EWS #73 Questions from Viewers (16)  - Current World Situation - 2

July 03, 2021

Alina (0:00:42):
Namaste. We welcome you all to the continuing series, Evenings with Sraddhalu. My name is Alina Dinovich and together with Joel from Auroville. Namaste Joel.

[Joel] Namaste.

We will be the moderators for these evenings. Namaste Sraddhalu.

[Sraddhalu] Namaste.

We will continue answering questions received from our viewers, and we will be talking on the same topic, the current situation, and we will answer some of the questions from the last session on the same topic about vaccine, about the virus, and we will continue with further answers to our viewers. So, dear Sraddalu, if you don't mind, we would like to continue and answer some questions received from three, four people related with vaccine and the virus. I'm going to ask you the question and please, if you can give us some insight. So, first, Mira: if one is forced to get vaccinated due to travel restrictions, for example, what occult means do we have as Mothers' children to nullify the adverse effects of vaccine? On the same topic, Hemant writes, we were infected by corona and got better. the vaccine not knowing the consequences. What do we do now? Rupal, he's asking, now that we are vaccinated, what do we do? Shiva: Is human immune system strong enough to deal with both viruses and vaccines, if it is open to the spiritual flame or the spiritual sign or the psychic Agni. And I have one more friend from Ibiza Miran, and he's asking a question related to the genome. Since you mentioned that the vaccine or the virus can modify our genes. How are we going to keep a clean genome from now on if, for example, our future partners will be vaccinated or how we are going to deal with this in terms of long term from now on.

Sraddhalu (0:03:56):
Yes, we have had many questions subsequent to our discussion last time. A lot of people were concerned, understanding how seriously dangerous the vaccine could be. What can we do about it if we have taken it or what would be long-term implications in the human genome itself? And the problem with that is we don't really know. We don't know because something like this has never happened on such a scale in humanity. In the earliest attempts at vaccination, there is the event, I think it was just after the First World War, they had produced many vaccines and the vaccine technology was still in infancy. But the war ended and there are huge numbers of vaccines in stock. So the army said, well, let's use it on the soldiers who are going to come back home. This was from the United States and from the UK. And they just vaccinated the whole lot in one go. And as it turned out, soon after was one of the biggest outbreaks of a pandemic kind of behaviour, mostly around the people who had been vaccinated. So this is one of those very uncomfortable truths of that period, which medical science tends to avoid looking at. The correlation is extremely strong, although we may say there may not be causation, but correlation is very strong. But still, that was limited to a small group. This is the first time that we're having the entire human population brought into a mass vaccination program. And the means exist today, which didn't exist before, including the means for compelling people, to compel the minds of people. And the kinds of vaccines being used, mRNA vaccines, as well as the viral vector vaccines used on such a scale again is completely new. mRNA has never been used as a vaccine technology before. It was used for genetic modifications to correct certain types of genetic defects, for which it is very good because it changes the genetic behaviour even if it is through RNA. And the other one, viral vector, changes the genes. So they were very good for that purpose. But as vaccines, they've never been used on this scale and for something like this, for a virus of this kind. So the correct answer would be we don't really know the full implications. But if we apply our minds, if we look at similar situations which exist, perhaps on a smaller scale, if we look at the deeper occult roots of the viral action and the way the human system itself is formed on an occult level, we can get some hints of what might be. So at a very material level, when somebody says, oh I have taken a vaccine and perhaps it might not have been the best because as we have seen even very medically it is accepted that the vaccine contains sometimes mercury, formaldehyde, aluminium used to provoke the body to have a strong reaction - adjuvant, it's called. All of these entering the body have side effects. And the whole concept of vaccination is that the benefit of the vaccine will override the side effects of whatever else might happen. But still there is a connection between these heavy metals and certain nervous disorders. We do have in medical science methods by which heavy metals can be chelated, taken out of the body system and one can use such means for example and they have found that when used in certain cases where people had neurological disorders those symptoms have reduced because mercury tends to hit straight at the nervous system and if that mercury is removed, any heavy metals is removed, of course the body tends to heal itself. If you look at the body complex as a living system driven by life force and led by the idea of human body. So it is mind template, working through life force template, working through subtle physical down to the gross physical. All those higher levels may not necessarily be damaged.

Sraddhalu (0:08:35):
We spoke last time about the virus itself having a subtle physical or vital content, but it does not have a very strong content as it goes higher up. Because finally, it's still primarily a very low grade living thing, semi living even. Whereas in the human being the higher realms are far stronger. So to the extent that those realms push back, over time they can nudge down all the gradations and reach all the way to the most material and either expel that which the body does not want or heal or adapt or work around whatever disabilities might be there in the body. Again, I can give an example, when somebody has neurological damage, let's say in the brain, and the person becomes paralyzed. If the person stays passive and says, oh, I can't move my legs, well, after a while, the system just stays like that. There's no significant improvement. But if the person makes an effort that is with the mind, pushes the will, which pushes the life energy, which works through the nervous system, it starts rebuilding in the nervous system. It starts growing new nerve cells each time you make an effort. And if sustained long enough, if the person has the willpower and the sustained effort, eventually the nervous system regrows until gradually the leg starts being able to move a little bit and then more and more until eventually we have examples of people who have regained complete control, literally rebuilt that whole damaged part of the nervous system. So if this is possible, of course the nerves are more responsive, soft tissue more responsive, heavy metals are more difficult to expel, all that being taken into account. If you look at the overall framework of our being, the higher is always more powerful than the lower. The inner is always potentially more influential than the outer. Potentially, not always, sometimes the outer shell is too hard. But to the extent that we make the effort to open to the inner influence or the higher influence, its action becomes that much more easy, more direct and can make a change. So I'm looking at this purely from the life energy system and the spiritual potential.

