Active Compassion and Global Transformation
by Baba Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari
Life never wrongs anyone for Life is a total Celebration.
But do you think that human society has done justice to Life’s essential purpose? Life is meant to fulfill our need to cherish and serve others, to live simply with a deep devotion to God.
Instead, we choose greed over need worldwide and take things for granted. Our collective consciousness has been polluted over a period of time, and has resulted in this fertile ground of negativity. We are responsible for this situation, each citizen of each nation in this world. We create this world in our minds and as the mind becomes increasingly gripped by the illusion of selfishness, the manifestations of a chaotic world emerge. WE create this chaotic circumstance and are the victims of it, too.
Surrendering more to the egotistical way of life, we forget that Life thrives on Unity in the midst of diversity. We lose the simpler emotions of love and harmony, our feelings for each other, the readiness to forgive and forget; we begin thinking only of ourselves.
Violence is begetting violence, like multiplying cancer cells. A violent society, a loveless society, a selfish society multiplies like a malignant virus and infects others with more violence.
Furthermore, thanks to the electronic media the seemingly more newsworthy stories of negativity spread faster than those which are positive and good. We who are vulnerable to negativity fall easy prey to such suggestions and join the resonance effect of more negativity and violence. It just multiplies.
All the negativity, violence, and greed come only with the purpose of awakening humanity to the reality of Life and its essential purpose. It demonstrates that it is not passion for profit, but Meditation which brings peace to the restless mind. That is the reason we find so much current research about Meditation the world over. That is the purpose of the awakening: to call the child back home. Meditation is the Journey back Home.
Not many of us are blessed to hear this Divine Call to return Home. Most of us can’t even conceive that God can be so close and in continual communication with us. This is the time when we need the true cornerstone of spiritual practice.
As we come to know that nothing in this world is permanent, as we cultivate more trust in the Divine, the only unchangeable Principle in the Universe, we won’t fall easy prey to these changing circumstances and threatening situations. We need to sing the reality, “This too shall pass”! The reality is that only God, the One, the undying Principle, the Truth, will remain. We are also in dire need of man’s sense of Compassion for ourselves, each other and for Mother Earth, to save us and her from the impending danger of destruction in the most massive scale ever!
