Every time gives birth to its poet. In the second half of the last century there was no more popular poet than N. A. Nekrasov. He not only sympathized with the people, but identified himself with peasant Russia, shocked the hearts of his contemporaries with pictures of slavery and poverty, and notes of sincere bitter repentance. In one of his speeches about Pushkin, Dostoevsky spoke about the “worldwide responsiveness” of the poet, who knew how to feel someone else’s as if he were his own. The same can be said about N.A. Nekrasov. Moreover, his muse is surprisingly responsive to other people's joy and pain.
Nekrasov's creativity is varied in subject matter. But whatever it may be, one thing remains unchanged: in all poems the moral credo of the poet is clearly expressed. In his works, he puts the hero before a choice, but does not turn away at this difficult moment for him, but tries to imbue him with his outlook on life. Nekrasov is not afraid to let the hero look into his inner world and evaluate your actions and actions. Thus, the most hidden corners are revealed human soul, moral and moral principles of man.
So, in the poem " Moral man"The hero considers himself a man with high morals. But his "high morals" brings deep suffering to those who are next to him: his wife died, "tormented by shame and sadness"; a friend dies, unable to endure debt prison; a peasant drowned himself after he flogged him; his daughter, married to an unloved man, became unhappy.

Nikolay Nekrasov
Moral man

My wife, covering her face with a veil,
In the evening I went to my lover;
I sneaked into his house with the police
And he convicted... He called out: I didn’t fight!
She went to bed and died
Tormented by shame and sadness...
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

I had a daughter; fell in love with the teacher
And she wanted to run away with him rashly.
I threatened her with a curse: she resigned herself
And she married a gray-haired rich man.
Their house was brilliant and full like a cup;
But suddenly Masha began to turn pale and fade away
And a year later she died of consumption,
Having struck the whole house with deep sadness...
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life...

I gave the peasant as a cook:
It was a success; a good cook is happiness!
But he often left the yard
And I call it an indecent addiction
Had: loved to read and reason.
I, tired of threatening and scolding,
Fatherly flogged him with a canal,
He drowned himself: he was crazy!
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

My friend did not present the debt to me on time.
I hinted to him in a friendly way,
I left it to the law to judge us:
The law sentenced him to prison.
He died in it without paying altyn,
But I’m not angry, even though I have a reason to be angry!
I forgave him the debt on the same date,
Honoring him with tears and sadness...
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

First half of 1847

Ilyinsky Igor Vladimirovich. July 11 (24), 1901, Moscow - January 13, 1987, Moscow. Soviet theater and film artist, master artistic word, director.

In our difficult time problems of morality, in my opinion, are becoming particularly acute and relevant. It pains me to see how people not only lose, but also cease to appreciate such qualities as kindness, loyalty, decency, sincerity and especially love for their homeland, its morals, customs, traditions. How easily and simply we adopt everything that is foreign! How I would like to advise my generation: “Pick up a volume of Nekrasov! Stay alone with him! Read, think about his lines and look into your soul! " And everyone will find in his lines a response to what worries us, will help us understand the meaning and value of high moral ideals In human life.
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The true evolution of man is impossible without a moral life, subordinate to the fair interests of the society in which he lives; high moral principles, honor, conscience, helping those in need, constant enlightenment with knowledge...

In this article I would like to touch upon one of the most interesting topics, in my opinion: the question of the connection between human morality and his evolution. To expand on the topic, it is first necessary to shed light on the concepts themselves. "moral" And "evolution".

Moral- this is life according to conscience, when in thoughts, words and deeds a person is guided by the commandments of our great ancestors and the voice of reason, multiplied by the love of the heart.

Evolution- this is the development of bodies of the Essence of a person, additional to the physical body, or, in other words, bodies of the Soul, with the receipt of which a person acquires new opportunities and abilities. This is what allows a person to expand the range of his perception of reality and, upon reaching a certain level of development, to control space and matter.

The truth, forgotten by many, is that without moral life, true evolution is impossible. Nowadays, the interchangeability of the concepts “development” and “evolution” is widespread in society, although they do not mean the same thing. For example, a person studying foreign language, develops, that is, develops, increases one’s knowledge of the language being studied. Or a person involved in any sport also develops certain physical parameters. But neither a foreign language nor sports help a person make a qualitative leap, both in his perception and in his capabilities.

No matter how many languages ​​a person studies, and no matter how many sports he masters, he will still live within the existing limitations of the five senses. And this is a fact. The fact is so heavy and capacious that it is impossible not to comprehend it. It means that the mere accumulation of information does not at all guarantee the emergence of new opportunities and abilities in a person, and also does not make a person rational and moral. After all, the very word “ intelligence“means nothing more than “a mind sanctified by the divine light of truth,” and this light appears in a person from living according to conscience, that is, from a moral life. And there is no other way for this light to appear. Academician Nikolay Levashov wrote about it like this:

“...Even our ancestors shared two concepts - MIND and REASON! And in their understanding, these two concepts were fundamentally different from each other, although these two words have a common root, MIND! Matter, having realized its existence, acquires MIND! And only when the bearers of the mind achieve enlightenment with knowledge, only then does MIND appear!!! The ability to think does not yet mean intelligence - a state when a person is enlightened by knowledge, knowledge of the laws of nature from which he was born!..”(“Source of Life-5”).

