a Concerned Global Citizen

a Concerned Global Citizen Yet it is the inability of our Mind that makes things look paradoxical. One such paradox of Nature is that it is cyclic in its operation and yet the things are not repeated again in exactly the same manner. It looks like a spiral evolution where things and events appear again and again, which are basically the same but in new forms to meet the new situations. History is no exception to this cyclic process. This again reminds one of dialectics of Hegel and Marx. We had promised in our earlier articles to deal with Dialectics as propounded by Hegel and (its claimed repositioning upside down) by Marx but so far we have not been able to fulfill our promise. We foresee that these seeds are once again ready to sprout in the fertile soil of our times. Our times are fully ripe for the germination of the old seeds. Our times are fret with problems that are unparalleled and unheard of in human history. These problems are so grave in their consequences and so encompassing in their scale that they put the mankind's existence in peril. These are ideally fertile times for germination of the old seeds that had saved mankind many a times in the past once again in new forms. Mankind embattled with these problems is once again ready to listen as in the past to the teachings that have been taught in ages past in different contexts and different forms. A new civilization that offers this old seeds in new form to bail out mankind is the need of the hour. Before dealing with the mankind's present problems of far reaching consequences and their promised solution by such new civilization, we think it appropriate to have a look at human history to see how the mankind's eternal and (always) burning problems were then tackled by the teachings of eternal truth. First let us see how this eternal truth or prime realty was perceived by different individuals in past ages and how the consequential teachings have become corrupted with the passage of time. Words are never able to convey the entire spectrum of individual's real experience. (In this connection, please refer to my earlier article titled: Language). We have already indicated in our previous articles that this realty is mystic to Mind being beyond its reason and the words used to communicate this realty are always symbolic in their contents; the words in such matter should never be read and understood literal sense. Also, we have indicated in our articles that Desires pollute the downward stream of descending Light of Heart. This Light percolates down to our Mind, Desires and sensual feelings and uses them as its instruments of action; however, in this process this Light is much corrupted and polluted at each downward meeting instrument. In these articles we would also try to show how the individuals in past ages taught to rein in one's desires and ignore reason's logic in opposition to the descending Light of Heart. First we shall take the experience of Lord Jesus Christ and how his intimate disciples and immediate followers tried to control their sensual enjoyment, desires and reason's obstructions in the early Christian history. The more near we are to the source, the more pure is the stream and the more distance we go from the original source, the more polluted becomes the downward stream. Therefore, we shall try to confine our observations to the nearest point of the source. Saint Matthew, one of the disciples of Jesus Christ, informs us in his Gospel of the wonderful spiritual experience that Jesus had. Saint coach online outlet Matthew says: And Jesus, when he was baptised, went up straightway out of the water: and, 10, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: (17) And 10 a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Saint Mark also reports of this wonderful spiritual experience of Jesus Christ in his Gospel in these words: And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, saying Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. Another disciple of Jesus Christ, Saint Luke speaks of this experience of Christ thus: Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened, And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son: in thee I am well pleased. This is an experience of descending Supreme Being into the human consciousness and it of the highest order that persons completely devoted to Divine get when Divine's grace is there. It is impossible to describe this experience in coach factory outlet human language, for it is beyond all normal experiences of ordinary human beings. However, over the ages attempts to describe the same for the benefit of mankind have been made by those who have had such light. Very many images and similes have been coined in their efforts of expression. One of them is an image of the descending of something like a dove from above into the coach outlet store receiving person's consciousness. The peace, complete assurance in the form of an enlightenment, happiness in the form of a bliss and answer to all questions or doubts one may entertain (before this experience), which are brought by this supreme experience are beyond the capacity of words to convey. We shall refer to historical records of some other persons who have had similar spiritual experience. Temptations:By the King of Evil Forces Now, as we know, the experience of Supreme Being is not an easy thing. It takes a very long cycle of time on the path of creation and according to the scheme of things that is supreme secret of Nature. The period of one human life is flicker of moment in these matters and the secret scheme is unfolded over a period of time spanning very many human lives. From the relative point of view of the Divine Working happenings are determined before hands and still, from the relative point of view of earthly world, things do not happen until there is determination of the highest order on the part of the individual concerned. But he spurned the allurements and held fast in his determination to tread the divine path. Saint Matthew, the disciple of Jesus Christ, informs us how Saitan tried to allure Jesus Christ in these words: Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, (6) And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. Saint Mark in his Gospel tells us that when Jesus Christ saw heaven opened and the Spirit descending upon him like a dove, and a voice coming from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, he was immediately driven into the wilderness. St. Mark says: And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. Saint Luke, the disciple of Jesus Christ, describes the Saitan's demeanors coach outlet store online against Jesus thus: Being (in wilderness) forty days tempted of the devil And in those days he did eat nothing; and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whosoever I will give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. But Jesus Christ rebuked the Saitan for his threat and refused his allurement. Lord Jesus held fast to his determination to serve the Divine and to none else. Humankind is only a thought.