Book Description
The humanworld is in great trouble. The statesmen of the world are still talking of'civilisation' and the possibility of its being destroyed. This is the result of theabandonment, in the dealings of different groups of human beings with oneanother, of the tenets of all the moral teachers of mankind. No good man hasever lived on this globe and preached anything, who has not preached kindness,consideration of humanity and fairness in the dealings with others. Europe, forthe last three centuries in her dealings with the people of the five continents, hasshown an adherence to greed and cruelty and to the use of force. The states ofEurope are now adopting towards each other exactly the rule of the jungle,which they adopted towards peoples in the five continents of the world, and theyare bent upon total war or complete destruction. On the material plane, on whichlife has been lived. statesmanship has been bankrupt, and the organization andconduct of human society has failed. It is in times of such cataclysm thatthoughtful men turn for guidance inwards. They realise that the fruits of violenceare bitter, that the triumphs are short-lived, that the success is empty, and thatthe greatest good of the greatest number cannot be achieved thus. The Indianmind deriving inspiration from Indian tradition, sees that there can be no lastingpeace, and the best qualities, which ennoble humanity, cannot be brought to thesurface until greed and injustice are eliminated, until artificial barriers of raceand colour are demolished and until the claims of common humanity areacknowledged as supreme. It is the sovereignty of the divine law, which has tobe enthroned, and the first principle of that law is what was preached in theSermon on the Mount and what is instinct and living in every page of the Gita asexplained by Dnyaneshwara Maharaj.