Jag Me Bairi Koi Nahi, Jo Man Sheetal Hoy |
Yah Aapaa To Daal De, Daya Kare Sab Koye ||
There are no enemies in the world if our mind is cool.
If we don’t have ego all are merciful to us.
--Santa Kabir
Sometime I wonder how deep our ancestors went to understand life and living creatures around them and how possibly we could cut it off from our mainstream and make this as a subject of mockery everywhere, and don’t even hesitate to join others to celebrate that mockery.
We believe in modern science, though hardly we came across any personal observation but we believe in atom, electron, proton neutron and other particles as the core in diversity of material world, behind a piece of diamond and my laptop same basic particles are gathered. Which is so difficult to comprehend but we accept. Even we didn’t stop over there we believe in string theory to explain energy and matters with same set of principle, but we don’t believe to our ancestor.
Similarly, our ancestor went to very core of the living organisms and try to identify commonalities and what gives them diversity, their object of study was all living creatures, individually and collectively, even whatever is happening around the society, in family and most importantly inside their own mind and also different religious practices around. Then they come up with the concept of atma, paramatma and maya as the basic building blocks of the living world.
Today we’ll try to understand how our ancestors took ‘Peace’ as a subject of discussion and practice. I think very few people will hesitate to appreciate the amazing display of prosperity what science and technology can do in the 21st century. This advancement has offered so much luxury and comforts on wish, more importantly which is available to common people, this was never possible for humanity before, even after keeping in mind the vast inequality of resource and wealth distribution of the current time also. Even after that we can’t tell, we live more peacefully ever before individually and collectively. On the contrary, in today’s world Peace and Mirage sounds so similar to humanity as never before. Quite often we blame the technological advancements itself for this, and left no stone un turn to capture the golden word peace, but yet we couldn’t find any magic button to embrace peace.
But there is no absence of effort and initiatives to bring peace from every part of society, every corner of the world, at all levels and capacities among humanity, but nothing seems working as expected. Most of the efforts sound like, as if we are putting some stone inside an empty mud pot and then shake it vigorously and then telling peace peace and peace. So not only the display of the effort is appearing or making the ambience very peaceful but also not gaining any ground on the way of the peace its targeting for. More often, it is seriously doubtful the performer of this action gains any peace in mind from this action.
This modern world believe in peace, in equal rights for everybody,…uttering any word which doesn’t go along with the word peace and equality is a public crime......will be criticized immediately and won’t go un-condemned socially. From State leaders of every States on the political map of the world, to the beauty pageant contestants, business community, corporate leaders, singers, artistes, even all religious leaders everybody is working hard with a single objective of the world peace! Even they all claim , they don’t hesitate to sacrifice their personal peace to achieve the world peace. But all these hard works are going into vein. The poets, after loosing hope from the world around them, ‘Imagine A day’ and hope everybody will join with their dream, but still peace appears unachievable.
Peace was a very important quest of the life for our ancestors also, but they took this in such a level which modern world could even come closer in their imagination. Over here this is an attempt to make sense of their actions, what they have reflected long long time ago to reach the Holly Grail of peace, which apparently seems some stupid deeds from the school of thought process of the modern world.
To them peace was never a public property or community property not even a family property it is the most precious individual property to earn. They are very self-centered in the matter of peace. All other groups were standing only at the receiver end of the fruit of action of a mind which is at a peaceful state, and others get benefit of this glow depending upon their distance from the light but if it at all ignites it will be at personal level not as a global phenomenon. So its meaningless to work hard for world peace. If individuals are in peace they will generated peace around him/herself and this will be cascaded, that is the only way to spread peace for them. Being world peaceful is just a natural outcome cannot be a goal.
