yoga v0.23: Prophecies and Living Life
There is a lot of prophecies in the West about Biblical End Times and such and I always freak out a bit about it, get depressed and genuinely feel like I am contributing to evil. Then I realize I am a Sanatani and it doesn’t matter. Brahman is everything, if Brahman wants to set in motion something the let Brahman do so. In Sanatana Dharma the cycles of time are endless. There is no real end. There is just change. The end of one age is the start of another.
Death in the Vedanta sense doesn’t really matter. For the end goal of all souls in to attain God. Freaking out about a potential end time based on a different theology doesn’t help much. While there will be immense violence and a depression, and more are coming soon I am not worried. We need to take it one step at a time and assume that spiritual growth happens when there is suffering as it shows the true nature of oneself. Hopefully, my true nature is good and is not a coward.
So the “end times” we will face will a period of spiritual growth as material wealth fades. So the point is not to cling to life, but to grow spiritually. It means that we have to give our best.