Action based on such inadequate knowledge must give rise to mistakes and its attendant suffering. A high degree of concentration of negative forces, without positive forces to balance them, ends in suffering and destruction of life. Many such actions accumulate and concentrate that destructive quality in the society at large. Eventually it breaks out in some form of suffering, which is described as being opposed to life. Then quite suddenly conches, horns, kettledrums, tabors and drums blared forth, and the sound was tumultuous.
Nature ensures great flexibility for the growth of good or evil in the atmosphere.
The sudden burst of the lion roar of Bhishma and the tumultuous noise produced by the whole army symbolized the great cry of nature announcing the breaking-point of the immeasurable evil that Duryodhana and his supporters had accumulated for themselves. The ideal path of evolution, as we have seen, is one of progress. Here Maharishi explains that such growth can continue without a catastrophic impact on life for some time, and the opportunity to restore balance continues to be available. There comes a point, however, when the limits of this flexibility are reached, and the accumulated influence suddenly breaks. Those who have created the negative influence must bear its effects, just as those who create a positive influence reap its rewards.