LET US FACE THE CHALLENGE TOGETHER !

THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY has placed a challenge before humanity

to CHOOSE LOVE OR HATE ! Humanity is on the brink of total
annihilation at the hands of TERRORISTS aka FANATICS. If we are to
survive, the only way is to wean the fanatics away from their war of
hatred to the path of LOVE i.e. to change the concepts of ONE AND
ALL in such a way that ALL feel that they belong to one affectionate
extended family and act accordingly. For this, the most urgent needs
are removal of poverty and PROPER education. How the objective of
ONE WORLD FAMILY can be achieved, should be debated by all who
genuinely feel concerned about the welfare of humanity, nay, even for
its survival. One humble effort is placed before you in this booklet,
more as food for thought for more knowledgeable persons to come up
with better and more practicable proposals and above all, to set the
wheels rolling to move Governments and the UNO and its Agencies to
take steps in this direction which may be evolved through a variety of
views of the people from all strata.

SO DEAR READER, READ THIS, FORMULATE YOUR VIEWS AND TRY

TO GIVE THEM WIDEST PUBLICITY. ABOVE ALL, USE YOUR VOTING
POWER JUDICIOULY TO ELECT PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS VISION
OF ‘ONE WORLD FAMILY’ BEFORE THEM.
NOW READ ON……..
D. L. Bijur

ENCLOSURES
Title pages - 2
Contents page - 1
Introduction - pages - 2
Text - pages - 31
Total pages - 36
ONE WORLD FAMILY
-- THE GOAL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

D. L. Bijur
ONE WORLD FAMILY
--The Goal Of The Twenty-first Century
(Revised Second Edition)

Copyright © D. L. Bijur 2009

First Edition
2001 published by
Minerva Printing Press
(India) Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi
Contents
Page
Introduction

I World Language

II World Government

III Bonding of Humanity into One Family

IV Dawn of a New Era

V Spiritual Basis for One World Family

 ONE WORLD FAMILY
--The Goal Of The Twenty-first Century

INTRODUCTION

The law for humanity is to pursue its upward evolution towards the finding and
expression of the Divine in the type of mankind, taking full advantage of the
free development and gains of all individuals and nations and grouping of
men, to work towards the day when mankind may be really and not only ideally
one divine family, but even then, when it has succeeded in unifying itself, to
respect, aid and be aided by the free growth and activity of its individuals and
constituent aggregates.

Sri Aurobindo

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own
prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Bertrand Russel

Emperors of bygone eras and dictators of the twentieth century had dreamt of
transforming the whole world into one empire. Many democratic leaders of the
twentieth century have also spoken of a world confederation of nations. Tentative
steps towards this were also taken by forming the League of Nations, after the First
World War and the United Nations Organisation after the Second World War. The
former became defunct because of the aggressive intentions of some nations and
latter may also end up similarly, for the same reasons, or for being starved of funds
for not acceding to the dictates of the nations which contribute the major share of its
expenses. Even otherwise, the UNO is a weak organization; its directions are very
often not heeded by member nations concerned and, worst of all, it leaves member
nations free to wage wars between themselves. It is only the spiritual leaders who,
right from ancient ages, have been urging for realisation of the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of Man, or the whole world as one FAMILY (Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam). Most spiritual leaders preached this as a feeling to be developed by
spiritual aspirants – more particularly as an outcome of the superconscious
experience and not necessarily under a political union of all nations. Fortunately,
there have been some among them, like Baha-u’-llah, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, who have started movements towards not
only spiritual regeneration of mankind, but also world government, world language
and integral education, with a common ethical or spiritual basis.

With the advent of the twenty-first century and the third millennium, it is now high
time for not only leaders in all fields, but also for the masses to be oriented towards a
world union. Unless there is constant pressure from the masses, the political leaders
of the world, whose leadership and support is most vital to achieve the goal, will not
feel the urgency of taking concrete steps to integrate the hopes and aspirations of
the masses, with the expertise of the knowledgeable – who have been clamouring
for it for several decades – to bring about the desired result. It is, therefore,
desirable for common men – as many people as possible – to publicly express their
ideas about how a world union and brotherhood of man should be created, so that
the experts and leaders in all fields (including political), can take stock of these ideas
and through cross-fertilisation with their own ideas hammer out a feasible way of
approach towards it. So one common man, who is neither well-read nor
knowledgeable, expresses his ideas briefly through this book!1

