The World Is Not Our Enemy! - 7.

But then, why have the scriptures painted the contrary.

They call it maya, a trap, bondage.

They call it a jungle in which you will become lost, a net in which you will be caught.

There is a purpose.

It is all to make us move cautiously and carefully.

That is all.

Because if you are not intelligent and perceptive, then due to your non-perception and lack of discrimination, you may make them into binding factors. Not that they are there as binding factors.

They are just there to tell us : -

"Here are things of value, but if you don’t deal with them properly they may become liabilities. Therefore, open your eyes, move forward cautiously and carefully."


When humanity was in a much lower scale of evolution and human intelligence had not evolved, perhaps it was necessary to paint that negative picture, but it is no longer necessary.

So if we allow remnants of that to still continue in our life, it is because it is good to be cautious while we boldly move forward.

It is good to exercise a degree of care in living our spiritual life.

That much we must see while we make this world and all the things in it a valuable part of our training and spiritual education.


Thus, the way the world has to be dealt with, so that it may cease to become our enemy and obstacle, is to add to the mutuality and the interactive situation a positive attitude and approach—the utilisation of all these various things for our own benefit.

May the grace of God and the benedictions of the guru enable us to do this intelligent act and profit thereby.

God bless us all!

END.

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SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
To be continued ....