It doesn’t matter whether we need the gods or not, or for that matter even whether we believe in God or not. The cosmic Will, the Divine Will takes into account the human will and wishes and hopes but acts in a sovereign independence of it. That is why its ways are inexplicable to human beings. It may inspire a Moslem who doesn’t believe in the gods yet acts with a godlike quality or grandiose movement of might. It may use a tyrant to awaken the common man and use evil to draw our hearts closer to the Truth. But when its cosmic purpose in a movement of Time is fulfilled it topples the throne of the mightiest emperor whom It had once seated, like the Ramses and Moghuls and the Roman and the British.
The true gods who govern the universe as cosmic managers, do not act in a partisan manner as we would like them to do. They act according to the law of Truth so that individuals as well as cosmos moves along the lines determined by the Divine as the Kaalpurusha, the Spirit of Time. When the moment comes to change this rhythm then the Divine himself descends as the Avatar and changes the course of Time and introduces a new rhythm in it.
Human worship, belief and non-belief only serves to open us more to their influence and thereby become their human instrument but it seldom deters the gods from the path that is decreed and foreseen in the Vision of the Cosmic Divine. In fact if it were not so and if the gods acted arbitrarily in response to human wishes then there would be chaos in the world given the number of contradictory wishes and ignorant movements of human beings. No doubt they do seem to intervene at times and there are gods in the vital plane who respond to human wishes and fulfil it at times. But the true gods act independent of all our worships and beliefs.
The Age that we leave behind us was the Age when the Empires were being formed. Such was Nature’s intent to bring blocks of different humanity together and mix and mingle as a preparation for a greater world unity towards which we are moving now. And where else can the struggling and erring humanity get its first primary lessons in unity but Bharat. Hence the conquest of the Barbarians was allowed. But when its time is over then the empires and their ideologies that supported it are broken by the advancing Spirit of Time and cast aside like foams upon the sea. The secret lies in aligning oneself more and more with the Divine Will and instead of wanting God or the gods to be on our side, to put ourselves consciously and deliberately on the side of God. Now the Age of these barbaric religions is over and those who are ready will be taken up into the New Rhythm, the New Creation. The rest will collapse through whatever instruments that the Divine Will choses. Be rest assured of that.
