Vanaspateya Shantih

What to do if the on the face reality starts overpowering your own perception of reality. It's a question I've been wrestling with ever since the internet brought the actual reality of the country on our faces. The simple answer is having multiple modules of reality, one your own reality that you have been seeing and believing in since your childhood and the second the reality which is too on the face to be able to reject. You can have multiple modules too, and that's a thing that I learnt being a writer but that approach is for writers who build and explore worlds, like a writer who writes Harry Potter can also write The Casual Vacancy, two different worlds, diffrent treatments, for common people like me, unless I am really creating and exploring worlds, two modules of the reality can suffice, facts anyway in both the modules remain the same. You know what the actual problem with facts and truth is, especially the worldly kind of truths? That they can be, and they are, manufactured. And now at present on an industrial scale. The real truth mostly remains hidden. In India, as I have seen, majority of people are living an inauthentic life. At present even vibes and your feelings can and do lie. So, the best course of action is taking a code and sticking to it. Religion, gives pretty solid codes to abide by and you can take the framework, I prefer the seven deadly sins of Christianity, they are simple to follow. You should follow the framework not because you want to get saved from eternal hell, but because sins or transgressions, are taken, especially in countries like India, as blueprint for exploitation, extortion and blackmail. Follow the basics, practice altruism, and see the great ancient civilization stripping and pole dancing in front of you. Of course there is no God. The amount of suffering I have gone through for no reason at all and the subjective evidences I have got, unfortunately they are facts but by their very design they can only be subjective, existence of God is impossible, but only the kind of all loving, all caring God which we have grown up believing in. God that empowers exists and it takes the shape of your faith and belief. This God takes the shape of Goddess Kali if you have faith, takes the shape of Jesus, or any God for that matter, and empowers you from within. The external and a layer even within you that is just above your real self and just below your interaction with the external environment, is political. So, the truth is God doesn't exist, but he kind of does, in your faith, in your belief, in your reverence. Also, don't discard your traditions just because the socio-political setup is demonic. Especially the traditions you love, continue them, if it is possible, in any little way you can. Try to preserve, if possible, the parts of the culture you love.