Meetu Singh
Hiḿsáy unmatta prthvii nitya nit́hura dvandva
Ghora kut́ila pantha táhára lobha jat́ila bandha.
Rabindranath Tagore
[Mad with violence is the world, Cruel are the battles which [[rage]] each day.
Crooked indeed are the ways of the world Bound by the noose of greed.]
The various races and countries have been plagued with clashes and conflicts due to petty, selfish interests. Every house is shaken with conflict.
How many wars have plagued the world?
How much blood has flowed into the rivers of the world?
So can we truly say that there is no difference between people?
Where is the unity which creates a common bond among human beings?
To get the proper answer, one has to go deep into human psychology because true unity lies in the realm of the human mind.
The starting point of the origin of human beings and the culminating point of their movement is the same
Fundamentally all human beings are equal.
The extroversial mind of human beings, due to inherent Saḿskaras, becomes obsessed with and influenced by the external environment. A person influenced by the imposed Saḿskaras of the society may start to hate another person, but this hostility, this enmity, is something external. Internally, all human beings feel a deep attraction for others.
The cosmological balance is maintained due to this attraction amongst the different objects and entities. From atoms and molecules to human beings with developed consciousness, all entities feel attraction for one another. He keeps all the finite entities bound to Him by His inscrutable Cosmic Love.
That is why one should remember that attraction is the law of nature. Attraction is not negative repulsion, rather repulsion is negative attraction. The so-called differences we notice amongst human beings in the external world are nothing but the expressions of negative attraction.
Ábád kare vivád kare suvád kare tárá.
[The same people who quarrel today may rejoice together in common friendship tomorrow.]
The various differences which split society must be removed in the interest of collective welfare. In order to do that, one must look for the common link, the points of affinity, in the multifarious lifestyles and diverse expressions of life. The points of affinity have got to be encouraged by all means and the differences must be discouraged. If the various differences such as customs, manners, food, dress, language etc. are given undue importance, the clashes and conflicts will increase.
“Aspects of unity should be encouraged and aspects of disunity should be discouraged.”
So if the aspects of disunity are discouraged, the human society will gradually find a universally acceptable link through mutual association and attraction.
But what about a group of people who are very vocal about the national language?
There is a group of people who are very vocal about the national language. But is it the proper time to fight over the language issue? Thousands of Indian people still live precariously below the subsistence level suffering from hunger, famine, disease and financial hardship. This is the time to fight against socio-economic exploitation. Those who are creating new problems by overemphasizing unimportant issues instead of solving the immediate social needs are the enemies of humanity. In the world, on language issues also there were numerous clashes, but after some time, the mutual bickerings were forgotten and as result of synthesis, a new mixed language emerged. 7,164 languages are in use in the world today. Thus, instead of reacting to apparent differences, one should seek internal unity.
Different Food Habits
Around the world people eat different types of food. There are many differences between the dietary habits of East and West due to different environments and food production. People become accustomed to eating the particular type of food grown in their own countries. For example People in India hesitant to go to cold countries due to scarcity of vegetables. They were not meat-eaters and vice versa. Even today many people do not prefer to go to countries specific due to non availability of their choice of food.
Whereas for unity its imperative to meet people to live together.
The different dietary habits of the people of the world should never be made uniform by force. It would be unreasonable to declare a certain food as the national food and then force everyone to eat it. Besides that, everyone has his or her own likes and dislikes.
In those countries where the commune system prevails, everyone is forced to eat the same type of food in the name of collectivism. People do not dare to speak out against such imposition out of fear, but internally they are not happy. Food is the most important of the primary necessities of human life. If people are not satisfied with their food there will be a simmering discontent in their minds which will seek an opportunity for an explosive expression.
Now a days many countries offer different varieties of food of different countries in order to welcome people from all places. But this still needs more work.
