The Revelations

Today when everyone is ‘locked’ up in their own homes, we all I presume realise the need for the ‘pause’ button to be pressed on our lives. To pause and think foremost on how we endanger our environment, to pause and think of the value of money, to pause and think of the need for community life, to pause and think of family values, to pause and think of career and ambition and more importantly to pause and think of how we take care of our health.

I began reading this book ‘Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, before the Corona virus hit us here in India. I was so inspired by many of his thoughts:

“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism”.

“The so-called Hinduism is a creation of the West; the Indian speaks only of “the eternal law” sanatana dharma which he knows is not an Indian monopoly but belongs as much to Muslims, Negroes, Christians and Anabaptists too.”

And last but not the least

“We have isolated bacteria and viruses, but we have not understood that they are only agents and that the disease is not the virus but the force that uses the virus. If we are clear, there is nothing all the viruses in the world can do, because our inner force is stronger that that force or, to put it differently, because our being vibrates with an intensity too high for that lower vibration. Only like can enter like. That is why even if we succeed in eradicating cancer, for instance, the way other medieval diseases have been eradicated, we will not have eradicated the forces of illness, which will use something else, another agent, another virus, once their present instrument has been detected. Our medical science touches only the surface of things, not the source. There is only one disease – lack of consciousness.”

This may sound confusing or weird or stupid too when we are battling a virus that can affect the most spiritual human being and that which needs science more than spirituality at this stage. But it is not one for the other. Both must go hand in hand. 

It is time then to try and cure our consciousness as much as possible, as much as it is difficult in this new fast paced technological world. But we can try. It is time to open ourselves up to the rich teachings of Indian gurus and philosophers, to understand and embrace Hinduism way of life and not think it is something unsecular to talk of or to do, to bring back the many healthy ways of eating that our grandparents followed, to believe in the Indian meaning of nuclear family. In short to get back to the many ways of living that is good for our health.

We really don’t need the plethora of advice out there, it is all here in our books, in our teachings, in our Yoga, in our food.

Learn to be proud of our Indian culture and tap into it fully and completely before we have to import it from China!!!