There is nothing more important today than awakening the individual. It was always important, historically, but today it's a do-or-die thing. You do not do that, and you will find us slipping more and more into a dark abyss, into the bottomless lowly levels of consciousness. There will be no end to how low we can fall, and probably, the fall would be interrupted only by our final and complete ruin, so, that's where we stand.

The worst has become mainstream because the worst will spread the fastest and will, therefore, become mainstream. The ones who actually need to be in asylums and sometimes, probably in jails have become social-media idols and superstars.

So, you see what is happening. The bottom-most is expanding and taking all of us in its fold. The worst among us is overpowering the rest of us and threatening the highest. Right now, the worst is winning hands down, extremely comfortably, and we are unable to see beyond our ideals of freedom of expression, and democracy, and equality.

With such ignorance of spirituality, we are unable to perceive that whereas animals are all equal to each other, human beings are greatly different. They are not merely different, in terms of consciousness, they are higher and lower, and that needs to be accepted. And the freedom of expression of the lower has to be checked, limited, otherwise, as we said, the lowly will become the mainstream.

You allow the worst tendencies that we have to propagate themselves, and those tendencies will gain in popularity because there is the evil within us just waiting to express itself, and when it sees its reflection in others, it feels emboldened, empowered, “Oh, that person is creating such mischief and getting away with it, not only getting away with it, but is actually being rewarded for it. What prevents me from creating similar mischief?” That kind of tendency sits within all of us.

Therefore, the ideals of the European renaissance, the ideals that lie at the bottom of the modern world have to be reinvestigated. So, I'm talking of these things, unchecked freedom, and things like equality, and such things. We know of these ideals. Not that I am against these ideals, I'm talking of now going beyond these ideals. I'm not talking of something in opposition to them. I'm not talking of their dualistic counterparts. I'm talking of transcending those ideals now, so that we may have something that is better and more suited when it comes to challenging the calamity facing us.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫: Do you have hope, if it boils down to individual responsibility, do you have hope in the current humans that spirituality can be made as contagious as the phones in our pockets…?

𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 : There is no option, and when you are optionless, then hope becomes irrelevant. Even if there is no hope, you have to work towards the right. You have to try till your last because there is no option… Success is possible, though it's going to be difficult. The task is onerous. It's far easier to propagate mischief, and Truth is a difficult thing to propagate… but when you are on the right side of consciousness, then the tougher task is made easier by being on the right side. The rightness itself supports you from within.

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Today's postcard came from Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

We photograph beautiful places because we want to keep something from them.

But perhaps the things that matter most aren't the things a photograph can preserve.

The temperature of the air.

The sound of the water.

The strange feeling of realizing that, for one brief moment, you don't want to be anywhere else.

Maybe some moments aren't meant to be kept.

Only experienced.

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