As the year takes off, let us reflect on how we began it, and how we can carry that energy through the whole year to come! Just a few weeks ago we wished each other, ‘A very happy Diwali and New Year to you and your family! May the millions of lamps of Diwali illuminate your life with happiness, joy and peace.’ Peace is the beauty of life. Peace is like the promised blossom or ‘the blue rose’ of life. Even more than happiness, we have a longing and wish for peace.
Yet, who has felt happiness and peace during the last few years? Aren’t we all in a constant inner conflict with ourselves? When so many people are fighting for things at the individual level, it creates greater possibilities of a bigger fight. This precipitates as small and big wars all over the planet. Wars are terrible, and certainly unnatural. Nature, sometimes brings about calamities, which are natural and cannot be avoided. Every other problem, which is unnatural, can and should be avoided. We cannot force any powerful person or nation to stop wars and other unnatural practices, unless we practice a natural way of life ourselves. How will others honour and listen to our advice? What difference does it make whether there is war or peace outside, if we don’t cease our inner conflicts?
There are two things that we can do in this direction. We know that society is made up of many individuals and that the beginning of anything is always at the individual level. Thus, we can understand that each one of us is independent and free to practise our own way forward. Firstly, we have to stop our inner fight, understand that peace is the goal of life, and that meditation is the beginning of the way to work on oneself. This effort, and beginning, allows us to put a brake on the ‘corruption’ done by the mind. It increases confidence and works like a ‘siddhi’ (accomplished action) to convey similar thoughts and impress their importance on others around us.
The second thing we can do is to live a conscious social life, bringing peace into our environment and into the world. We can actively propagate the idea of the disadvantages of fights and wars and the advantages of meditative practices, striving for balanced mind and living in peace, both outside and inside. Peace is not only silence – it is a state of contentment, and the freedom to enjoy ourselves. Sometimes, we forget that we may cause much unrest in the name of peace. Silence, order and harmony are the basic needs or tools to work on this great human project of peace. From each person, meditation and the work towards peace can spread to another.
Meditation reduces fear and brings creativity into life. For a meditator and a person who understands that all living is a creative program, life is beautiful under all circumstances. So, please bring meditation into your life and in a quiet moment project a thought for peace for mankind. This will help you and others by brightening your aura. With one’s own illuminated aura, we can help light up the aura in others – from one lamp, light up another – and in this way celebrate Deepawali in its true spirit, throughout the year and throughout life!
Well said awesome..
Thank u God bless u