Everything in this physical world undergoes change. There is nothing which is static. The only permanent thing is change itself!
What is a change? There can be a change when actually the molecular properties change like in age!as we all know. There can also be a change which involves dimension or perceiving. For instance your friend feels that you have changed though there might be no base to this apparent feeling. This involves a perception. So a change can be uni-directional or multidimensional.
A change can be tangible or intangible. The subject may be constant but the attribute of time and place vary and its veracity thus bringing about a change in its status. This applies even to great truths and dictum and even commandments! For instance during the thretha, Dwaparaa and the Kali yuga the commandment and practices vary drastically. So even great spiritual practices undergoes change. This is evident in fundamentalist relegions who insist on sticking to the word on a dogma dictated by a scripture aeons ago. This can not be valid. Of course there are certain fundamentals which are sanathana-eternal but if you analyse them they are broad spectrum dictates like being good,seeing good and doing good. They dont change under any circumstances.
This is the reason I advocate a value based system be it Relegion or education. The rest are hocus pocus. Today you find more and more relegionist than spiritualists. People think that by flashing relegious insignias on themselves and branding themselves like cattle they are holier than others. Nothing can be farther from the truth! By saying this i am not decrying the whole creed. Yes there are some who don these but dwell depper in the ultimate reality. Blessed are these people and twice blessed are those who have even given up these external symbolisms and dwell on the eternal reality ever. There are now many tigers garbed in sheep skin. The instance of the missionary who kidnapped people in Haiti and the numerous blood sucking pseudo sanyasins in India who take gullible people for a ride are just the tip of the iceberg. The real hypocrats and sycophants are those who attend relegiously their respective churches,mosques and temples but are aethists at heart as they wilfully do precisely what their relegion prohibits them from doing. I will be happier in the company of a true aethist than with these charlatans.
I am sure this will be a very hard truth to swallow for many of my relegious friends but it is time we turn spiritual in the true sense rather than felling warm in the cocoons of relegion and its roto.
Krishnamachari Santhanam
