Jahnu
2020-08-15 03:34:47 UTC
A new religion has evolved in the global culture. Its called
Scientism. Even though modern science has absolutely nothing sensible
to say about the reality we live in, the general population is
convinced that science has explained away the need for God and
religion.
Scientific theories like abiogenesis and evolution, even though they
are pure and unalloyed myths, are being taught in all educational
institutions of the world as scientific facts. Actually, the only use
of modern science is to produce technology. Technology has replaced
religion as the opiate of the masses.
In modern society, technological expertise has been established as the
best way to measure our ability to understand the reality we live in.
Those who are influential in defining peoples' realities - the
producers, scientists, the media, politicians, etc. -- have made
technological advancement the barometer of human progress. They claim
that the advancement of technology is the most noble pursuit of the
human race, that it has made the world a better place to live in.
As proof, they list all the consumer gadgets we use and are dependent
upon - computers, cell-phones, televisions, Ipads, cars, and so on -
and say that the intelligence to build these things shows that we have
advanced our understanding of nature and how she works far beyond our
ability in the middle ages.
But is this assertion correct? To build a computer, one certainly
requires advanced knowledge of physics and chemistry, but these
disciplines describe only a tiny part of the reality we perceive.
Actually, reality consists of our conscious experience of it --
something most people dont even think about.
Few people ponder the fact that their understanding of the world is
conditioned by the culture they grew up in. They automatically take it
for granted that the way they perceive the world is the correct one,
and that nature is best described in physical and chemical terms.
Modern science is very useful for making technology, in fact, its the
only thing it is good for, and when we live in a world where the
masses are kept in awe and reverence of technological wonders, science
is, of course, a most important undertaking.
But the jubilation of modern people over the newest technology is no
different from the gaping wonder with which people in the middle ages
looked upon sorcerers and magicians firing off sulfur and gun powder.
The magicians did this to dupe their audiences and secure their
comfortable hold on society.
In the middle ages, in the West at least, the regents of society kept
people in ignorance, so they were easy to control and manipulate, and
today the exact same means are used to enslave people in ignorance. In
the global culture the slaves have just been upgraded to a
middle-class with their own house and car.
People still slave their lives away in boring jobs and are marred by
the same endless worries and miseries, people have always suffered
from. They are still being ground down by taxation, victims of greedy
politicians, exactly like theyve always been.
There is no basis for saying that advanced knowledge of mathematics
and physics enables a person to better understand the world any more
than the cave dweller of some 2000 years ago, who worshiped nature and
various gods.
If the modern culture is based on a better understanding of the world,
why is it ruining nature and her inhabitants at an alarming rate? If
modern man is more advanced in his understanding of nature, why is he
ruining nature at an alarming rate?
Despite the so-called advancement of modern society, people are till
not able to transcend their mental conditioning. The proof is that
modern society does not produce people with evolved consciousness.
Rather, we see the exact opposite taking place - in direct proportion
to the advancement of technology, people have become more and more
base and idiotic in the way they treat and relate to each-other. Look
at the present generation of young people, who grow up looking at
screens, they are basically turning out to be brain-dead.
Some years ago, WHO published a report saying that the biggest health
crisis facing the world in the new millennium is that more and more
people will be born with mental defects. Is that the symptom of an
evolved society?
Society, as it is, is not equipped to facilitate self-realized human
beings. What need does a self realized person have for the plethora of
useless products being produced by the few conglomerates that control
world consumerism? Such enlightenment would indeed negate the
necessity for the technological advancement upon which the world's
finances now rely.
That is why, in the current global culture, a deliberate campaign
exists to transform people into atheists. In such a culture, religion
is being ridiculed and has been replaced with politics. Instead of
voting for a particular religion, the public now votes for
politicians, who are mostly hired by those multinationals with the
biggest checkbooks -- all in the name of serving the people, of
course.
The modern, global culture has already made the whole world into one
big marketplace - a worldwide altar where technology is worshiped like
a deity.
Being fed endless propaganda from Hollywood where technology saves the
day, we quickly forget that technology, despite assurances to the
contrary, cannot save us from the onslaughts of nature. Time and time
again, technology comes up short in the fight against nature.
The new high-priests of society, now clad in white frocks instead of
black, fail to comprehend how the mechanisms of nature work. And how
could they? They also suffer from the misunderstanding that everything
is dead matter, and are restricted by the assumption that their
knowledge of physical laws can explain the world.
Yet more important than understanding how physical matter works is the
understanding how consciousness, false ego, intelligence and mind
work. These make up a greater part of the reality we perceive. As long
as we fail to understand the difference between matter and
consciousness, we cannot even be said to have evolved beyond animal
consciousness.
That's why atheism is dangerous - it keeps the consciousness trapped
in matter. It keeps the self from its rare mission in the human life
form - to understand consciousness. It cultivates a perception of life
where the consciousness cannot see itself - a deception where the
self, being absorbed in matter, forgets itself.
Every individual is duty-bound to alter their consciousness and
connect it with the whole - Sri Krishna. While Srila Prabhupada was a
nitya-siddha, he was also a social revolutionary, as was the Lord he
served - Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The political correctness that
predominates in the world and passes as social etiquette should not
stop us from assisting him in his mission - to silence the atheistic
class of men, and to inundate the world with Krishna Consciousness.
Krishna says:
The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal
fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very
hard with the six senses, which include the mind.
The living entity in the material world carries his different
conceptions of life from one body to another, as the air carries
aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take
another.
The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain
type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped
about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.
The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body,
nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of
the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can
see all this.
The endeavoring transcendentalists who are situated in
self-realization can see all this clearly. But those whose minds are
not developed and who are not situated in self-realization cannot see
what is taking place, though they may try.
