Stephanie Ellison
My question is this – how do we defeat the mindset that desires after space travel AND AI. Rajiv Malhotra and others desire this and think that we can keep total control over this, without realizing the damage such technology causes to the environment straight from the mining/harvesting/drilling stage, or how about at the design stage when we use up pencil, paper, and electricity just to get the ideas concrete in our heads?
An Indian had lamented, “how I wish we could all go back to that golden era, where simplicity was greatest asset than anything else”. I replied with the following to Indians in general:
You CAN, but you have to make it happen. Let’s look at this carefully. Why is it that despite knowledge of zero, the decimal numbers that we ALL use today, east-west, it doesn’t matter where it’s used, chemistry, shipbuilding, etc., etc., Bhāratavarṣa (India) did not develop the technology that the British did once it got its industrial revolution going nor developed down the civilizational technology pathway that the latter followed?
Because those who worked with knowledge, of the Brāhmaṇa varṇa, had the superconsciousness to be able to see what happens to civilization when any of the lower human characteristics (anger, fear, greed, etc.) would take hold of the Narrative and twist it to its predictable end (4,800 times in the West over 6,000 years), and what would happen to people, Mother Earth, and living beings dependent upon her. What Westerners are finding out with a small lamp in the dark forest (the hard, materialist way), gurus can see the entire forest in a flash of pratibhigyā (recognition) of what lies ahead.
You need to make this a movement, or find movements like this and merge yours with it or it will be forced on you by Nature, OR lose your planet altogether. If you see that you have not attained mokṣa (freedom from reincarnation) in this life or don’t plan to, guess what? You’ll come back in another generation somewhere along the line and witness your death via suffocation when the atmosphere disappears. THEN where will you go once no humans are left alive to rebirth?
Your investment RIGHT NOW in a restored balance with nature affects not just your children, but also you. Look at a young child, and you will realize that you will rebirth as one of their children or grandchildren. If you don’t guide them properly, they won’t be able to guide YOU properly off the path of self-destruction.
I am counting on YOU to make it happen. I’m not counting on America or any advanced western country to make it happen. I in fact think that we have to go to war with the Western power holding its citizens hostage. YOU got this. You still have your text in Saṃskṛta (Sanskrit), you still have a continuous line of civilization that no one in the West has, never mind one that is thousands of years long, and this civilization still have saṃskārī components still functioning. No one else has any of this. Fix this, and devatās like Kalki, Rudra, Mā Durgā, etc. won’t have to come to wipe things clean. Instead, BE them in human form, or the Divine forms will have to come.
A comment by IPC:
As of now, India is only trying to come out of its long slumber – it has not woken up yet.
For India, there is a long way to go before she discovers herself – her true potential. What India is trying to do today is only its cultural awkening – and not spiritual awkening, which is a totally different thing.
But this stage – cultural awakening – too is necessary for India for taking the next step. It is the first step – but only a first step. It is an awakening of its body – its body and not its spirit.
Certainly, India has to go a long way (if it is at all able to do so) before it brings her spirit in the front of its life.
Monolith of India in this first quarter of 21st century is showing some sign of life – as if changing its side out of the dead inertia of her age old sleep. This inertia is not limited by the kind of its own body – its faultlines of caste loyalities, religious divide and fanaticism, resistence to change by the status quo elements, ignorance and egoism of Indians.
To this dead weight is added the opposition of international powers to let this India rise out of this slumber and contribute to the spiritual awkening of humanity. All this makes an enormous task for India to move ahead. It looks almost an impossible work.
Still, India is making efforts and it is the Divine Will that will ultimately prevail. As Sri Aurobindo said, “Divine is not in a hurry and breaks its vessels hundred times to make them perfect.”