There is of course the biological response one can do to flush the system, flush the body which will help on a purely physical level which perhaps the higher force may not have as much access to but the combination of such means potentially should make it possible for us to be able to get over whatever negative influences might have come into the system and how much of this is possible for the mass of humanity is questionable. How much is it possible for us who seek consciously to participate in an effort like this? Yes, it is possible. It's within your reach as you are. Less or more, but the moment you start, the help is there. You have to think of it this way. The higher realms, and I'm going to use it in a general term, it includes the divine Shakti, the divine Mother, beings of the higher realms, cosmic energies and powers, all of these are as if waiting, waiting to pour down, to help, to assist, to push in this evolutionary breakthrough. The problem from their side is what they see is a mass of a sleeping humanity. We are too busy, too lost in our day-to-day preoccupations and wanderings and little problems. Oh my, this little thing is broken. Oh, I have that financial problem. Oh, I'm feeling a little nauseous. We are too obsessed and fixated in our downward gaze. And so any help coming from above does not receive a receptive base and sometimes even gets a push or a revolt. If instead we turn consciously and open to that which is coming from above, it is waiting to pour down and work and act in us, of course, beginning with the parts where we open consciously. So it may not go all the way to the most physical where that receptivity might not be so great. But still, just the fact that that action can begin, it will have its eventual result.

I do believe, and this is one of the great things about Nature's habit, I do believe Nature has the capacity to overthrow any short-term damage. This is the reason why Nature is so protective of the past gains. I'm going to put this in a different way. One of the biggest problems in the sadhana is the inertia of the body. The body falls back. You stop exercising for 10 days and then it's as if you have to start all over again. You don't make an effort for a while and the body becomes more and more lethargic. If you try to change to a new habit, it works for a few days and then gradually the old habit creeps back and pulls you back. This inertia which comes from our physical nature to some extent in the vital and the mental but largely centred from the physical through these levels. This inertia is actually Nature trying to protect what she has achieved over a few million, let's say, million years. And if you look at it in this way, you understand her wisdom. She does not want that one whimsical fancy suddenly comes the way and shakes up what she has taken a few million years to build. So, she allows you a little bit of leeway with your fancifulness. And then she says, okay, but let's fall back to what is stable and known and secure. That's the rationale of this inertia. But that same inertia is basically a resilience to hold that which is good, that which is known, that which is safe and stable, in order precisely not to have some idiot hour destroy what centuries took to build. You may recall this line from Savitri. And so I do believe that even at a very genetic level, Nature will push back. To the extent we are conscious that pushback of Nature can act in us and even to some extent reverse genetic interventions or utilize it for some greater possibility to whatever extent nature is able to adapt but at least we can take it in this sense in a positive perspective and it's more helpful for us to look at it that way.

So to summarise, at a material level do what you can to flush your system, detox, chelate, there are many medical processes, Ayurvedic, just so that you feel better. Then psychologically, know that there is a greater power which can override any physical limitation. But you must aspire, invoke, receive, hold, contain, and give yourself to it, allow it to work in you. That effort is required from your side. And then we trust that nature herself has a capacity not only to act within us, but in humanity, but again needing conscious instruments for a more effective response. I think this would be a practical way to look at it from a spiritual perspective.

Alina (0:16:58):
Thank you very much, dear Sraddhalu, I think we should remember all our participants and viewers that they can read, they can read a whole article written by you. Maybe Joël can share the website link integralstudies.in/vaccines. So people could read the whole article and we are still inviting all viewers to address questions on this subject or on other topics by writing a question into the YouTube box or you can send a beforehand question on the email address integralstudies.in[at]gmail.com. We would also want to address another two questions, one from the Trivedi, where, where she's asking, since Mother received the Supramental force in the cellular mind, after silencing the physical mind, how will this vaccination create obstacles or blockage. in receiving this force, this supramental force? And can we visit the Samadhi and bow down without a mask? Another question from Quassy, it's more of a comment. There was a spiritual group on the social media where one person mentioned that her friend felt being disconnected from God, after taking the vaccine. And this person was heavily ridiculed in the comments. So, Sraddhalu illumine us on how we could deal with people, now they are pro and contrary to the vaccination, and we get ridiculed even by the fact, because we say we don't want to take the vaccine.

Sraddhalu (0:19:22):
Yes, both of these questions really deal with whether the vaccine can have an impact on our spiritual progress. In the first question, it is about the action of the Spiritual force in the body's cells. The second question is about a person who having got vaccinated felt it disconnected her from the Divine, connection, presence, awareness. Is that even possible? So I'm going to give you two perspectives here. First, which is the most important, which is the larger truth and it goes back to any other religious proscriptions where they say unless you stop this you will never reach the realisation of the Divine or the self. Well, if there is a physical object which can prevent the Self from manifesting, then that object would be greater than the Self, isn't it? Logically, there is nothing in the universe which is not essentially an expression of the Self and therefore nothing that can prevent the Self from manifesting or nothing that can prevent us from realising the Self. This is the greater truth. You must never forget this. Put it in other terms, if all is essentially an expression of the Self, to realise the Self and to live in it should be the easiest thing possible, logically. The only thing that prevents us is our habit of superficial appearances of the play of the Self, we are too much focussed on the foam, bubbles of water and forget the ocean of which the foam is a play. But all the time as we play with the foam we are playing with the ocean in a very specific superficial transitory appearance. Okay? So this we should be very clear. Nothing ever can prevent us. That is the fundamental reality of the universe and of ourselves. Nothing can come in the way essentially, except our own distraction.

