It is easy to impress people with simplistic thought that have not much semblance to the ground reality. Thus, spiritual people often hold out unrealistic objectives before the believing masses which inevitably fail to fructify and, more often than not, by raising false hopes that are in sharp contradiction with the hard realities of terrestrial life, complicate matters more rather than simplifying the problems that confront humanity.
The workings of Nature, both on the physical plane and in the psychological, are more complex than surface spiritual thinkers can fathom. Thus, despite the presence of religion throughout human history, human problems have only grown with the increasing complexity of the social organisation consequent on the historical evolution of man. It takes much too much of deep thinking as is the domain of philosophy to arrive at adequate solutions to the human predicament and these inevitably fail as well. For the workings of Nature are hidden and quite beyond the purview of ordinary intellect or even extraordinary intellect so often and Nature hoodwinks the most thoroughbred of thinkers to seal its sanction on whatever it chooses to dispense as the lot of ignorant humanity.
It requires the realisation of the Self (Brahman) to sift the grain from the chaff in one's individual life but even then the collective life of humanity with its concomitant problems is a different ballgame altogether. And, so, the human saga goes on with puzzles perplexing the best of minds even as surface silly thinkers keep mounting material advice masquerading as spiritual counsel for humanity to solve its problems. The result is the loss of natural rationality with which man is inherently endowed and the falling into crude superstition packaged as the vain hope of either Providential help or future salvation, an imagined conversion of evil men and regimes to good sense and sanity through persuasive love as espoused by Gandhi or praying/meditating for their soul's betterment as so often spiritualists of all shades and tenors keep advising men to do in all their gullible misconception about the psychological and spiritual workings of Nature.
The essence of it all then boils down to this that Nature is far more complex in its surface manifestation than is in the reckoning of shallow thinkers who preach peace to the world. If takes a Vivekananda to realise the utter impossibility of amending things as they stand till the lapse of several millenia when humanity will have evolved organically enough to apprehend the higher principles of life and love. Till then mankind shall move on through turbulent times with men annihilating each other like savages and stupid preachers keeping on delaying the delivery of the divine message with their simplistic foolish sermons of little or no consequence.
Written by Sugata Bose
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