God’s wisdom for world transformation
During the course of history, many attempts have been made to change the way people thing and the way they live, with the aim of realizing utopian ideas, or simply to improve people’s lives. Some of these endeavors took the form of religion, while others either died out or continued as movements or groups kept alive by faithful adherents. They succeeded to varying degrees in changing the conditions prevailing transform the whole world.
World transformation can take place only when a critical mass of humanity agrees on the need for it and makes the shift in consciousness necessary for the change. But for the to happen the massage of change must come from someone who is not a more human.
No person, or an idea originating from a person can find universal acceptance in our large, complex and diverse world, because the differences of opinion are too may stop quarreling when a parent intervenes, humans out aside their disputes and pay attention when they find something that is universal and true, something that comes from a source that is above and beyond the fray of human affairs.
This message of change is not political or religious, it is a massage of peace and love for each and every member of the human family. The Father of all human souls comes to relieve His children from sorrow when He sees that things have got out of hand and the children needs His help.
There is a reference to this in religion. The Gita speaks of god re-establishing a righteous order in this world, while the Bible talks of the coming kingdom of God on Earth.
But He does not wave a magic wand to set everything right. Instead, He proceeds to remind the children of who they really are and how they can reclaim their peace and happiness.
God imparts spiritual wisdom to His children so that they can change this world for the better and create heaven of Earth. He begins by bringing the souls back to their true selves. Pointing out that they are immortal spiritual beings and their bodies are costumes, warning which they play different roles. When one role ends, they discard their costume, which is perishable, adopt a new one, and start playing another role.
The children also learn that forgetting their true identity and identifying instead with their flesh and bones (bodies) is the root cause of their suffering when people begin to think that they are bodies, they lose connection with the soul’s innate qualities of peace, love and truth, and begin to be influenced by the sense organs and the material world.
They seek fulfillment in objects and other people, thinking that they will bring them happiness. This mistaken belief result in attachment to the perceived sources of happiness. Fear of losing them, anger at the prospect of that happening. Lust for whatever or whoever gives gratification, greed for more of the same, and ego.\
All this produces uneasiness and pain within the self and creates sorrow and conflict in relationships as people compete with or use each others to satisfy their elfish needs and desires.
Since everyone is seeking happiness outside of themselves, economic and political systems the create are designed to serve this purpose. This leads to increasing strife, inequality, and exploitation of people and nature.
The world has reached its present state by this process.
God shoes us who we are and teaches us that happiness does not come from taking. Owning or controlling others people or things; in fact, I don’t have to look for it outside. I can experience happiness by remaining in touch with the natural qualities of the soul: purity, peace, love and truth. When I act on the basis of these qualities. I not only give happiness to others but also feel it myself, because every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and what I give comes back to me sooner or later.
This change in our way of thinking and behaving is the key to bringing about change in the world, and God makes His children realize that world transformation begins with transforming the self.
When one spiritually awakened individual sends out the light of pure love & peace, it touches those around him or her, and they respond similarly when more and more people do this, the process of change accelerates, gaining momentum until it reaches the point where it changes the world.
That happens when the world is ripe for change. According to the Gita when the world becomes extremely degraded. God incarnates Himself and rejuvenates it. Returning everything to its pristine state. The present condition of the world, with its many crises, is a signal that the time for this change is very near. The world moves from a state of order to chaos and back to order again in eternally repeating cycles, like the cycles of nature, where a seed germinates, the sapling grows into a tree. Which gradually ages and dies? But not before producing seeds that give birth to new trees.
When I recognize this present period of transition, I realize that its is time to give up my old ways of thinking and behavior, which had brought me sorrow, and become my spiritual self again to free myself from bondage to ego, anger, attachment and all the other weaknesses that arise from identifying myself as a body.
This liberates me from sorrow and also enables me to help other souls achieve freedom. In this way, I become God’s server in the task of world transformation.
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