Way to Blessedness
Divine Life
Society Publication: The Realisation
Of The Absolute by Swami Krishnananda
The modern man, however-much
educated he may be, has refused to walk freely with the workings of the
Spiritual Nature and has attempted his best to center himself in the state of individualized
existence. The misery of the present-day world may be attributed to this
constrictive tendency in the human being, which is ever trying to block the way
of the expansion of the spiritual consciousness.
The case of the half-baked
material science and psychology may be specially mentioned here as being one of
the forces obstructive to the happy process of Truth-realization. The ills
caused by wrong methods of education, the social and political strife, the
individual evils and the world-degeneration are all effected by the one terrible
fact that humanity has turned against the law of the Spiritual Reality. So long
as this self-destructive tendency of the human mind is not controlled, and man
is not shown the correct way of procedure, the unhappy world has to be
contented with its fate.
The remedy lies in our being
sincere in taking recourse to the direct method of such Realization here and
now. Humanity has to be cent-per-cent spiritual. Those who think that they are
doing injustice to the world through their act of Self-realization have
naturally to be regarded as having not gone above the credulity of childhood.
For, they have forgotten that the Self which is the Absolute includes the whole
universe, and far transcends it. It is the obtaining of everything, and not the
losing of anything. The welfare of society rests in its spirituality.
Society is a formation of
bodies effected through the unconscious spiritual bond existing among beings
belonging to the same genus or species. The social bond is stronger among those
who think alike and who practise the same conduct. This bond is the strongest
among those who are in the same level of the depth of consciousness. All this
is a feeble reflection of the essential nature of the indivisibility of
Existence which is One.
Human beings have to know and
act according to this spiritual law, and its acceptance should not be merely
for the purpose of academic research, but has to be the foundation of the daily
life of everyone in general. Unity in the world necessitates a heart-to-heart
feeling of oneness among its inhabitants. This is the need of the hour. This is
the task of the political and the religious heads. This is what is going to
pave the way of blessedness to the whole universe.
The Upanishads are our
guide-lights in this supreme pursuit. Let us understand and follow them with
sincerity, faith, calmness, surety and persistence.
Excerpts from:
Way to Blessedness - The Realisation
Of The Absolute by Swami Krishnananda
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