Having said this, if your mind is, let's say, damaged, if somebody injects you with a chemical that makes you lose your focus, ability to hold attention, you will not be able to concentrate. You will not be able to turn your thoughts in a specific direction. You will not be able to follow a specific discipline of mind, which might lead you to the realisation of the Self, which might lead you to wake up from this hypnosis. Isn't it? So yes, physical things can interfere, can affect. But keeping in mind That is always more powerful, this can only be transitory and temporary. So the lady who spoke of, who had the experience that of having taken a vaccine, she felt disconnected from the Divine presence, yes, it's possible. Doesn't mean it will happen to everybody. But in her case, whatever vibration came in with that experience, and I don't think it may be only the vaccine, it may have to do with the whole experience of it. Something in her felt misaligned or it felt contrary and came in the way of a spontaneous free opening to the relationship that she had with the Divine. Knowing this, she can set right that imbalance and recover that relationship. Nothing of the physical process including the vaccine can ever come in the way of that experience. Okay? The only thing which might happen, let's say in the worst case, somebody falls sick, has a high fever and then it passes, which also has been happening to many. During the time of the fever, you may find yourself unable to focus or concentrate. But again, it's a passing thing. Recognize that no biological intervention, unless it fundamentally damages the body, no biological intervention can prevent your psychological conscious opening and awareness of the Divine. So, whatever may be the discomfort you have, whatever may be the disturbance, you can override it, change your situation and turn. And I will compare this to somebody who let's say has a certain habit of a practice, of a certain state of alignment within and a situation happens in life which seriously disrupts you emotionally. Again that will come in the way and prevent you from holding that spontaneous connection. But then you make an effort, calm yourself, step back, disengage from the disturbance and reconnect. That's in your hands.

Sraddhalu(0:24:32):

The other question is more about the action in the cells. Well, the cells themselves, if they are conscious, may experience an external, let's say, mixture, which may be contrary to their choice and such awakened cells might be able to spontaneously reject, push back or undo if they're conscious which is not the case for us. But to put it in the context of the Mother's work in the cells of the body, yes certainly an intervention at the level of the cells will affect them. If the cells are conscious or to the extent they are receptive, they can also push back and a whole complex play is possible. For most of us though that is still not part of our experience but this is just to understand. And the second part of the question he asked is whether we should be able to just go to the Samadhi and bow down without a mask. And the argument is that well here is a strong spiritual power it should be able to override the problems of any virus or infection and the fact is where people have that faith they're in fact able to get away with many non-medical lifestyles. You know, Sri Aurobindo makes an observation when he is asked about these microbes causing diseases, he says it's not so obvious that microbes are directly associated with it. He says there are people who live the most unsterile life, let's say, where you are constantly being exposed with all kinds of microbes and infected all the time perhaps. And yet they have a robust immunity. There are others who are all the time being finicky about wiping their hands and washing, sanitising and yet they fall ill at the slightest exposure. And perhaps that's why they fall ill at the slightest exposure. There's very interesting medical research which shows that little children who play in the sand,  in mud which is full of all kinds of microbes and all kinds of other creatures also, including fungi and others, they have a more robust immune system. So the advice subsequent to this research is allow your children to play bare feet, bare hands in mud in the garden because that's how they will build immunity.

So it's not a question of whether you're exposed to microbes which makes you ill. It is a question of how your system is formed, how robust is your immunity finally which matters. So we shift our focus now. Do not worry too much about that. Build your immunity. And yes, where people have that faith and that conviction, they just get away with it. If you go to many religious places where literally thousands of people come every day and touch the same shrine, imagine what huge quantity of microbial exchange takes place. And often putting your forehead, touching your hands, your face, nobody seems to fall ill from that event at least, isn't it? Why? Because they have that strong faith that here is a sacred space which is only giving them goodness. But if they were told, oh be careful here you're going to be exposed to so many microbes, start sanitising. Well, I'm sure that faith, that strong vital protection that they have because of the faith, will perhaps weaken and they might just end up having problems. Which has  been in fact the case. I have perhaps shared one earlier example in another discussion of a tribe in South America which used to live completely naked, they had no clothing, in a space which is so chilly cold it's snowing much of the time. And so when the first European missionaries came into that space, they couldn't live in that cold. They had to wear clothes and they told the tribe that you should not live bare-bodied, you will catch a cold, you will catch pneumonia, start putting on clothes. And they said, yes, yes, you're right, and they began to put on clothes and then they caught pneumonia and all of them died. The entire tribe was wiped out. Now you may say the missionaries brought the sickness but more than that they brought the psychological sickness, the doubt, the questioning, the vulnerability which came with it. And so our faith makes a huge difference here. Unfortunately, in a space like the Samadhi, it's a shared space, so you have to follow certain publicly acceptable protocols, especially when the environment is so full of fear and doubt. So this is just to understand the background. So it may be okay for some people, it may not be acceptable in a shared space, where many people are coming into the same area because of the current atmosphere of fear. Otherwise nobody would notice even, isn't it?

Alina (0:30:08):
Truly there's more about these mental suggestions that are like intruders into our mental awareness. So if there's more questions on these topics we still invite viewers to address them in the chat box. And for the moment, we will continue on other comments and questions received. We have a letter from Javed, where he's saying, I'm curious to learn about the roles, the gene editing, genetically engineered organisms, transhumanism, cyborg-ification, neural link systems, biological interfaces between humans and computer systems, as well as artificial superintelligence. What influence does it have in the development of our species. And then Navaja was writing another question. It's a different topic, but maybe we can cover this also, about what's the trend towards a cashless society nowadays. There's a big fashion of an emergence of bitcoins and many cryptocurrencies nowadays. Does not the decentralised premise of bitcoin versus other coins lend ownership of money to all people at large and empower them in the world? Control will finally be in an individual's hands, not subject to corrupt systems. So I know myself many people who are into this new business, releasing currencies and all this kind of bitcoins that we have a question on whether this is a good trend or it's going to affect society at one point. I'm very curious as well.

