We are on
the verge of closing this century and entering in the new millennium. We have
advanced our knowledge in different walks of life especially in the area of
science and technology. But the material advancements are not enough to bring
love, peace and tranquility of mind. Humanity is facing crisis, ethics and
morality have become the subjects of discussion not in practice. So where we
are leading to? Renowned scientist and philosopher of this century Prof. Albert
Einstein says, "Perfection of means and confusion of aims seems, in my
opinion to characterize the present age." The sue of nuclear weapons can
destroy the existence of characterize the entire human beings. The advancement
in the field of biological science particularly in the area of genetic
engineering if not used ethically can be devastating to the existence of humanity.
The development of the moral and spiritual are as necessary as the material
advancement. Nobel laureate of medicine and philosopher Dr. Alexis Carrel write
in his famous book: Man and Unknown - "Everybody is interested in things
that increase wealth and comfort. But no one understands that the structural,
functional, and mental quality of each individual has to be improved. The
health of the intelligence and of the effective sense, moral disciplines, and
spiritual developments are just as necessary as the health of the body and the
prevention of the infectious diseases. It would be far better to pay more
attention to ourselves than to construct faster steamers, more comfortable
automobiles, cheaper radios, or telescopes for examining the structure of remote
nebulae."
The question arises where
and how these moral and spiritual values of human being will improve. Certainly
these values can't be taught through the textbook in a public or a private
school. It is a subject of prayer and practice for which we need a living
ideal, a spiritual guru or the prophet of the age, who guide us through His
philosophy according to the demand of time and age.
According to Sri Sri Thakur,
The degeneration of humanity
began at that moment when the unseen God was made infinite and, ignoring the
Seers, the worship of Their Sayings began.
Oh Mankind! If you desire to
invoke your good, forget sectarian conflict. Be regardful to all the past
Prophets. Be attached to your living master or God and take only those who love
Him as your own. Because all the past Prophets are consummated in the divine
Man of Present.
Once an American visitor asked Sri Sri Thakur science
has given man the power over the nature, but not the wisdom to use it properly.
Thakur replied,”that whenever love dissolves all the complexes in the Love, and
then loyalty to moral law is automatic." Therefore the need of the time is
to attach with the loving and living ideal or Master or God and abide by
His saying and philosophy. In doing so we can I control the passion and complexes and prosper in every
walk of life with peace and love.
Explaining the characteristics of
the prophet of the age Sri Sri Thakur says,
“He is gorgeously simple,
wisely foolish and abnormally normal with full of love in His heart.” He further adds "When you see One Who fulfills all
knowledge in the traditional trail according to the time, place and circumstances with a meaningful synthesis of
divine and discrete in His words and deeds, then you can know that He is
not false, not futile. Rather, He is embodied
Fulfiller, the Best, and the Supreme Beloved, Who fulfils and nurtures the
distinctive traits of everyone. He is the flood of Love, redeemer of
Mankind!" Further, He adds "Though He lives in the world as an
ordinary man with all the ways of man, he eats, sleeps,
loves his parents, wife and children, feels pain and pleasure; yet, his normal
attachment to the source, His supreme consciousness, manifests itself in
His character in a normal way and guides Him at I
every moment, this is natural and
automatic to Him as respiration to ordinary man. He is normal in every way:
ever unattached, yet all attracting, the royal road to man's salvation. Further
it is my faith that all prophets converge and awaken in Him of the present.
Love to Him is to Love to All in the worship of God. Yes, I say He is the Way,
Truth, the light of Life!"
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