Editorial
The World is Changing
so we have to be prepared
Since the year 2018, when the first waves of the corona virus hit us, there is no rest for the world. There are problems one after another. There is the ongoing war and, added to that, there are other wars. There has always been war on this earth. Since the Vedic age, if not earlier. For the Vedas are the oldest living records of human activity on earth. The Vedas speak of wars between kings and clans. And this is kept alive even today. We have tried several changes in our nature: we have tried democracy, socialism, global-village idea, United Nations initiative. Everything. We have declared after the second world war that we are tired of this killing and breaking. But it continues.
This is bringing about a change in the world.
For one thing, so far as information is concerned we are a little global village. In ancient villages, they say news travelled with lightning speed. Everyone knew what happened in someone’s house in the village. This speed has been maintained in this global village, bringing disturbing news every split second from somewhere around the earth. This harms us in not a little measure. We are overburdened physically and mentally, and spiritually our hearts are flooded with sorrow.
This is bringing about a serious change in the world.
Demography is seriously changing. Countries like India have been invaded by aliens with evil purposes. They multiply fast and positively harm local people. This is a serious problem and different countries of the world are facing the same issue. Demography change is a serious threat to the world.
Why can’t people let others live in peace? Why should they initiate wars and disturbances, and then play the victim card? Why do they intentionally harm and then cry that they are harmed? Why do scientists invent ideas and things that harm us and then cry that we have no antidotes for these problems? Why does AI appear to be a threat, though the development in this field continues unabated?
At no time were all the peoples of the earth spiritual. At no times were all humans ready to accept the truth of one family, one home, one loving God. We only needed an opportunity, an instigation, a cause, a spark to begin burning one another, all the time shouting about peace.
In this changing world, we are to be prepared. How? Can we keep more money in banks or have more real estate? Maybe. but the real preparation is consolidation of our inside. We should be very very strong inside. For this, spirituality is the only way. And Vedanta is the only path of all that tells us that in the Atman is all strength, power, glory, greatness, goodness. So preparedness in any eventuality means fortifying our Selves. That is, venturing inwards. And this is the only path left.
You may shout at the top of your voice for peace, for stopping false inventions, for being good, for not harming others. But all this haven’t worked in the past, and will never work. So the only way is for us to venture inward.
May Sri Ramakrishna guide us all towards the supreme Light. This is the eternal prayer of all of us.
Swami Sunirmalananda