Because even in Sri Krishna’s times, the Satwic humans were Pandavas, Vidhura, even Bhishma, Uddhava, Droupadi, but they were all involutionary beings, whereas ordinary humanity seems to be a confused type of humanity. So what happened to Sri Rama’s mission?
I would rather say that it was accomplished. Much of humanity has grown reasonable. Yes, it tends to slide back as Sattwa still belongs to the inferior triple mode of lower nature and hence no individual or society can stay there forever. That is what I meant by the evolutionary push or compulsion, without which people can, often do slide back. Ancient Aryavarta post the advent of Lord Rama indeed grew a Sattwic framework of life. But it is not supposed to stay there forever; hence, slowly the decline takes place, dharamasyaglani, preparing for the advent of the new Avatar, the Krishnavatar, to take it higher than the sattwic mind. That is what we see in Sri Krishna’s life and teachings, a breaking of the past moulds, even the Sattwic ideals that had become fetters on the path of human progress. This too, began to break down somewhere around a thousand years back, preparing the way to a yet higher type, the truly spiritual and supramental type. It is only when mankind crosses this critical border that the human evolution will stabilise and slide back no more because man would have reached his highest station making way for the emergence of a new species. Until then, the see-saw is inevitable.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
(Follow-up Question:)
Till today, nobody knew any ordinary human being as a true Satwic man, other than some special involutionary beings or a selected few for the Divine mission. Now, Shrimad Ramayana is read in every corner of the country more than ever before, and lots of Rama katha is going on more than Sri Krishna’s times, but finding one real Satwic man in that Ramayana group is highly impossible. So really all the troubles taken by The Avatars Sri Rama, Mother Sita, to bring evolution. Changes are yet to bear results.
Coming to Srikrishna, the Bhagavad Gita has provided a very good Management Study Material to both Indians and foreigners, not bringing any spiritual evolution of true Bhakthi. ( There are exceptions to the great Krishna Bhakthas) But in ordinary human society, BG is used for logical debates more for emphasising their chosen ideas.
If the spiritual evolution has happened in Humanity after Sri Rama and Sri Krishna, today Man (especially me) will be at a greater height to receive Sri Aurobindo and the Mother readily for Superhuman Transformation. But unfortunately, still the humanity has not yet digested SriRama’s life examples, Srikrishna’s new approach to Dharma and Bhakti, Surrender, Politics, etc., and even Swami Vivekananda’s messages.
So it’s a long way to meet SriAurobindo, but all this can have exceptions, if the Divine steps in the life of Man and forcibly lifts Him for perfection. I think the next move of The Mother Divine will be forcibly pull out Her children and prepare them for a life Divine.
Well, I am not pessimistic at all as I do see the change and have read enough history to know of several great men after Sri Rama and Sri Krishna, men who inspired generations of heroes, sages and kings. Unfortunately, the name of common men is never known, but even today, I see human beings, especially among the poorer sections, who are honest, loving, caring, truly Sattwic, and children who describe profound spiritual experiences that are hard to believe and understand. How does one explain the tremendous resistance offered by tribes and kings and commoners, the last of which was the queen of Jhansi, due to which the flame of Sanatan Dharma never died down, unlike any other civilisation. India’s successful resistance and survival and eventual growth story, despite the number of invasions and occupations, has in its background the Ramayana and the Gita. These men were not involutionary beings (who come mainly with the Avatara) but beings who had evolved beyond the ordinary and hence could sacrifice their lives and keep their promise against several odds for a greater truth even today. An average Indian woman still carries the ideal of Sita and Savitri in her heart and somehow tries, however imperfectly, to live it.
Of course, one has to look at these people in the right places. You will seldom find them in modern cities that develop around power and money. You are unlikely to find them in politics or in the loud life of the socialite. But the average Indian peasant, or an ordinary man living in villages, carries the sattwic ideal still sheltered in his heart. I know all this through first hand experience of having lived in and travelled through every Indian state and interacted with the rich and the poor. Hence i am not disappointed by the news that covers mainly the city life, which is no doubt a life of poverty. Besides, as mentioned above, what we are witnessing today is the final stages of the breakdown, rather the cleansing of the debris of a breakdown that was nearly completed a century ago to make way for the new things to come.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
