Editorial
God Save the World
it’s not at all healthy
Nothing seems to be going on well. If people belong to different systems, and wish to practice their systems quietly for their well-being and pray for the good of the world, it’s a noble thing. But if a person of one system will not practice his or her system, and forces others to bend to his or her system, it leads to conflict. The Hindu since ages has been quietly going on with his or her business. Hindus have welcomed all races with open hands. They have built god-houses for everyone with immense pleasure. So far so good. But if the invited guests think that they will dominate over the Hindu, break all his or her worship places, kill all and impose their systems on all, it is nothing but misery. And Indian history is replete with stories of such impositions leading to sorrow.
God save the world. May the grace of Ishvara be on all human beings and by His grace, may all have proper thinking abilities to see what is right and what is wrong objectively, correctly.
History will not teach lessons, unfortunately. Or, will it? Will Durant thought it will teach the seeker. There are only three ways of learning: from thinking, from personal experience, and from other people’s experiences. The third one is the safest in social life. We should learn lessons from history so as not to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Just imagine there is another virus epidemic, another vaccine, another investigation into the vaccine fraud if any. This becomes a routine error.
Drastic decisions are to be made now to keep the world calm and cool. Wars were a passion in ancient times and almost till now this trend continues. But with the advent of the AI world, perhaps we can spend all our kshatriya or warrior energy towards building. The dream would be for all the war-mongering people to channelize their energies towards creating newer habitable lands on the earth. 75% is water, 12-13% is desert. If newer lands can be created with the newer technologies, maybe positive work can be done for humanity of posterity.
May Sri Ramakrishna guide us all towards the supreme Light. This is the eternal prayer of all of us.
Swami Sunirmalananda