When they started investigating they found an interesting particle present every time when a mind reaches in a state of peace. First it gets a state of completeness, content feeling then peace arrives. So they concluded this completeness sense is the key factor to peace. This sense of completeness may appear from infinitely different possible accomplishment for an individual at a particular point of time but the bull eye is not different, mind reaches a sense of fullness at the time of peace. So this is the key determining factor whether a mind is in peace or not ?
If that is the case, satisfying mind with what it needs should be the golden key to open the door for peace. Now our normal logic says if the flow of resource matches to the demand, mind can easily generate a content feeling, and the state of peaceful mind will be very much in our reach. Here they found something apparently unbelievable, the relation between psychological supply and demand is not an addition and subtraction problem, it appears more like numerator and denominator. So in spite of concentrating on the numerator if we focus on the denominator and attempt to keep it down, whatever little we can put in numerator, mind will feel plenty and it can reach the state of content and importantly it can stay in peace.
At this very point peace effort between modern world and their world took a radical diversion. In today’s world belief : Abandon brings peace, so we are trying to generate more and more resource to spread among unfortunates and thinking we are in right track to achieve world peace. On the other hand they tried to gain control over their very own mind from generating more and more needs in name of freewill, to achieve peace. And more importantly they didn’t take this as a message to pass on to others to achieve world peace but they tried to practice this in their very own life and what they wanted to pass on is only the glow come out as action from them when they achieve a peaceful state of mind.
So we need to tame down, or discourage our mind to discover gaps or sense of incompleteness, no matter whatever is the urge spawning them, from a very selfish need to so called social welfare or any absolute selfless act. Allowing it to grow without any break does always adversely impact peace individually and collectively. But that doesn’t reduce the importance and necessity and the greatness of the selfless actions to the humanity but if we try to justify this action in name of peace that won’t be correct. Our modern concept of development may not go in line with this, but we all will agree simply by increasing number of Nobel peace prize or amount will not have any contribution to the real world peace. In other word any form of “Greed is not good” for peace , no matter whatever dynamism it can bring to the society, it cannot bring peace.
Probably we could stop over here covering enough about peace but our ancestor went much deeper than this. Earlier we discussed, their message for peace was very personal but that doesn’t mean they have any less Emotional Quotient, in management terminology. If they come across somebody who lost his/her peace of mind, they were equally moved as we do for our friends and relatives. They also get the same pain as we get today, what we call compassion today.
Normally what we try to do at that situation ? if providing the resource to the individual, if in of our scope or capacity, then we try to ease him by giving example from our own life and our method of resolving the situation, but almost at every attempt, it fails. Very basic reason is the gap or emptiness which took away peace from him/her, spawn from very uniquely clustered needs, with so much diversity to the matrix, there is no universal tool to ease a turbulent mind….or is there ?
They figured out music or sound has tremendous impact in mind, right sound. Right vibration, like ringing a heavy bell, can effect mood to such extend which no other senses can do. So they created some shlokas by carefully selecting and sewing sounds, which can generate a feeling of completeness at any mind at any state. And that was their only direct effort of bringing peace in others mind. Not only the sound but also the literal meaning of those shlokas are also very important, reminding or exalt the inherit completeness of every life form, in other word true universal completeness.
I’ll conclude my writing with one such shloka :
ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते |
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ||
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ||
Om Poornamadah, Poornamidam
Poornaad Poornamudachyate;
Poornasya Poornamaadaaya
Poornamevaavashisyate
Om, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti !
The invisible is full;
The visible, too, is full.
From the full, the full having come;
The full remains the same.
- Om, whatever we are seeing ( here seeing may not be very correct word, it is not what we are seeing outside, it is something what we see as me) is complete, whatever is beyond of our comprehension ( what people describe as God) is also complete, From that completeness only this completeness appeared.This completeness is like infinity in mathematical concept, no matter whatever way we distribute it, only completeness remains. And then finally it reminds..
Om, Peace peace peace
Is there something else more rational or logical and truly universal can be done in the aspect of peace ? So can we tell our ancestors were, what do we call ourselves ……smart!
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