THK in Daily Life (6)
Some Utilization Errors of Human Position

There are few ‘conception and utilization’ errors of human positions within daily life. Humans are considered as the highest and esteemed creature rather than other God’s creatures in this universe, moreover its glimpsed as the most perfect creature. Of this consideration and conception, humans exist by their own, in fact the reality that is humans really depend on other creatures to help them survive longer.
That estimation is surely erroneous. As we realize, beside human – which we believe as God’s creation in this universe – other creatures, such as fish on the ocean/lake/river, birds on the sky, or all animals and plants that live on the ground are of God’s creation. However, human is the most complete creature rather than other creature if it analyzed from the ownership concept of pramana.
Among those creatures, human have tri pramana – tri = three, pramana = size/measurement/level, whilst animal only have dwi pramana – dwi = two, and plant owns eka pramana – eka = one.
Tri pramana consist of bayu (power), sabda (sound), idep (mind; as the realization spot of knowledge, feeling, experience, conception, opinion, beliefs, imagination). Those three pramana, exist within human soul, whilst dwi pramana (two measurements): bayu and sabda belongs to the animal, and eka pramana (single measurment): bayu, for the plants.
Because humans gain a gift the complete pramana, then it pointed as the most complete and perfect creature of God, and also as the highest and esteemed creature rather than the animal and plants. In this argument, human is analyzed as the living creature that is able to control and activate its own activity consciously and generously. Only human can destine what they want to do and realize why they doing certain actions, whereas the animal and plants – even of God’s creature, just like human – are unable to do that.
As a special and highest creature, then God creates and provide all things on the earth merely for human’s life importance and destination. By then, human as if able to treat other creature – which owns one or two pramana – discretionary.
The word ‘discretionary’ by using the highest position, special, complete, as well as the perfect creature are totally incorrect. Later on, the term ‘exploitation’ appears from the incorrect consideration because treating other creatures as one wish. This is contradictive with religious term as it claimed in the Holy Book Bhagavad Gita (VI: 29 and 32) – one resource of Tri Hita Karana (THK) doctrine – as follows:
‘A true yogi saw Me lays inside all creatures, and he also saw all creatures inside of Me. It’s true that the notion people saw Me, the same God in everywhere. The person who saw the true equalization of all creatures, even in happiness or sadness, according to comparison within themselves, is a perfect yogi – alas Arjuna.’
Depart from those two sloka (holy verse), the human position – which is considered special, highest, and complete creature rather than other creatures – should be gazed also as a ‘rights’ that automatically stick the equal ‘obligation’. Its mean, as a creature that gazed itself special, highest, and complete indeed, should truly has an obligation to protect other creature, not to impair or to destroy it.
Bhagawad Ghita (III: 11 - 14) explicitly cited, ‘Protect your (human) natural environment preservation and the nature will also protect yours (human). By helping each other, you (human) will gain unlimited happiness. If you (human) conserve the natural environment well as an offering, the power of nature will give whatever you (human) need. This human body is made from what it eats, and the food caused by rain, rain is destined by human’s concerns of environment and human conduct itself. Actually, the one who enjoy the nature gift without paying back for something is truly as a thief.’
On previous writing also cited 6 (six) – not 7 (seven) – Sacred Sacrifice that should executed by human (Hindu). Because, according to Bhagavad Gita (IV: 32 and V: 29): ‘all kinds of holy sacrifice are permitted in Veda, and all is calved from many kind of occupation. By realizing those kinds of sacrifices, you will reach the deliverance of people who totally conscious in Me, because he know Me as the main receiver of holy sacrifice and ascetic. God the Almighty, the ruler of all planets and deities, the rescuer who expects for the prosperity of all living creatures will reach a tranquility from a material agony’.
(Berata Ashrama, editor)