Wake up call

Wake up! This human form is meant for self realization first lesson Vedas teaches. Until you do that you are not human. Just wondering about what’s happening in world around me. Market up market down, banks declaring big losses, companies going bankrupt, people losing jobs, insecurity everywhere. And if that was enough people killing each others in war or in name of holy war. Big shots making big statements and planning and making strategy and within a year or so redefining everything. Well single word for everything – chaos. Total mess. Confusion, nobody knowing what to do. Bind leading blind and all falling in pit.
This is what Vyasadev had foreseen and mentioned about age of Kali --- Kalyuga.
Other day I was reading some expert mentioning that few things which we never thought of will be common for new generation. For them bomb blast will be normal phenomenon. In Kashmir, for small kids saving yourself from flying bullets is part of life. Till 19th century there was no incident of countries killing innocent citizen for power. Kings and monarch used to go to battle field far away from cities and fight out battle. Now leader use people to come to power by manipulating them in name on democracy and blah blah.
On personal front it just reminds of my good old ISKCON days when I was always thinking of my chanting, going to temple early morning and attending Aarti and doing service. What a life that was. Still I do think I am clear with theory but practical I am unable to implement it because of passion which probably has increased in me 1000 folds since I came to Singapore.
Passion ----- that is what leads us to enjoyment. Enjoyment out of something. There are two verses in Gita where Lord Krishna tells Arjuna how a person falls deep down into material world “While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises. From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool”.
Senses need enjoyment ---- tongue good taste, eyes want to see beautiful form, nose nice fragrances. Its different object which will lead different people to final state.
Our memory is bewildered and we have lost our intelligence and are involved in meaningless activities but good thing I am not alone whole world is there in same state. Thank god it Kalyuga not Satyuga otherwise I would have been in minority.
There is one nice example about this world which devotes in ISKCON used to quote. For his mischievous children He has created this toy world and given it to us to play with. We are playing here building house, holding good job, and one day everything gone. Again take birth and do same thing like a kid since on sea-shore making sandcastle which get swept by wave and he keeps building them again and again. Good for kids to pass time. Some of us are playing monopoly. This money belongs to me; I invest like that I earn more ----- another time pass. But once you grow up you need to do better thing. In short this is what we are doing in this world – time pass.
Another such example or rather story was of brahamachari – who gets cat to drive away rat to protect his dhoti and finally land up as a big businessman man with family of five children. We in modern world are also in same position. To improve our life we try to find solution which creates new bigger problem and to solve these bigger problems we end up having even bigger problem like global warming. What was the concept of bank ---- institution which will borrow money (safeguard it) from people having it in excess and lend it to those in need. From surplus interest earn versus paid they can maintain the institution going. Concept like these came up to get rid of loan sharks or money lenders who used to charge people hefty interest and person will be trapped forever in paying interest without ever clear principal. Anyway coming to banks people thought of improving services and making things better by things like automations etc. result more complex product created and more people getting involve ----- for what. Support software, develop codes and we claim we have progressed – have we made our life simpler or complicated like stories brahamachari it appears more complicated whose objective was Sadhana but ended up in doing farming. Similarly human life was meant for something and we end up doing everything else.
To continue with examples, another good one was which I thought myself and did made quite good impression on those to whom I narrated ( probably because I used to were dhoti kurta which made me appear like devotee) of our travel from Bangalore to Delhi in train. Something we do land up in situation to travel without reservation and then you are on TC’s mercy if he can allot any berth to you. Similarly our life has ultimate aim and some short term aims which normally we do have in everything short term and long term objective. Our main aim is to reach Delhi ---- reach Krishna’s abode but there are some short term aims like getting berth to have proper rest in train. Suddenly the train stops at a station and you find out people are offering you free resting place outside the train. You wonder why I am struggling for berth in train why not step out and rest there. You step out and train goes away. You achieved you short term aim but lost your ultimate aim, missed the opportunity. Now you have to wait for next train and you will again be traveling without reservation. That’s what is happening life after life. We are missing opportunity. That’s what we are doing in this world in human form.
Finally to conclude with final example: you buy a scientific calculator but use it for addition, subtraction only then you are wasting it. Now mobile phones come with so many features and we buy them for that but seldom use them. Some of us don’t read the manual and may even don’t know how to use particular feature. Some do read it after they face problem and then are able to use those features. These are categories of humans. It’s not only for sleeping, eating, mating and defending. That animal can also do. That why first verse athato brahamjigyasa. In human form start to enquire about your existence. Read the manual (scriptures) to utilize your human birth. Unfortunately laws of Karma’s are acting on us and if we don’t utilize the opportunity properly we will again have to go into miserable form of life. So wake up and start Human life now.