Sraddhalu (0:32:38):
In fact, both questions deal with a kind of a cutting edge of technology which is so new that humanity has no idea where it might lead. The frontier of our conception is largely in science fiction where we have looked at these possibilities and their extremes of good and bad potential and particularly the misuse. But the question is about their place in the spiritual development of the species. If you look at the overall trend in evolution going through levels of consciousness and we have come into the best possibilities of the intellect at least the human mental intellect as it is currently, it can still grow much more, but as a species generally we have come to a pretty high level inevitably with such a mental development will come the equivalent power to be organised in matter. So when we developed a great vitality, we acquired a power to bring vitality into matter, to whatever extent the vitality could. But when we come to this possibility of mental ingenuity, the word Sri Aurobindo uses, we are able to organise in matter similar behaviour as our own mental capacity and this is a kind of a significant shift in evolution itself in describing the future trend of evolution beyond the mind, towards the mind of light. Sri Aurobindo makes this observation that as the mind comes into its own and that's the state we are in now, evolution itself will evolve. It's a fascinating idea that the role of knowledge in evolution now will be enormously increased. Now the implications, he puts it in very generic terms but all these questions are really pointed to by that. As human knowledge grows to a point where it is able to engage with the evolutionary process of nature itself, that knowledge will now play a part in nature's evolution.

Or to view it differently, and this comes from one of the letters a sadhaka writes to Sri Aurobindo, he says, I think Nature is now using the human mind to help in her own evolution and Sri Aurobindo says, yes, it is so. The idea being, who gave you the intelligence? Nature. Who taught you to understand the genetics? well, Nature. Who gave you the insight and the intelligence to create artificial intelligence, Nature. She is working through our collective species impulse drive to form these things. A very good example to justify this is when you look back in history, there were 2000 years ago toys made of steam. So they would put steam in a little bowl with two pipes and the steam would come out and the bowl would turn. That's your basic steam engine. The technology, the capability existed 2000 years ago. But at that time, and let's look at the context of the Roman Empire in Europe, the slave was cheaper than your steam engine, isn't it? So the toy made was like a curiosity. Oh here's something some crazy people are playing with which would be the equivalent of scientists of today. Oh they're having fun doing something crazy, turn away. Until the Romans realised, oh the Greeks have this fellow called Archimedes and he's been able to redirect the solar light in a way that he can burn ships from a mile away. Ah! That's useful technology. You see, that cannot be replaced by slaves. But the steam engine is not needed when you have slaves and horses. So the thinking was still at a level which was too crude, too material, unable to see beyond to a higher possibility and it was premature. Although the means existed, the mind did not turn in that direction. Today, not only the means are being discovered, but the mind wants to go beyond these means and find newer and newer ways because nature is pushing the human mind. So, recognizing this, all these discoveries, all these inventions can play a great role, are intended to play a great role in the future of humanity because nature wants us to develop this knowledge and use it for our well-being, for our growth and evolution.

So the question really is, how far will it have a value in the spiritual development of the species? Its value will be first to show us that we are not just biology. We are not just a piece of matter. These technologies compel us to realise that we are more than that. Second, as these technologies proceed, the use of the technologies compels us to develop higher values. Not only a higher morality and ethics, but a higher mental self-control. I give an example here. We have today the capability, the technology is currently used, where a little device can be put in a helmet on your head. It can monitor your brainwaves and recognize what your intent of mind, intent of thought is, to a point where even words can be enunciated. So you can in your mind enunciate words and the thing will type it out. But that's not so interesting. What is more interesting is the intent of your mind to turn left, to turn right, to speed up, to slow down. So when this helmet is put on a fighter pilot's head, he's in his plane that is moving so fast that his hands are made heavier, because of the huge acceleration, he cannot move his hands easily but he can move his mind. And so he can actually control the plane by intending it to turn right, turn left, go faster, slower. Now here comes a very fine line. If you allow this melding of mind and machine to be completed, that's the neural link, it reaches a point where the machine becomes literally an extension of your own body, the way you move your body and your hands. When you decide to run, you don't think I will put my left leg forward then my right leg. You just intend to run and the body follows. Now if this degree of plugging in can be done in the fighter plane, you intend to turn and the plane turns. You intend to speed up and it speeds up. Literally the plane becomes like a spontaneous expression of your body. It's an extension of your physical body. This is doable. It is being done. Only it's very expensive or at least kept artificially at an expensive level. The technology can be replicated at home if you have the means. But this forces you now to develop your power of thought to a degree of self-control that you don't fantasise about turning left when you want to turn right, isn't it? To be able to think what you want to think or to be able to not think when you choose to not think. That kind of mental self-control will be necessary to operate a machine like this. Interesting idea. It also forces us to look beyond our current narrow sensory band. So through transhumanism, plugging in of technology to enhance our sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell or whatever, we begin to perceive the universe on a deeper and larger level. Our current sight for example is such a narrow bandwidth of frequencies. You look at the night sky and you only see little blinking stars. That's about all. If you could see in the full spectrum, you would see, let's say a billion different colours including all the range of X-rays in the full electromagnetic wave spectrum. You would see all those billions of colours but you would see the entire night sky lit up bright intense flowing play of energies. That's the way the Divine experiences the universe, even a physical universe. But our sight is so narrow, we see only this little bit.

