Human life is a journey out of darkness to Light. Something in man cries for light and this cry takes different forms in our individual and social life. The sage meditating on the mountain tops in a mood of prayer is one form of expression of this cry; while revolutions that send the world into a convulsion towards rapid change are another expression of the same cry!
Yet there is also something in man that resists this light and clings to the darkness as if he had loved it forever. Orthodoxy, convention and ritualistic routine are one expression of this resistance; doubts and despair, a desperate holding on to the past, inertia and obscurantism are other forms of this resistance.
Therefore is the future always born out of a conflict, a conflict between what was and what yet can be? Our present fate is not merely an extension of a past trajectory but also the pull towards the future. Out of the battle between the past and the future, our present is born. Therefore evil is nothing but good in the passing or a good in the making. What must go today was something that was yet useful in the past. Similarly what now appears to us so imperfect may well be the attempt of a future that is yet unborn and is trying to express itself clumsily.
It is so with all things. Our victories of today, however great and in whatever field they may be, are merely shadows of a Light that is still to show up. And what appears to us as a crimson glory today is only a promise, a distant gleam of a Splendour yet to emerge out of the Night.
