Dear Friends,
Let us critically / rationally reflect over the following Message as some food for soul and thought for Ganga Saptami on 3rd May and Sita Navami on 5th May 2025.
Importance of Rama Rajya / Kingdom of God for Saving the World from the Impending Catastrophic Consequences of the Present Very Grave Global Environmental and Spiritual and Non-spiritual Ethical Crises
Main Points:
(1) The great spiritual ethics teachers and seers of our traditional Indian civilization explicitly accept universal non-violence, i.e. non-violence to both human and non-human life, to be the foundation of ethics. They explicitly accept that pursuit of wealth and pleasure within the limits of ethics, i.e. Artha and Kama Purusharthas, is necessary not only for the pursuit of the ultimate goal / meaning of life, but also for the lasting sustainable development, prosperity, peace and happiness in the society. They also explicitly accept that healthy life is necessary for the pursuit of all the four Purusharthas, and healthy life is not possible without pure air, pure water and pure food. The great spiritual ethics teachers and seers of various great religions also explicitly or implicitly accept the same.
In the context of our age of science and technology, the natural Eco-systems of mother Earth has enough to meet our basic as well as non-basic needs, if wealth is produced, distributed and consumed within the limits of ethics. Surely with the help of the science and technology available to us at present, it is possible for us to create a Rama Rajya / kingdom of God (a spiritually as well as non-spiritually ethically enlightened / rational kingdom of ethical righteousness / goodness / of justice, liberty and love) both locally as well as globally, where people generally get both their basic as well as non-basic needs. Mahatma Gandhi rightly says: 'Nature has enough for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed.'
(2) Human beings have become the most dangerous species of our planet mother Earth due to the unethical use of the massive power of the science and technology of our age, mainly to satisfy their lust for pleasures and greed for wealth, although every human being has the potentially to become a divine person, i.e. a person of predominantly divine characteristics or a demon, i.e. a person of predominantly demoniacal characteristics, as discussed in the chapter 16 of 'the Bhagavad Gita' by exercising one's free will and reason within one's journey between birth and death in the present life itself. According to 'the Bhagavad Gita', it is possible for even the most sinful among the sinners to acquire spiritual ethical perfection by making constant efforts to grow spiritually ethically higher and higher by exercising one's free will and reason.('The Bhagavad Gita' 4.36-38 and 9.30-33) The present fundamentally spiritually as well as non-spiritually unethical, lust for pleasures and greed for wealth based, extremely Eco-hostile, rural-hostile, agro-hostile, unsustainable and inherently self-destructive out-and-out consumerist culture of industrialization and urbanization of our modern civilization, has caused disappearance of tens of thousands of our animal and plant species and continues to cause greater and greater violence to our ecologically, aesthetically and religiously invaluable life-and-health sustaining natural Eco-systems of mother Earth, which has catastrophic consequences for our masses, future generations and the dumb and deaf life-world. No great great spiritual ethics teacher / seer of any great religion would approve this culture of development of the Morden Civilization. Mahatma Gandhi rightly considers it to be Satanic, suicidal and a nine days wonder only. According to a WHO report released on 11th October 2021, globally about more than 18 thousand 5 hundred people die every day due to air pollution caused by fossil fuels. According to the Living Planet report 2022 of WWF, about 69 percentage of monitored wildlife species has declined since 1970, and in the near future many more wildlife species will disappear if global warming continues to increase in the present rate. According to the Living Planet Report 2024 of WWF, about 73 percentage of monitored wildlife species has declined since 1970, 4 percentage more increase within 2 years between 2022 and 2024. According to the latest report of Copernicus Climate Change Services in January, 2024 has become the hottest year on record with temperatures soaring 1.6C above the average pre-industrial level, for the first time crossing 1.5C above the average pre-industrial level (1850-1900).The scientists of IPCC of UNO claim that if the global warming continues to increase in the present rate then we are bound to face its irreversible catastrophic consequences such as deadly heat waves, wildfires, storms, erratic rains, floods, droughts, etc. the buring / submergence of costal villages, towns and cities due to the rise of sea-level caused by the melting of Antarctic and Arctic ice sheets and physical expansion of the ocean water, the Himalayan rivers turning seasonal rivers due to the melting of the Himalayan snow, reduction of farm yields, vanishing of many more plant and animal species from mother Earth, etc. Unfortunately, under the spell of the glamour of the present culture of development of the Modern civilization, leaders world over are showing great apathy to take any major step to avoid the impending catastrophic consequences of global warming and climate change, although the IPCC scientists are unanimously claiming that their warming about the impending catastrophic consequences is essentially true.