It is earnestly hoped that this will serve as food for thought as also
as an incentive for others to express better and more practicable
ideas to reach the goal of One World Family as early as possible.
Date : 09th May 2009.
(on which this is placed on Web-site)

D. L. Bijur
e-mail : bijur.6969@rediffmail.com

1
These ideas are elaborated in the author’s book Urge for Synthesis (Mumbai 1996 – Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan).
Chapter I
WORLD LANGUAGE

To develop the feeling of one world family among all the peoples of the world, it is
desirable that they should have as many things as possible in common.
Communication in one language will greatly help in bringing about closer affinity
among them. Although English has almost attained that stage, especially with the
advent of the Internet, it is desirable to evolve a new language, with a rigid grammar,
to make it easier to take up the gigantic task of translation through automation, with a
script that is ergonomically more suited (less effort, with a slight sacrifice of this
quality to make it aesthetically more pleasing), and with clarity in the distinction
between one letter and another, for both computer printing as well as handwriting.
For speedier writing, one could perhaps use a running hand with connecting strokes,
while retaining clarity. UNESCO should undertake this task with the help of experts
from all countries.

The first step in this direction is to evolve a phonetic script after considering the
pronunciations of all alphabets of all languages. The next step is to allot one or two
letters as suffixes to determine the declensions and conjugations of words. The third
step is to compile root words, after studying morphemes in other languages,
especially classical ‘mother’ languages, from which modern languages have evolved.
Extensive use should be made of root words that sound and mean alike in two or
more classical languages, or which are adopted in several modern languages. The
root words, with their combinations and derivatives, should be used to convey the
meanings of the words in the most exhaustive, general and technical dictionaries of
all languages. Where this is not adequate (because of too long combinations of root
words, etc.), the words should be picked up from other languages (by condensing
and changing to suit the world language), by variety of criteria:

a. The language in which it is most expressive.

b. The language in which the meaning was first expressed.
c. Alphabetic allocations for each language, etc.
Thus the world language will have familiar sounding and meaning words for people
speaking all other languages.

After the formation of the script, grammar and dictionary of the world language,
UNESCO should set up a steadily expanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) complex, to
translate into the world language everything published in every other language, each
publication being indexed exhaustively. To facilitate this, faxing of a copy of every
publication to the local super-computer for transmission to and eventually
simultaneous translation by the AI complex, should be made compulsory, just as it is
now being sent to national libraries; translation into the world language should be
permissible at a nominal royalty determined by UNESCO, with both these provisions
being adopted by all countries. Various sections of the AI complex should take up
translations of various materials e.g. encyclopedias, songs, poetry and plays in one
section, other classics in another section, in two other sections in one from oldest
onward and in the other backward from the latest, etc. The exhaustively indexed
published material in the world language should be made available through an
Internet-like set-up.

Learning the script of the world language should be made compulsory in the final
year of the primary school. Every sign board, official letterhead, printing on currency
notes, etc. should be in this script also, in addition to that of the local / national
language, as long as they are in common use. The script should straight away be
adopted by languages which do not have their own script and later, by all languages.
Teaching of the world language should be compulsory, from the first year of
secondary school. Gradually, the world language should be the medium of
instruction at all levels and the erstwhile modern and classical languages should be
taught as second and third languages.
Chapter II
WORLD GOVERNMENT

One-world government is absolutely essential to create a one-world family. The

United Nations Organisation, as already pointed out, falls too short of a world
government. As under it, the nations are free to wage wars between themselves,
huge amounts are spent on armaments, even nuclear armaments, that pose a
danger to the entire humanity. Even a fraction of the amount spent on armaments is
enough to remove poverty from the whole world and to educate its entire population.
The very existence of UNO is at the mercy of the rich nations, who make major
contributions towards its expenses and it is unable to take the same steps against
them which it takes against weaker countries mostly at the bidding of these major
donors for similar reasons. Undemocratic delegation of veto power to the Five Big
Powers, (who do not deserve to be called Great Powers), is its other major
weakness.

The political set-up all the world over should be truly democratic i.e. government of
the people, by the people and for the people. The people at the grass-roots level
should have a say in all three branches of administration viz. executive, legislative
and judicial, at the local level and the higher levels of administration should evolve
from the lower levels, with voting rights given to the people to choose the chief
administrator up to the national level.

