Peace is the most sought of mystery of human life. Both spiritualism and materialism aim at it. Those who are at peace know that there can be no universal peace, harmony oneness, togetherness, unity joy, happiness or any such glimpses of human love for us unless it is for one and all. We may claim to bring peace by wars, violence and the similar acts but universal consciousness breathing through nature gives us peace without our any attempt.
To understand it, let us take that we breathe, eat, drink, hear, see; heartbeats, digestion takes place, nervous system works, etc. and thus all of the nine systems of our body function naturally and peacefully. We get the sunlight and the heat from the sun. Similarly, plants, birds, animals grow and seasons come with their own flow. If we keep on pondering and deliberating about it, we will find that all that happens in the nature is happening peacefully.
We may wonder that if everything is happening peacefully and naturally. Then what are the reasons that we are not at ease and peace most of the times? If we reflect on the gift of nature of free will to us, we may find an answer to our not having peace and harmony at global level. Our free will gives us freedom to select and act and its beauty of harmony of selection of thought and action that we are enjoying this modern age of science and technology.
Our free will is the key to peace and self-awareness. We have to learn to use it for peaceful living. We sometimes fail to learn it properly when we learn the lessons only of spiritualism or materialism. We, thus, condition our free will and this conditioning goes to sub-levels. For example, different divisions and differences present in almost all faculties of human knowledge.
We may find it in Religion, Philosophy, Psychology, Education and Science. The learning of social life so far developed by our own free will in all areas, say art, science, technology etc., and the social works related to these needs both self and social awareness for the welfare of humanity. It will get us out of ignorance, which produces disharmony with the Mother Nature and universal consciousness.
Peace and free will are mutually dependent, as if bestowing the fruits of voice of conscience directing our free will towards peace, about which the great scientist of our times, Sir Albert Einstein says that the most beautiful thing that we can experience is mysterious.
It is the soul of all true art and science. He or she to whom the emotion is strangers, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is good is dead; his or her eyes are closed.
The insight into the mystery of life coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms— this knowledge and these feelings are, is at the center of true religiousness.
We also wish to share that when we direct our free will towards oneness with nature, it gives inner or internal awareness; peace and harmony and thus, we usually call that development spiritualism. In addition, when we direct it towards separation from nature, like being an observer, it becomes materialism, which gives awareness, peace and harmony of possessions and thus external or outer development in the colors of materialism.
If we combine both, we will have free will having oneness with nature and her outputs. The idea is that the seed and all that grows from it need our oneness with it for universal peace. It needs an individual effort to grasp the concept of love, peace and harmony.
Accepting peace, love and harmony and all that is related to it as the gifts from mother nature beautifying it with touch of knowledge, wisdom, truth, reality and thus concepts of humanity results in self awareness and development leading to peaceful living.
Thus, if peace is our ultimate aim, let us learn to live by means of and for peace, love and harmony for all by directing our free will towards it with the feeling of love, oneness, unity, and togetherness for universal relatedness.
Thanking you for your reading and everything that we have in common for all that is for welfare and development of natural and human world.
P.S.: This message was distributed in USA, Canada and many other countries of the East and West in 1999 and onwards. Also read in an assembly, people’s gathering in Washington DC. Thanks!
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