Beyond Our Sand Castle Civilization
Beyond Our Sand Castle Civilization
This material world can be a very confusing place. In fact, ultimately it is simply a place of illusion and confusion and nothing more. We make so many big, big plans for becoming successful and happy in this material but in due course of time all of our plans will be smashed by the stringent laws of material nature. Castles made of sand are washed into the sea. This entire material existence and its accompanying civilization is "sandish." It is just like sand because it will be very soon washed away by the waves of material nature.
This is nicely described in the Bhagavad-gita as follows:
moghasa mogha-karmano
mogha-jnana vicetasah
raksasim asurim caiva
prakrtim mohinim sritah
"Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated."
--Bhagavad-gita 9.12
Everything here meets with defeat. So many civilizations have come and gone. The Greek empire, the Roman empire, the Spanish empire, the British empire, etc. All have come and gone. The present world order will also be defeated in due course of time and another world order will come along to take its place.
Although this modern world appears to give us security with its big skyscrapers and government institutions, actually it does not. At any moment we can be killed by a terrorist attack, an automobile accident, a heart attack, or any of thousands of other calamities. Such instability and uncertainly is uncongenial for the living being's happiness. He is meant to exist in an atmosphere of complete security and certainty.
If we want actual relief from the shaky situation of material existence, we must follow in the footsteps of Sri Arjuna, the great devotee of Lord Sri Krishna, the original recipient of the message of the Bhagavad-gita. Of course Krishna also spoke the Bhagavad-gita millions of years ago to the sun God, Vivasvan. But in at least in the recent times we can consider Arjuna as the original recipient of the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita.
In the following verse of the Bhagavad-gita we can see the mood of humble submission in which Arjuna, the prototype disciple, approached Sri Lord Krishna, the original guru. Arjuna said:
karpanya-dosopahata-svabhavah
prcchami tvam dharma-sammudha-cetah
yac chreyah syan niscitam bruhi tan me
sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam
"Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of miserly weakness. In this condition I am asking You to tell me for certain what is best for me. Now I am Your disciple, and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me."
---Bhagavad-gita 2.7
Lord Krishna is situated in the Spiritual World far, far beyond the confusion of this material existence. And we, the living beings, are His eternal children. We belong back in the Spiritual World with Him. Somehow or other we got sidetracked somewhere along the line, and now we find ourselves in this bewildering, confusing material existence. If we will simply take shelter of Lord Sri Krishna in the same mood of complete submission as exhibited by Arjuna, we will quickly and easily attain the supreme spiritual perfection, Krishna consciousness, just as Arjuna did. We will enter into a state of complete security and certainly under the absolute protection of Lord Sri Krishna far, far beyond our present day, shaky, sand castle civilization. And even while we remain here in this temporary realm, we will experience our eternal existence, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
For more discussions visit
http://harekrishnaharekrishna.ning.com/forum/
This material world can be a very confusing place. In fact, ultimately it is simply a place of illusion and confusion and nothing more. We make so many big, big plans for becoming successful and happy in this material but in due course of time all of our plans will be smashed by the stringent laws of material nature. Castles made of sand are washed into the sea. This entire material existence and its accompanying civilization is "sandish." It is just like sand because it will be very soon washed away by the waves of material nature.
This is nicely described in the Bhagavad-gita as follows:
moghasa mogha-karmano
mogha-jnana vicetasah
raksasim asurim caiva
prakrtim mohinim sritah
"Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated."
--Bhagavad-gita 9.12
Everything here meets with defeat. So many civilizations have come and gone. The Greek empire, the Roman empire, the Spanish empire, the British empire, etc. All have come and gone. The present world order will also be defeated in due course of time and another world order will come along to take its place.
Although this modern world appears to give us security with its big skyscrapers and government institutions, actually it does not. At any moment we can be killed by a terrorist attack, an automobile accident, a heart attack, or any of thousands of other calamities. Such instability and uncertainly is uncongenial for the living being's happiness. He is meant to exist in an atmosphere of complete security and certainty.
If we want actual relief from the shaky situation of material existence, we must follow in the footsteps of Sri Arjuna, the great devotee of Lord Sri Krishna, the original recipient of the message of the Bhagavad-gita. Of course Krishna also spoke the Bhagavad-gita millions of years ago to the sun God, Vivasvan. But in at least in the recent times we can consider Arjuna as the original recipient of the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita.
In the following verse of the Bhagavad-gita we can see the mood of humble submission in which Arjuna, the prototype disciple, approached Sri Lord Krishna, the original guru. Arjuna said:
karpanya-dosopahata-svabhavah
prcchami tvam dharma-sammudha-cetah
yac chreyah syan niscitam bruhi tan me
sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam
"Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of miserly weakness. In this condition I am asking You to tell me for certain what is best for me. Now I am Your disciple, and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me."
---Bhagavad-gita 2.7
Lord Krishna is situated in the Spiritual World far, far beyond the confusion of this material existence. And we, the living beings, are His eternal children. We belong back in the Spiritual World with Him. Somehow or other we got sidetracked somewhere along the line, and now we find ourselves in this bewildering, confusing material existence. If we will simply take shelter of Lord Sri Krishna in the same mood of complete submission as exhibited by Arjuna, we will quickly and easily attain the supreme spiritual perfection, Krishna consciousness, just as Arjuna did. We will enter into a state of complete security and certainly under the absolute protection of Lord Sri Krishna far, far beyond our present day, shaky, sand castle civilization. And even while we remain here in this temporary realm, we will experience our eternal existence, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
For more discussions visit
http://harekrishnaharekrishna.ning.com/forum/
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