This can be confirmed by academics who are unable to go beyond the existing dogmas in science; scientists plying each other for lucrative positions and titles; highly educated members of the governments of the world, whose actions contradict all norms of morality and rationality; businessmen who, for the sake of short-term profit, disfigure the environment with pollution from their industries, and so on, and so on...

In just one lifetime physical body a moral person can complete the planetary cycle of his evolution by developing in himself the etheric, astral and four mental bodies, which, together with the physical, make up the seven human bodies, which corresponds to the seven levels of the Earth, formed by the seven primary matters. As Nikolai Levashov wrote, “the presence of mental bodies gives the person who has them colossal mental power, through which such a person can influence the processes occurring in nature, both locally and in planetary scale. Only with the power of your thoughts can you influence and control the processes occurring in human society. See and hear the past, present and future... and much more. Such power should and can only be had by a person with pure thoughts, pure soul and an open heart to goodness"(“Last appeal to humanity”). And the completion of the planetary cycle of human development gives him the opportunity to begin a qualitatively new stage of his development: cosmic stage of evolution.

After the death of the physical body, the Essence (Soul) of a person falls to the level of the Earth that corresponds to the evolutionary level that the Essence managed to achieve during the current life in the physical body. And no matter how smart a person is, no matter how much regalia, power and wealth he has, but if his life was not moral, he will not be able to get into high levels our planet for one simple reason: during his life, such a person was not able to develop in himself the higher bodies of the Essence that provide such an opportunity. And if a person lived by instincts (emotions) or with a predominance of them, then he finds himself on the lower astral level of the planet, where criminals and simply unspiritual people, who are surrounded on these “floors” of the Earth by various “astral animals,” serve their “punishment.” And if the people who got there have a weak energy protection, then they, in the literal sense of the word, can be eaten by these creatures. A “the death of the Essence means that all the evolutionary experience and achievements of all the incarnations that the Essence had disappear forever... this is evolutionary death...”(“Last appeal to humanity”).

Many people do not believe that by living morally they will be able to get what they want from life, because they see that often those who lead immoral lives have success and prosperity, in the modern understanding of these terms. Such people forget that external material success and wide access to a variety of pleasures are bought at too high a price: loss of Soul and, quite possibly, the impossibility of a further thousand-year life.

Our ancestors lived according to Vedic laws, which were given to them by their patrons - the Gods. Who were these Gods? By gods, the Slavic-Aryans understood people whose level of development far exceeded their own level. And the Gods of the Slavs - Svarog, Perun, Veles, Lada the Virgin and others - gave them moral commandments, the fulfillment of which inevitably leads a person to enlightenment with knowledge, the creation of ever new bodies of the Essence, and endless development. Fortunately for us, after many centuries of concealment of the “Slavic-Aryan Vedas”, some of them have now been published and are available for reading by everyone interested in the true past of Rus' and the whole world. And this means for us an excellent opportunity to study and understand those moral principles, on which the life of our great ancestors was built, and therefore the opportunity to build our own lives on a solid foundation, proven by thousands of years of history.

Be truthful in Soul and Spirit,

The worlds hold on to the Truth. Their gate is Truth;

For it is said that in Truth rests Immortality.

(“Slavic-Aryan Vedas”, Santiya Vedas of Perun. First Circle. Santiya 4).

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“Moral Man” Nikolai Nekrasov

Living according to strict morals,

My wife, covering her face with a veil,
In the evening I went to see my lover.
I sneaked into his house with the police
And he caught... He called - I didn’t fight!
She went to bed and died
Tormented by shame and sadness...

I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

My friend did not present the debt to me on time.
I hinted to him in a friendly way,
I left it to the law to judge us;
The law sentenced him to prison.
He died in it without paying altyn,
But I’m not angry, even though I have a reason to be angry!
I forgave him the debt on the same date,
Honoring him with tears and sadness...
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

I gave the peasant as a cook,
It was a success; a good cook is happiness!
But he often left the yard
And I call it an indecent addiction
Had: loved to read and reason.
I, tired of threatening and scolding,
Fatherly flogged him with a canal;
He drowned himself, he was crazy!
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

I had a daughter; fell in love with the teacher
And she wanted to run away with him rashly.
I threatened her with a curse: she resigned herself
And she married a gray-haired rich man.
And the house was brilliant and full like a cup;
But suddenly Masha began to turn pale and fade away
And a year later she died of consumption,
Having struck the whole house with deep sadness...
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life...

Analysis of Nekrasov’s poem “The Moral Man”

In the mid-forties, Nekrasov began to depict contemporary reality in his lyrics and fell in love with portraying notorious scoundrels as the main characters, telling their biographies in poems. The first such portrait was given in “Modern Ode” (1845). Its hero is a scoundrel and a careerist who shamelessly robs defenseless citizens and is ready to sacrifice the honor of his own daughter for the sake of promotion. In the same year, 1845, the poems “Official” (about a bribe taker) and “Lullaby Song” (about a hereditary thief) were born. A couple of years later, Nikolai Alekseevich wrote “A Moral Man,” thereby continuing the gallery of images of scoundrels. Main character works - a man who believes that he lives “according to strict morality” and does no harm to anyone.

