Spiritual Entropy: Now and Then – 09.02.10

Student Comment: When you mentioned the “Hundredth Yogi Effect,” or critical mass, I remembered all of the other spiritual traditions, such as Christianity, Buddhism, etc., which all had great expectations to transform the world as well. I agree that the problem of the world today is a spiritual problem, but I have noticed that there is a continual falling away of spiritual movements, and I wanted to know why this is.

“The spiritual traditions that are now dying . . . were formed at what’s called the ‘Axial Age.’ They were what sustained humanity as the human ego became darker and denser and more materialistic,” explains Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And there has been a fall. ‘The Fall of Man’ is a true concept. And these religions were to maintain the Light in the darkness, but they all recognized that the darkness was increasing. . . . And this was understood: that we would come to such a climax, you could say, of the situation on earth in which the souls would reach their lowest point of entropy, but it would be at that point when we would awaken. And because of the realization of what we have done to the planet, we would reclaim our spiritual birthright and overcome the forces of darkness and bring about a new age. . . . But we have to bring this about; we can’t wait for a messiah or a Buddha to come. We have to be the avatars who bring this about; we must take responsibility for this.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 2, 2010.