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   PROUT Gems   
      
   THE FALSE SENTIMENT OF THE WAR CRY   
      
   What drives the madness for going to war and this resort to animalistic   
   mentality.  Calls by Bush and his deputies in countries such as the United   
   Kingdom and Australia to go to war with Iraq are based on the lowest notion   
   of what constitutes the human personality.  The same is also true of   
   countries that suppress human rights and do not seek to elevate the status   
   of their people.  War is the black spot on humanity.  All good people would   
   like to believe there will be a world for our grandchildren that elevates   
   and advances the human condition and human society.  They have no time for   
   ego-driven, power-mongering people who attract attention to themselves by   
   preying on base emotions and sentiments.   
      
   The world is more complicated than the old dualism of 'you are for us or   
   against us'.  Such crude mental projections create false sentiments in the   
   minds of people, but are the sort of sentiments being built up by   
   opportunistic 'leaders' around the world.  A greater and universalistic   
   vision is required which means an expansion of consciousness.  The following   
   exemplify the universalistic and human approach and contrast starkly to the   
   animalistic approach common in foreign policy of the superpower and its   
   deputy nations.   
      
   "Only a few, here and there, really grasp the vision of the future and   
   realise what is going on, seeing truly the beauty of the emerging Plan ...   
   mankind [will advance] into a civilization and a state of consciousness in   
   which right human relations and worldwide cooperation for the good of all   
   will be the universal keynote." - Djwhal Khul   
      
   "The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest   
   spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the   
   joy that will burst into the world on the day of that great revolution." -   
   Federico Garcia Lorca   
      
   "A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe', a part limited   
   in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as   
   something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his   
   consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to   
   our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our   
   task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of   
   compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its   
   beauty." - Albert Einstein   
      
   "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of   
   thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein   
      
   It has to be recognised that human expressions are trifarious - physical,   
   mental and spiritual.  Social relations based on the physical aspirations of   
   people will tend to incline towards narrow dogmas as the mind is preoccupied   
   with limited and relative concepts of right and wrong, nationalistic and   
   limited social sentiments.  Human beings have physical longings and out of   
   these physical longings capitalism came into existence where such people   
   consider they can attain unquenchable thirst for happiness through physical   
   things or power. Capitalists toil day and night for money. This may be a   
   natural desire but physical objectivity is finite, hence the infinite desire   
   to accumulate finite physical objects is a psychic ailment.  It needs to be   
   cured.  Human beings also have unquenchable, infinite psychic longings, and   
   out of these excessive psychic longings psychic ailments can arise and   
   people become abnormal when a balance is lost in terms of mental expression   
   so that intelligence is applied towards lower psychic propensities instead   
   of expanding the mind.  The object of psychic longings associated with   
   physicalities is also finite, but the object of higher psychic longing is   
   not (it is expansionary for the mind).   The psychic ailments based on   
   narrow sentiments also lead to clash with others and create many have-nots.   
   We have to divert physical longings to psychic and spiritual longings to   
   avoid a fratricidal war, and thereby safeguard human rights.  In this   
   regard, capitalism is not the real urge of human beings, nor is it natural.   
   It is equivalent to a mere animal leaning and of basic instincts.  It denies   
   and vilifies higher human aspirations.  It can never have any association   
   with spirituality - although some try to equate it with religion to satisfy   
   their own petty desires.  That same animal sentiment is now driving the war   
   cry.   
      
   It is blatantly obvious that a world without war is possible if countries   
   use the money spent on weapons to meet the needs of the world's population.   
   What hinders this is the outdated and narrow sentiments of nationalism and   
   capitalism.  These can only be overcome through the call of the Universal.   
      
   NATIONALISM AND UNIVERSALISM   
      
   PR Sarkar has given an extensive analysis of the folly of nationalism and   
   the need for a universalistic outlook for a real human society to take   
   shape.  A glimpse into these ideas follow.   
      
   Nationalism is fast becoming outdated.  Not only has the national sentiment   
   given humanity rude shocks in the world wars of this century, but the social   
   and cultural blending of the present age also shows the growing domination   
   of cosmopolitanism in world affairs.  Vested interests, however, continue to   
   cause certain divisive tendencies.  Despite these obstacles, a social   
   blending of humanity is in progress and needs a common constitutional   
   structure to cement the solidarity of the world.  A world government is also   
   essential to exercise effective control in certain spheres.  For example,   
   there should be only one world military force.  The world government should   
   form certain autonomous units (not necessarily national) to deal with   
   problems such as education, food supply, and flood control.  The boundaries   
   of these units may be readjusted to reflect the development of more   
   sophisticated communication techniques.  Such development brings the remote   
   parts of the world nearer and the world therefore grows smaller.  ("Idea and   
   Ideology")   
      
   The idea that this is national and that is foreign, that a particular person   
   is fit for the citizenship of a particular country while others are not or   
   have no rights at all, cannot stand.  In reality, only vested interests   
   appear intensely interested in such illusory matters.  All people are world   
   citizens by birth.  Every human being has the right to go and settle   
   anywhere and to live like a human being.  If any group of people of any   
   country is not ready to accept this fundamental right of living beings, then   
   it should be understood that their utterances for "peace" are only meant to   
   cheat and bluff others.  ("Problem of the Day")   
      
      
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