Care to ask who you are? the obvious answer will be I am Suman Basu/I am John /I am Abdul etc.. /I am Indian/I am US citizen, I am Hindu,Christian ,I am a software engineer ,Project Manager and numerous such. Have you ever thought which of these identities are permanent and eternal in nature. All these identities are possible to be changed. A Hindu can be a Muslim and Vice Versa ,an Indian can be US citizen or otherwise and so on and so forth. What may be the reason that we are running behind many causes which apparently are not ripe enough to care for. The single answer to all these questions are that we have forgot, who we are . We are identifying ourselves with the body we are living in.
As per Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 we are all blissful souls and our only true Dharma is to Love and Serve Lord Krishna. But today since we are recognising us as our bodies, which is nothing but the dress of the soul, we are caring for causes which are suitable for our bodies. Imagine there is a cricket match between India and Pakistan. Both Indian and Pakistani are equally tensed but an American present in same room has got nothing to do with it. Imagine the Indian person starts believing that he is not the body and therefore not Indian rather in this life, with the body of Indian ,is playing this particular role will he or she be even feel that much tension in the cricket match?
Billions of USD are being spent on Beauty industry which through Ad campaign trying to propagate that the body is most important and we need to pamper the same. What will happen to this Industry if this new conception sinks in. While I am not saying caring for Body is bad .. by all means it is noble cause. Krishna has provided us this body to perform Devotional Service and without this we can not do that, but while we must take care of this body we should also take care of our soul.. who is made of Sat Chit and Ananda and when He leaves this body, in one moment the body become meaningless. It is good to take care of the Car we drive but more important to take care of the Driver who is driving the car.
Krishna Consciousness movement is working on preaching this idea world wide and convince each one of us that , this Absolute Truth and has potential to bring eternal harmony among different sects/religions/nations and can make this earth more beautiful and peaceful place to Live in. In 15th Chapter of Bhagavad Gita Lord again says that He who can find every living and non living entities as manifestation of Supreme God Head will make no discrimination between a tree ,an executioner, a Brahman or Scholar and will be equipoised at all situations.
How wonderful that world will be when as a Human Species we shall love every one and will work in collaboration for improvement of every one. How beautiful that world will be when, even if, some one does harm to us , we can still love them imagining that this part of act is just as temporary as our life and eventually an act on our material body only.Imagine an organisation where every one equates himself or herself as servant of Supreme God Head and do not hanker for any credit to the work done rather dedicate the fruit of the work done entirely to Krishna's lotus feet..how much progress that organisation will do when each of us will do our best for happiness of Lord only and will work only for spiritual progress and not for our own material progress .. this conception can stop War among neighbouring countries,unnecessary killing of animals and many other things. When we shall care for only our need our exploitation to Earth also will reduce and will make World a better habitable place.
Thus time has come for all of us to learn and spread the Happiness,Peace,Tranquility among every one of us by correcting our understanding of our identity and thereby stopping unnecessary war/competition/envy/jealousy and hatred. Our true Identity is we are eternal servant of Lord and that will remain same birth after birth in every life. " Jiber Swarup Hoy Krishner Nitya Das"..
Only Spirituality can provide ever lasting solution
Hare Krishna
If Krishna has given us everything - this body, this soul - He will take care of it. Why should someone worry about it?
Besides, if everything is done according to His wish, even the material things are also done by Him. Then why should that be considered non spiritual?