By James S. Cutsinger
Lectures at the World's Religions
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And according to Hinduism, we as humans are uniquely poised to realize this fact. The angels or gods have it too good, whereas animals and other lower beings have it too bad, leading lives with too much stress and suffering, and without the power of selfreflective awareness. But we live our lives in the midst of both good and bad, and if we’re attentive and reflective, taking note of both our blessings and trials, we can use this more or less balanced status as a stepping stone out of the whole cycle of death and rebirth.
You should have read by now the assignment in A Book of Saints for this section of the course, and there you’ll have seen how this technique was used by Swami Ramdas, who constantly repeated the name of the Vaishnavite Avatâra Rama. Perhaps the best known of the Hindu mantras is the single 44 syllable OM (also transliterated AUM), which Hindus believe is the primordial sound of creation, the sonic force with which the universe first came into being. What was made by this sound, they say, can also be unmade or dissolved by this sound, and so, by uniting their minds with the vibration of OM, and thus tuning in to the frequency (as it were) of the universe, they hope to be able to set up certain “interference patterns” (to continue speaking in the language of physics), and in this way gradually to transcend the many layers of Mâyâ (See Wisdom, 17-18).
That is, around the dawn of recorded history—and which will end (some Hindus believe) around the middle of our current century, though according to other calculations we’ve a much longer way to go—about 427,000 more years! In any case, hundreds of thousands of years before our current yuga began, there had already existed numerous previous civilizations, each of them more resplendent than the one coming after it. Beginning with the “golden age” (called the Krita Yuga), when people lived in a kind of Eden or paradise, humanity gradually sank to the morally and spiritually degrading conditions of the modern world as we know it today.