We have to find the solution within ourselves. Then only can we give a solution. We will know the truth, we will know why this is happening. We see things happening, but we don't know why they are happening. Actually this world has been going on in this way from time immemorial. Making and breaking is a process. We see people die and we see people live, but this is a process, it is going on. Nobody can change this. And, in this process, there are some people who know the Truth. There are people who try to know the Truth and they know the Truth, and they do not only live happily, but they bring happiness to many. But, this is also true that it will always remain (this process). So, the only solution here is this – I have to know that this world is false. When I know that this world is true, there lie all my problems.
One day I was thinking. One prince, Siddhartha, he was made to stay in an artificial environment where there was no sorrow. One day he went out of his castle to see what life is. And there he saw four things – first is old age, second is disease, third is death, and the fourth one is a monk meditating. So he came back but he couldn't stay because he wanted a solution to this. He wanted a solution to all the sufferings of this world. We know him, he became the great Lord Buddha. But, frankly speaking, could he bring happiness to this world? Is it possible? No. This is like this.
There are so many spiritual giants who have come to this world. There are so many noble souls that have come. But, the world moves on its own momentum. It never changes. We say or we think that it changes. We can change, but that is also an ignorance. Nothing can be changed. The only thing is to accept and face, that's all. We plan, we hope, we do many things, but that happens what has to happen. We cannot even walk one step according to our own wish. This is the truth.
There is a story about Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. One day he was speaking with the man who was the owner of the temple where he used to worship. His name was Mathur Vishwas. Mathur Vishwas was a great devotee of Ramakrishna. One day there was a discussion and in this discussion Ramakrishna said that whatever happens in this world it happens because of the Divine wish of the Mother. Then Mathur Babu asked is it really true that nothing happens without the Divine wish of the Mother. Ramakrishna said: "Yes. Without Her wish nothing can happen." Mathur Babu asked: "Then can She produce white flowers in a tree which always gives red flowers?" Ramakrishna said: "Yes, it is possible. If the Mother wishes, then it is possible." The next day Sri Ramakrishna saw that in a tree which always gives red flowers there was one white flower. He cut the whole branch and he showed it to Mathur Babu saying: "See. This is it. If the Mother wishes, then it is possible."
I will tell you another example, in the life of Swami Vivekananda. He went to a temple in Kashmir. That temple was known as Kshir Bhagavani temple, meaning that that Mother is always offered a preparation of milk and rice. It is a sweet Indian dish. The temple was very big, but the Mongolians came and they broke the temple, they devastated it. When Swami Vivekananda went to that temple, he was very hurt to see the devastation made by the people there. So he said that if he was alive back then, he wouldn't have let the Mongolians break this temple. In the night when he was sleeping he saw a dream. The Mother came to his dream and the Mother said: "Who are you to protect my temple? Who are you? My sons have broken my temple. If I wish I can build a thousand temples here."
So this is the truth. Everything happens because of a Divine wish. Because we do not see that, we do not see the Divine wish, we suffer. Yes, I also suffer. I suffered when I got the news that there was a huge earthquake in Chile. I have my brother in Chile (God brother). I wrote to him immediately – "Where are you? How are you?" And he came online on skype immediately and he said that he was good. But there is nothing we can do. He said: "Swamiji, you cannot imagine those two and a half minutes. Every moment I was thinking about Bhagavan. Every moment." So, just think about this. Whenever we see devastation, when we see destruction, then only our awareness towards Truth comes. We cannot say that every moment of our life we remember God. We cannot say this. But the moment we see any kind of destruction, any kind of risk or any kind of fear, immediately we think about God. But if we can do it all our life, every moment, if we can always be with God. There is a famous poet in India, his name is Kabir. You might have heard his name. One of his poems says:
So here we have to ask ourselves. What did we do? Did we always remember Him? Forget about Him. Did we always remember our fellow men, who are with us? Do we feel for them? We are all selfish. Human beings are the most selfish creatures in this whole world. They are the ones who have created this kind of devastation. All sorts of problems in this world. So many species have become extinct because of human beings. We don't even care for others. We kill them. We build weapons of mass destruction. We make bombs and guns and we kill people. An animal always kills when it is hungry. Man kills because of sport. He likes it. So this has to happen. If we can change this, this instinct within people so that we will not fight, not only fight, that we will not even think about fighting, then the nature might spare us. But, we cannot. In tsunamis you will not see one single cattle die, you will not see one single animal die. You will only see human beings die. Why? Because we lost our communication, our equilibrium with nature, we don't even understand it. We need artificial machines to understand climatic change. But a cow does not need it. A cow does not need to know when rains are coming, she knows it. The ants in India, just two days before rain starts, they come out of their houses, they come to the surface. And when they come out we understand that rains are coming. And exactly after two days rains come. How? They don't have any artificial machine. And we call ourselves civilized. We are not civilized. In this way, much devastation will happen until human beings accept or learn to live together. Until human beings learn to love. We all use this word, love. But no, this is not love. This is selfishness. We want to cover up our own needs by this word love. Love is not so easy. A man who loves forgets the word love. He only suffers. Suffers, why? Because he cannot react. He cannot repay the selfish behavior of others.
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