The entire world is a mesh or web of very powerful invisible forces operating on the minds of the people. The human civilizations of the past or the present, so called, modern industrial one are the product of mind! The people have devised different modes of life starting from that of hunting, fishing and agriculture. Villages industries and crafts have developed later and markets have come up only recently and organised ones are yet to come. In all these developments, the governing factors are desire and fear. The human beings are yet to develop into mature state of men of love, respect for fellow living creatures, serve fellow beings with compassion. Even today, there are countries who are so backward that their people are living in utter poverty. In a vast country like India,there is a dearth for good teachers,scientists,doctors, and craftsmen and labor at middle and lower levels- small and medium scale industries. village industries have almost died. So, what we talk about human development here, is yet to happen even in the so called advanced modern civilized countries. The living conditions of people in Europe and Mid-Asiatic Regions appear distressing with large movements of refugees, cities like Mossul in Syria destroyed by bombings. Islamic radical fundamentalism is the greatest to entire humanity!
Hence, what is really the crux of the problem? And, what is the solution to the present-day problem of life insecurity. Can people not live peacefully with mutual respect, help each other to improve the living conditions? Why not improve education and health facilities and share resources? The answer to these questions lie in spiritual development. This calls for a paradigm shift from the present mental to higher spiritual level. When a person rises in his level of consciousness from mundane materialistic world to that of spiritual level, there shall be a totally different approach to life. This does not require even education or wealth, The spiritually charged people attract wealth and dispense it for larger social good instead of hoarding or saving for self and future. This brings in a greater joy and happiness in society, without any feelings of differences of caste, creed, communities, or national boundaries.This is the concept of vasudhaiva kutumbakam of the ancient India, the principle of 'human development'.
Just as the cells in the human body divide and multiply, work in close coordination, and cooperate with each other and develop as the body grows older and older with the only intention of keeping the body healthy, likewise the society, too. should grow, develop, coordinate and cooperate and make all efforts towards mutual well-being of citizens, the society, nation, and world at large. There is no scope here for any ill-will, mistrust, fear, hatred, or fighting and killing!
The politicians who takeover the reigns of administration need to understand this and develop a spiritual development approach to problems, and all other priorities come next. There should be a human approach to problems discarding the age-old practices of building armies, producing arms and ammunition and, waging wars, bombing cities and killing people.
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