Technological Advancement Without Spiritual Advancement Makes Us Powerfully Powerless Gita 16.12
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without technological advancement without spiritual advancement makes us powerfully powerless normally being powerless and being powerful are opposite states but if someone has a power they can’t control say someone has an automatic gun whose trigger has become activated and they can’t deactivate it then they are powerfully powerless we all may find ourselves in a similar predicament how? because of a combination of technological advancement and no spiritual advancement technology has today given us access to significant external power far greater than what even royalty had a few decades a few centuries ago by just a few clicks we can summon information from any part of the world even without getting out from their beds people can in a few hours expose themselves to more obscenity than what the wealthiest obscenity collectors from the past could have access to over their entire lifetimes and though they have the power to contaminate their minds thus they don’t have the power to free their minds free themselves of the resulting addictions thus they are powerfully powerless cautioning as the Bhagavata says that our desires can shackle us 16.12 says that so why do we lose our inner power we understood how we gained outer power through technology but how have we lost inner power because today’s materialistic culture and materialistic education have made us increasingly alienated from our spiritual essence which is the source of the deepest inner power we all may have some ill will power but far more empowering is the spiritual power that we access when we connect lovingly with the omnipotent supreme or divine within us and developing that divine connection the link between the soul and the whole is the essence of spiritual advancement when we practice time tested processes such as bhakti yoga for spiritual advancement we gain access to the inner power that enables us to resist outer temptations and use outer power constructively therefore now the world is immensely untiringly committed to technological advancement if we commit ourselves individually to our spiritual advancement with even a fraction of that commitment we will gain access to the inner power that can help us choose wisely therefore making ourselves better and helping making helping make our world better