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Food For PeaceObservations, Reflections and Sermon of a City-Preacher
1. Observations: Day after day and life after life we are oscillating between happiness and distress, victory and defeat, loss and gain, tossing like driftwood In this ocean of material existence, meeting each other and again separating, only to possibly never meet again in future lives, but here and now: ill-conceiving ourselves to be parents or children, boys and girls, black or white, Germans, Americans, Catholics, Protestants, or whatever, capitalists, socialists, enemies or friends: Spirit souls, Shipwrecked in matter, Strangers in the night.
Blinded and harassed by dreams of a better life to come we are only arriving, exhausted from battle at tile station of old age, whew reminiscing ceaselessly the so-called glorious past may impress children but will yield no profit in time to come.
The rest is only the finishing touch: The curtain falls ending another chapter of the same old story, entitled: "Joe Soaps fall from the spiritual world, his pathetic efforts to enjoy matter (against the advice of the doctor) while being sick of the same, causing self-imposed perpetuence of a disease whose symptoms are the regular appearance of birth, old age, disease and death."
2. Reflections: It is so very sad that no amount of tears and material frustrations seem to break one's materialistic heart, which, instead of being prepared to be the very beautiful asana (seat) for God has grown to be a dump of sinful desires - the bitter fruit of an existence without value !
Why does man prefer to live a life in squalor, tied up in beastly pursuits, only: to make a mess of himself and of this planet which intelligently with all his big science he has turned into a hell-hole.
Is it hard to understand: That we are all eternal spirits, confined to matter, the fallen sons of God, able to function only when connected with Him, just as the limbs of the body will be useful only when connected to the trunk, and severed will only wither away and finally die?
3. Sermon (to a nervous audience, there are shouts of protest and discontent): "Unless the soul is seen in all creatures we simply cannot live in harmony with nature nor understand the words of Jesus: "What you have done unto the least of my brethren you have done unto Me..." With the blood of our brothers on our hands, and their meat in our guts realization of one's existence beyond matter is simply not possible: - the soul is lost! It says in the Bible: "I will not listen! Your hands are full of blood!" (Isaiah, 1:15,16) Then, spiritual life, confined to lip-service on Sunday can do nothing to change the heart of man, except elicit pavlonian responses - the vain prayers of a bored-to-death consumer audience. For God's sake! Chant Hare Krishna!!!"
- Prithu das Adhikary -
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