Save yourself
The material world has been critiqued in the Vedas, its a surreal world . As such , its said by some acaryas ” night time dream or day time dream” It’s just that the daytime dream lasts longer . It is like a dream , we can say , in practical terms because we hardly remember most of our lives , we are dead to it , as we are our dreams . The Bhagavatam says the body , mind , and senses propels the livings beings by the subtle conditioning consisting of the modes of nature, the results are acts of lust , anger , greed, envy and madness , and some conditioned traits of goodness occasionally. A madman does not know his true postion in life due to various medical conditions and acts without any sane calculations. Similarities can be made to a person who misunderstands the truth of scientific dualism , we are not the body or our accepting and rejecting minds or our fluctuating and deteriating intelligence. When such a false premise occurs , many false concepts develop of who we are , what other people are , and what the material worlds purposes are .Thus, ignorance leads to conflicts and ruthless aggressions against families, communities , and other countries or cultures. Humans begin to act like polished animals , with no rational or truly knowledgable feelings towards others , including the creatures who live with us on the planet . Persons who are not directed by highly cultured persons , the Vedas refers to them as the Sattvic intelligentsia, are misdirected by polished or sophisticated animals that call themselves humans. Top most persons with real human qualities must be leaders or advisors . Persons who have control over their senses and mind and who are extremely philosophically astute and who understand clearly objective sciences and every theological culture and who sees the similarities , they are non sectarian. Ultimately, this material world displays very little Godliness most of the time. However 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 misinterpreted scripts. 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 ignorant leaders are driving humanity and pushing them into further and further conflicts , hatred, and division . They are all 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 so that the benefits of the Vedas can be understood in some way . We should learn to become , on one level , oblivious to the activities of the foolishness of the ungodly and their uneducated leaders . At the same time, on another level, we must point out the foolishness of the current leaders in all fields, whether it is political, the sciences, and libertine social sciences, for everyone’s benefit and their betterment will be had
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