There was a time when people feared evil.
There was a time when people
feared evil.
Why did they do so? Human
society in this world is pretty old, much older than what is accepted. There
have been many cycles of existence. The cumulative knowledge of such cycles
tend to ebb and flow, but the imprint on the psyche remains. That imprint tends
to abhor evil as the consequences are vicious and lead to intense suffering.
Every cycle ends with evil
getting the better of good. Good fights back. The next cycle then begins with
an emphasis on good and restrictions to limit the growth of evil. Evil resents
it and tries its best to weaken the hold of good. It succeeds, good gangs up to
defeat it resulting in large scale destruction, the cycle ends, and the next
cycle begins.
This play of good and evil is
essentially what religion is about. Religion is not rituals. It degenerates
into rituals when the inner meaning is lost as mankind is affected by
turbulence that takes the knowledge and practitioners away. The rituals then
continue as they serve as tools to keep memories alive and anxieties at bay.
Practitioners emerge to find meaning and again breath life into them. This ebb
and flow too continues.
The cycle in which we are living
now is critical as it is extraordinary in the sense that evil faces the
prospect of annihilation or the clipping of its wings to an extent where it
cannot pose as much of an existential threat that it has posed in the past.
Therefore evil is employing all its powers to stay afloat. It has organized
itself and corrupted everything hoping that good will be defeated and destroyed
instead.
This is what we are witnessing
since the last 1000 years or so. Evil invading, destroying, corrupting,
distorting, and establishing its rule. The best of brains have not been able to
counter its influence. This is because in this age untruth has become the best
livelihood option. People seek comforts; they seek wealth and power with the
least effort
Untruth provides it in this age.
People also seek company. They
need recognition. Once again corruption arranges it such that bad company
flourishes and one bends to the power of peer pressure. One who resists becomes
isolated and helpless.
The present age was foreseen by
India. That invasions, both physical as well as intellectual, would destroy it
from within and without was known. The restriction on foreign travel (by
crossing the seas) is an indicator of such knowledge. Achyutananda has clearly stated
that in this age demonic thought would be accepted and promoted as science.
Why will Kalki be endowed with
the power of great destruction? Countering the power of evil in this age will
not be possible without such power. The Godhead will match evil step by step
and force it to concede defeat. The agents of evil will be left complaining
that the power of good is bending the laws. We witnessed this in the
Mahabharata war where Krishna displayed his devious mind and bent the rules to
defeat the Kauravas who could only complain.
But the fight will decimate a
lot of things. That is the tragedy that we have to witness. Gone are the days
where wars were fought in battlefields. The whole world will soon be involved
in the biggest war to ever erupt in this plane. Chakradhar termed it
MahaVishwa, as opposed to Mahabharata.
We have invited trouble. Now it
is at our doorstep. We cannot complain because we ignored the warnings. We
broke all the rules. The consequences are therefore inevitable.
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