Good Will Philosophy in the Good Will Society

"Knowledge gained from anubhava or direct experience is far greater than any other knowledge. It is true knowledge", Good Will Society operates on this principle of personal experience being a source of true knowledge. Good Will is based upon an individual's Will. Every person has an independent, individualized and free will. It is the most distinct human feature in all of existence, the will of an individual.

Good Will creates experiences for people in the field of Education, Industry, Politics, Religion & Philosophy, Arts and Social Service. These fields form the pillars of society, and the will of the society, whether it is Good Will or Ill-Will, is reflected in a society's pillars. Raju Ravitej calls it the Social Will. 

A Social Will is nothing but a collection of Individual Wills. While the Individual Will is free and independent, a Social Will is not. It is merely a reflection of all the individuals in a society. A Social Will, however, is more powerful than an individual and his Will. The Social Will is the Will of the society which either permits or prohibits an individual from using his Will. His free-will is subject to the Social Will.

Whether Individual Will or Social Will, both are subject to the Universal Will. It is what one calls God's Will or the Will of God. That every human, every individual is a piece of God, a child of God, and therefore has the same attitude and motives springing from infinite power and unlimited freedom, is a clear reflection of the Universal Will living within the human. The human Individual Will is a miniature Will of the eternal and all powerful, unperishable Universal Will. The individual perishes, lives within time, space and causality and yet understands instinctively, without having to learn it, that he is a part of the Universal. This Universal Will works in us and governs and guides our life, and all existence, regardless of what every individual believes in.

Universal Will

The Universal Will is the absolute, seemingly blind, thriving, pulsating life force, the un-manifest from which everything objectifies. It manifests itself in countless forms unendingly. It exists for itself and in itself or so it seems. It recognizes nothing or no one except its need to continuously arise and pass away in countless forms, or so it seems. This maker of all forms of formless. The cause of all that is manifest, this un-manifest is timeless, space-less and causeless. It is the absolute unborn and undying non-being.

Individual Will

An individual is the highest objectified form of the Universal Will. The human is the Individual Will.

The individual Will is the human. The Knowing being with self-awareness and self-consciousness. The Moral being with the presence of reason. Unlike the Universal Will, the human exists with an important difference. The human perceives. And can represent back to himself what he perceives. The human is the individualized form of the Universal Will. A miniature of the Universal Will, with self-awareness.

Social Will

When several individual Wills come together to create a meaningful co-existence, they do so by combining their individual Wills. That combined Will is the Social Will. It is the Collective Will of the people, which is the basis for all civilized existence. Social Will is paramount for any change in our world. Because of the Social Will, an individual cannot do as he Wills. Social Will permits or prohibits the individual Will.

Many Good individual Wills invariably leads to good Social Will. If a society is seen to have a bad social will, or in other words if a particular society is labelled bad, it only means that most of the individuals in that society have a bad individual will. 

Good Will

If a human’s Will is left free to do as he Wills, he will either cause great destruction or does great good or does nothing or everything in between. But mostly a completely free individual Will is prone to vices more than virtues. Greatly wicked is the heart of man. Just like the seemingly amorality with which the Universal Will exists, blindly for itself, the human too shall exist with the same amorality. To live in a civilized way, to live life with meaning, the individual must control, condition and direct his Will. From an indifferent amorality to goodness. From wickedness to goodness. He must make his Will a good will. We are not what we know, but what we Will. No amount of knowledge or knowing makes a person do what is right, or good, or just, unless he wills it. We do what we will.