How can our spiritual growth dismantle the power structures in today’s world that choke spiritual growth?

Anwser Podcast

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that’s an important question so how does the growth how does growing spiritually how can how can it help it dismantle how can that help dismantle the power systems the power structures that control society and that also prevent people from growing spiritually yeah valid question I’d say there are two parts to it there is you know there is cancer in the society cancer in the human body cancer basically is normal growth gone away normal growth in the body is harmonious different parts of the body all grow in a proportionate way but when there is cancer one part of the body grows disproportionate and then it erodes and destroys other parts of the system now often if cancer is to be cured one aspect of it is that whichever are the dangerous cells they have to be irradiated or removed surgically or whatever they have to be stopped and destroyed another aspect equally important is that the healthy growth has to begin healthy growth when one healthy cell starts growing in a proportionate way that leads to the healing of the body so similarly when we talk about power structure that are in place they are like cancer so the cancerous cells that are there they just grow disproportionately and they control the rest of the body like that there are power structures today we just choke everything choke whatever is not according to their agenda that is a sad reality at the same time we all are individuals and we have finite amount of influence and control so imagine that suddenly we are in a room and it grows dark suddenly the power goes off it’s completely dark we may yell or we may wail or we may complain or we may curse for a few seconds but then immediately after that we will reach for our flashlight maybe most of our cell phones have flashlights we will reach for the flashlight turn it on and then that flashlight it does not replace the room lights but the flashlight shows us our step forward we can see one step ahead one step ahead and there are 50 people in the room all of them turn on their flashlights the room can become significantly illumined so similarly there is darkness in society today but all of us can have our own flashlights we all are small we all can be small but significant agents of change if we illumine our own consciousness with spiritual knowledge then we become like the flashlights so just like if everybody is screaming or cursing or ranting and one person turns on the flashlight others oh I can also turn on my flashlight I can also turn on my flashlight so like that if one person becomes spiritual that one person’s spirituality radiates on to others and as it radiates it inspires others they also become spiritual there’s a number of people coming together when they illumine when they use the flashlight the room becomes substantially illumined like that the change has to become begin at the grassroots level now if we look at the big power structures that are there and then we we feel powerless what can I do against them and if we compare our situation individually against those power structures yes we may seem very powerless but at the same time we have the capacity in our situation to illumine ourselves spiritually Prabhupada the founder of the international society for Krishna consciousness he would say that there is no use of crying for world peace unless there is awakening of divine consciousness in the individual so all of us are individuals and all of us can spiritualize our consciousness and if we spiritualize our consciousness then that can inspire others and actually speaking you know we are not alone the whole understanding of spirituality is that we are not isolated lumps of matter just orbiting around in space we are parts of a whole and when we become spiritually conscious we become agents for a power greater than ours the compassion of the supreme consciousness that radiates through us that empowers us and we can also become agents for bringing about transformation which we might ourselves not conceive that we can do so rather than cursing the darkness we can focus on lighting our own flashlights we try to become spiritually conscious ourselves and we will set off a positive chain reaction how it will happen specifically we may not know right now but instead of cursing the darkness we turn on our flashlight and we will see that we can become agents for bringing small but significant positive changes okay thank you for your question are there any other questions