Now there are practically no documents that can tell about the life of our ancestors, Slavs, about their culture and mores. Almost all the evidence was destroyed during the baptism of Rus by “fire and sword”. But those grains that survived allow us to say that the Slavs tried to live in harmony or in harmony with everything that surrounded them, that non-violence was one of the basic principles for them.
As an interesting source characterizing the worldview of the ancient Slavs, the Polish researcher Moes-Oskragello (in the book “Vegetarianism and Woolen Clothing in the History of Slavic Nationalities”) considers the glagolic alphabet.
He reads this alphabet as a kind of coded oath text, calling it a “Slavic pentalogy”: A-z b-uki, one g-lagol; D-obro-e-st-f-ivete z-elo zemlya, i and also to-ako l-yudi m-read, - n-o-o-n; p-ok r-ts-s-lov t-verdot; u-to f-ert x-er c-s h-terv; sh-a er-er-er-i-t (ent - in Polish jat) s-s (i-ons - in Polish jas).
From his point of view, in a more understandable version for our contemporaries, this oath would have sounded as follows: “I am writing (knowing) letters (know) a verb (law); Good to eat live (Live Polish zywi sie - eat) potion of earth; and others like you (humanly) think - he is ours; peace (peace) of the Rts with a solid word; do not kill (in Greek) even a worm; if the perky lifts up with badasses - to connect it ".
This written monument represents the basic rules of conduct among the ancient Slavs, set out in five paragraphs:
No. 1. Good is eating a potion (deed) of the earth, i.e. it is indicated that it is good to eat the fruits of the earth.
No. 2. Who thinks as a person (that is, humanly, and not animally) - he is ours, that is, like-minded person.
No. 3. Keep the world firm.
No. 4. Do not raise your hands even at the worm.
No. 5. If the arrogant were bullied with the arrogant, let him be seized and bound; Apparently, there were no big crimes and big punishments.
We see that the basic principle of all these postulates is non-violence as the basis of some harmony. Harmonies - in relations with like-minded people, (“with ours”), with political partners (“peace be safe”) and even with the most insignificant creatures (“worms”). Moreover, as a basic, basic rule is taken what is stated in paragraph one: "Eat the fruits of the earth."
The basis of the worldview of our ancestors lay Ahimsa - harming living beings and nature. This is the first step of any spiritual path. If this foundation does not exist, it is problematic to speak of any spiritual improvement of both man and the nation. Violation of this norm always leads to extinction, ruin, disasters, to the loss of ancient wisdom.
Moes-Oskagarelo adheres to the theory of Arctaeus and identifying the Slavs with the Hyperboreans writes: "... Ancient Greek writers recall the" Hyperboreans ". The unanimity between these writers and the later chroniclers who wrote about the Slavs is striking. This circumstance gives me full reason, without hesitation, to consider them for the primitive Slavs. " And then, based on historical evidence (for example, Pliny), the researcher draws an ideal picture of the life of the ancient Slavs: “Their land is fruitful, the air is clean and healthy, they live very long, because they do not know anger, disease and war; spend their lives in uninterrupted and careless fun and in an indestructible world. Beautiful forests and groves are their home, the fruits of trees are food, they don’t eat meat, they die quietly. ”
A wonderful life, in peace and prosperity, appears before us not as a result of accidentally established circumstances, but as a logical result of a system of relations with the world built on reasonable grounds. For the appearance of “malice, disease, and war” is just a consequence of a violation by society of the simplest moral standards. The “Commandments of God Svarog” says: “Do not eat food with blood, for you will be like wild animals, and many diseases will dwell in you. You eat clean food that grows in your fields, in your forests and gardens, then you will gain many strengths, bright powers, so that you will not overtake you with illnesses and torment with suffering ”(“ Commandments of God Svarog ”). Only society can live in peace and harmony, whose representatives do not kill, do not show violence against other living beings. Otherwise, a person condemns himself to suffering.
Now in Russia, millions of “invisible” killings take place daily - chickens, sheep, pigs, cows die innocently ... And people who quietly fry cutlets in the kitchen do not even know about it ... rather, they simply prefer not to see scary pictures of the slaughter, not to think about that they, too, take upon themselves the karma of killing: “Allowing [to kill an animal], cutting [a carcass], killing, buying and selling [meat], preparing [food from it], serving [it to the table], eating — all of them killers ”(Manu-Smriti). By ignorance, becoming killers, people themselves attract "ailments, illnesses, torments with suffering."
Transferring the conversation into a plan of energies, you can create the following picture. It is anger, aggression, especially complicity in the killing, that disrupt the work of the Muladhara (root chakra). The killer can no longer receive the benefits associated with the adequate work of this chakra. First of all, the muladhara is responsible for the material plan of our existence: for the favorable conditions around us, for the availability of the necessary food, means of living. In this regard, the "productive land" of the ancient Slavs, which always gives an abundance of "daily bread", is not a "geographical" advantage - it is the result of the proper functioning of the Muladhara, the chakra that connects a person with his native land.
A people who has made nonviolence the basis of their worldview, who has written this principle as the main one in their alphabet, will never be poor in material terms. And now even the descendants, though having forgotten about the great oath of Their Fathers (“I, knowing the law, eat the fruits of the earth ...”), enjoy the fertility of the Russian lands, while the “highly developed” Europe is increasingly forced to resort to artificial nutrition options GMO technology, etc.