Different dressing style – different fashion, different customs
There is a great diversity in the dressing habits of the people of the world. This is also a result of environmental differences. For instance, many people in Arab countries live in deserts. To protect themselves from these sand storms the people there wear clothes which cover their entire bodies from head to foot, even their face and ears. If the people of northern Bihar in India were to wear such clothes they would be greatly inconvenienced. As with food, the differences in dress cannot be removed by force. But somehow due to globalization people adopted different styles of dress. Today a women can wear saree on the streets of New York
Gender disparity
Due to customs and the conservative mind many women in India are still not allowed to work in offices. In few countries women are not allowed to go to school, men fear that an educated women will ask for her rights which they do not want to provide. Women are not allowed to be examined by male doctors. Those who have created two worlds for men and women respectively forget to understand that except on physical sphere, there is no difference between men and women in mental and psychic sphere. Half of the world population are women and no unity can be possible until women get a dignified place in the society.
Races
Differences in societies are also reflected in the four main races of the world: Aryan, Austric, Mongolian, and Negro. Aryans have a reddish white complexion and hair, warm blood, eyes like a cat, an aquiline nose, and tall bodies. Negroes have black skin, slightly colder blood, curly hair, blackish eyes, thick lips and tall bodies. There are also remarkable differences in the physical structure of the Mongolians and Austrics. The Mediterranean Aryans have yellowy-white complexion, black hair, dark eyes, ordinary noses, slightly colder blood, are of medium stature. People living in southern France, northern Africa and the Balkan states belong to this category.
Religion
The religion probably is the biggest cause of disparity.
But please note Dharma and Religion is entirely two different words with different meaning.
Hindu, muslim, sikh, christian, jews are religions. The history is full of stories of blood shed in the wars between different religions, forceful conversion took place in the societies. Persian people were forced to follow muslim religion, their population is drastically low.
But Dharma is one, and that Dharma is Manava [Human] Dharma – a system for the attainment of the Supreme. Based on practical wisdom and logical faith, Dharma is a rational approach for the realization of Absolute Truth. External paraphernalia are not required for the practice of Dharma: the only prerequisite is a unit mind. Within Dharma there is no room for exploiting people entrapped in the snare of blind faith, and no scope for self-aggrandizement or the pursuit of group interests. Love, freedom and equality are its foundation stones.
As Dharma is beyond time, space and person, there is no scope for
Svajátiiya [differences within a species],
Vijátiiya [differences between species]
or Svagata [differences within the same unit being]. Dharma is inchangeable.
Economic disparity
Due to capitalistic structure, industrialization, different climatic condition, lack of educated workforce, dogma and conservative mind has created an economic disparity in the world. Every year there comes a list of 10 most poor countries whereas the irony is that there is no country that can be called a rich country. Because the definition of richness is different for different people, but here we will talk about the materialistic richness. The poor countries are being helped by rich countries thru UN or WHO, but is it Free of cost? certainly not.
Wars – the outcome of social and economical disparity
When the above factors are deep seated and boundaries are created, countries emerged on the basis of language, colour of skin, eating habits, financial status, religions, races etc etc, which further gets converted into competition of acquiring more and more land, more money, more power. Colonization began, The Great Britain once became the most powerful country in the world. The over accumulation of power and the great disparity, further resulted into wars between countries, the big world war I and II, the deep rooted hatred emerged between two countries, the centralization of economy was considered the basic root cause by the economists.
The root cause of most of the wars fought were actually had nothing in the root. It was a War without any ideology.
However the war of independence fought by the country people had an ideology, the correct ideology of freedom.
Today fight is between nations – inter-nation fights, tomorrow when different planets will have human societies, they will do inter-planet fights, there seems to be no end. They may have new differences which may crop in due course of time besides above mentioned points. Where will the theory of Nationlism and internationationlism survive.
The external factors that like language, dress code, food, colour of skin cannot be changed forcibly, yet men is searching for Unity. several experiments took place and some were successful too, but not of a great use. By the time acceptance is created for above through the medium of Globalization, the demon of capitalism, dogma, commercialization of arms raised their heads, which the political leaders used very efficiently to create DIVIDE AND RULE.
The big organization like UNO failed miserably.
Where is the Solution
Unity cannot be attained unless we follow:
Don’t React To Differences, Seek Internal Unity
Shri P R Sarkar
This is the only solution. But before that – According to Sarkar, In order to establish unity and welfare in the country, the common points of affinity must be found in the following three spheres:
socio-economic sphere,
psycho-sentimental sphere,
spirituo-sentimental sphere.
