The avenging or punishing of past mistakes or misdeeds = the reckoning.

It sounds harsh, but it is, in effect, one way of describing how the Law of Karma operates.

As we humans are beset with past mistakes or misdeeds, whatever are we to do while simultaneously trying to maintain peace, harmony, and serenity?

Our planet and we its inhabitants seem to be quickly approaching a precipice. And if steps are not taken to rectify matters, our grandchildren and their children likely will inherit a planet not conducive to life as we

know it.

Unless you are a politician running for reelection, playing the blame game card will get you (us) nowhere. Were we in midst of some minor, easily correctable ‘adjustments,’ then maybe we could try to assess blame as in, “Who, why and what could they (we) have been thinking to create such a cesspool for the generations of sentient beings being sentenced to insufferable environmental pain — most of which was preventable?”.

No, it is far too late for WHY, there is barely enough time for WHAT (to do).

Unlike Covid, we know the source of today’s crises. And they didn’t escape from a Chinese laboratory or an Indian ashram or a Japanese wok or the White House kitchen.

The good news is since we humans are the culprits—the usual and unusual suspects—we can look at our actual and proverbial mirrors for clues that intimate solutions. However…

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein.

Hence our source of thinking—our MINDS—need training, transformation, and serious tweaking. In truth it is way too late for tweaking—minor corrections or actions intended to make political or short-term monetary gain.

For example, GREED is perhaps one of the more egregious of the SIX CROCODILES that trouble us and create havoc (Attachment, anger, pride, lust, jealousy, greed).

If greed’s base is insecurity—as opposed to plain old evil—then what? It is an intense and selfish desire for wealth or power and it is more dangerous than a pandemic.

If some of us are not hopeful about the future, we can hardly be blamed. Why? Because what is being screamed from the rooftops is the apparent UNFAIRNESS of just about everything, ranging from dereliction of duty to help the poor and helpless, to unconscionable destruction of air, soil, water and other resources upon which all of us depend.

In the 1976 film, “Network,” Howard Beale shouted from the rooftops, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”.

In 2025, it is likely too late for mere anger—righteous or otherwise. ‘Getting even’ is more to the point if we are to soothe our bodies, minds, and souls.

Idam na mama—not my will but Thy will be done.

The truth is we can go about our lives secure in the knowledge and embraced by the feeling that an omnipotent Power is taking care.

But our welfare is not a spectator sport that allows us to lean back and observe as if we were at a basketball game.

We absolutely must do our part to improve matters. The awesome power of Agnihotra has given us the tool to do so.

It is an antidote to the horrible environmental fix we have gotten ourselves into. It can ‘heal the atmosphere’ and allow the atmosphere to heal us.

We are all in the sinking boat of today’s reality. The life-saving raft is a small copper pyramid healing fire done at each sunrise and sunset.