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Spiritual salvation versus self imposed extinction

Sandip Saha


Whatever created is going to be annihilated.
From insentient matter to human,
nobody is exempted from this inevitable.
To overcome this, human seeks salvation.
Spiritual enlightenment is well known;
but self imposed extinction is my discovery.
This has given me the crest moment of my life.
Religions have engendered enlightened saints;
but their number is ridiculously small
as compared to the vast population.
These could never drive away evil altogether
or establish good forever.
Prophets preach only to docile people to become divine,
but they could never slay devils permanently.
Science is progressing, religions are preaching,
but rape, murder, oppression , deprivation ....
are going on unabated.
They have no answers to the endless brutal atrocities of nature.
Tsunami, earth quake, super cyclone, epidemics...,
there are innumerable ways, the nature has,
to kill innocent living beings;
pitifully though, they are not born by their own insistence.
Sentient beings are always kept on toes to abide by
what is imposed upon them by the Supreme Power.
Self imposed extinction of mankind is a well thought out plan.
Humans can decide themselves how long to live and enjoy
by restricting the birth of offspring;
having only one child per woman.
The less is the number of heads in the earth
the lower will be the miseries,
as there will be plenty of resources.
Maintaining a population
which the mother earth can hold easily,
humans can avoid fight outright among themselves.
When humanity feels sick of the world,
it can further reduce birth rate
to enforce its own extinction
without shedding even a drop of blood;
unlike in the above case
when only handful of privileged sages
will attain spiritual trance
and enjoy super-consciousness
when rest of all will die
in natural mass destruction resulting to extinction.
Here, no austerity, dos or don’ts is to be followed
as prescribed in religions,
other than following the simple principle of live and let live.

 

Published in Poesis, issue 10, page 63, April, 2020, Romania

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