--Bhagavad-gita 15.7-11
Scientism. Even though modern science has absolutely nothing sensible
to say about the reality we live in, the general population is
convinced that science has explained away the need for God and
religion.
Scientific theories like abiogenesis and evolution, even though they
are pure and unalloyed myths, are being taught in all educational
institutions of the world as scientific facts. Actually, the only use
of modern science is to produce technology. Technology has replaced
religion as the opiate of the masses.
In modern society, technological expertise has been established as the
best way to measure our ability to understand the reality we live in.
Those who are influential in defining peoples' realities - the
producers, scientists, the media, politicians, etc. -- have made
technological advancement the barometer of human progress. They claim
that the advancement of technology is the most noble pursuit of the
human race, that it has made the world a better place to live in.
As proof, they list all the consumer gadgets we use and are dependent
upon - computers, cell-phones, televisions, Ipads, cars, and so on -
and say that the intelligence to build these things shows that we have
advanced our understanding of nature and how she works far beyond our
ability in the middle ages.
But is this assertion correct? To build a computer, one certainly
requires advanced knowledge of physics and chemistry, but these
disciplines describe only a tiny part of the reality we perceive.
Actually, reality consists of our conscious experience of it --
something most people dont even think about.
Few people ponder the fact that their understanding of the world is
conditioned by the culture they grew up in. They automatically take it
for granted that the way they perceive the world is the correct one,
and that nature is best described in physical and chemical terms.
Modern science is very useful for making technology, in fact, its the
only thing it is good for, and when we live in a world where the
masses are kept in awe and reverence of technological wonders, science
is, of course, a most important undertaking.
But the jubilation of modern people over the newest technology is no
different from the gaping wonder with which people in the middle ages
looked upon sorcerers and magicians firing off sulfur and gun powder.
The magicians did this to dupe their audiences and secure their
comfortable hold on society.
In the middle ages, in the West at least, the regents of society kept
people in ignorance, so they were easy to control and manipulate, and
today the exact same means are used to enslave people in ignorance. In
the global culture the slaves have just been upgraded to a
middle-class with their own house and car.
People still slave their lives away in boring jobs and are marred by
the same endless worries and miseries, people have always suffered
from. They are still being ground down by taxation, victims of greedy
politicians, exactly like theyve always been.
There is no basis for saying that advanced knowledge of mathematics
and physics enables a person to better understand the world any more
than the cave dweller of some 2000 years ago, who worshiped nature and
various gods.
If the modern culture is based on a better understanding of the world,
why is it ruining nature and her inhabitants at an alarming rate? If
modern man is more advanced in his understanding of nature, why is he
ruining nature at an alarming rate?
Despite the so-called advancement of modern society, people are till
not able to transcend their mental conditioning. The proof is that
modern society does not produce people with evolved consciousness.
Rather, we see the exact opposite taking place - in direct proportion
to the advancement of technology, people have become more and more
base and idiotic in the way they treat and relate to each-other. Look
at the present generation of young people, who grow up looking at
screens, they are basically turning out to be brain-dead.
Some years ago, WHO published a report saying that the biggest health
crisis facing the world in the new millennium is that more and more
people will be born with mental defects. Is that the symptom of an
evolved society?
Society, as it is, is not equipped to facilitate self-realized human
beings. What need does a self realized person have for the plethora of
useless products being produced by the few conglomerates that control
world consumerism? Such enlightenment would indeed negate the
necessity for the technological advancement upon which the world's
finances now rely.
That is why, in the current global culture, a deliberate campaign
exists to transform people into atheists. In such a culture, religion
is being ridiculed and has been replaced with politics. Instead of
voting for a particular religion, the public now votes for
politicians, who are mostly hired by those multinationals with the
biggest checkbooks -- all in the name of serving the people, of
course.
The modern, global culture has already made the whole world into one
big marketplace - a worldwide altar where technology is worshiped like
a deity.
Being fed endless propaganda from Hollywood where technology saves the
day, we quickly forget that technology, despite assurances to the
contrary, cannot save us from the onslaughts of nature. Time and time
again, technology comes up short in the fight against nature.
The new high-priests of society, now clad in white frocks instead of
black, fail to comprehend how the mechanisms of nature work. And how
could they? They also suffer from the misunderstanding that everything
is dead matter, and are restricted by the assumption that their
knowledge of physical laws can explain the world.
Yet more important than understanding how physical matter works is the
understanding how consciousness, false ego, intelligence and mind
work. These make up a greater part of the reality we perceive. As long
as we fail to understand the difference between matter and
consciousness, we cannot even be said to have evolved beyond animal
consciousness.
That's why atheism is dangerous - it keeps the consciousness trapped
in matter. It keeps the self from its rare mission in the human life
form - to understand consciousness. It cultivates a perception of life
where the consciousness cannot see itself - a deception where the
self, being absorbed in matter, forgets itself.
Every individual is duty-bound to alter their consciousness and
connect it with the whole - Sri Krishna. While Srila Prabhupada was a
nitya-siddha, he was also a social revolutionary, as was the Lord he
served - Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The political correctness that
predominates in the world and passes as social etiquette should not
stop us from assisting him in his mission - to silence the atheistic
class of men, and to inundate the world with Krishna Consciousness.
Krishna says:
The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal
fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very
hard with the six senses, which include the mind.
The living entity in the material world carries his different
conceptions of life from one body to another, as the air carries
aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take
another.
The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain
type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped
about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.
The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body,
nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of
the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can
see all this.
The endeavoring transcendentalists who are situated in
self-realization can see all this clearly. But those whose minds are
not developed and who are not situated in self-realization cannot see
what is taking place, though they may try.
--Bhagavad-gita 15.7-11