In other words, when we calculate according to
the scripture, India has exercised absolute sovereignty over the entire planet
Earth for a period of 3,888,000 years, till maharaja Pariksit’s rule. Hence the
meager thousand years of foreign subjugation are not such a lamentable thing.
Neither in the past nor at present has India’s political serfdom or freedom
been the prime concern of India’s greatest thinkers and philosophers, who well
knew the actual value of such things. The king of India up to maharaja Pariksit
was able to rule the entire world, and not for a mere couple of centuries but
for hundreds of thousands of years. The reason for their rule was not a political
one.
Thus millennium ago the Bhagavad- gita comprehensively discussed the same topic the
editor of Amrit Bazar Patrika writes about it in a despondent mood: “If one
kind of trouble goes, another quickly follows.” In the Gita (7.14) lord Krishna
says, “The divine energy of mine, consisting of the three modes of material
nature, is difficult to overcome.” The Sanskrit words daivi Maya used here can
be translated into modern term as “nature’s law”. This natural law is so
stringent that it is impossible to overcome it, in our big conferences tabling
motions that run into volumes. Our advanced technological and scientific
efforts aimed at protecting us from the clutches of nature’s law are futile
because they are all controlled by by the very same nature’s law, or daivi
maya. Therefore trying to utilize mundane science to overpower nature’s law is
like creating a Frankenstein. Efforts to extirpate human suffering through
advanced technology and bring about lasting happiness have brought us to atomic
age.
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