'THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT.' - JOHN MILTON

'THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT.' - JOHN MILTON

The flood of information forces us into a restless mode. Patience is now at a premium as men succumb to this information revolution which illumines as it darkens consciousness, enlightening on facts and covering up consciousness.

We must be judicious in our choice of intake of information and must not be commercially coaxed into it nor coerced by the force of habitual acceptance of such garbage coming in the shape of facts and figures, matters of no consequence in the larger scheme of things, in the solving of 'the riddle of existence' (courtesy, Jawaharlal Nehru) and in the reaching of life's ultimate destination, the realisation of the Self.

Advertisement and its ilk, commerce and its coarseness, the propensity to profit by any means are the causes of this progressive degradation of human culture. The flood of wrongs must be arrested by setting right life's clock and rescheduling ourselves to the Ancient One that resides beyond the pale of darkness and is reachable only by the purified mind without which death cannot be avoided and immortality will forever remain a distant dream.

Heaven and Hell, God and Devil, reward and punishment are but baby's dream and will not actuate beyond one's limits of conception and the resolution of one's karma. What is needed is here and now to set right life's grand machinery, both on the individual front and in the collective scheme of things, by going beyond commercial compulsions and absorbing the grand message of the Lord in the Ramakrishna incarnation, that of 'Taka maati, maati taka' (money is mud, mud money). In it lies the panacea for life's ills, it being the golden aphorism for the Age that shall guide humanity unto its impending spiritual renaissance.

Written by Sugata Bose