Human gore on the mind
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Jun 03, 2016
unlimitedsun 3 years ago
How can yogis best handle a sense of empathy in face of human suffering?
A possible military invasion of a territory foreshadows intense spillage of blood along with tremendous destruction.
Such pictures and imagination can overcast a cloud of gloom and depression.
Since one is powerless in the face of it, and cannot change human nature much less the course of history, how to not be so bothered by it or best deal with it?
sf_thompson 3 years ago
Pray for the souls of the innocents who have been slain over recent days. Meditate, pray, read the
Bhagavad Gita and/or other Holy books. Understand that this is still Kali Yuga ...
Alfredo 3 years ago
Everything said above applies, but we are in 310 ascending Dwapara Yuga, having left behind Kali Yuga. I go by the calculations of Swami Shriyukteshwar in Kaivalya Darshana (1894) when he corrected Indian almanacs that were mistaken since the times of Raja Parikshit.
Yogi must have Samata, or it will be difficult for he/she to survive.
This is best explained in "Moksha Gita" by Swami Shivananda, with commentary by Swami Krishnananda, please see it here:
http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/moksh/Moksha_Gita.pdf
Samata-drishti or the feeling of equanimity in life. In the West they say: life goes on!
Alfredo 3 years ago
Excerpt from "Moksha Gita": About the Sadhak.
"...roused up by the consciousness of suffering in pluralistic existence on earth, fully aware of the affliction of mortal living, cheated by chance, tormented by thought, defeated by the forces of nature, oppressed by the mighty weight of worldly duty, shocked by the horror of death, dreaded by the consciousness of future lives where the tragedy of existence will be repeated, finding no way to escape from the prison of terrestrialness, the aspirant opens his eyes and looks up toward his Great Duty, the duty of Self-Realization."
unlimitedsun 3 years ago
A practical way of retracting "the sense of empathy", or at least getting some level of handle over it?
I do not wish to feel compassionate. I do not desire to pray for mortals. I do all that out of weakness.
I wish to not be affected or concerned by the stupidity of humanity of which I am inextricably part of. Forget our theater!
I ought to pray for indifference and detachment, I am concerned for myself alone.
The rest is a waste of energy over a lost case since the very beginning and by design.
May I feel that way!
