RESIST THOU EVIL BEFORE EVIL BECOMES THE POLITY

RESIST THOU EVIL BEFORE EVIL BECOMES THE POLITY

Significant but too late now, I guess. Still resistance is necessary to prevent the evil from going totally out of bounds and destroying society en masse. But devotees are fast asleep, not even aware of the impending catastrophe despite the repeated lessons of history. Who can waken a self-deluded lot? Even God has failed. He has promised a second coming. But will it help when He will spring into terrestrial being from that very debilitated, self-deluded, self-deceiving, self-defeating, self-serving, selfish society? Some amount of learning, I mean knowledge of history, must go hand in hand with spiritual realisation. Otherwise, core concerns of society will go unaddressed and followers of the Divine Incarnation will do surface cleaning in the name of depth-work while society goes to pieces again as lay devotees and monastics remain petrified and selfish, mute spectators awaiting yet another descent of the Lord to save them. This has been the history of the past umpteen centuries and has brought us down from global influence to bare, struggling survival in a dismembered part of the ancient motherland, and if the trend in persisting weakness in the name of passive piety continues, it will spell the doom of this ancient spiritual culture like the offending evil has thus far done to us partially and to so many others in other parts of the world in complete annihilation. I am writing about the impending doom but who listens? Anybody there?

Written by Sugata Bose