Swami Shivapadananda on the world’s foundation
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
596
God's working is so wonderful. People do not know how, in invisible ways, He puts things together. In India in the last century there was a need for a certain kind of assistance. The life, the heart, the very existence of India is only spirituality. But the people had forgotten this ideal and without the backing of spirituality they were trying to accumulate material wealth.
Of course in the olden days when Sri Rama and Sri Krishna lived (in the body that is) India was prosperous, not only materially but spiritually. And the secret of that was that the leaders, the kings, the rulers, were deeply religious people. And because they were deeply religious people there was no fear. India's foundation was spirituality, and the walls built were material prosperity.
In the [Bhagavad] Gita it is said, 'The root of this world is in God.' And you and I know for sure that the root that gets nourishment from the all-powerful Being, God Himself, can never perish. How can it? It will not run short of anything. Its root is in God. To destroy this world you would have to destroy God Himself, and we know this is impossible.
But the difference is that the world we are living in is not buried in God, it is not deriving its nourishment from God. Your world and my world (we have individual worlds) is not in God. It derives its apparent vitality from pleasure, from ego, from name and fame. And therefore our world must perish because the supply of the vitality is adharma. [unrighteousness] When our world is embedded in dharma then it never perishes because the nourisher of dharma [righteousness] is God Himself.
We call Sri Rama the embodiment of dharma and therefore Sri Rama never perishes. We call Sri Krishna the embodiment of dharma because Sri Krishna never perishes. And in ancient times when India had its roots in dharma, it flourished. India at that time was known as the Mother of the whole universe. But now that Mother has become very old, and it appears people have left dharma. [To be continued in reading 597]
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