1. Wonder if all these will go away?
2. Or is it a sign from GOD that the world is ending?
That got me thinking, but my instant reaction was, I told her, "This Too Shall Pass".
When Arjuna was hesitant to engage war with his uncles and cousins in the Mahabaratham War, Krishna who was his advisor cum charioter said this to Arjuna,
"O son of Kunti, the non-permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their dissappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharatham, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." - Bhagavath Geethai 2.14.
Almost all calamities that befall humanity is "MADE BY HUMAN". Occasionally we have the earth naturally rebalancing itself, particularly geological shifts, and this can have an impact both on climate, which in turn can affect the food chain, and therefore causing the extinction or raise of flora & fauna and life forms (from an amoeba to Humans).
However human activities from dawn of civilization, has added on the pressure to artificially exacerbate this process. Sociotechnological advancement and Ravaging of The Earth have a symbiotic relationship, almost a "Chicken or Egg" dilemma.
In my respond to my friend, I said, if you are worried about the End of World, don't worry, we would be long dead by then and so will your children and their children, and their childrens children ........
I guess my friend's concern was based on the fact that we are currently going through the last Yugam (age of time) of the 4 Yugams of a Kalpa (Eon). If anyone wondering what is this all about, well this is the ancient Indian cosmology which calculates cosmic cycle of creation and destruction.
From that perspective, the current cycle is call the Kaliyugam which is the last of the 4 of this Kalpa. Which means the end of a cycle, whereby it is the end of the world as we know now. But hold your horses, the Kaliyugam is to last for 432,000 years. The Kali Yugam began 5,122 years ago and has another 426,878 years left as of 2021 CE. Therefore the Kali Yugam will end in the year 428,899 CE.
So meanwhile, all we have to do is to ride through this pandemic, until such time when Covid19 becomes acclimatise to human, like the common flu, which I think will not be too far off.
At this stage almost everyone has lost someone close, to Covid19. Just 2 weeks ago, I lost my cousin to this deadly parasite. Last year I lost another cousin but, to cancer. Did you know that in the year 2020, 10 million people have died of cancer and according to WHO that is the current approximation of death annually, for sometime now. In contrast the total death owing to Covid 19 since it was first detected about 2 years ago is only about 4.4 million people. I am not comparing, but although the inevitability of death is apparent from myriad of sources, but the euphoric reception given to Covid19, had made death and fear of dying a predominant volition that seem to be deeply embedded in everyone mind.
At the end of the day, death is the only thing that is CERTAIN in life.
But we can't be living for death, instead we have to live our lifes (no matter how short it maybe). We should stop thinking about "what if" and pursue "what should".
The GOD concept is the energy of this "existence", hence it is passive. There is no such thing as bad energy or good energy, energy is energy, but how the "existence" construct itself would determine the outcome.
Prayer, parigaram (penannce), spiritual pursuits are all but means to tap into this energy to harmonize it to oneself. Beyond that the energy radiates exponentially, without course, cause or conviction, only humans foolishly think that they can contain it.
Well those guys at CERN have done extensive work on the GOD particle, and have made much breakthrough in tapping into the energy field. Great, but even they know their limitations. But then again isn't that what humanity has done todate, to push the boundary of knowledge and experience as far as it's imagination and intelligence go.
We are alive today, we should celebrate our existence with purposeful pursuits. Let us not worry about the after life, let us make this life meaningful to us and to the people around us.
The pandemic had given us time and space to reflect, hope this experience have taught us how to be HUMAN again.
Ravi Varmman 160822082021
Subang Jaya
