The revolutionary has to have benevolence. When the revolutionary speaks he/she chooses words with the spirit of benevolence. When interacting with an individual he/she has benefit uppermost in mind, or rather a balanced sum of benefits that may befall the individual and the parties influenced by the individual now and in the future. The revolutionary may destroy an evil doer who causes suffering to millions, all in the name of benevolence.
The revolutionary will have to strengthen his or her mind in order to maintain the spirit of benevolence in the face of self centered opponents and infiltrators. In an environment of extreme self centeredness only strong minded revolutionaries can maintain their benevolent spirit.
The fight against self centeredness is both internal and external, for there are in all humans tendencies such as
* shame, doubt and fear.
* anger and hatred.
* attraction, avarice and longing for earthly objects.
* vanity and complex of culture and high descent.
* envy and back-biting.
If the revolutionary does not effectively channelize these tendencies into altruism on the solid base of spirituality but merely hide them from public glare, they will emerge with re-doubled force in a post revolutionary situation where he or she will be in a position of leadership.
Why is the altruism of a revolutionary best based on spirituality? Many people say that they don’t have to be spiritual to do good, or have anything to do with a Higher Power. They adhere to the morality of doing good to fellow man and hurting people as little as possible, and think there is nothing more to it.
The reason is that all actions have psychological consequences. Good actions cause conceitedness or pride, and bad actions cause shame or fear, for example. This is normally unavoidable, as the mind is made up of both its subjectivity and objectivities, and can’t but pick up the colours of those objectivities, reacting with greater attraction, aversion, hatred, envy, greed and so on.
However, a follower of spirituality can superimpose the idea that all actions seemingly done by him or her are actually done by a Higher Power, and that any potential result belongs to That. Thus the self centered human tendencies mentioned earlier are deprived of energy, and the revolutionary is able to remain mentally stable with an undimmed spirit of benevolence in the middle of a revolutionary fight.
Peter Jadinge