There is a second aspect of the work of the same chakra. On the lands of people who are not characterized by aggression, peace will always reign. In the distant past, the Slavs did not know “diseases and wars” because they did not know malice either. A person with absolutely pure muladhara cannot be hit, for example, in his presence it is impossible to show aggression. This is evidenced by the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: “In the presence of one who has established himself in non-violence, all hostility ceases” (Patanjali Yoga Sutras). That is why the Slavic peoples, who did not eat meat, had the opportunity to live in peace.
The words of the song popular in the Soviet Union come to mind: “Ask if you want silence, do you want Russian wars ...”. The Russian people have always been peaceful, we were never the first to unleash military conflicts, we did not seek once again to "get into a fight". And they received blessings for this - there have always been fewer wars in our territories than, for example, in the prosperous “West” (for comparison, in the Middle Ages in Western Europe, it was hardly given out for twenty to thirty years without war).
But gradually, our consciousness, not without the influence of the “cinema production” paid by the West, is becoming more aggressive and aggressive, the land is starting to fade, and military conflicts are approaching our doorstep. And looking the truth in the eye, I must say - we ourselves have created such a fate.
Speaking of karma, they often mean individual karma, which manifests itself for each individual person. But there is also the karma of the nation, the karma of the people. Each of us, acting and thinking in a certain way, partly shapes the world, not only for ourselves, but also for our children, for close relatives, for the family, and wider, for the nation as a whole, and in the end, for our planet Earth.
Our ancestors, Slavs, who always tried to live in harmony, in harmony with the world around us, left us a very good inheritance, good karma, protection and patronage of the Gods.
Slavic culture was based on the understanding that the Gods can maintain order on the earth, settle conflicts, send during rains, etc., only when people give them part of the energy that they control. In (Bhagavad-gita) it is said: “All living entities are fed by cereals growing from the earth fed by rains. Rains come from rituals. ” And although many of our contemporaries understood the idea of how to ask something from the gods (strength, money, health), our ancestors, the Slavs, had a different idea - energy should be given to the Gods.
Such a worldview presupposed the holding of certain ceremonies connecting the one who performed them with a source of this or that energy, a representative of some Higher Power. Without such a ritual, bread would not be sown or gathered, children would not be taken to a mentor, and a girl would not be given to marry. In order for the result of any action to turn out to be good, you must first give energy to the Gods, give at least part of their strength to them, and then they will arrange everything in accordance with their plans. The gods who have lived in this world for millennia better understand the essence of what is happening on earth than people who are forced to change bodies every 60-90 years. That is why acts committed within the framework of “God's will” are usually more adequate. The Slavs tried to perform all actions while in divine energy.
The form of interaction with the Higher Forces can be different. One of the options for expressing gratitude in the form of prayers or praises (Slavic analogues of mantras). It was possible to give energy to the Gods, for example, by offering food. In Russia, food before food was always supposed to be sanctified, i.e. offer to the gods, and thank them for her. Part of the subtle energy contained in such food went to the Higher Forces.
This offering was supposed to be vegetarian - bloodless. In the Veles book, we read: “The Russian gods do not take human or animal sacrifices, only fruits, vegetables, flowers and grains, milk, nutritious surah (kvass) and honey, and never a living bird, fish. It is the Varangians and Hellenes who give the Gods a different and terrible sacrifice - a human one. ” Of course, we also know bloody rituals, when, for example, blood-filled bowls with pieces of meat thrown into them were sacrificed to dark entities (a vivid example is the Bon religion), and these victims were accepted ... only by whom.
The Slavs built contact with light entities and, accordingly, could only use clean food that was not defiled by violence as an offering. The gods would not make contact with people who stained themselves with murder.
Serving the Gods, glorifying them, trying to live in their energy, embodying their will on earth, the Slavs received the blessing and protection of the Gods, which partially passed on to us, their descendants.
It may be immediately difficult to realize all the advantages that are open to those born in Russia ... Yes, we have fewer modern cars on the streets, fewer gadgets in our houses, and not so much comfort in life. But Russia is one of the few countries where the opportunity to develop spiritually still remains. Looking at the juvenile justice system that is spreading in Europe, absolutely inadequate views on raising children, on the credit system, which turned Western citizens into slaves, we can only rejoice that in our open spaces there is still some freedom of choice.
For several centuries of Christianity and 50 years of democracy, we were almost completely able to destroy what we received as a gift from our ancestors. Taking the “civilized world” as a model, orienting ourselves towards it, we did not think about the karma behind such a “prosperous” way of life. Satisfying all material wealth leads the nation to only one thing - a waste of energy. Comfort - to a complete lack of penance. And isn’t it better for the people as a whole to “work out” negative karma slowly, through daily petty everyday problems, than, having squandered the entire supply of good energy through “comfort”, slide into hell of war.
In modern society, food consumption is usually considered at the household level. People are wondering if proteins are needed and if there are enough calories. Forgetting that food is one of the ways to build relationships with the outside world. Or a person accepts for his nutrition what the gods have given him and then he can exist in harmony and peace. Or, by force, takes what is not appropriate for him - for example, takes away someone's life and then eats the flesh. And he receives all the sad consequences of such an act ... both for himself and for his people .... the choice is ours: meat or grain, hunger or abundance, peace or war.
