Silent Bear: Letter From The West

Last autumn I stayed two months in India
for arjuvedic treatment. I had a copy of the
Baghavad Gita with me which I studied
intensely. It was a very inspiring period in my
life. I wrote more than seventy poems on a
mysterious blue god and the inner silence
in my soul broadened en deepened trough
the encounter of the works of Swami Vivekananda.
I encountered the absolute in
myself. It gave me a focus on the divine love
in my heart and I consider this as the greatest
gift from the Indian people. I think the wealth
of Vedanta philosophy can improve the
human condition and offer fullfilment of
the existence of the human race. It is a
miracle how I feel this uplift of my soul
above materialism and consumption of
modern global society. My spiritual
experience of life gained a lot of power by
reading this books on Indian philosophy.
It healed and awakened my soul. Of course I
realise that religion and spirituality is abused
to oppress and exploit people and creates
privileges for the few over the many.
Capitalism brought slavery over the
world as it has never been seen.
The whole technological machine
destroys the planet and makes cultural
traditions hollow. The whole of human existence
becomes more and more meaningless
and absurd. I think and feel that each of us
must take the responsibility to return to the
sources of the sages and the philosophy of
the teachers of mankind. We have to renew
the spiritual experience of the pure heart and
we need a focus on a spiritual concept that is
immaterial and for everyone to reach.
The idea of this focus is absolutely sublime it
creates sense in the nonsense of material
existence and it gives fullfilment of human
needs in a minimum of material satisfaction
because the eternal universal love has to
be recognised as the great goal of mankind.
Last century we have seen how humanity
got lost in atheistic materialism. Everything is
sacrificed for money and material comfort.
The needs grew and were even created by the
economical system. And what more needs
are there than food, clothes, a roof. Material
needs are in essence very limited when
the infinite of the human soul and the infinite
of divine love is discovered and realised
and experienced. Spirituality can extinguish
for a great deal the fire of desire and greed.
There is nothing material that we can take
with us when we die. All of this life has to
be about experience, about spiritual growth,
about emancipation of the individual and
the struggle against the privileges of the few
over the many. The contemporary world is a
disaster of hunger, war and injustice and it is
to every individual to act upon this and go
the path of the inner self to discover the infinitive
bliss of divine love by study and contemplation
and meditation. I think it is the only
solution to improve the condition of everybody
and to realise possibility’s for every man
and woman that are for the time being out
of our perception. We have to discover and
renew with a pure heart all this ancient ideas
and hear and communicate over this to save
the planet, human existence and offer to everybody
a life of sense and fulfilment. We have
to leave this madness of materialism. We have
to give it all up and sacrifice everything to the
sublime spiritual realisation of mankind.

Silent Bear

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