Sraddhalu (0:41:50):
But with the enhancements possible, we can actually begin to recognize, oh, the universe is actually different. This is happening indirectly, through cinema and through microscopes and telescopes, we are being shown a speeded up version of a flower growing. You've all seen things like this. You see the flower from the bud growing up and literally like a human being coming out and blooming and then fading. That whole movement you see in a few seconds and you realise what the life force actually is like when you see that animated movement. But the same thing if you see with your normal human mind and sense of time, you will see every day one tiny change, you won't realise the effort of the life force. So yes, it can help in our spiritual development by awakening us to the underlying reality, to perceive it more and more directly. But finally it all comes to one thing. And Sri Aurobindo describes this in his signs of that the spiritual age is impending and he puts it in these terms - the gap between the physical world and the subtle worlds will become thinner and thinner because of the technologies and the means being used for this and the perception of influence from the subtle world to the physical world will become more and more visible. We have a whole lot of experiments being done in some of the advanced labs where the influence of mind, emotions, intention on other human beings, animals, objects, even metals, plants of course, are being measured, are being quantified and we are being shown yes, it happens, it works. And of course on our own biology. I've mentioned before the experiment with healing where somebody directed an energy through a Skype call affecting living cells right here and it was visible immediately that the cells began to grow because of that influx of energy. We are able to see this through such means and this helps us now to thin the barrier between the most material and the higher ranges, opening the way to the recognition of a still higher spiritual possibility. This is as regards to Javed's questions. I think it's a broad enough response.

Now, just questions about cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and other decentralised currencies. It's very important to view in the context of the current trend towards global unification and Nature's purpose there. So I'm going to take a step back because Sri Aurobindo covers this idea across like five or six chapters in his Ideal Of Human Unity where he describes how in the formation first of a nation let's say, and the same principle will apply in the formation of a global identity; In the formation of a nation, the instinct to protect militarily or to expand militarily becomes the reason for centralization and for common man to accept centralisation. Subsequently, as that becomes accepted or even forms a unit for common purpose of defence or expansion, it grows to extending administrative and organisational; other systems of law, order, governance, they follow later. So, the freedom for the group to now choose its own laws and its own system of governance comes later. And Sri Aurobindo explains this, in the logic of mind, if you were to form a group, to choose how you will govern yourself should come first, and then the military unit form will come later. But he says that's not how human beings evolve. We don't do things because it makes sense. We do things because we are compelled. So the first impulse is a subconscious impulse, pushing you to accept by compulsion without you realising. And only when that has come through it, something rises into the mind. The mind starts waking up and starts thinking, okay, what do I do about it? So he says this is the logic of life. Logic of life is bottom up. Logic of mind may be top down, but right now it's logic of life that is leading.

Sraddhalu (0:46:28):

What happens next? Once the centralization has been sufficiently done, then there's a centralization of the legal system, comes eventually the centralization of the finances. And he puts it like this - that the authority of a king is most asserted when it can decide how much taxes people pay or how it will use the finances. If the people have the power to choose then the authority of the king is not yet complete. So this financial centralization is critical for the centralised authority to be able to come into its own entirely. Now this may be good for the formation of a nation but when it comes to the scale of the formation of the humanity as a whole, then the world state controlling finances will be destructive to freedom and to the future spiritual potential of human evolution. And so, the wealth, use of money, taxation systems, etc. should never be allowed to be totally centralised. And that is where cryptocurrencies are going to play, are playing already a significant role.

I am going to compare these three things. First remember it was the military centralization and administrative centralization, then the law and the choice of legal systems, and then the financial consolidation. Look at the appearance of the Internet in humanity. It is providing the first framework. It allows us to administer or communicate or look after ourselves, be free of centralised administration in a peer level administration. So that first step has been given. This allows us to be free of any centralised administration if we choose to. Of course, we can hand over power and then regret having done it. That also is happening in large parts. But this is first step. Second is of the laws and cultural mores. What is valuable for us? How do we live? What will be the values by which we will live? That kind of self-governance has not yet organised itself. Or maybe we can say it's trying through many groups and subgroups. The third will be the financial of which the cryptocurrency is providing like an underlying base. Here is a possibility, here is one way to do it. It's not the only way. We might still fall back to a very simple barter-like system, exchanging things, but it has inconveniences because it's very difficult to value things, especially across distances. So, cryptocurrencies are here to stay. They will never go down. What role they will play, to what extent they can be made commonly accessible in day-to-day transactions is doubtful, at least in the way they are currently. But for large transactions and for certain critical kinds of transactions where we do not want centralised intervention or we want freedom from centralised control, well, they offer us the means. So I think there's more to say about cryptocurrencies, but it will get into a bit of a technical discussion. This should be enough to understand, at least from the context of our human evolution and spiritual evolution and the danger of the world state, as Sri Aurobindo pointed out.

Alina (0:50:25):
Thank you very much, Sraddhalu. Maybe we will have one full topic on the money system and how it's working, because there's a lot to say for sure. Further, we would like to continue and ask some questions from Kamal, who is asking to shed some light on the tension in between China and India. In the same category of political question, Unibas is writing, are the left liberals in India a threat to growing Indic resurgence? From an anonymous viewer: if you could speak about Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the critical race theory and the sudden outburst of transgender, all being at least in the United States very permanent topics.

