TODAY'S QUESTION AND ANSWER
A dear friend asked me:
Question:
Why do you not support patriotism?
Answer:
I have not supported patriotism from my childhood, because I realized from my observation and understanding that patriotism is the root cause of all evils of separation and wars among humanity. I feel that the whole world is one, this Planet is our home and humanity is our family, there is no just one country or one kind of people. We all are One!
Question:
What are your thoughts on freedom from the British rule?
Answer:
If there is no British rule then there is Government rule. Do you feel that everyone is better of in our country than before?
No one can give freedom for anyone. Freedom is what each person can choose and live for themselves. True freedom is freedom from mind stories and judgments. Each human is born as pure soul capable of kindness and compassion to oneself and others, but due to the fall in consciousness we forgot this and started separating ourselves from each other and from God by creating religion, countries, languages, castes, money games etc, etc.
The moment we come to the understanding that All is one, and that we are one consciousness with different physical forms, we understand that nothing belongs to us or anyone else, everything has been given for everyone and we are capable of living as our true compassionate selves by sharing and caring for each other, this will bring us true freedom. When we choose freedom there is no need for a government, military, police or politics to rule us. We have forgotten to trust ourselves, our fellow beings, and we have forgotten to trust life and hence we suspect everything and we continue to see "me and others" rather than "me and the other me".
Our tradition of saying "Namaskaram" is actually seeing the Divine in each and every human being no matter what their race, nationality, color, or social status. When we fold our hands and look into the eyes of another person we say "I salute the Divine within you." But since we for got this we just say "namaskaram: with no meaning, since meanings are either forgotten or lost, fear beliefs have taken their place and separation has happened.
Only when there is no separation true freedom can happen.
I am reminded of the saying of this great teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurthi:
“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
Trust that I have answered your question.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
A dear friend asked me:
Question:
Why do you not support patriotism?
Answer:
I have not supported patriotism from my childhood, because I realized from my observation and understanding that patriotism is the root cause of all evils of separation and wars among humanity. I feel that the whole world is one, this Planet is our home and humanity is our family, there is no just one country or one kind of people. We all are One!
Question:
What are your thoughts on freedom from the British rule?
Answer:
If there is no British rule then there is Government rule. Do you feel that everyone is better of in our country than before?
No one can give freedom for anyone. Freedom is what each person can choose and live for themselves. True freedom is freedom from mind stories and judgments. Each human is born as pure soul capable of kindness and compassion to oneself and others, but due to the fall in consciousness we forgot this and started separating ourselves from each other and from God by creating religion, countries, languages, castes, money games etc, etc.
The moment we come to the understanding that All is one, and that we are one consciousness with different physical forms, we understand that nothing belongs to us or anyone else, everything has been given for everyone and we are capable of living as our true compassionate selves by sharing and caring for each other, this will bring us true freedom. When we choose freedom there is no need for a government, military, police or politics to rule us. We have forgotten to trust ourselves, our fellow beings, and we have forgotten to trust life and hence we suspect everything and we continue to see "me and others" rather than "me and the other me".
Our tradition of saying "Namaskaram" is actually seeing the Divine in each and every human being no matter what their race, nationality, color, or social status. When we fold our hands and look into the eyes of another person we say "I salute the Divine within you." But since we for got this we just say "namaskaram: with no meaning, since meanings are either forgotten or lost, fear beliefs have taken their place and separation has happened.
Only when there is no separation true freedom can happen.
I am reminded of the saying of this great teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurthi:
“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
Trust that I have answered your question.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
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