(3) Let us not come under the spell of the glamour present culture of development of the Modern civilization which Mahatma Gandhi rightly considers to be fundamentally unethical, Satanic, suicidal and a nine days wonder only. Mahatma Gandhi rightly claims: " That you can't serve God and Mammon is an economic truth of highest value. We have to make the choice. Western nations are today groaning under the heel of the the Monster-God of the Materialism. Their moral growth has stunted. ... Let us seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and the irrevocable promise is that everything will be added unto us. These are real economics. May you and I treasure them and inforce them in our daily life." We must know that with the easy in which global communication and transport is available or possible with the help of the science and technology of our age, it is possible for us through the ethical use of science and technology of our age to create a kingdom of spiritually as well as non-spiritually ethically enlightened / rational kingdom of ethical righteousness / goodness / of justice, liberty and love (Rama Rajya / Kingdom of God) both globally as well as locally, just as it possible for us through the unethical use of science and technology to create a kingdom devils both globally as well as locally, by exercising our free will and reason. Our traditional Indian civilization has both the spiritual as well as non-spiritual ethical resources to create a spiritually as well as non-spiritually ethically enlightened / rational kingdom of ethical righteousness / goodness / of justice, liberty and love (Rama Rajya / Kingdom of God) in our mother land and save her and through her the world at large from the impending catastrophic consequences of the present human-made very grave global environmental crises in general and the crisis of global warming and climate change in particular, along with the present very grave deep-rooted, all-pervasive global spiritual as well as non-spiritual ethical crises.
(4) Let us sincerely try to transform our country into a spiritually as well as non-spiritually ethically enlightened / rational kingdom of ethical righteousness / goodness / of justice, liberty and love (Rama Rajya / Kingdom of God) to save her and through her the world at large. In the context of our present age of science and technology, it means in the language of Swami Vivekananda, a synthesis of Western science and technology and traditional Indian spiritual ethical wisdom. (If the science and technology of the West and the spiritual wisdom of the East meet then the world will become a heaven on Earth.) It means creating an ethically enlightened / rational fundamentally ethics-based, Eco-friendly, village-and agro -friendly& centric, sustainable, just, decentralised industrialisation and urbanization Gandhian loving and caring nonviolent culture of development.
(5) A fundamentally spiritually as well as non-spiritually ethically enlightened / rational ethics-based, Eco-friendly, village-and-agro friendly- &- centric, sustainable, equitable / just, decentralised industrialisation and urbanization Gandhian loving and caring non-violent culture of development, which is based on the fundamental ethical values of various great religions as well as of our great living ancient civilization in the context of our present technological age, is the surest and perhaps the only surest permanent rational solution available to us to avoid the impending catastrophic consequences of the present man-made very grave global ecological crises, including the crisis of global warming and climate change, along with the present all-pervasive, deep rooted global spiritual as well as non-spiritual ethical crises. Village Swaraj constitutes its core and natural / organic farming constitutes the core of the Village Swaraj. Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of Truth and non-violence of our age, shows us the right way about how to create such a non-violent culture of development.
(6) Village Swaraj is not possible without the rejuvenation and preservation of our great river mothers and their sources our great mountains and forests, which is essential for ensuring permanent food, water, air and health security to our masses, future generations and our fellow dumb-and-deaf lower forms of life. Rejuvenation and preservation of our National River mother Ganga and her source the Himalayas will certainly be a major step in the right direction for the rejuvenation and preservation of our other great river mothers and their sources, which are all in the process of slow death.
(7)We must create a Gandhian Mass Satyagraha for the rejuvenation and preservation of our great river mothers and their sources our great mountains and forests, and also for the transformation of our rural India into a heaven for leading a spiritually as well as non-spiritually ethically enlightened / rational ethical life of simple living and high thinking with loving care of the invaluable life-and-health sustaining natural eco-systems of mother Nature. It would certainly be a major step in the right direction to save India and through it the world at large from the impending catastrophic consequences of the present very grave global environmental crises in general and the crisis of global warming and climate change in particular, along with the present all-pervasive and deep-rooted global spiritual as well as non-spiritual ethical crises.
Let us always remember the following invaluable message of mother 'The Bhagavad Gita' : "Lust for pleasures, anger and greed are the triple gates of hell and brings the downfall of one's soul. Hence one must abandon these three." ('The Bhagavad Gita',16.21) Let us also remember the following very valuable environmental messages of two great noble scientists of the world. Albert Einstein: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have only four years to live." "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
Stephen Hawking: "Life on planet Earth is at risk from a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus and global warming or some other reasons humans have not thought yet.'
Modern civilization doesn't know how to avoid the unethical use of science and technology based on human selfishness and stupidity based on base passions like greed for wealth, lust for luxuries, etc.
Without transforming our minds / lives into divine minds / lives, it is not possible to create a Rama Rajya / kingdom of God. Let our like-minded noble intellectuals solemnly resolve to sincerely try to create the necessary mass-awareness for this great noble cause. Let our like-minded noble people solemnly resolve to sincerely try to transform their minds / lives into divine minds / lives with the help of drinking Gita-Amurta in the form of spiritual ethical wisdom and solemnly resolve to sincerely try to create a mass-Satyagraha with help of soul energy / force to create a Rama Rajya / kingdom of God in our country and save our country and through her the world at large from the impending catastrophic consequences of the present very grave global environmental crises in general and the crisis of global warming and climate change in particular along with the present very grave, all-pervasive, deep-rooted global spiritual as well as non-spiritual ethical crises. Let us pray Divine Mother Ganga and Divine Mother Sita to help us to succeed in our efforts for this great noble cause.
With love, best wishes and prayers,
Mrs Rama Rauta
President: National Women's Organization Pune
Founder: Save Ganga Movement
Websites: savegangamovement.org
4gashram.org
