I am not sure about China and Japan of today. There is a general decline in culture everywhere and it is not without its purpose. The causes may be different, foremost of all being a pervading Western view of life and the instant gratification it brings. An insatiable vital hunger has been awakened, hunger for food, dress, pleasure of all kinds, sex as the wave of vital world has swooped upon earth.
However the human soul cannot be satisfied with it for long. The search for alternate ways of life has already begun and slowly man’s mind is turning towards higher things. However we should not make the mistake of thinking that the old forms of culture will return especially forms such as respecting the elders, visiting regularly to the temple and the church, institutions of marraige etc. These old forms, useful though they were, had been misused since a few centuries, and the mighty forces of Rudra have destroyed it so that Truth can once more manifest in its original Glory and Splendour as it did to our forefathers in the Age of Truth. This is inevitable and its first signs are already being seen in children of today, at least in quite a few. Yes much will be washed away in the transition of time like Daksha Prajapati’s yagya and its rules. But what will emerge and remain out of the fire of the sacrifice will be a new body of the New Creation on a truer and more stable basis. The destruction is as much part of God’s Lila as the first dawn of the New Creation if we look in that direction.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
