The Last Hour Of Planet Earth🔗

It is time to revive the Vedic tradition.

Why? It is the need of the hour. This is the final hour of human consciousness as we have accustomed ourselves to understand it.

Without the Vedic revival, we will face a difficult future. Vedic tradition is the only wisdom that can give spiritual solutions for all the problems of human consciousness. Whether they are inner world questions like life and death, body-mind interface, the nature of consciousness; or social problems like peace, unity, love, co-existence, ahiṁsā (non-violence); or relationship-level problems like understanding each other, accepting each other, creating wealth without sucking others' blood... Vedic wisdom has answers for each of these.

The enormous problems humanity is facing are redoubtable. We can completely feel that this may be the last hour of the planet, because of the unconsciousness of human beings and our ability to destroy others through weapons – not just traditional weapons like atomic weapons but chemical weapons, and now something new, ideological weapons, which spread ideas through media and communication systems and dismantle unique lifestyles such as tribal ways of living.

There are many tribes whose lifestyles have been dismantled, destroyed so badly that their great art, traditions and the extraordinary powers they had – their whole science – has left Planet Earth. The science of herbs, the science of living with nature, science of handling extraordinary powers like levitation... these precious abilities were simply an intrinsic part of their lifestyle.

In such cultures there was no need to gather around some enlightened master and do all kinds of prāṇāyāma (breathing techniques), then slowly levitate after three or four days. What we call magical or supernatural powers were naturally taught in the normal course of living among certain tribes, certain spiritual groups. But so much beauty, color and variety has been lost because of the modern campaign to globalize everything under one brand.

It is a fundamental need of our planet that we understand the nature-based cultures, the traditions which understand that nature is a living intelligence, which are interested in co-existing with nature, instead of abusing it and exploiting it. Vedic tradition unfolded along the banks of the sacred Ganges River and at the feet of the Himālayas; it grew up to co-exist with nature.

Its wisdom holds spiritual solutions for all possible problems: those that have already happened, those that are happening now, and those yet to happen. All the global threats that Planet Earth is facing now – wars, ideological conflicts and economic exploitation – can be resolved through the Vedic teachings.

Economic exploitation has peaked in the past few decades. At least sixty per cent of the income of Planet Earth is held by just four communities. The entire world is serving those four communities. Enormous wealth is accumulated and centered under a tiny handful of people.

The reality of divine law is that whoever lives in a human body is entitled to whatever exists on Planet Earth, because Nature provided everything for everyone. So when just a few people deprive others of this birthright, that act forms the root of violence. It creates a source of global violence.

These are tremendous dangers that human society is facing: terrorism, consumerism (which is responsible for terrorism), conflicting ideologies or ideological conflicts, and the diseases which are spreading rapidly because of consumerism. Consumerism has infected not only the realm of food, clothes, furniture and possessions, it has extended to the domain of performing arts, relationship and lifestyle. It is epidemic at all levels of social interaction.

HIV arose from consumerism at the level of sex. Obesity is consumerism at the level of food. Many psychological disorders occur because of consumerism at the level of music – music which creates too much restlessness. Social violence has become rampant because of visual images which not only glorify crime and sadism, but likewise foster a fundamental restlessness. These social and economic ills, coupled with the potential for impending global wars and epidemics, indicate that we could be headed toward the last hour of Planet Earth. The source of all these troubles is violence, and the manifestation of that violence is terrorism.

If we take responsibility and revive the great Vedic tradition, it can offer a permanent solution for terrorism.

A tradition which accepts all deities equally can create world peace, for terrorism thrives on separation, on feeling separate from others. The main vehicle for separatism is unfortunately religion, despite the fact that most religious founders have preached a message of community and brotherhood.

If a permanent solution for religious terrorism is to be found, the Vedic tradition, the Hindu tradition offers the answer, for it accepts and integrates all Gods.

Vedic tradition does not have a problem with any number of Gods; Kṛṣṇa, Śiva, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, all can happily coexist on one altar. There is no supreme Devil that needs to be combated and rejected. Even Yama, Lord of Death, is included among the friendly gods. The Lord of Destruction and Rejuvenation, Lord Śiva, is honored and loved as much as Lakṣmī (Lakshmi), the Goddess of Wealth. Even destruction is taken care of by God, under controlled conditions, in deep compassion, for rejuvenation.

When the earth was overloaded, Kṛṣṇa took human form and engineered a cleansing and rejuvenation of India under controlled conditions. No Devil was needed to create disaster or war. The Vedic tradition honors every process, every event as the hand of God, so there is no separatism.

It is time that we revive Vedic tradition, which accepts all Gods, which is ready to coexist with all Gods. The Vedic wisdom is happy with multiple ways of cooking, clothing, housing and cultural folkways.

Each state in India has evolved a unique and original culture. The range and variety of dressing and cooking in India is stunning. The difference between one state and another, sometimes even between one village and another, shows more contrast than that between many separate countries. If one travels one hundred kilometers, one will see completely distinct worlds in food, housing methods, clothing, language, lifestyle, religion...

In one morning one can journey between what seems like entirely different countries. As different as these cultures are, however, they are peacefully coexisting. They also maintain largely traditional ways of life. There is neither interest in nor need for modern commodities or machineries which force everyone into one mould, which eradicate their unique lifestyles and way of existing.

For the sake of our collective benefit, every tribe needs to be kept alive. Every tradition needs to be kept alive. Every folkway, every cooking style, every tailoring and weaving and textile-making tradition, every housing method, every manner of furniture-building, should be kept alive in its original form.

The Vedic tradition protects uniqueness in everything, at every level; whether it is food, clothes, housing, furniture, dance or medicine, its uniqueness is treasured. Let this wisdom be revived, because it is the only tradition which can allow variety to the maximum degree. It offers a breadth and scope for coexistence which is based on ahiṁsā, non-violence. It does not claim a monopoly in any area of life.