Sraddhalu (0:51:34):

I think these are all very sensitive themes and of course political questions will always have controversial multi-sided things. We cannot make a general commitment. But what I want to put is view these things in context of evolution and especially in the current transition. So this present transition has two major things happening. First, the tendency for the world unity to form which is largely going into the unhealthy direction of a world state when in fact it should be a federation of nations, let's say, free nations. But presently it's heading in that direction. And the second thing happening is we are also transitioning from the age of reason through the age, through the subjective age. The subjectivism of our own subjective values are more important than even reason and are not yet sufficiently spiritually clear. So one can lose oneself in the subjectivism. These two things are happening at the same time and the two have a very interesting influence between each other. And so some of these questions really are best understood with this background. So the question of China in relation to India is not just about two nations having a military struggle on a border. It's about two very different values. I'm not going to say China purely in terms of its civilizational value which is highly rational, highly refined and has its own spiritual foundations. There, there is no real conflict between India and China. But what is happening today in China is not that, but the Communist party state which is imposing itself on a people, actually preventing its own higher rational as well as spiritual evolution. Because it wants to control and dominate.

So what is happening in China, you have to see as a miniature model of the world state. With all the dangers, all the perils, Sri Aurobindo uses, the perils of the world state, present right there in that experiment in that model. Sri Aurobindo makes some fascinating observations. He says for example the whole problem of unifying multiple nations under a common framework, it's been attempted everywhere in the region of the Great Britain as it's called. It's obvious that nature was using that as a prototype for working out on the rest of the world. Now, this is his observation and he points this out in other areas also. Certain types of problems were being dealt with in certain spaces by Nature. Once achieved there, she can then extend it into humanity. Well, if you look at it from that point of view, the ideal of the world state dominating humanity in one centralised machine is being attempted or most effectively organised today in China and nowhere else on earth, nowhere else to this extent. The scale of it, first, such a large number of humanity, I would say almost one-fifth of humanity is held by this overarching system. The system itself, using the most advanced technologies of artificial intelligence and tracking systems, makes it that you have cameras literally everywhere, at least in the cities, which can monitor in a single gaze of one camera every single person through face recognition. And so at least potentially at the level of the artificial intelligence, you can track a person's journey through the whole day. Where they go, what they do, how long they spend. And with artificial intelligence, you can easily detect deviations from normal behaviour. The potential of this is extraordinary. You can easily identify people who are by their type, first of all. Those who live mechanically, who are obedient, who will just follow the orders given. Those who are troublemakers, who will question, who will deny, who will refuse, revolt. You can identify them just by observing their behaviour. And I will add to that, tracking of social media - what you're putting up, statements you make, what you like, what you dislike. You know, every time you have something on the screen where it says, was this useful for you? And you say, yes. Did you like this? Yes. You are telling the system who you are. And the AI now is creating a profile and now knows what to do with you. And this is being done on this huge scale. Combine this now, there are controls. If you don't have enough social points, you are denied certain rights. You can't take a flight if you don't have a certain number of social points. You can't move from one city to another without social points. Do you know that it is exactly what's being done today through all these lockdowns on the rest of the world? And the proposal to put the lockdown controls through social points is also already there. It's being discussed openly. So China has been a very effective model for the world state to implement now and it's being done rapidly.

Sraddhalu (0:57:23):

So the conflict between India and China is not just a conflict between two nations and military interests or economic interests or political differences. values where India represents unity in diversity. The possibility that literally every state in India could be like an entire country in Europe not only in population but in variation of type, of language, of culture, of values, of dress code, of food, of anything, even psychological types. So India literally as a whole represents the unification of the world and the future potential of this world union with full freedom and diversity without the monotone of uniformity. That is what India represents and there is China with the world state. The collision between these two is the collision between the future free world and the future world state dominating, suppressing evolution. That's what this conflict represents. So now think about what that means. Now think about what happens when these two collide. Okay, on the Himalayan ranges on a military level or in the rest of the world on an economic level or even in other interests with political differences. Yet if you went back to the underlying culture of China, India and China would have been the greatest of friends if not for this world state model of the Communist Party with its full control over information, free speech and so on as planned for the world state. It's all already done there. Perfect model. So, there's another observation Sri Aurobindo makes. These are things which someday I hope to discuss in greater detail when we will study, perhaps someday, The Ideal of Human Unity or The Human Cycle going in depth. Because I don't unfortunately remember the words exactly, but Sri Aurobindo uses a phrasing where he discusses how nations meeting each other, he uses a phrasing as if they are conscious beings taking up a specific form of action, because this is a reality on the higher worlds. He explains this whole concept in India of Manu. You see the Manu is the one who gives the values to the society and the western interpreters viewed that to mean there was actually a man born who gave like Moses gave the law to the Hebrews. No, it's not that. The Manu represents the mental being and the type of a group and the Manu he explains is not in the physical level but in the subtle worlds where the mental type of a nation or a people is held by this conscious being. So when in India there is the Manu and then there is the China and the Manu of China and the two collide on the occult worlds, well you see the collision in the collision in physical events.

Sraddhalu (1:00:56):

So to really understand what is happening in the world and I think this will be the question we will see last today also. We have to understand the occult reality behind and the actions of these collective beings or the beings who represent the collective consciousness of the nations and their relationship and their past history and their current actions and their future intentions and that's the only way you really understand what's happening in the world. But I think this is a broad enough response to put in context, the place of China and India conflict from a spiritual point of view. The other question was about the left liberals in India as a threat to growing Indic resurgence. Again, I'll put it from an evolutionary point of view. Why did communism take such strong roots in India. When Soviet Union collapsed, pretty much everywhere in the world, even China discarded communism, only kept it in name, became the most capitalist country. And yet in India you will still find two states, Bengal and Kerala, which live, breathe, swear by communism, and call themselves Marxist Leninists. Still people who are named Marx and Lenin by their parents because of something. You look back at what that represent at that time. Let's go back, let's say 40 or 50 years ago. The communists represented the rational thinking shorn of religious confusion rejecting any sentimentality or vagueness or mixed values that came with a lot of the religious baggage. Clean, clear, rational, live by your thought, become independent, live by what you think, what you feel, what is right for you. And so a lot of the social movements were driven by these groups. And for those who wanted to play the full scope of the power of the intellect, these were the only spaces where you could have this kind of a free intellectual logical discourse. That was the benefit of it. The ideology that came and the political ideology came with a lot of its own baggage which was totally irrational and although brought in a domain of rational thinking, it became Marx says so, so it must be true and even though you see the evidence that it doesn't work still he says it so it must be true. So that ideology actually warped what was otherwise a very positive thing in that group. What you see today is using the communist Marxist values for a very different purpose.

