia", that is, personifies the highest spirituality and infallibility...

Oleg Satov speaks very sharply about Christianity:

" Forweak soulChristianity is attractive from two sides. First, contrary to its own rules, it amuses pride, creating a sense of belonging to the divine world - a sort offair spirituality. Secondly, the world of material values, unattainable for a slave, Christianity proclaims vicious and sinful - devalues ​​it.

Then there is a sweet feeling for any neurotic of his own exclusivity - “I am weak and poor only because I stand above material values. I am spiritual!” It turns out that freedom, strength and faith in oneself are completely depreciated, and the qualities of the infantile psyche come to the fore -obedience, doubt, irresponsibility, self-pity, disguised as high spirituality.

If you reduce everyone around you to your level, then you can become strong among the weak - this is the goal and logic of Christian social morality.

Feelings of guilt and conflict of conscience are the gift of Christianity to mankind."

And here is what L.N. Tolstoy in a letter to teacher A.I. Dvoryansky on December 13, 1899 about the terrible harm done to the soul of a child by religion:

We are so accustomed to this religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice all the horror, stupidity and cruelty with which the teachings of the church are overflowing ... We do not notice, but the children notice, and their souls are irreparably mutilated by this teaching ...

We think that the soul of a child is a blank slate on which you can write whatever you want. But this is not true, the child has a vague idea of ​​what is then the beginning of everything that reason for its existence that power in whose power he is, and he has then the highest, indefinite and inexpressible in words, but conscious of the whole being idea of ​​this beginning, which is characteristic of rational people. And suddenly, instead of this, he is told that this beginning is nothing but some kind of personal self-willed and terribly evil creature - the Jewish god.

The child has a vague and true idea of ​​the purpose of this life, which he sees in the happiness achieved by the loving intercourse of people. Instead, he is told that the common goal of life is the whim of an arrogant god and that the personal goal of each person is to rid himself of the eternal punishments deserved by someone, the torments that this god has imposed on all people.

Every child also has an awareness that the duties of a person are very complex and lie in the realm of morality. Instead, he is told that his duties lie mainly in blind faith, in prayers - uttering certain words at certain times, in swallowing okroshka from wine and bread, which should represent the blood and body of God. Not to mention the icons, miracles, immoral stories of the Bible, transmitted as models of actions, as well as the gospel miracles and all the immoral meaning that is attached to the gospel story.

(L.N. Tolstoy. Collected works in 22 volumes. Moscow. Fiction 1984, volume 19, p. 457)

Religion is a dead end in human development, it is a path to ignorance.

Nikolai Viktorovich Levashov at one of the meetings with readers of his books said:

Religion is good only for those who are afraid of responsibility for their own actions and shift the responsibility for what is happening to someone else, in this case, to the Lord God. Any religion deprives a person of freedom of choice and responsibility for what is happening.

Why do any religions talk about submission? "You are a servant of God." "Everything that is done, happens according to the will of the Lord." Why?

Without reason, without knowledge, without understanding, good becomes blind!

Conclusion

In conclusion, I would like to quote the words of Svetlana Levashova from her book "Revelation":

"... I very often dreamed that someday such a wonderful day would come when:

- a person will smile with joy, knowing that people can only bring him good ...

- when a lonely girl is not afraid to walk the darkest street in the evening, not being afraid that someone will offend her ...

- when you can open your heart with joy, without fear that your best friend will betray you...

- when it will be possible to leave something very expensive right on the street, not being afraid that if you turn your back - and it will be immediately stolen ...

And I sincerely, with all my heart, believed that somewhere such a wonderful world really exists, where there is no evil and fear, but there is the simple joy of life and beauty... That is why, following my naive dream, I took the slightest opportunity to learn at least something about how it is possible to destroy this same, so tenacious and so indestructible, our earthly Evil ... "

Svetlana fought evil, fought in such a way that her enemies were terribly afraid of her. She died in this struggle, giving her life in order to bring closer the future she dreamed of.