Man’s greatest enemy is a lack of true and objective education and culture , such a culture will lead to understanding the human state and its importance. We are not supposed to live lives like sophisticated animals.  In real terms, birth , death , old and  disease are our greatest enemy , the uncertainty of a next set of circumstances and the taking away of all one is attached to at death are miserable conditions . To be caught up in a life of sensual , mental, and intellectual pleasures without understanding philosophically or scientifically the world around us means we have not used in the best ways a human life . Along with such scientific,  philosophical ,cultural, and theological inquiry should come increasing qualities of an individual .  Truth , justice, sensitivity , understanding , and the self-evident truths of the equality of all beings must be brought to the realised levels within a  practice . Krishna in His Bhagavad Gita gives an analysis of faiths , faiths in the modes of goodness,  passion and ignorance as well as the symptoms of each , He also brings insights into pure trancendance,  beyond the modes of the materially motivated.

When we consider the causes of conflicts there are many , political systems , religious systems and general tribalism of all sorts , are major causes along with encroachment into others territories ,  greed , money and exploitation and entitlement follow , pride and arrogance deepens within the hearts of many and this  makes many cultures , political or religious feel themselves superior . In the name of religious , political , or cultural fervour, what is supposed to be something wonderful turns out as violence and exploitation and brings the very  opposite of the intended purpose.  The intelligentsia of any system of knowledge must be sought , they are never fanatics , but people of understanding and they have a broad understanding of multicultured theologies and multicultured political systems, and they realise why they exist .

Living in the material world is complicated at times as histories  and cultures mix and clash , Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita give up all variates of religion and cultures within the material world,  take a step back and surrender to Me . This message of ultimate knowledge and detachment is important,  in every culture, we have monks , nuns, and noble reclusive persons who practice meditations and prayers.  Although political issues and general guidance of society are important , all political and cultural systems should be guided by the peaceful and renounced classes. Their ultimate wisdom of spiritual culture are our only hope from every danger in life , there is danger at every step, and ignorance is our greatest enemy. We have problems when the wise are ignored and the unwise present themselves as wise , and we all have the responsibility to distinguish between the two .

Our political classes and highly educated scholars are no doubt very intelligent in so many ways , but unless they are aligned to the objective sciences and the Sattvic intelligentsia who realise their self-evident truths , including the consciousness state and its conditions enclosed in matter , then the political classes as well as scholars of every kind do no favours to society, rather the entanglements and complications within societal affairs increase , Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita their knowledge is stolen away by illusion.
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