With all our gods and goddesses😇, why did we suffer such violence, such brutality at the hands of these savages for 1500 years? And still suffering to these day, wherever we are the minority. What’s the point of having all these gods and goddesses if they can’t protect their people? Where are they hiding? Why are they watching from a safe distance while we go extinct here?

The gods, I mean the true gods who govern the universe as cosmic managers, do not act in a partisan manner as we would like them to do. They act according to the law of Truth so that individuals as well as cosmos moves along the lines determined by the Divine as the Kaalpurusha, the Spirit of Time. When the moment comes to change this rhythm then the Divine himself descends as the Avatar and changes the course of Time and introduces a new rhythm in it. 

Human worship, belief and non-belief only serves to open us more to their influence and thereby become their human instrument but it seldom deters the gods from the path that is decreed and foreseen in the Vision of the Cosmic Divine. In fact if it were not so and if the gods acted arbitrarily in response to human wishes then there would be chaos in the world given the number of contradictory wishes and ignorant movements of human beings. No doubt they do seem to intervene at times and there are gods in the vital plane who respond to human wishes and fulfil it at times. But the true gods act independent of all our worships and beliefs.

These lines from Savitri describe this below.

‘In the wide signless ether of the Self,

In the unchanging Silence white and nude,
Aloof, resplendent like gold dazzling suns
Veiled by the ray no mortal eye can bear,
The Spirit’s bare and absolute potencies
Burn in the solitude of the thoughts of God.

A rapture and a radiance and a hush,
Delivered from the approach of wounded hearts,
Denied to the Idea that looks at grief,
Remote from the Force that cries out in its pain,
In his inalienable bliss they live.

Immaculate in self-knowledge and self-power,
Calm they repose on the eternal Will.

Only his law they count and him obey;
They have no goal to reach, no aim to serve.

Implacable in their timeless purity,
All barter or bribe of worship they refuse;
Unmoved by cry of revolt and ignorant prayer
They reckon not our virtue and our sin;
They bend not to the voices that implore,
They hold no traffic with error and its reign;
They are guardians of the silence of the Truth,
They are keepers of the immutable decree.

A deep surrender is their source of might,
A still identity their way to know,
Motionless is their action like a sleep.

At peace, regarding the trouble beneath the stars,
Deathless, watching the works of Death and Chance,
Immobile, seeing the millenniums pass,
Untouched while the long map of Fate unrolls,
They look on our struggle with impartial eyes,
And yet without them cosmos could not be.

Impervious to desire and doom and hope,
Their station of inviolable might
Moveless upholds the world’s enormous task,
Its ignorance is by their knowledge lit,
Its yearning lasts by their indifference.

As the height draws the low ever to climb,
As the breadths draw the small to adventure vast,
Their aloofness drives man to surpass himself.

Our passion heaves to wed the Eternal’s calm,
Our dwarf-search mind to meet the Omniscient’s light,
Our helpless hearts to enshrine the Omnipotent’s force.

Acquiescing in the wisdom that made hell
And the harsh utility of death and tears,
Acquiescing in the gradual steps of Time,
Careless they seem of the grief that stings the world’s heart,
Careless of the pain that rends its body and life;
Above joy and sorrow is that grandeur’s walk:
They have no portion in the good that dies,
Mute, pure, they share not in the evil done;
Else might their strength be marred and could not save.

Alive to the truth that dwells in God’s extremes,
Awake to a motion of all-seeing Force,
The slow outcome of the long ambiguous years
And the unexpected good from woeful deeds,
The immortal sees not as we vainly see.

He looks on hidden aspects and screened powers,
He knows the law and natural line of things.

Undriven by a brief life’s will to act,
Unharassed by the spur of pity and fear,
He makes no haste to untie the cosmic knot
Or the world’s torn jarring heart to reconcile.

In Time he waits for the Eternal’s hour.’

So you see it doesn’t matter whether we need the gods or not, or for that matter even whether we believe in God or not. The cosmic Will, the Divine Will takes into account the human will and wishes and hopes but acts in a sovereign independence of it. That is why its ways are inexplicable to human beings. It may inspire a Moslem who doesn’t believe in the gods yet acts with a godlike quality or grandiose movement of might. It may use a tyrrant to awaken the common man and use evil to draw our hearts closer to the Truth. But when Its cosmic purpose in a movement of Time is fulfilled it topples the throne of the mightiest emperor whom It had once seated, like the Ramses and Moghuls and the Roman and the British. 

The Age that we leave behind us was the Age when the Empires were being formed. Such was Nature’s intent to bring blocks of different humanity together and mix and mingle as a preparation for a greater world unity towards which we are moving now. And where else can the struggling and erring humanity get its first primary lessons in unity but Bharat. Hence the conquest of the Barbarians was allowed. But when its time is over then the empires and their ideologies that supported it are broken by the advancing Spirit of Time and cast aside like foams upon the sea. The secret lies in aligning oneself more and more with the Divine Will and instead of wanting God or the gods to be on our side, to put ourselves consciously and deliberately on the side of God. Now the Age of these barbaric religions is over and those who are ready will be taken up into the New rhythm, the New Creation. The rest will collapse through whatever instruments that the Divine Will choses. Be rest assured of that.

Affectionately,

Alok Da