Posted on: 19 Dec 2022
[Shri Rajasekara Reddy asked: To get rice on to our plate, paddy harvesting is needed which includes the activities of reaping, stacking, handling, threshing, cleaning, and hauling. If we consider these activities as sin and stop, we cannot survive. If a lion considers hunting as sin, it cannot survive. Therefore, world peace is a myth. How can You say that world peace can be achieved through True Spiritual Knowledge? Please enlighten me.]
Swami replied:- Who told that sin exists in the activities concerned with plants? God Himself told in the Veda that you must take food from plants (Oṣadhībhyo'nnam). Plants do not have a nervous system to undergo pain whereas zoological organisms have nervous systems and undergo pain and hence, only non-vegetarian food is objected. When the lion hunts and eats soft natured animals, it need not be considered because the soul of lion is permanently condemned to have permanent cycle of ignorant animal births only. You need not search for a black charcoal in darkness because the entire thing is black only. The world itself is a myth (Mithyaa), which means that it was originally and inherently unreal, but, is absolutely real due to the gifted absolute reality of God by God. In that case, justice and injustice are also myths. But, a myth to another myth is always real. If the world is real, justice is also real. For any soul, the world is real because the soul is a part of the world. A mythic soul is real to the mythic world and vice-versa. If spiritual knowledge cannot bring real transformation in the world, nothing else can bring transformation in which case peace is a myth. Actually, the mythic peace is real to the mythic soul and hence, world peace is reality and not unreal. Myth does not mean unreal because it means that it is real at present and was unreal before its creation by God. Such path of your question is not correct.