This material nature is full of miseries 1

     The editor of the daily Amrita Bazar Patrika, published from Allahabad, began the editorial the other day on a rather sad note:

     The nation’s week began with memories of “Jalhianwallah- Bagh,” and political serfdom no longer troubles us. But our troubles are far from being at the end. In the dispensation of providence, mankind cannot have any rest. If one kind of trouble goes, another quickly follows. India, politically free, is faced with difficulties that are no less serious than the troubles under foreign rule.

     Now, if one consults the accounts ledger of India’s serfdom and freedom, and views the contents from a spiritual perspective, the conclusion will be as follows: the four yugas, or ages, namely Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali, add up to 4,320,000 years. Kali- yuga, which lasts 432000 years, began from the time of maharaja Pariiksit’s rule, some five thousand years ago. For approximately one thousands of these five thousand years i.e., since the invasion of Mohammad Ghori in A.D. 1050 India has been experiencing foreign rule.