• Modern times and the human condition

  Filed under Living in the 21st century
  Jul 26

  Everyone in this world desires that they and their family enjoy happiness, prosperity and good health.  That is why everyone is working  so hard to gather and  secure everything needed to be happy. The problem is it’s just not that simple.

  No matter how it appears on the surface, everyone discovers that once they accumulate all of these items that were promised as the path to happiness, security and well being, material nature reminds us of its  uncertainty in the form of mental tensions, diseases, crime, wars, famine, earthquakes, global warming, financial meltdowns,  and corruption beyond scale in every category of business government and politics, worldwide.

  All of this is going on despite enormous preventive efforts and seemingly foolproof measures of risk management. This why everyone is so uneasy and has some level of anxiety and uncertainty about their current and future prospects of happiness.

  Western ideology has taught and encouraged everyone about self reliance and individualism,  ”do your own thing,”  ” I’m ok you’re ok”.  In contrast, the Vedic view from India differs with such relativistic thinking because the individualistic mind and the ascendance of reasons are equipped with four fundamental defects.

  There is no one, except God and His pure devotee, who is free from these four defects i.e. *the propensity to make mistakes, having imperfect senses, propensity to be illusioned and the propensity to cheat others. Due to these imperfections the case for independent thinking, assumptions, speculations, self concocted religions are not accepted in the Vedic scriptures.

  Vedic scriptures are not meaningless i.e. every word stated in the Vedic scriptures has its meaning because they are the direct words of the Supreme Lord Himself. The Supreme Lord is free from the above defects and the Vedic scriptures are spoken by Him which is why whatever they state should be  should be accepted as perfect.

  There are many philosophers in the world who speculate while making their research about God, that is why they remain bereft of understanding anything about God. Not only this, the Vedic scriptures state, tarko’pratistha, naisa tarkena matir apaneya etc.  Meaning that God cannot be understood through logic or arguments, speculation or material scientific  research.  If someone wants to understand God then they must follow scriptural authority, then God is within reach and is understood easily and quickly.

  For example, there is a legendary physics research facility outside of Chicago who is in a worldwide race to be the first to discover the elusive Higgs boson, also known as “the God particle”  One of the theorist says that without the God particles “atoms would have no integrity, so there would be no chemical bonding, no stable structures and no liquids or solids”

  

  Looking for the God particle

  This is a global effort costing 10′s of billions of dollars and they are trying to achieve this through the material science of particle accelerators or atom smashers,  by which they attempt to deconstruct matter into its most basic components. By this material science physicist have identified five particles  that carry force, they call bosons. The evasive Higgs is the only boson that has never been observed and scientist believe that it could contain the very essence, or at least the mechanism of existence itself, a way to understand how matter becomes and remains matter. In short, they are trying to replicate their other speculative theory called the Big Bang, which unbelievably, is being taught as though it is proven fact throughout our modern educational system.

  This of course will not be possible with any amount or research because spirit cannot be measured or observed with material instruments. One cannot understand God via their material senses, He can only be understood when He reveals Himself through the proper practice of spiritual life.

  The Vedic philosophy is a happy marriage between philosophy and religion, that is why following only one of them is forbidden in Vedic civilization. In other words, following religion without its counterpart, the rich and thorough philosophy, makes one become a fanatic, and following only the philosophy and not its counterpart, its proper rules, ceremonies, etc. (religion), makes one become sentimental or a speculator. That is why both — religion and philosophy–must be synthesized while following spiritual life then the correct result will surely follow.

  

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