The material world has been critiqued in the Vedas, its a surreal world , as such , its said ” night time dream , day time dream” Its just that the day time dream lasts longer , but like a dream , we can practically hardly remember most of our lives , we are dead to it . The Bhagavatam says the body , mind , and senses propels the livings beings in acts of lust , anger , greed, and envy and madness , a madman does not know his true postion in life and acts with insane calculations. As such, many conflicts lead to ruthless aggressions against families, communities , and other countries or cultures. Humans act like animals , with no rational feelings if persons are not directed by a real human with real human qualities , a person who has control over their senses and mind and who are philosophically astute and who understand objective sciences . Ultimately, this material world displays very little Godliness most of the time , but there are always worthy persons, and we must find them and be guided by them . Most displays of Godliness or religions are also tinged with personal attachments , and many crooked politicians use religion in perverted ways , ways that currupt its real purposes. God becomes their order supplier, and fools follow fools . Pure exhibitions of spirituality in reality are without any expectations for anything other that pure love towards Divinity and all his parts and parcels.
Currently, our leaders are driving humanity and pushing them into further and further conflicts . They are totally clueless in regard to the true worth of all humanity and its intended purposes .
Anyhow, history shows us that the material world has a very, very long history of all types of aggressive militant activities.
Srila Ragganatha das Goswami in his Manah Siksa advice is that the spiritual person renounce being exclusively concerned with these political or geopolitical types of concerns , but rather concentrate ones time in understanding and developing our spiritual form and relationship with Divinity along with His various associates and family. By practising serious meditation and deep remembrances , the fullness of absolute beauty and the highest of spiritual culture along within the supreme artistry of ever new loving relationships will be experienced
This is also the underlying advice of all of our Vedic Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas . AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada would say , “First, save yourself..
But also try giving some time to assisting others benefit from the Vedas in some way . We can learn to become , on one level , oblivious to the activities of the foolishness of the ungodly and their uneducated leaders , but on another level, we must point out the foolishness for everyone’s benefit.
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