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People Against Violent Energies (PAVE)
Women Against Violent Energies (WAVE)
PAVE
the way to Peace:
WAVE the Banner of Inner Harmony
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Harmony
is the material that creates peace. When personal desire or communal
challenge come in conflict with codes of conduct that is divine
law, the mind is likely to source its response in ignorance. Every
battle, war or fight, whether personal, religious, or political,
sprang from someone's conflicted thought, followed by the articulation
and expression of that thought. Evidenced by the great expenditures
of war and the gigantic mess of violence in the world we live in,
world leaders pose more like war mongers than peace makers. The
process of peace eludes the world because we - the individual human
person - have either forgotten or learned to ignore the living wisdom
that protects life.
Personal peace must come first. Cultivating inner
harmony is an imperative necessity before we can experience health
and peace at any level. To achieve our inner resolve, we must make
a commitment to harmony. Our primary commitment at Wise Earth Hermitage
- which I founded twenty three years ago - is to harmony. Each one
of us must strive to make this commitment greater than any other
commitment or particular goal in our life. Goals change, problems
change, perspectives change, but harmony is unchanging. Collectively,
we can find infinite strength when we make harmony our ultimate
priority.
We are at a critical juncture in the evolution
of spiritual understanding. Do we have the spiritual resources necessary
to meet the present challenges? Evidently we do. For timeless eon,
the essential truths of living in accordance with divine law proclaimed
by the rishis - Vedic seers - and numerous other faith traditions
have been common knowledge throughout the world confirmed again
and again as necessary to the welfare and harmony of life and living.
The Vedic tradition, to which I belong, teaches
the principle of ahimsa - living in harmony with each other and
all life through the transparent and conscious act of nonviolence
and nonhurtfulness. Ahimsa informs that each person -- from all
traditions, cultures, and religions, and every life form -- including
space, air, water, earth, forest, and even a speck of sand -- possesses
consciousness and energy. It is essential for humanity to recover
its intrinsic memory of ahimsa - compassion and awareness - if we
are to survive our present predicament.
According to the Vedas, ahimsa is the foremost human obligation
in fulfillment of dharma, divine law. For the system of dharma to
be universally valid, it must meet all the necessities of life -
it must provide love, compassion, support, health, prosperity in
all states of existence to all peoples and must be adept at serving
the manifold needs and conditions of all communities. The Vedic
way of life is rooted in the system of dharma. From the beginning,
the Vedic tradition has advocated harmony among all peoples and
all life forms, and this awareness has led to the ethical virtues
that formed the Hindu lifestyle that are based on ahimsa - nonviolence,
nonhurtfulness; in other words, reverence for all forms of life
and the protection of nature's resources.
Ahimsa is a commitment to harmony. There can be
no peace on Earth until we eradicate the mentality of violence.
For this, we have to stop killing. If the paramount karma of humanity
is to manifest peace, then we must first understand what it means
to live peacefully. Peace cannot be gained without the personal
cultivation of inner harmony and health for all humankind and compassion
for all species. Harmony cannot be achieved at any level while any
form of life suffers.
Peace, like violence, exists in manifold layers
of existence. Harmony cannot be partial to the wealthy and privileged
at the expense of those who are hungry and poor; justice cannot
be partial to perpetrators at the expense of their victims; peace
cannot be partial to the human species at the expense of other species.
By divine ordinance, every person, animal, tree, river, and sky
has a primordial and fundamental right to life and to live. The
primeval right of the human is the right to live. The primeval right
of the animal is the right to live.
The ancients have given us the knowledge to cultivate
the reverence that allows human consciousness and its infinite diversity
to express itself in Oneness. Unfortunately, our modern lifestyle
with its acquired dependencies and deep-rooted imbalances alienates
us from harmony. Human actions have severely trespassed humanity
and nature's resources. We have learnt to live in communities -
such as in my homeland of Guyana - that are riddled with violence,
killings, hate crimes and manifold layers of pathologies. Every
day 24,000 people die from hunger related causes. Impoverishment
of the human spirit manifesting in the form of starvation, poverty,
disease, and despair are paramount crimes against humanity, no less
so than the atrocities of war. How can happiness and peace be within
reach as long as the greater majority of humanity (almost 75% of
the world's population) suffers so shamefully. In the last 50 years,
almost 400 million people worldwide died from hunger, while the
richest 20% of the world's population has been preoccupied with
80% of the world's consumption of goods and services.
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