Tuesday 24 March 2020

FEAR NOT, FIGHT ON, HAVE FAITH ... CORONA SERIES [4]

FEAR NOT, FIGHT ON, HAVE FAITH ... CORONA SERIES [4]

Inspiration comes to the courageous. At this time of unprecedented crisis, stay calm and courageous. Be inspired by the words of the Swami Vivekananda and fight on to save yourself and humanity from this dreaded virus that has been thus unleashed by Nature or God, call it what you will, or call it the dreaded hand of probabilistic happening that ever lurks in the shadowy terrain to destroy us, such being the scheme of things in inscrutable Maya.

So, remain calm and courageous, being rooted to the Self or the God you adore and have faith in, but make sure that you do not, in blind trust of the Almighty, flout the medical directives that are being so eloquently sounded. Upon your observance depends not only your own safety but that of the safety of millions, for the Coronavirus can be communicated in an exponential manner that could decimate millions in the long run, it having already claimed the lives of over 11,000 people the world over.

At this time of home-quarantining, make sure that you spend your time in a worthwhile manner to advance your knowledge, expand your heart and deepen your soul. Meditate, pray, read and reflect but do not brood, despair, fret and fume, and most importantly, do not fear. God is with us and He will save us from this pandemic by instilling hope in our hearts and inspiring us with the right solution to this pernicious problem.

Governments of nations must take cognition of the fact that it is fruitless to make for international competition in acquisition of arms and ammunition aimed at not really defence so much as mutual annihilation. If man is so hell-bent on such a mass harakiri, it serves him right to thus be sounded the warning that dangerous times are ahead. And never look down upon the low and the lowly, never use might as your birthright to crush the weaker ones, for the insignificant virus, what it can do, has been amply demonstrated. So, take a fresh guard and struggle on to build a common mass of humanity where the fight is not against each other but against primeval ignorance that has plagued us as a species thus far.

May God be with us, not a sectarian God that blesses His adherents and kills His detractors but the benign God that dwells in the human heart and leads us all unto the realm of bliss and blessedness through the uncharted terrain of turbulent Maya ! May He preserve humanity, all of sentient life and the environment that like a mother fosters life in her bosom !

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : courtesy, Getty Images, BBC.

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