To unify society we must first remove social and economic disparities. In a society where one person wallows in luxury while another gradually starves to death, the bondage of friendship is inconceivable. Similarly, if there is hatred in the social sphere, such as the hatred an upper caste person may have for a low caste person, one can hardly imagine an atmosphere of fraternity. Those who have wealth may try to buy others to serve their purposes but one cannot have unity with a slave.
we have to look into
Táká diye shudhu máthá kená yáy : Hrday yáy ná kená.
[The mind can be bought with money, but not the heart]
To experience the warmth of anotherʼs heart one will have to give up the false sentiments of artificial human-made differences. For that we must first wage a ceaseless fight against poverty. Poverty is a common enemy of all. Also we have to unite against exploitation leaving all differences aside.
Each and every person should be convinced that the entire wealth of the world is the common patrimony of all. To utilize that wealth is the birthright of everyone and no interference in that birthright will be permissible.
Shri P R Sarkar
Each and every person should be guaranteed the minimum necessities of life by providing everyone with sufficient purchasing capacity. It is not enough to provide the minimum necessities of life – simultaneously, the wealth of the country should also be increased. If sufficient wealth is not generated to meet the growing demands of the people, seeds of discontent will settle in their minds. So the increase in population should also be accompanied by an increase in the generation of national wealth.
If all the people of all countries are happy and satisfied, the feeling of discontent, disparity will not affect them, they will start thinking beyond their basic needs, beyond materialistic pleasure, towards a goal of their life.
Neo-Humanism : Goal of the life. The Unifying force of Humanity.
The starting point of the origin of human beings and the culminating point of their movement is the same. It is the natural law for any entity to originate from the same source and to merge in the same source. The fundamental stuff of all the humans of this world is the Macrocosmic Consciousness. All are the children of the Supreme Immortality (Amrtasya Puttŕah). Fundamentally all human beings are equal. Therefore there should not be any discrimination. Once this perception is seated in their thought process equilibrium will attain. unity will be formed. Black and white are bothers, hindus and muslims have same origin, rich and poor are sons of same father.
They will not be forced to accept this fact, they themselves will search for it because every human being has a spiritual thirst. Knowingly or unknowingly, human beings are searching for the Supreme Entity.
Yet, ignorant of the right path, they remain confused. One of lifeʼs great tragedies is that so many people do not find the object of their search. Their entire life is spent searching everywhere, but in vain. If people are shown the right way, the entire humanity will converge on the same path.
This is the bounden duty of every human being to bring all along the path of righteousness!!!
As fellow travellers on the same journey, they will move towards the same supreme goal with unison, with a single rhythm. So for the unity of the entire humanity, the indispensable factor is spirituality. This supreme treasure teaches human beings that Parama Puruśa is the Supreme Father, Parama Prakrti [the Supreme Operative Principle] is their Supreme Mother, and the entire universe is their homeland.
They will sing in joy:
Sab tháiṋ mor ghar áche ámi sei ghar mari khuṋjiyá,
Deshe deshe mor desh áche ámi se desh lava bujhiyá
Parabásii ámi ye duyáre yái, Tári májhe mor áche yena tháiṋ
Kothá diyá sethá praveshite pái sandhán lava bujhiyá
Ghare ghare áche paramátmiiya táre ámi mari khuṋjiyá.
[My house is everywhere. How desperately I search for that house of mine.
Every country is my country. I shall surely discover that country of mine.
I may be a foreigner, but to whichever house I go, I find my own abode.
I will find the right door to enter the house. In every house live my dearest relations.
I am desperately searching for them.]
So “Cosmic sentiment alone can be the unifying force which shall strengthen humanity to smash the bondages and abolish all narrowistic walls of fissiparous tendencies.”
P R Sarkar
The reason is that this cosmic ideology is based on the absolute truth, which is not confined to time, space and person. When the limited mind accepts that unlimited entity as its object, the mind goes on expanding to a full 360 degrees. The method that brings about psycho-spiritual progress is called spiritual practice. When human beings bring the entire universe within the range of their minds through spiritual practice, the result will be one universe, one universal society.
References:Human Society Is One and Indivisible – Shri P R Sarkar
Meetu Singh
