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New ways bring novelty in the mechanism and production ? Not always. I am talking about the advent of mass media and how it shaped the spiritual guidance ways as they are today.

When the ease of printing became easier than ever spiritual books, vedic texts, and puranic scriptures started becoming available to the common man who was until now almost cutoff from the actual guidance ways by the traditional teachers (or Gurus). This had two effects on the spiritual guidance system –

• Common man started grasping the sacred knowledge without the guidance of a guru.
• The practice of getting such knowledge from guru started fading away.

Judging these effects to be good or bad will lead us to an unnecessary argument which will conclude nothing. The only major effect this advent had was that the common man started concluding the meaning of such texts in his own way which satiated himself. The old way of understanding this knowledge was broken. The results were not instant though.

Over the years, the common man started to conclude and pass on the confused, half-baked knowledge to his generations which further did so or else found faults and flaws in the spiritual path practice which were absent in the first place. After finding loopholes and flaws in their own ways, people started to abandon the practices slowly resulting in a much lower population of a generation which was worried about its self-realization.

The break also allowed many such generations that were though away from the path but came closer due to it. They read, understood and felt something which was not there in the world. That big gap which they abruptly filled with misfitting worldly love and material desires. It did not cover the gap but rendered it inept. That gap is due the missing link between a man and the divine. People came closer to the spiritual highway and also made evident people their Gurus which further guided them to the incessant light.

It is sad how people argue and deny existence of such crucial aspects and dimensions of life when it is not actually their fault that they are unaware of the knowledge. The break was not useful but neither useless at least. It is best not to judge anything because that is not one’s goal. It is the bridging of the link and filling the wide gap created by many such advents.

Bhagvadgita chapter 4 verse 11 reads,

“ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham
mama vartmanuvartante manusyah partha sarvasah”

TRANSLATION

In whatever way men approach Me, even so do I reward them; Men tread My path in many ways, O Arjuna !

Thanks for reading ! Hare Krishna.

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