The text is divided into four parts. Each stanza is a first-person story. In the first ten lines, the character talks about how he treated his own wife. His wife cheated on him, and he decided to take revenge. As a result, the disgraced woman fell ill from grief and died. In the second part, the hero talks about his daughter. The girl had the imprudence to fall in love with the teacher, and even wanted to run away with him. Her father threatened her with a curse and forced her to marry a wealthy old man. The result was that the unfortunate girl died of consumption. In the third stanza we're talking about about a peasant whom the hero of the poem helped to become a cook. The serf learned to cook well, but here’s the catch - he became too addicted to reading, began to think and reason a lot. For educational purposes, the “moral man” flogged him. The ending of the story is that the cook drowned himself. In the fourth and final part, the character talks about a friend to whom he first lent money, and then put him in prison for debts. The borrower died there.

At the end of each stanza two lines are repeated:
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life.
The hero of the poem sincerely believes that his actions are completely justified, that there is nothing wrong with them. The logic of the character’s thoughts is easy to understand: if his wife had not cheated, he would not have had to die disgraced; If the daughter had not fallen in love with someone of lower social status, she would have lived happily in an unequal marriage; If the peasant would not have argued with the master, he would not have drowned himself; If my friend had repaid his debt, he would not have gone to prison. Nekrasov’s “moral person” does not consider himself to blame for other people’s troubles, but that’s not what’s scary. The scary thing is that society supports him and others like him.

Living according to strict morals,

My wife, covering her face with a veil,
In the evening I went to my lover;
I sneaked into his house with the police
And he convicted... He called out: I didn’t fight!
She went to bed and died
Tormented by shame and sadness...

I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

I had a daughter; fell in love with the teacher
And she wanted to run away with him rashly.
I threatened her with a curse: she resigned herself
And she married a gray-haired rich man.
Their house was brilliant and full like a cup;
But suddenly Masha began to turn pale and fade away
And a year later she died of consumption,
Having struck the whole house with deep sadness...
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life...

I gave the peasant as a cook:
It was a success; a good cook is happiness!
But he often left the yard
And I call it an indecent addiction
Had: loved to read and reason.
I, tired of threatening and scolding,
Fatherly flogged him with a canal,
He drowned himself: he was crazy!
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

My friend did not present the debt to me on time.
I hinted to him in a friendly way,
I left it to the law to judge us:
The law sentenced him to prison.
He died in it without paying altyn,
But I’m not angry, even though I have a reason to be angry!
I forgave him the debt on the same date,
Honoring him with tears and sadness...
Living according to strict morals,
I have never done harm to anyone in my life.

Analysis of the poem “Moral Man” by Nekrasov

N. Nekrasov became famous for his works in the genre of civil lyrics, the main motive of which was to expose the main social vices. At the same time, the main theme for the poet was the protection of the lower strata of society. The overwhelming majority of Nekrasov's poems are dedicated to the peasantry. But sometimes he dwelled in detail on the description of representatives of the ruling class. A striking example is the poem “A Moral Man.”

The author describes the life and work of a certain “moral person” with a huge amount of sarcasm. Compositionally, the poem consists of four separate parts, dedicated to the main character’s relationships with completely different people.

In the first part, a “moral man” learns about his wife’s infidelity. He exposes her with the help of the police, but refuses the challenge to a duel. The disgraced woman dies, unable to bear the suffering that befell her.

The next action of the main character is a trial with a friend who owed him. The debtor was sentenced to prison, in which he died.

The “moral man” taught his serf peasant the art of cooking. “Unfortunately,” along with his new profession, the peasant acquired a thirst for knowledge (“he loved to read and reason”). For this, the owner scolded him for a long time and, in the end, subjected him to corporal punishment. The “fool” drowned himself out of grief.

The “peak” of the protagonist’s morality is his treatment of my own daughter. The girl fell in love with the poor teacher, and her prudent father forced her to marry the more preferable “gray-haired rich man.” "Happy" family life didn't last long. The daughter quickly began to “turn pale and fade away” and died a year after the wedding.

Nekrasov does not accuse his main character of anything. He leaves it to the readers to judge. The “moral person” himself is firmly confident in his infallibility. He proves this with the refrain repeated several times: “By living in accordance with strict morals, I have never done harm to anyone in my life.”

The whole horror of the situation lies precisely in the fact that such a view was characteristic of the overwhelming majority of the nobility. Nekrasov, of course, created collective image a scoundrel, but in general his actions do not contradict the so-called “strict morality.” All victims received what they deserved. The wife cheated on her husband, the friend did not repay the debt, the peasant dared to contradict the owner, and the daughter abandoned parental obedience. A “moral person” does not feel sorry for these sinners. He himself is “pure” before God. The only thing that confuses him is the “deep sadness” in the house after Masha’s death.