Bhagavad Gita and Bible

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It’s an interesting movie we’re all performing in, here — full of conflict, rife with nefarious villains and virtuous heroes. It’s almost as if Cosmic Mind had gotten bored with creating stars, planets, black holes and quasars, and decided to step things up by producing object lessons in morality among the little creatures on our planet’s surface.

When I am tempted to despair of any end to war, selfishness and corruption, I remind myself of the enormous cycles of Time proposed by our most ancient cultures. According to the Rishis of India, for example, this world has gone through hundreds of Yugas — Ages — each lasting thousands of years, during which the human race (or whichever race was dominant at that time) experienced union with God, followed by ever-deteriorating connection to Source — leading eventually to its own destruction. Followed again by a new beginning and a new Golden Age. Noah’s Flood (or in India, Manu’s Flood) followed by a fresh start. Over and over and over again. An inevitable — and natural — repeating pattern.

This, according to that tradition, is the Great Story. In his fascinating “Essence of Bhagavad Gita and Bible” Sadguru Sant Keshavadas says that the book of Genesis tells the truth about Creation — but it is only referring to this last, most recent Creation!

We are simply performing our roles in this latest episode. This is not a call for despair, but for increased participation. For it is the entire reason for which we came into existence. The highs and lows of the screenplay are out of our hands; all we can do is follow the script.

The point is, we don’t care about a possibly mythical society that may or may not have existed on Earth a million years ago. And, someday, nobody will care about ours. So just keep your head down and do the best you can. That’s what “being in the present moment” is all about.

It’s only natural for us to wax nostalgic about the days of our youth — those years when the whole world seemed to be in better shape than today. But we can comfort ourselves with the thought of reincarnation across eons of time — that we have actually had thousands of such youthful ages, and will have thousands more to come.

As for providing you with proof that this concept is true, I haven’t got any. But I thought I’d give my fellow Americans something different to think about. Take your minds off of the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, for a few minutes.