Efforts should be made to persuade all countries to reorganize their political

structure. Every area with people living in closely integrated housing who number
one millionth of the world population, should form a ward and 100 wards should form
a state. Ideally, 100 states should form a nation. Countries with less than 1% of the
world population should form regional group with neighbouring country / countries so
as to have about 1% of the world population in the region. Countries with population
exceeding 1% of world population, should have regions of states which together
reach that population figure. Eventually, each region should become a single nation
and the world should have 100 nations.
Each ward should have twin public halls. The ground floor should be for the
assembly of people between the ages of fifty and seventy-five (House of Seniors),
and the upper floor for those between twenty-five and fifty years of age (House of
Guardians). Persons below twenty-five years of age, or above seventy-five years,
should not participate in politics. This will reduce the overwhelming importance that
is now being given to politics in all other spheres. Non-political organizations should
invite people from their own fields as chief guests, etc. and should not issue free
passes to any member of the three branches of administration who does not
independently qualify for it. Persons who are members of the organization, or are
prominent in their field, even if they so qualify, should not be made office-bearer of
the organization if they are elected political office-bearers or appointed by the latter,
on any committee. This will also be conducive towards elimination of interference by
politicians in student organizations and leave the younger generation free to
concentrate on study or training in their jobs and the aged to take or pursue interest
in spiritual matters. The pursuit of both these generations is vital and forms the
foundation on which the edifice of all the activities of humanity rest, or should rest.
The halls should provide voting machines for members to vote on all issues that fall
within their jurisdiction and in elections.

Every year, the two Houses of each ward should jointly elect one person as the chief
administrator of the ward and ten persons to form his managing committee, who
should hold office for one year and who should be eligible for re-election, but not for
more than five years continuously. The two Houses should also jointly elect one
member, every year, to join a judicial committee of five members, for five years. The
judicial committee members should be law graduates residing in the ward or, if there
are not enough (and trustworthy) law graduates in the area, from judicial committee
members or residents of neighbouring wards. Each House should separately elect
two candidates every year (by a process of elimination by voting on all the names
suggested by their members), for electing one of them as the ward representative in
the state assembly for five years. The House of Seniors should elect the
representative from the candidates elected by the House of Guardians and vice
versa. The wards should elect male and female representatives, in alternate years.
The defeated candidate should be the Chairman of the respective House for one
year. The judicial committee of all the wards in each state should elect judges to the
state judicial council of eleven judges, who should hold office till they reach sixty-five
years of age.

The ward legislature (the two Houses), should have the power delegated to it, every
ten years, by the state legislature. The judicial committee should have the powers
delegated to it by the state judicial council from time to time, until withdrawn or
amended by the council. The ward executive (chief administrator and his managing
committee), should have the powers delegated to it by the two Houses of the ward,
with the approval of a majority of the members of the judicial committee. The laws
passed by the two Houses should require approval of a majority of the judicial
committee. The laws passed by the state legislature should also require approval of
a majority of the judicial council.

Once in five years, the state legislature, to which one-fifth members are elected
every year (which will ensure that matter concerning every constituency will remain a
live issue and not forgotten and revived only in an election year, as it generally is,
under the present system of simultaneous election of all members, at longer
intervals), should elect two candidates below sixty years of age from whom all
persons in the state between the ages of twenty-five and seventy-five years, should
elect one as the governor of the state, with the losing candidate being the speaker of
the state legislature. The governor should make appointments to his executive
council of twenty members (not from the legislature or judicial council), with the
approval of a majority of the members of the state legislature and of the judicial
council. The powers of the executive council should be defined by the legislature,
with the approval of the judicial council.

Retiring state governors should automatically be members of the Senate (Upper

House) of the national parliament until they reach the age of seventy-five years, or
are recalled by a two-third majority of the legislature and passed by sixty per cent of
the voters of the state. Each state legislature should elect one male member and
one female member every year to the House of Representatives (Lower House) of
the national parliament for a period of five years. The judicial councils of all the
states in a nation, should elect judges to the national judicial council of twenty-five
judges, who should hold the post until they reach the age of seventy years.

The national administration should have all the powers on matters concerning the
world government, relations with other nations, national security (central police),
matters concerning all states, or two or more states (unless the concerned states set
up a joint organization to handle them), organized or heinous crime, currency and
financial regulations (concerning taxation, banks, financial institutions, companies,
stock exchanges, etc.), interstate and international transport and communications, as
also powers delegated to it for twenty five years by each state administration. The
laws passed by parliament should require approval of a majority of the national
judicial council before they are signed by the president. The national judicial council
or its benches should have powers to deal with appeals against judgements of the
state judicial councils and over matters concerning constitutional law and
fundamental right, including where justice is denied for more than three years. The
national parliament and the legislatures of all the states should elect two candidates
(in the manner in which the President of India is elected)2 below sixty-five years of
age from whom one should be elected as president, by all the voters of the country.
This election should be held simultaneously with the five-yearly election of all the
state governors. The losing candidate should be the speaker of the Lower House.
The Upper House should elect its own Chairman. If a governor or a president is
unable to fulfil his five-year term (on account of death, illness, etc.), the state
legislature or the parliament, as the case may be, should elect a substitute for the
balance period.

