There are many forces that rule this earth.
Look around you… do you see all the people who are making
excuses and using their religions for
hating and killing each other? Do you
see the greed that surrounds this world?
Do you see the people who waste, while others have to go without? This is not how it was meant to be.
The earth was created with an order- a very specific order
that was designed to hold its shape… but humans are apparently pretty good at
messing things up.
I am here today to explain to you one of the balances that
humans have messed up the most. This
imbalance is the root of many of the problems that exist in our world
today. When the balance between
Saraswati and Lakshmi is thrown off it is not easily restored, but that is what
humanity will have to do one day.
Traditionally, Saraswati is the representative of peace,
while Lakshmi is the representative of wealth.
They should be held in a balance in life, but people tend to focus only
on Lakshmi. The story says that
Saraswati and Lakshmi cannot be kept together at the same time because humans tend to focus on Lakshmi’s wealth. Saraswati gets jealous of this attention and
she tends to leave, resulting in a focus on just wealth,
and a feeling of restlessness.
This is the root of the idea that “money cannot buy happiness”. No matter what you do, if you are only
focused on Lakshmi, you will lose sight of Saraswati and you will not be truly
happy because there will be no peace.
Although this one imbalance may seem small, it has big
impacts in life. It not only changes the
way you live and your outlook on life, but it affects other balanced
relationships in the world. The story
goes that Lakshmi does not like to be alone, so when Saraswati leaves, her
not-so-desirable twin Alakshmi shows up to keep her company. This is problematic because Alakshmi leaves
humanity with even more undesirable things in life because she represents all
the things that Lakshmi does not- everything that is unwanted.
For this reason, everyone must eventually make the journey
to finding who they are. Humans will
only find happiness and peace when they stop focusing on wealth and money.
There is no good.
There is no evil. There is only
balance.
To find that balance, humanity will have to find themselves
and find their true importance in life.
The balance will be restored only when people stop the greed and learn
to focus on others. When the balance is
restored, you will know. World hunger
will end, people will stop suffering from disease because pharmaceutical
companies will work together, everyone will be cared for and loved, there will
be no anger or jealousy, all stray animals will have a home, and there will be
no war.
If this seems too idealistic to be true, it is because you
are human, and you too have the same outlook on life. You too are caught in the imbalance of
Saraswati and Lakshmi, but fear not, for one day you will be enlightened.
Author’s note: This
story was based on Pattanaik’s Seven Secrets of Vishnu: Link to Videos, specifically sections
C and D. In this part of the video
series, there was a strong focus on the balance between Lakshmi , Saraswati,
and Alakshmi. I really enjoyed learning
about it and it seemed to make a lot of sense to me. I decided I wanted to write about how it
related to the world, but not from a human perspective. I tried to make the speaker mysterious so
that the reader can put in their own idea of who the author is, but I also
tried to identify them as someone with great power like a god.
