Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals - 17.6

18/02/2019
17 - The Awakening Message : 6.


Man, beware of your own self much more than anything else in this world. You are your strength and also your weakness. Man can stand or fall. He has the rationality which can be used or abused. Therefore, let us not be afraid of material forces. Let us not be afraid of materialists or atheists. They will not stand before us. They are nothing. They have no energy. And if today Bharatavarsha, India, stands fearless and powerful in the comity of nations, it is because of an eternal value that she has been nurturing within her bosom from centuries. If repeated onslaughts and attacks could not deter her from her position and daunt her, if today Indian culture, Bharatiya culture is as glorious and powerful as it was, it is because of a rare value that our country, our nation has been embosoming in herself.

We need not be afraid of anything – not of atom bombs, not of any material force, not of any opposition. India is powerful. Our country has its own glory, a glory which is identical with her very existence and structure. Our country, our culture, our nation is inseparable from its own citizens. And it is the citizen of India who can say that he is a citizen of the world. It is only the citizen of Bharatavarsha that can confidently and scientifically prove to the mankind of this world that mankind is one.

It is the citizen of Bharatavarsha who has no enemies, really speaking. He is the friend of all. He declares, "Vasudhaiva kutumbakam: My family is the whole world, nay the entire universe; I do not belong to India only, I belong to the cosmos. The glory of the earth is mankind's glory. This earth is one of the planets of the solar system. I belong to the solar system, nay to the Milky Way itself and the cosmos, the universe." And within this structural pattern of the environment of the universe of which we are the real citizens, there is a light that shines perennially without shedding a shadow. That is the Intelligence which is reflected faintly, though in a distorted manner, in the intellect of each one of us here.

The Intelligence of the cosmos is far superior to the reflected intelligence of the human beings. And our evolution up to the stage of the human being is not the end of the matter. The great glorious scriptures of our country tell us that we have come only half the way. We are still to journey. The evolution is not complete. Man is to become a superman, as he has already become man from the lower state of animal. We are told that from matter there is evolution up to the vegetative level, then up to the animals, and from animal we have come to man.

But man is not the end or the destination of the process of evolution. Man has to become a superman. He has to become a divine being. He has to become a god, and he has to finally attune himself with that one God of the whole universe. There are not many gods. The term 'God' is not a concoction of the theological brain; it is a scientific fact. It is the principle that sustains all the values of the world, of which we are all integral parts. So to contemplate the Reality of the universe, to contemplate God or Isvara is to contemplate the very stuff of our own being. So, science and religion are inseparable, if they are dispassionately looked at and studied.

This is, in my own humble way, to give you an outline of what is ahead of us, the task before us and the duty that we are supposed to execute in a dispassionate manner, realising honestly, logically and scientifically that we are one whole. The whole of mankind is a single whole. We are not divided among ourselves as we appear to be. We are one and we can face any force that is un-divine. Let us be courageous, let us be bold and let us invoke the blessing of the Almighty who is the only Reality before us and who is the glorious destination, the magnificent Goal of mankind, of the whole universe.

THE END.

NOTE :

1. NEITHER MUSLIMS NOR CHRISTIANS IN THIS WORLD UNDERSTOOD WHAT IS BRAHMAN, THEY ARE  IGNORANT AND STILL IN THE PRIMITIVE  AGE. MUSLIMS WORLD OVER BRING DESTRUCTION TO HUMANITY BY THEIR TERROR GROUPS. BOTH RELIGIONS ARE USELESS TO HUMANITY TODAY AS THEY PREACH CONVERSIONS, HATRED, KILLING HUMANITY.  ALL EVILS .

2. The world is one, knowledge is one, the aim of humanity is one, and we need not dub ourselves as religionists, creedists, philosophers, spiritualists, Mahatmas, Sadhakas, etc. 

3. Let us call ourselves pure human beings who aspire for the glory of mankind as a whole. And this glorious destination of mankind is single. As rivers enter the single ocean, all values of life shall commingle in the ocean of that Eternity, that Infinity, that Supreme Repository of absolute value. 

4. This is, in my own humble way, to give you an outline of what is ahead of us, the task before us and the duty that we are supposed to execute in a dispassionate manner, realising honestly, logically and scientifically that we are one whole. 

5. The whole of mankind is a single whole. We are not divided among ourselves as we appear to be. We are one and we can face any force that is un-divine. 

6. Let us be courageous, let us be bold and let us invoke the blessing of the Almighty who is the only Reality before us and who is the glorious destination, the magnificent Goal of mankind, of the whole universe.

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