Page 70 - Dawn of Reality an Exposition of REALITY AT DAWN of Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj

spiritual history of the Land says that the Saints of India have ever prayed to God to give all the miseries of the world to them, so that the humanity may be free from them. Such was the glory and grandeur of our Way of Life; and this; when some parts of the world were reeling under barbaric and uncivilised rule of Jungle Law.
Over the Ages, man has started his own creation parallel to that of the Almighty and created a web of vice, competition, rivalry, jealousy, hatred and selfishness around him. Lobha and Moha, two of the vile qualities of our own creation have become central to our existence. Kama and Krodha, the God given characteristics have assumed Asuric proportions leading to promiscuousness, independence of selfish living and uncontrolled display of sensuousness in our dealings. The cultural, social and human cohesion in the society based on mutual respect and dependence have become almost extinct leading to individual degradation and consequent world of imbalances and distortions. The emergence of great religions during the last 2000 years or so had further led to divisiveness of the human society itself which has come to be based on fundamentalism and collective coercive practices. The very basis of such religions propounded by their God-Heads and Founder-Fathers were all laudable and essentially aimed at the amelioration and transformation of the individual beings so that they can play their part in Divine Lila and God’s material manifestation in accordance with the accepted precepts of the Nature, restoring human and social balances. Subsequent developments, however, led to the formation of religions as an organised Activity controlled by vested interests leaving the Creative Principles and Sayings of Wisdom almost to the Founders themselves! Fundamentalism, proselytisation and forcible conversions to a specific religion have become the order of the day; and violence and persecutions, the pivotals of these religions. Human values and ethos have disappeared from their practices. Even amongst the same religionists, those with specific racial, colour and other traits have only come to be treated as equals and others with lower and second-rate status. Religion for these has become synonymous with the feudal political systems and an instrument of Governance deriving power and authority. The role of religion as means for human development, social progress and individual growth with spirituality at its centre of focus has been totally abandoned by these vicious elements, who took control by deliberate and well orchestrated manipulation, over a period of time. The result is individual degeneration, degradation of social values, defilement of cultural ethos and above all creation of social disharmony and tensions reducing the human living and life to animal and baser levels. Under the garb of modernity and in the name of sophistication, we have thoroughly succumbed ourselves to prejudice, rivalry, hatred, ego, self-centred and unbridled materialistic pursuits.