Q: You don’t tell everything about the Asura’s world-game? Why don’t you go into details so that we are able to distinguish the difference between the truth of the Divine and the lies of the Aura?
ALOKDA: My own take on all this business of the Asura is very simple. The Asura is there no doubt but for us it is much more important to remember that the Divine is there and He is the Lord who will have the final say. If the Asura and his ilk seem to temporarily win or succeed it is only a prelude to a greater divine Victory that is waiting round the corner. Besides isn’t he and his type also part of the grand plan needed for hastening earth’s evolution?
As long as we live in duality we are always surrounded with uncertainties with fear and anxiety and suspicion drawing upon our energies. Is not this undue and excessive fear and suspicion and anxiety itself a weapon of the Asura through which he terrorises man stealing hope and faith from his soul? But as we begin to live in the true spiritual consciousness we see the One playing with all things and everywhere and in various masks, even the most seemingly contrary ones. After all it is His creation and if He has placed the Asura somewhere in the play there must be a deeper Wisdom in this too.
Vigilance against the Asura’s intrusion in our lives is one thing and growing suspicious and paranoid and depressed is quite another. If anything, these are the signs that the fellow is near us. Pessimism especially is the tail of the Devil refusing to leave. What we have to instead remember and focus upon is that the Divine is there and here and everywhere and near and within and around us. With Him being at the helm of affairs everything is eventually safe. He and not our puny human thoughts are the bedrock of safety. Has He not intervened always when the mindless Asura was at his cruelest best and changed the course of history.
Ravana and Kansa and Judas and now Hitler and his tribe have come and gone but it is Rama and Krishna and Christ and Sri Aurobindo who continue to inspire man. So let us leave the Asura aside and being full of faith do what we can to grow closer in identity with the Divine. That is our main job and if we can even attempt it with sincerity then there will be no more need of any Asura to spur our evolution.
Love
alok
