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Food For Peace

Observations, 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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