DIVERSE THOUGHTS

1. All our life's work is feeding the world outside which is full of contradictions. Hence, conflict is common.

2. Peace is not possible till we look within and discover our detached Self. All our human associations cause grief.

3. Monastic life must be built around meditation with work issuing from it. Lay life must follow the reverse pattern.

4. The question of high and low in the social order must be replaced by recognising the complementary relations of the 'varnas' in a sphere of cosmic consciousness.

5. China must modernise Tibet without attempting to obliterate its cultural identity, for that would be a counter-civilisation move. Some say that Tibet which was thus far an independent nation till China invaded and annexed it, will regain her independence in the future and I sincerely hope that such an event comes to pass but the emerging might of China might make such a happening impossible in the current scenario, although, the tortuous progress of history might deem otherwise in the long run as power equations alter radically.Sugata Bose Right, and if you read it rightly, that is what I have implied in the latter part of my comment. But then many a civilisation in the past have been wiped off the face of the earth for good by invasions which have forever changed the contours of history. A case in point is the extermination of aboriginals in the Americas and the wiping out of local cultures and religions in the Middle-East by the forces of aggression, namely, the colonising Europeans in the former case and the all-conquering Arabs in the latter.

6. Cultural invasion is a violence against which no international sanctions are ever imposed. Ponder please.

7. Intolerant religions will die their natural deaths with the spread of education. Conversions to their fold will not secure them their future.

8. The Trade Towers were terrible with US at the receiving end. What about Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the aggressor was US?

9. The asymmetrical nature of the flow of 'gunas' keeps the world in its dynamic equilibrium. Periodic adjustments are embedded in the system.

10. Hinduism is invincible for it is founded on the absolute truth of Reality.

11. One day of growth and one night of decay. This constitutes the rise and fall of civilisation exhibiting the sinusoidal wave.

12. Be frugal in habits and regal in charity.