During meditation I realized that if and when you have faith in the Divine, it has to be full and one can’t question it. And now I am not and I do know and understand about detachment, but I am nowhere there yet. I have a beautiful family and I want to leave this world in better shape than it is right now. We are seeing wars, we are seeing climate change, old era is coming to end and new era is beginning, there are signs all over, but how bad does it have to get?
I don’t see what has faith in the Divine got to do with the winning of this or that political parties. They change every 5 years so should our faith also change based on my wishes or fancies coming true? Then it won’t be faith but reasoned belief. Faith implies that the Divine knows better than us and is leading and will lead us towards the destined goal through everything regardless of appearances. Besides how do we know what is good and from what and whose view point? Republicans in general and President Trump in particular have been good for India. At least he curtailed aid to Pakistan, put checks on the Islamic and the Chinese world, is likely to put a hold to the Ukraine War. The democrats speak big things but in their actual deeds there is a big difference and a lot of hypocrisy and insincerity. So who knows what is best. Democracies keep bringing the narrative that dictatorship is bad. I may agree but are all dictators bad and are all democratically elected leaders good? We need to look behind appearances to understand God’s ways.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
