What is the main cause of all the suffering in the world?
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What is the root cause of all the suffering in this world?
It is the endless hankering after transient assets and pleasures. It is this endless hankering that is behind every war, behind every atrocity, behind every plunder and behind the wholesale hoodwinking of the people at large all over the world.
Instead of asking God for pure bhakti devotion, people ask for everything else except bhakti. That is what is really tragic.
However, the houses, lands, cars and every other material asset over which man spends his entire life... not one of these assets is eternal. You cannot take any one of these with you.
But there is one thing that you can take with you. What is that? It is bhakti. Bhakti will accompany you even after the body shuts down. Bhakti will protect you now and it will protect you into far reaches of time, for bhakti alone is our eternal asset.
Some people know this and some don't. And then there are some who learn this and forget it.
Siddha Sathguru Venkataraman said that the Lord created the Thiru Nallur sacred space to redeem such people of the Kali Yuga and show them the right way to the divine kingdom of bhakti devotion.
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