As long as the world exists, there would be change and struggle. Man has to meet this challenge by constant adaptation and adjustment with respect to the externally changing world. Animals and trees have a knack of adapting to the changing environment and surviving.
When you do not find peace and harmony in this world, you think that there is something wrong with the world – and you think that the world needs correction. People have been trying to correct the world from times immemorial with little success. Swami Vivekananda says that it is like trying to straighten the curved tail of a dog. You may straighten it but as soon as your hands leave the tail, it becomes curved again.
The solution to this problem lies in improving, not the world, but yourself. You can find peace and harmony by purifying your inner personality. When you purify yourself, you will find the world becomes purified also. The world is a reflection of your thoughts – and if your thoughts are good, the world is good.
Life is a motion and activity (energy). A dead creature cannot move – it has no energy. The Evolution is marked by the struggle for existence – which is activity. When there is no effort and exertion, there is degradation and death.
There is always some evil and some good in every person. Evil is not the invention of the modern times. Evil and good coexisted right from the beginning of creation. And evil and good are always in conflict. All stories, in any language and in any period in history, portray this conflict between evil and good. In all these stories, you would have noticed that good always wins in the end. Otherwise who would be interested in good? If the good is allowed to be wiped out by the evil, the world will come to a bad end; a very bad end indeed.
The next thought is about “Your outer body”
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