The Emperor Has No Clothes!

( This post is in honour of my dear friends at Bhoomi, who have ceaselessly worked to transform education and human consciousness. May all the blessings of the universe be with them!)

“Human civilisation today is like a never-ending stream of high-speed traffic heading straight for the abyss, with ninety-nine percent of the drivers either drunk or asleep at the wheel…including and especially those responsible for teaching humanity how to drive!”Adyashanti

When truth must be cried out by the children who see that the Emperor has no clothes, will no one listen? When our very system of so-called rationality and conceptual thought is the root of all our problems, can more thinking deliver a solution?

If money and power are the greatest goals, insatiable greed is the greatest virtue and war is the biggest business on earth, is that a civilised society? If blind, unconscious human drives continuously lead to the destruction of entire ecosystems and terrible suffering for millions of beings, can it be denied that this race is undoubtedly insane?

Who will cure the ills of the human race? Can the physician heal anyone else without first healing himself?
Will there finally be a true quantum leap in the evolution of human consciousness, or will we destroy ourselves and our planet first?

“The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.” Albert Einstein

The total knowledge of the human race, accumulated over millennia in every field of human endeavour , is less than a few grains of sand on the vast beach of Nature’s perfection. Therefore, a little humility is always in order.

The greatest scientists have always been those who approached the wonders of Nature with humility, awe and delight. They had the wisdom and mature intuition to recognise the elegant, aware intelligence that underlies everything. Such understanding is a natural outcome of deep, continuous contemplation and tremendous inner refinement, which is also the state of the greatest sages and mystics of the race.

It is time to wake up from the nightmare, the insanity that is our current “civilisation”, to heed the wisdom of our greatest scientists, philosophers and spiritual teachers. Existing in harmony with the universal web of life is our birth-right .The only real solution to the self-created problems of the human race is to discover our own innermost nature and transform the racial consciousness.

This can only happen when we learn to still the mind and listen to our souls, when we turn our attention inwards instead of outwards. This is what all the prophets and sages and sacred books have been saying, since time began. Will we listen now?

May the Divine intelligence that is the source and the substance of creation guide and bless us all !

“ The Divine gives light to the mind and shines within it. Except by turning the mind inward and fixing it in the Divine, there is no other way to know Him through the mind.” Forty Verses on Reality, Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharishi