Questioner: Sir, who is the uncivilized one? Whom is it that the civilization disowns and calls it savage?
Acharya Prashant: Civilization is a product of man’s fight; it is man-made. The uncivilized-one runs counter to civilization. What is man-made will be countered by something which again is man-made. So there is somebody who is behaving in a very predictable way — arising from the set patterns. It is easy to see that the fellow is conditioned and that conditioning is man-made.
Let’s talk of a regular office goer, who spends ten hours in the office, who has a totally routine based life. We can see that he has been conditioned, it’s a pattern. And then we talk of the anarchic ways, of a rebel, of an outlaw, surely, the way he is behaving is disorderly. but even this disorder is man-made. So, when we look at human activity whether it is orderly or disorderly both the order and disorder are artificial. Artificial, in the sense of being products of the human mind and hence, being products of evolutionary conditioning.
But even this disorder is man-made. So, when we look at human activity whether it is orderly or disorderly both the order and disorder are artificial. Artificial, in the sense of being products of the human mind and hence, being products of evolutionary conditioning.
‘Who is the one who is really not civilized?’ is the same question as ‘Who is the one who is not man-made?’ It’s a deeply spiritual question, in a sense, we are asking Is there Truth? Is there something beyond the touch of a man? Because only that can be uncivilized.
