MIDNIGHT FLASHES ... 1
Human love is limited. Restricted by social structures, confined by carnal compulsions, hindered in its play by the obstructive body, love suffers a daily death, and the result is war.
Inner expansion is way more desirable for it allows the spontaneous interplay of the faculties that lead to rapid evolution of the soul and peacefulness of the being. This is what is termed spiritual growth and this, indeed, is the way ahead in a storm-tossed world. This, for sure, is the path to peace, the way of individual illumination for the diffusion of collective wisdom for enlightened co-existence.
But for this to materialise, doctrinaire religions and political ideologies will have to be made ineffective by the proliferation of liberal scientific education. This is a deal more difficult than it superficially seems but this must be the agenda to be activated on a war footing if humanity is to survive the ravages of restrictive thinking that is termed ideological fanaticism. Petty familial, provincial, national, racial, religious and political interest must give way to a universal outlook where humanity as a whole benefits and not any particular section of it. But in today's international structure such an order of existence is, as yet, a far cry.
Posterity shall pronounce its judgement on us if we let them down terribly by remaining inactive on global issues for securing regional gains. And this is why we need to expand, not by 'the way of all flesh' but by pursuit of the path of the spirit, by traversing terrain in the inner realm where one may find oneself and peace and light with it.
Written by Sugata Bose
Human love is limited. Restricted by social structures, confined by carnal compulsions, hindered in its play by the obstructive body, love suffers a daily death, and the result is war.
Inner expansion is way more desirable for it allows the spontaneous interplay of the faculties that lead to rapid evolution of the soul and peacefulness of the being. This is what is termed spiritual growth and this, indeed, is the way ahead in a storm-tossed world. This, for sure, is the path to peace, the way of individual illumination for the diffusion of collective wisdom for enlightened co-existence.
But for this to materialise, doctrinaire religions and political ideologies will have to be made ineffective by the proliferation of liberal scientific education. This is a deal more difficult than it superficially seems but this must be the agenda to be activated on a war footing if humanity is to survive the ravages of restrictive thinking that is termed ideological fanaticism. Petty familial, provincial, national, racial, religious and political interest must give way to a universal outlook where humanity as a whole benefits and not any particular section of it. But in today's international structure such an order of existence is, as yet, a far cry.
Posterity shall pronounce its judgement on us if we let them down terribly by remaining inactive on global issues for securing regional gains. And this is why we need to expand, not by 'the way of all flesh' but by pursuit of the path of the spirit, by traversing terrain in the inner realm where one may find oneself and peace and light with it.
Written by Sugata Bose
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