There are
primarily two categories of life on
planet earth. Most of the human beings are constantly rotating in the vicious circle
of suffering which we know as the material life. While the lucky some have a
deep burning desire to know God, find true meaning behind their existence on
the planet and are constantly striving to put an end to their suffering and
reach the state of spiritual excellence which we call the spiritual life. There
are varied kinds of material careers while living our daily lives like
professional cookery, teaching, hairdressing, driver, mechanic, prostitution,
the life of a gigolo, entrepreneurship, politics and so on and so forth. “ Does
this kind of a profession and the various fields of endeavour that the skilled
manpower of these professional streams develop genuinely help mankind and propel the upliftment of humanity into the
state of permanent solution from issues like poverty, suffering, violence,
wars, terrorism, seeds of vengence, hatred, enemity, crime, murders etc?” “The
answer is NO!” The various professional careers and the varied institutions
that these skilled manpower run or sponser only help to curtail human suffering
on a superficial level and does not function efficiently to eradicate human
issues and challenges on a core footing. Funding the underprivileged, the poor,
the uneducated, the backward class, the malnutritioned, the retired, the
orphans, the outbreak of various epidemic deseases like AIDS, the homeless, the
underdeveloped countries, various religions is not the master key to the
solution of human challenges and suffering! These kind of aids helps to a
certain extent but the only available and permanent antidote to the curtailing of
all human issues is raising an awareness and helping to uplift the state of
consciousness of the people of the planet on a mass scale. Until the people of
planet earth don’t realize that it is only with the upliftment of individual
states of consciousness that can release them from the vast burden of human
suffering in their lives which can sequentially elevate peace in the community,
the society and the entire world, there can be no permanent solution to the
lives of people of the world. It is because the state of no-suffering can only be availed by
spiritual means and not by material tools and instruments. The eradication of
the entire human suffering can only come about when there is an expanded growth of consciousness on a mass scale on the planet. The Golden Age is a
couple of thousand years away and the process for the dawn of such an age falls
on the shoulders of all of you and depends on how you decide to direct your
life, in a material manner or through a fully alive and vibrant spiritual
direction.
“Service to humanity is true religion.”
-Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Everyone has a
purpose in life………. a unique gift or special talent to give to others.
And when we blend this
unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation
of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.”
-Deepak
Chopra
(Book:The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success)
“
Human service is God service.”
-Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Once we are
established as fully awake beings, the
objective of the most prime importance will be to help uplift the spiritual
status of human beings just like the way your soul has been awakened. Once the
financial aspect of your life can be handled with the effortless effort of your
superhuman ability to manifest your desires for anything you want, it would be
the Dharma of the highest category to lead a life of service to humanity which
is in direct terms service to the most Supreme Godhead. This can be carried out
in various ways. Mr.Dipak Chopra advises us to choose a unique talent and employ this extraordinary quality in selfless service to others. Making people aware about the extreme need for a spiritual
overhaul and therefore initiating them into the spiritual growth process by
teaching meditation techniques and aspiring to spread God’s message in a
selfless manner by preaching through the print, radio, television and
electronic media are the most effective mediums.
A spiritually awakened
being should have the right motive about adhering to the Path of Dharma to
offer service to humanity and ultimately to the most Supreme Godhead. The right
motive would mean offering service to
the beings of planet earth and to the most Supreme Godhead in a selfless manner. There should be no
self-centered efforts to swindle wealth out of spiritual seekers for
material benefits and for propogating spiritual movements. If one has the right
motive and a mode of selfless service towards humanity and God there can be no
harm in earning that extra dough to sustain your life and maybe to add some
more luxury to your life but there are some characters, some cunning sly foxes
who coerce wealth out of their followers by hook or crook. One such cunning sly fox, an
ex-chairman of a commune of Osho at Kathmandu, Nepal, went to great
lengths and heights to swindle money out
of spiritual seekers who lived their
life at the bare minimum sustenance level. Likewise, in his heyday, he had
converted this whole commune into a brothel in which cottages were hired out to
lovelorn couples to have open sex in broad daylight. And the most astonishing
thing about this character is that he has established a statue of “The
Samadhite”, a God, Shivapuri Baba, in this commune which is nothing but
a living red-light area and a cunningly and
strategically, customized and monetized spiritual growth retreat of
anti-God vices of the last category.
The Path of
Dharma aids in establishing permanent Light in the lives of people who have
their lives filled with tremendous darkness. Converting someone from a sinner
to someone sacred and that too by instrumenting meditation, a tool for
excavating the end of evolution - a spiritual evolution, is the highest mode of
service anyone can offer on the planet and in the entire manifested Universe. “What
more act of greatness can there be than elevating someone from the state of suffering to a state of no-suffering?”
The growth of the states of consciousness in one lone individual has a series of positive effectiveness in the
community, the society and the entire world. That is how magnetic and
overpowering the Divine Light that shines forth from a spiritual being is and
the growth of the states of consciousness in a series of individuals has the
capacity to radiate countless precious human lives with the Light of Lights. We
can evaluate this reality from the spiritually magnifying effects saints like a
Mr. Dipak Chopra, Dr. Wayne. W. Dyer, Mr. Eckhart Tolle and Sri Sri Ravishanker are producing and the way they are transforming peoples life spiritually. The
contribution of a single saint and the initiative of a lone individual has the
rare spiritual capacity of transforming millions of human lives. The principle
advantage of initiating people onto the spiritual path would be helping them
reach the Kingdom of God - where they truly belong. The hunger and innermost
craving of every responsible human being, that of establishing permanent peace
on the planet can only be possible by helping to raise the dormant awareness of
the sound asleep people to fully alive ones.
Let us all spend a moment in silence and remember great Yogis like
Paramhansa Yogananda, J.Krishnamurti, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda, Shivapuri Baba, Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, Sri Sathya Sai
Baba, Meher Baba, Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, His Holiness Brahmaprajapita, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Yukteswor Giri, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj, Aurobindo etc and the unbounded spiritual knowledge they unearthed
from their depths of silence to transform our lives from one of darkness to
that of unearthly Light. The devotion of a
human devotee can influence the life of an Enlightened Being and just
imagine the impact a life of a fully transformed saint to that of Godhood can
be in the lives of ordinary human beings!
Let us all pray to the most Supreme Godhead to bless the contemporary saints like
Mr.Dipak Chopra, Dr.Wayne. W. Dyer, Mr. Eckhart Tolle and Sri Sri Ravishanker so that these genuine
devotees of God will have the power to totally reorient the world and prepare
planet earth for the Golden Age!!! (This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
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