Would you agree that we live in interesting times? Unfortunately, most of mankind live in a time of stress, because we do not know what tomorrow holds.
This is where my reading of all sorts of scriptures comes in handy.
I read this in the Srimad-Bhagavatam: “There are two types of dissolution of the manifestive cosmos. At the end of every 4,320,000,000 solar years, when Brahma, the lord of one particular universe, goes to sleep, there is one annihilation. And at the end of Brahma’s life, which takes place at the end of Brahma’s one hundred years of age, in our calculation at the end of 8,640,000,000 x 30 x 12 x 100 solar years, there is complete annihilation of the entire universe …”
This puts all the current changes nicely in perspective.
We are living in a drama within a drama. When you remove all the drama, we are left with our current existence, which is the tiniest of tiny specks in the universe.
If that is the case, where does stress get us? Where does worry get us?
And no, I am not abdicating on life in any way. I am becoming more and more self-sufficient, because I have realised that it is up to each of us to take care of our earthly existence and help others.
That is what spirituality is about – not abdication or blind belief, but faith in your Creator and taking responsibility for your own bodily needs as well as all your thoughts and actions.
Being holy is hard work.
Namaste
