Hitler was indeed an incarnation of the Asura of falsehood. Paolo Escobar was indeed a criminal who pumped cocaine into the world market.
Now if you trace the consciousness of these people, let’s take the worse of these, in fact one of the worst in the history of human civilisation, that is Hitler, a clearly anti-divine Asura, and trace its origin. We will see that this kind of an Asuric domination of the world, killing, looting massacre and cruelty all, not only existed but were accepted by the common man as a way of life upon earth. Conquest of lands and brutality upon the subjects, deceit and cunning was once a way of life when man was evolving out of the beast. During this phase of human evolution, a primitive early stage man was rather in a state of dense dark tamas and needed very strong violent sensations to feel alive. His newly developing mental abilities to think, plan and organise were completely at the mercy of the brutal beast in us. Now what was acceptable few thousand years back was becoming more and more unacceptable as man was evolving with the help of Reason towards democratic ideals and had started dreaming of liberty, equality and fraternity. The coming of Hitler at this point of time when mankind was preparing to shed his animal and asuric past and assume more rational if not yet larger spiritual ideals was completely out of sync with time. If the same man came during the age of empires he might have passed off as another brutal, ambitious king. But his emergence now was a throwback to times that humanity was preparing to leave behind.
The same way we can understand everything that we find evil today. Human sacrifice, using severed heads as trophees of war, inflicting severe pain and tortures were all part of our common life. Today we find them unacceptable and hence evil.
It is true of our individual life as well. What was good when we were growing up becomes a hurdle, even opening the possibility of evil if it persists when one has evolved past a stage, – the seeking after pleasure for example. Paolo Escobar capitalized on human hedonistic tendencies after all and made money out of duping people into a false adrenalin rush.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