The two candidates for election as governor / president should be provided state
funds for their election. (This will not be necessary for ward election or elections to
the Lower House as the candidates will be well known to all the respective voters).
In all election process, there should be no official recognition of political parties. The
media also should not refer to a ruling party and opposition parties but only to
serving party and a cooperating party. This and the direct election of governors and
national president, will promote conscientious voting and eliminate the tendency of
opposition for the sake of opposition, or for political gain for the party, at the expense
of the interest of the people. This procedure of nomination of two candidates for
election as President / Governors will evolve two groups in each (Central & State )
legislature, which, in practice, will work like a two-party system and may eventually
induce all political parties to merge into two national parties. Code of conduct for
each wing of administration (executive, legislative and judicial), should be laid down
and any serious or repeated breach, should entail debarring the person from holding
the office.

The retiring president should automatically be a member of Parliament of Nations

(until he reaches seventy-five years of age), which should elect its own president for
a period of seven years, who should have a secretariat (like UN Secretariat). The
world, as well as national administration, should have councils for:
a. Physical welfare (food, clothing, housing, health),
b. Social welfare including transport and communication,
c. Education
d. Economic welfare,
e. Political welfare (a la UN Security Council),
f. Spiritual welfare.

Until formation of new nations, countries with a population of more than 100 million
should be permanent members of these councils (without veto powers). The other
countries should be grouped for rotational representation, for three years, so that
each group of nations represents about 100 million people. For this purpose, and
for all groupings, the European Union excluding U.K. and France should be regarded
as one nation. On the formation of new nations in all the countries having a
population of over 100 million, only the grouping system should prevail. The member
countries should appoint their representative in each council, for three years at a
time.
The Educational Council should, inter alia, undertake the task of evolving a world
language and dissemination of knowledge as detailed earlier in the book. The
Economic Welfare Council should appoint Governors of the World Bank (a
combination of IBRD and IMF), and should itself look after other economic matters,
including those now handled by WTO. The World Bank should issue currency in the
form of plastic coated foils of silver, gold and platinum and promissory notes of one
million world currency units. National central banks should issue their own currency
(notes of other denominations and coins), against holding of world currency, up to a
specified minimum percentage. The promissory notes endorsed by the World Bank
to them, should be endorsable to other central banks, or to the World Bank.

The system of membership of the aforementioned councils of world government

should also apply to membership of the world judicial council, except that the
persons nominated by the member nations concerned, should hold office until
seventy-five years of age and vacancies on retirement, or death, should be filled up
by the nations who are members of the Council at that time in a rotational order.
The world judicial council should have powers to decide on all matters of
international disputes referred to it by any nation and not taken up by the Parliament
of Nations or by any of the other world Councils within three months thereafter or, if
so taken up, not decided by them within three years.

The judicial personnel at all levels should have computer access to laws that existed
in various countries on whatever matter comes up before them as also laws passed
by the legislatures of the area under their jurisdiction. They should be guided by the
spirit (rather than the letter) of the laws. Above all, they should CONSCIENTIOUSLY
come to the conclusion of what is the ‘MOST JUST ACTION’ and act accordingly,
directing the concerned legislature to change existing laws where necessary. This
should cause no problem if proper education is imparted to all from school level and
emphasized in the law colleges to uphold the ‘DHARMA’ that is right for an ideal
state of the modern age and the judges are known to have been selected on the
basis of their high Integrity Quotient. (See the next chapter for both these aspects).
Even before formation of new nations, all countries should move towards complete
disarmament, initially by eliminating nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and
then by disbanding the air force and the navy, when only the world government
should have these two branches of the armed forces. A small percentage of the
forces disbanded should be contributed to the world government by the member
countries. A percentage of the expenditure saved by the nations through
disarmament, should be contributed to the world organization and the balance
utilized for elimination of poverty and illiteracy and thereafter, for steadily improving
facilities and standards of education to more and more people. When the new
nations are formed all over the world, the world government and the nations should
have only police forces, equipped with armaments that are not more destructive than
machine guns and hand grenades. The state police should have no firearms other
than revolvers and ward police only pistols that fire not more than two bullets, without
reloading. Private security guards may be allowed to have a gun. Holding of firearms
by other citizens should be totally banned.

