The heartlessness of the world can only be combated by the spread of true spiritual culture. In fact, culture in all its phases must be disseminated through the world, education in all the diverse disciplines man is heir to and man has the potential to discover. This is the one hope in this world of utter hopelessness where misery reigns like a permanent resident in this house of folly and erring man seems to have settled into a practised perfection of the execution of peace in this trial of life.
What a waste of human life! What vanity in ignorance does
humankind exhibit when it throws everything into the chaos of violent modes and
methods and plunges the world often in the grief of war! Can violence settle
anything? If one party takes up arms then defence through arms is legitimate
and even the righteous course of things for patronizing wickedness and evil can
never be condoned. The tyrants of the world will perpetrate terror and the
civilized people will endure it non-violently, this can never be an option for
weakness masking as virtue is a pernicious vice indeed. But the roots of
violence must be sought and one will be astounded to find them in the recesses
of a violent home where behavioural disorders are set up, attitudes stiffened
into unbending arrogance and destructive tendencies are activated which will
cause devastation to millions lying in the radial path of the evil one as he
advances in his triumphal march of terror. Thus, the disturbed home is the hotbed of
violence and all malevolent influences that afflict society and unless the
atmosphere of the home be made congenial for the healthy development of the
child, there can never be any hope of permanent peace in the world.
Doctrinaire religion and political philosophy must not be taught to the child-mind in its most impressionable years and a liberal education should supplant all such nefarious influences. There is no heaven or hell that man should be enticed into the belief of before he learns to square on face the reality of this world into which he is born. Let man learn self-confidence from birth instead of faith in invisible forces that may or may not be there to guide the destiny of man. A healthy rationalism and never a pernicious one, for essentially all violent rationalism intended on conversion to its fold the multitude is also a variant of faith that destroys the dignity of man, ought to be the diet of the child-mind and along with it the fine arts to refine its sensibilities such that the sheer restraint bred in the formative years and the appreciation of beauty will act as a deterrent in later life when the impulsions of situations and circumstances will tend to quicken up passions and dangerously draw distressed souls into the maelstrom of megalomaniacal madness. The seeds of destruction must be nipped in the bud and, that too, in an enlightened way, else, there will be the inevitable recurrence, the periodic manifestation of these symptoms that will draw their adherents to their fold and heap on humanity the same horror which has brutalized its past and driven civilizations to despair. Most importantly, we should create an environment where violence and vice shall not find a fertile breeding ground for ceaseless flourish as history has thus far borne testimony to, and only then may we see a semblance of a lasting peace here on this strife-stricken world of ours.
The problem is one of the harmony of disparate forces, arrayed as they are in opposition, seeking resolution through combat but never quite assured, thereby, of an eventual alignment which will have put paid to all such future feuds. There are no easy solutions to these human problems in the external world, especially in a dynamic scenario of evolving situations and circumstances and the evolving consciousness of man battling with the inertia of man's chequered past. Understanding cultures, their diversity, their roots, milieu, attitudes, hopes and aspirations, their growth patterns and meanderings, all these will have to be comprehended if a harmonic human society will obtain based on pluralism. Exclusiveness is the bane of human society and intolerance its basis. The vast terrain of the world with its diverse climatic conditions and anthropic evolution necessitates a diversity of approaches to solving the riddle of existence and thus diverse disciplines of the spirit termed as religion or tradition have evolved in different places across the globe. To hope that the world will be a happy home for humans if it is a monolith in culture and conception is vanity indeed bred in vice and ought not to be entertained by right-thinking people if peace is to be pursued in all earnestness. The diversity of human modes and methods must be accepted as intrinsic to human culture and the progress of civilization must be along the lines of the development of these tools of human endeavour. Exclusiveness, be it of religion or political philosophy or privilege, is so divisive and vicious a means that it invariably causes fractures in human society and is never conducive to the attainment of peace on Earth. Liberalism is civilized and is the way forward as we march towards the ever-elusive millenium. Its appeal is not fanatical nor its adherents in the billions but it is the way for all for it includes all in its wide arms and leaves out none save the ones that cling to their fanatical forms of ideology or faith and choose to stand outside the ambit of the harmony of human forces, the plurality of human existence. This liberalism must be inculcated in individuals right from their childhood through their academic curriculum. Only then will its catholic principles of mutual goodwill and acceptance be absorbed and assimilated in the nerve-fibre of every being ushering in the Age of Peace and Enlightenment.
Eventually, though, it will have to be Vedantic education that will have to be imparted to the future citizens of the world for humanity to be conscious of the essential divinity of all that exists and of the imperative of human evolution of the unfolding of such spiritual possibility for all. Man will then realize the utter folly of territorial gains or any material advancement of a section of humanity at the cost of others and will look towards the higher pursuits of life as the means of human advancement. Culture will flourish once more and this time it will be based on the secure foundation of spiritual and scientific knowledge and not on brother man's blood. The ideals of civilization and the high idealism of liberty, equality and fraternity in all its catholicity will then, for the first time, be realized and segmented, tortured, fractured growth of man through a deluge of blood will then be a thing of the past, never to visit humankind again. The pestilence of the past having been relegated to the dustbin of history, humanity will arise like the phoenix from the ashes of the dead past with the voice of truth and hope and of the Spirit enthroned within. Man will mark out a new destiny for himself, no more a tool of Nature, subject to its vicissitudes or his own violent passions, no more a creature of his own concoctions, of his misapprehensions of his mission of Earth, but a renascent being full of the exaltation of a high hope and a common sympathy for all his brethren and all that they are heir to. A golden age of human living will then ensue which will see no war save the one against ignorance that ever threatens to shroud the awakening consciousness of man. May the heavens open up to shower benediction on such a future of man! Long live humanity!
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