The scale of modern-day evil is extraordinary but many people are insensitive to this evil because, being spiritually based, it is not obvious to the materialistically minded. The majority simply look away as long as they personally are not suffering. But that is becoming less easy to do as one of the manifestations of modern evil is the destruction of Western countries which has now reached the point at which no one other than a self-deceiver can ignore it. Why do people deceive themselves like this? Is it just too uncomfortable to face reality?
When one looks around at how our countries are being deliberately dismantled, it's hard not to get angry. I won't go into all the ways this is happening. If you aren't aware of them by now you have not been paying attention these past thirty years. Or else you have an ideological commitment to ignore them because of political sympathies that could well be based, when you dig down to motivations, on resentful egotism. Western countries, which means Western people, are being systematically taken apart and this should make any right-minded person furious, chiefly with the people doing the destroying and only secondarily with those they use to do it who, for the most part, are ignorant, albeit self-centred, pawns.
However, let's take a step back. There has always been evil in the world and one can assume there always will be. It is the nature of the world that this should be so. It comes in peaks and troughs and we are certainly in a peak at the moment, but if we understand that we have come to the end of a civilisational cycle then we can see that the present situation is almost inevitable.
With that in mind, what should our attitude be? First of all, as believers in the principle that the real life is elsewhere, we should preserve a measure of detachment. This world is on fire and that is nothing new. The fire is raging now but it has never ceased to burn. We can use that fact as a sign that we should turn away from this world and look for our true home in a higher world. At the same time, we cannot just take a passive, laissez-faire attitude to the present situation for if we are alive now and understand something of what is going on, we must respond in some way. Knowledge without action is incomplete. But what should this action be?
When we recognise evil, we must do something about it. It is easy (or should be, see above) to see the evil in the world but evil exists within ourselves too. Therefore, the point at which we should start is to set about conquering the evil within ourselves. You cannot fight evil with evil. If you try to defeat evil in the world from a point of spiritual unawareness, you will likely do more harm than good. Put your own house in order first.
This doesn't mean wait until you are perfect before you do anything. If that were the case, you would never do anything. But make sure that what you do comes from a point of spiritual understanding rather than worldly rage. You may appear to be less effective but you will be aligning yourself with the spiritual powers instead of their adversaries who can easily co-opt behaviour that has not submitted itself to a proper spiritual focus.
There is a balance to be struck between, on the one hand, knowing we are living in the dying embers of a civilisation and accepting that cannot be turned around, and, on the other, doing what one can to preserve as much as possible of the good, the beautiful and the true, perhaps only to act as seeds for future revival rather than to revive the present age which may be impossible. The nature of the Kali Yuga is that it ends in collapse. However, that is only external. The real battle, as always, is for consciousness, and that is what we should be working to maintain, support, preserve, uplift and salvage.