And I will link it to the question which comes after about what's happening with Antifa, Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, transgender, etc. And all these we can understand when we recognize we are passing through a subjective phase, where it is very easy to slant a group of people into thinking what subjectively to them feels right and warp that thinking in a way that it causes them to enter in conflict with the rest of society or with another group in society. So unfortunately what is happening in a lot of these schools where it may seem as if the intention is good we are going to be more accepting of all races. So you're suddenly taught and I have seen actually a video of one of these young boys who says, all these days I had my friends of all kinds of skin colour and racial and ethnical backgrounds. It never bothered me. They were my friends and now suddenly somebody comes and gives us a lecture and says all these groups and mentions all the ethnic groups by name. They are important, you should care for them, you should give them more benefits, but at the expense of the white race and even blaming the white race for all the problems. And it became like a perversion of the truth. So sometimes one may start with a good intention, but end up with distorting completely.

It's a similar thing which happened with women's empowerment. Yes, of course, there has been a long period where women were not allowed to participate and there were sometimes social and military reasons for it. Now that humanity has evolved to a point where those reasons are no more valid, one can say yes, of course, everybody should have equal space to explore their possibilities of growth. And the only thing holding back is sometimes traditions. And as I said, many of these traditions are also holding something which might be precious, but the way they hold it often suffocates other parts, other truths. So yes, women had to have that freedom and when the time came, people said, oh yes, of course. You'll find very few, very few people who will say, no, women should not be free. And those people have no place. Nobody in society shares that kind of thinking. They're just a kind of an extreme and very small in number. But you can pick on those two or three, highlight them and say, see, that is the male domination of women and make a big deal about it. And I saw this happening in some of the conferences I went to, where people came and began to bring this very insidious agenda, which was making women turn and hate men and making men feel embarrassed, ashamed, confused even about their masculinity. Rather than helping the emergence of a healthy masculinity and a healthy femininity, they were doing something which was creating a huge mesh. A mishmash, a mess, conflict, division and people came out of that now suddenly looking at the other as a problem or an enemy or a difference or a conflict and unfortunately you can say perhaps this is intentional for a few people it have or you could say it's just a immaturity and application whatever the cause it's possible because we are passing through a subjective phase, where people actually accept what I feel is more important that what others think or what is reasonable or rational even because we are passing in that phase you can have all these groups formed and then get them to fight each other.

Sraddhalu (1:07:36):

Again critical race theories is an attempt to review history in a way that begins to divide people more and more. We've seen that so much in India, unfortunately, sometimes with the best of intentions. When, for example, reservations were created in the Constitution, the rule set was only 20 years. It just needs one generation to get a group of people who have been underprivileged to come back to have the same privileges. But subsequently, it became a political agenda to divide humanity or the Indian people into vote banks and play one bank against each other. So there's a perverse agenda sometimes which takes over what might be a genuine social goal. So I think this is where we are at with many of these problems. If we understand it in this way, we also know what to do to correct for it. Mother's example and I'll give this as an example regarding the difference between men and women. She said very simply to the children, stop thinking whether you're a man or a woman, try to be a human being first. Okay, you're a student, try to be a human being first. And then later whatever is your particular swabhava, temperament, swadharma, your truth of life, truth of action, you will flow, you will find, and it may be unique to each. You do not need to create artificial divisions. I was in a conference where somebody very senior, who actually is in the media at a level where she can influence the whole policy of India's largest newspapers, she was quoting from an article from the United States saying, oh, do you know now they have found, sociologists have found there are 36 genders. And she was overawed by this idea. And I began to laugh. So somebody who was next to me got upset and said, “what? You don't think someone can self-identify with”? I said, it's not about that. It's why do you have to create false slots and fit people into those slots? Why not just let every human being be what they want to be or what they are? I'll even say don't try to be something, don't try to self-identify with something you are not, be yourself. And if you begin to look at it in this way, much of this confusion that comes from these movements can just be eliminated. The goal should be simply this, every human being is a soul in evolution, following a unique path of your line of development, and you should be free to pursue and fulfil your growth according to your need, without of course colliding with other people's freedom and line of growth. And then all these problems would just fade away, if it was seen in this way. But there are interests, and they have their own agendas.

Alina (1:10:30):
Maybe Sraddhalu, in a further session we can continue this talk on the political agenda behind vaccination. We have some questions also from our viewers and what is happening on a deeper occult world. Rupal is asking, what sadhana can we do to protect ourselves and the motherland? Please talk about the ways on how to surrender to the Mother in these current times. Maybe this could be a nice question to answer and to end with?

