The Key to Survival of Nations
As we celebrate the 4th of July today, let our hearts and minds be filled with the Spirit of Brotherhood and the Eternal Love of God...
The following is an excerpt from the writings of Yogi Master, Paramahansa Yogananda. I have read it before but could not remember which text I read it from. There it appeared this morning in the midst of a lesson I picked from a box full of papers I had pulled out with my eyes closed as I do sometimes. It became quite clear as I was reading it this morning, that this was something to be shared today.
We tend to get so focused on the material aspects of our survival that we forget to work on our mental and spiritual strengths which are far greater than anything physical and our true saving grace. I hope you enjoy this message and apply it to your own lives…it may just save your country.
Remember also to do away with pettiness and cultural emotionalism. Recognize that the terms “man”, “men”, and “brotherhood” are simply ways of referring to the entire human race and not meant in any way to be insulting to women who are naturally included in these terms.
Modern chaotic conditions all over the world are the result of living by ungodly ideals. Individuals and nations can be protected from utter destruction if they live by heavenly ideals of brotherhood, industrial cooperation, and international exchange of earthly goods and experiences.
~ Paramahamsa Yogananda
The Key to Survival of Nations
*By Paramahamsa Yogananda
Though India possesses a civilization more ancient than that of any other country, few historians have noted that her feat of survival is by no means an accident, but a logical incident in the record of devotion to the eternal verities that India has offered through her best men in every generation. By sheer continuity of being, by intransitivity before the ages (can dusty scholars truly tell us how many), India has given the worthiest answer of any people to the challenge of time.
The biblical story of Abraham’s plea to the Lord that the city of Sodom by spared if ten righteous men could be found therein, and the Divine Reply: “I will not destroy it for ten’s sake,” gains new meaning in the light of India’s escape from oblivion. Gone are the empires of mighty nations, skilled in the arts of war, that were once India’s contemporaries: ancient Egypt, Babylonia, , Rome, Greece.
The Lords answer clearly shows that a land lives, not in it’s material achievements, but in it’s masterpieces of man.
Let the divine words be heard again, in this twentieth century, twice dyed in blood ere half over: No nation that can produce ten men who are great in the eyes of the the Unbribable Judge shall know extinction.
Heeding such persuasions, India has proved itself not witless against the thousand cunnings of Time. Self-realized masters in every century have hallowed her soil. Modern Christ-like sages, like Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yuktwesar, rise up and proclaim that a knowledge of yoga, the science of God-realization, is vital to man’s happiness and to a nations longevity.
~ The Autobiography of a Yogi