The night after a quake, the stars still shine in the sky… the beauty of life Gita 18.35

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Hare Krishna the night after a quake the stars still shine in the sky don’t let the misery of your life blind you to the beauty of life in our life disasters, calamities, catastrophes can befall us and when these happen, when our whole world comes crashing down how can we cure it, how can we recover from it, how can we possibly go on with our life one way is to look beyond our life if a devastating earthquake occurs then our whole village, town or city may be in ruins and if it is a night when a quake has occurred or after that quake ends if someone looks at the sky then in the sky we still see the stars shining and the sublime beauty to the stars in the sky a beauty that is not affected by the ghastly things happening on the earth similarly our world becomes crashing down but still the world remains and the world if you look at the big picture has a ethereal beauty to it and to the extent we can see beyond our world to the world to that extent we can avoid getting blinded by our problems yes our life has misery and there is no denying it but life is not all misery there is beauty to life and there is ultimate beauty beyond the misery of this life and this world the Bhagavad Gita reveals a grand vision to all of us wherein we see that we are all souls beyond our destructible bodies we are indestructible souls and beyond the distress that afflicts us at the bodily level hope springs eternal at the spiritual level and not only does hope spring eternal but along with hope there is opportunity the more we raise our consciousness to the spiritual level the more we can find strength even amid distress the more we can find God’s healing presence even amid the world’s hurting influence to not let our vision get locked in the world is the key to transcendence if we let our vision get locked in our problems that is ignorance the Bhagavad Gita cautions in 1835 that to keep worrying fearing, lamenting, being morose, all this signifies ignorance when the world threatens to subsume us in ignorance it is it behooves us to take shelter of the Gita’s wisdom and raise our consciousness towards transcendence by looking at the stars shining in the sky, by remembering that God still loves us that our soul is still indestructible and the opportunity for spiritual evolution still remains for us we can keep moving forward in our life thank you