I'm a good soul?

When one considers the problem of peace, immediately we think of its opposites, aggression and war. It is a cornerstone dilemma of many generations: What are the roots of violence? What are the reasons for human impatience and cruelty? What is the way to protect ourselves from violence and preserve peace? Is peace an unfulfilled dream of humanity? We regard beauty and art as the most powerful mediums in the process of mutual understanding of different nations and their peaceful coexistence. In the past noble and lofty ideas of art and beauty were considered idealistic, superficial and abstract conceptions. In this reality all our present achievements, innovations and progress look meaningless unless we approach the real understanding of peace.

‘For man intellectually developed, mighty in scientific knowledge and the mastery of gross and subtle nature, using the elements as his servants and the world as his footstool, but undeveloped in heart and spirit, becomes only an inferior kind of demon, using the power of a demigod to satisfy animal nature’.

It was never said, ‘the hand kills not, but the thought’. Isn’t it true that the idea of killing another living being is already its potential realization? As a matter of fact a war is not outward disaster, it is an expression of ignorance and of the absolute absence of the culture of the heart. The continuous process of man’s isolation from nature, increasing of emotional, personal gaps between people, the loss of cultural and spiritual values of past generations, have reduced the capacity of man in sensitiveness and receptivity. He misses the sense of beauty of being (existence), no more does he consider himself a part of infinite creation.

From childhood the sense of unity is a natural feeling for man, there is need, thirst in a child for communication and friendship with the outer world. Slowly his mind impresses on its screen all prejudices, conventional divisions: political, social, religious, national, domestic, all the atavisms of society, he becomes a certain screw in a grandiose machine. In hierarchy, where people are separated between one’s people and strangers, rich and poor, etc., a man completely loses feelings of community and identity with his environment. The serene world of his childhood is revealed to him as strange and hostile.

As the saying goes” satya na jaane, shiv ko na maana, sunder na pehchana’, there is always difference between likeness and truth. ‘Likeness could be obtained by shapes and taste without spirit, but when Truth is reached, spirit and substance are both fully expressed. I have had heard people often calling them as good. What is Goodness? What is auspiciousness? Do we understand goodness or we identify it with our own measures within our interests? We hardly notice if the goodness is true or false because it’s always beautiful just as beauty may reflect truth or not, but is always good:)

Finally, I believe humanity is born from one set of parents. We are a family and we live in one home. It is in our interest try and put our differences aside and preserve this beautiful planet of ours. The underpinning to everything is the spirit. And the spirit manifests itself as the universe and all living things. Living things are clearer manifestation of the spirit and mankind is seen as the most transparent manifestation of the spirit. Hence reverence for the life becomes the central tenet of HUMANISM and is referred to as: Non-injury to any living form.

Satya jeet hey, ankur mein shiv, sundar phool hazaaran
Daya karo prabhu ho na kalankit, yeh vardaan tumahara