This material world is a world of conflict and party spirit. There will always be different groups of people vying for supremacy over the other groups. They justify their pursuit of power by propagating that they are right and the other party is wrong, that their party is more morally righteous than the other party, that God is on their side, not on the side of the other party. This party spirit arises from ones false identification with his material body. Politicians take advantage of this tendency and catapult themselves into power by fanning the fire of party spirit within the hearts of the people. Therefore those who are thoughtful do not allow themselves to be carried way by the party spirit, which perennially ravages this material world wreaking havoc on the peace and prosperity of the people. It is the selfishness of the politicians that they pit one group against another people even to the point where so many people are killed, just so they can continue enjoying a temporary position of political power in this world. If we are smart, we will not allow ourselves to become pawns in the hands of the politicians. Instead of taking sides in the political arena, we will instead stay completely away from this party spirit keeping ourselves always on the spiritual platform by constantly remembering that our real identity is that I am the eternal servant of Krishna. Instead of identifying with this or that party here in this material world, we will identify with our actual party, the party of Krishna. This is the side that we will take because it is our eternal constitutional position. Hare Krishna ...
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 07:26:38 +0000