Sraddhalu (1:11:14):
Yes. Yes. You know, there is behind the scenes a great battle that is waging. In the subtler worlds, as we go higher up the planes of consciousness, the things are often seen more in symbolic forms. What happens in the physical world is often a reflection of what happens there. If a battle is won in the mental plane, it begins to change how people think, which changes how they feel, which changes how they act and eventually comes all the way to the material world in an outcome which is inevitable once it is achieved there. If it is achieved on a spiritual level nothing can prevent it. Only time can delay but not prevent. You will remember when Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were working for India's freedom, this was in 1920, Mother describes how Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were seated in deep concentration. The Mother was working on the spiritual planes where this struggle to free India was on. And then it was done. It was achieved. And Mother said, India is free. She didn't say will be - is free, it's done. And what's done there is inevitable. Sri Aurobindo asks, What happened? Was there much bloodshed? This was their concern that it should not involve too much destruction. Mother says, No. They went as they came. And she explained later that the world situation changed to such an extent that they could not continue. The British had to leave. Now, this is, remember 1920. You could not have thought of the British leaving. But it was achieved on that level. From there, it took 27 years to reach the material. In fact, there were many opportunities where that potential even almost realised itself. 1922, just two years later, the British actually came to the negotiating table and said, okay, let's talk freedom. Unfortunately, at that time, some of our leaders diverted the whole movement into what became the Khilafat claim and lost what would have been the ideal opportunity. Having lost that, it took another 25 years and with it came also partition. So an action there, yes, led to freedom that was inevitable, but the forms of it can be warped in the steps, in the gradations in between, that depends on us because we are the vehicles, we are the instruments through which that potential has to act. So to this question, what is happening in the deeper occult world, it is a huge battle. Whatever we have discussed you will see involves two very different value systems colliding. The free humanity, spiritually free also and a conditioned, controlled, dominated, subjugated humanity under a world state. And the forces which are aligned to these two possibilities are of course in a huge collision and battle.

Sraddhalu (1:14:56):

What can we do to protect ourselves and the motherland, she has asked in the question. Well, first become conscious. And I will say become conscious of your sense of purpose. Why are you here? Why are you on earth? What is for you the most important thing right now and for your life? Or things maybe, doesn't matter, and maybe they'll change. But find out, at least become conscious of what is most important now. And sometimes you'll realise what is most important is not in terms of forms, but in terms of a certain value or an experience or a relationship, something almost intangible. You may feel and sometimes you don't have words to express, the single most important thing is this, my relationship with the Divine Mother. That's it. Become conscious first. And when you feel, when you become conscious, hold. And then bit by bit, put all else in relation to this. And it will happen of its own. If you hold this over days, weeks, you'll find things which are important, now in relation to this, become less important. Other things which were less important, now in relation to this, become more important. All your value systems will gradually begin to change. It will happen of itself. You will not have to do it mentally. You will just feel, oh I don't feel this so interesting anymore. Oh now this is so much more valuable. It'll just happen. See the nature of the sadhana when done correctly from the core outward is in fact a very spontaneous, joyous, smooth sunlit path.
Become conscious of your central, deepest value, purpose, felt or just your relationship with the Divine Mother. Hold that and allow all else to be now referred in relation to this. And just watch and you will be helped. To protect yourself is one aspect, but much more to be a conscious instrument for the right action is the second aspect. You see, protection is still a negative thing. There's also positive action which you have to do. And that also will flow from this spontaneously. When you hold that which is most valuable for you, you don't have to do something. You will spontaneously act by that value. I'll give an example. If you were walking on the road, lost in a priority of some work that you had to do to present something and to impress somebody and you have a time bound limit. As you're walking, somebody next to you falls, you barely notice or you see others rushing, you get on with your priority. When you're centred in yourself, in the value of your truth, deepest to whatever extent. As you walk someone before you falls, you will not think a moment, you will immediately go to help. Isn't it? You don't have to do something. What you are flows spontaneously into action. When something is wrong, you will feel it wrong and you will just say, no, it doesn't feel right. When something is right, even if things are against you, you'll say no this feels right and you'll flow. So when you hold your centre, not only that forms the base which is a spontaneous protection, but action also flows spontaneously. The questioner also mentions protect ourselves and motherland. View your motherland as the physical embodiment of the Divine Mother in the world. Mother India is an emanation, is an aspect of the Divine Mother. Her role in the comity of nations, to use Sri Aurobindo's phrase, is as a mother. To bring all her children together and unite them in one spiritual family. The Mother said, India is awake and conscious of her mission in the world, but she is awaiting the external means of manifestation. Not enough of her children who are awake enough to become instruments to serve her.

So you see what the Mother did in the working of the ashram - school, children, their training. She herself drew the united map of India in a state of deep trance, as if fixing on an occult spiritual level the boundaries and the protection and the form manifesting, incarnating, fixing in matter this boundary, this shape of united India, the spiritual map of India. With a symbol placed in representing the Divine Shakti manifesting in her four aspects and twelve powers, the most complete manifestation. She sat herself in front of the map during the meditation, stood herself incarnating the Shakti of Mother India to take the salute of all the children as they marched past in front of her, holding the Divine Mother, Mother India and the Mother here in one single embodiment in front of this map. You see, she did not put the unified map of India in the ashram main building, in her room, near the Samadhi, in some meditation room. She drew it, established it and held that power in the playground where the young bodies of the young children were working, playing, exercising, building their strength to make the body conscious in consecration to Mother India, Divine Mother. So you may view Mother India as incarnation of the Divine Mother or you can view Divine Mother incarnating as Mother India, whichever is easier for you, but serve the Mother, serve the divine Shakti with this deep union within you of your love for her and your joyous self-giving to her. This will be your way forward. I have not used the word surrender anywhere love and give yourself in love the rest will happen.

Alina (1:22:29):
Thank you dear Sraddhalu for closing with such a beautiful light on an inner aspiration that we should always follow.

Sraddhalu (1:22:50):

Shall we take a moment to concentrate again? Yes, it'll be a nice thing to hold ourselves in. All of us wherever we are now around the world, hold this aspiration to open ourselves to the Divine Mother in love. That, that may be the centre around which all activities of our life may find their true value and that the Divine Mother may gather together all her children and bring the world together as one united spiritual family.

Thank you all.

Alina (1:23:21):
Thank you.