Ethics and Life Questions

As a spiritual organisation we find that
people are often asking questions about how to live a good life. We find that
people really want to do the right thing, but in an increasingly complex world
identification of the right thing is often difficult.

In the olden days when mankind was still in
a relatively early stage of moral development, it was necessary to have very
rigid, black and white rules about what was right and what was wrong.
Everything was judged as either good or bad and there was no middle ground. The
prevailing theology, which was necessary for the time was that there was an
evil power that thwarted the Good God’s intention and that if things were going
badly it was usually because of the evil power. This external, evil power had
to be feared and we had to be really ‘good’ (following black and white rules)
so as not to attract its attention. In some areas this philosophy is still very
important and to some souls it provides the structure that they feel most
comfortable with for growth.

For several centuries, morality was preoccupied
with the curtailing of sexual activity, based on a philosophy that sex was evil
and that chastity and even abstinence was good. This is no doubt because the
predominant chakra that was active in mankind at the time was Swadistana chakra
(sex chakra). Now, both Manipuri (solar plexus) and Anaharta (heart) chakra are
at least partially functioning in virtually everyone and we can move past a
values agenda that is fixated on puritanical sexual beliefs and into a more
general and pervasive concept of what it means to live a good and ethical life.

The philosophy of Shanti Mission is based
upon the assumption that there is only one Divine power, which is inherently
beneficent and loving. 

This creates all of that which we know as
creation, and a whole lot more besides. The model of reality that we use is
called the V diagram, which is  just a
convenient way of setting out concepts. Each of Shakti Durga’s books gives more
focus to the various dimensions and explains in simple terms the philosophy by
which She lives.

Not only reality in general, but our own beings
exist in each of the 5 dimensions.