Questions and Meditations

31 Fall and rebirth

Meanwhile, the facts are staring at us: the poisoning that we commit on each of the five elements actually seems to follow an exponential acceleration curve. The soils and sub-soils of the earth are poisoned, the water of its sources, rivers, aquifers and oceans is poisoned, its air is poisoned, its ether and its atmosphere are poisoned, the smokes of its fires have turned toxic and its fauna and flora are being rapidly decimated.

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Our bodies are exposed to this multiple destruction – even as we cling more fiercely to those alluring “benefits” its very agents are procuring for us.

What, then, are the forces at work?

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These ills that afflict us and proliferate on every side, these ills for which we are largely responsible, are akin to as many sinister spells occupying a battlefield that eludes our comprehension, for every tentative opening or semblance of a solution soon turns out to be just as menacing, hazardous or already contaminated.

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This state of consciousness in which we remain the slaves of our ignorance cannot help us.

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For the spiritual consciousness, it is evident that nothing substantial can ever be accomplished so long as there is any sort of attachment; that is, so long as any attachment takes precedence over self-giving.

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