All nations should have a uniform tax system levying one percent turnover tax on
credits to all bank accounts (including time deposit accounts) except on credits (a) to
accounts of all wings of administration from ward to world organization levels, (b) to
bank accounts and (c) by transfer between bank accounts of the same sole / first
holder. There should be no other taxes or duties except that until one world
government comes into being, nations may charge export and import duties and
exempt credits representing proceeds of amounts received in foreign exchange from
turnover tax. The revenue generated should be shared in the following proportion –
10% for ward administration, 20% for state administration, 30% for national
administration and 40% for the world administration. (Until world government is
formed, 30% should go to regional administration and 40% to the national
administration). Each higher organization should use a part of its revenue to ensure
that immediate lower organization will be aided to have equitable development with
other similar organizations with higher revenue.
Payments and holdings in cash should be restricted. All payments towards amounts
due in excess of one thousand units of currency should be made by transfer to bank
accounts or by crossed cheque or credit / debit card. Amount to be held in cash
should not exceed amount received in cash during preceding five days or normally
payable in cash during ensuing ten days, whichever is more.

Among the countries which are ready for mergers / divisions, the world government
should ensure that political borders of the world are redrawn every 40 years on the
basis of the latest census which would form 100 nations (on the assumption that all
countries participate) with more or less equal population. The national governments
should redraw the state borders once in 20 years to form 100 states of almost equal
population. The state governments should redraw the borders of their wards
similarly every 10 years. Thus the world should eventually have a million wards of
more or less equal population. The world government should ensure that the world
population does not go higher than 10 billion or lower than 5 billion. Thus each ward
should have a population of about five to ten thousand.

Scientists should discover more and more effective and easier means of population
control and come up with injections that, once given, will prevent pregnancy until a
pregnancy facilitating injection (that will permit conception of only one child) is given.
The former should be given to girls on their admission to secondary schools and the
latter at any time after they reach 25 years of age and are keen to conceive. The
pregnancy prevention injections should be given again before discharge from
maternity hospital. The pregnancy facilitating injection should not be given again at
all if the population is near the higher limit or at least until five years after delivery.

Euthanasia should be permitted in the case of persons who are considered by a

panel of doctors as incurably bed-ridden. Persons above 80 years of age should be
permitted to opt for dignified death by donating their organs (and even skin for
temporary relief to burn-victims), cadaver plasma (when scientists find ways to use it
effectively for transplant) etc, and their bodies to assist medical studies. Persons
eligible for this should be required to declare their intention for it in a sworn affidavit
before a magistrate who should, as far as possible, ensure that there is no pressure
from others for recording such affidavits. If a person over 50 years of age who is
mentally sound makes an affidavit that he should be administered euthanasia if he
suffers from Alzheimer’s syndrome, his wishes should be fulfilled.

2
Candidates are nominated by at least the specified number of members of the central / state legislature/s.
Thereafter, all the elected members of all the legislatures vote indicating order of preference. Weightage is given
to the vote of the member on the basis of the population of his state. If no candidate gets majority of first
preference votes, the second preference votes are added and so on until one candidate aggregates a majority of
the votes so taken into account.

Chapter III
BONDING OF HUMANITY INTO ONE FAMILY

Turning the entire humanity into one family, should be the goal of the 21st century. To
do so and to retain it so integrated, it is necessary to impart moral, ethical, religious
and spiritual education. For this, educational institutions at each level – primary,
secondary and university –should get together and start dialogues with social,
religious and spiritual leaders, to form a common code of conduct, the DON’Ts for
the primary school level, the DOs (ethical), for the secondary school level, and
common ‘religion’ for the university level. This common religion should be a way of
life and an approach towards one’s own religion, as also towards other religions. The
organisations at lower levels should try to adopt, in simpler ways, whatever is
evolved for higher levels, e.g. the ethical conduct evolved for secondary schools may
be adopted for primary schools by way of stories, highlighting such conduct.
Religious and spiritual leaders, doctors and scientists should get together to evolve
spiritual training courses for aspirants, aimed at achieving a superconscious
experience. Governments and charitable organizations should ensure that such
efforts do not flag for want of funds. It should be realised by governments that this
will minimise corruption and crime and make workers and politicians more and more
conscientious, all of which will mean a huge saving of government expenditure.

The religious training should emphasise that those under twenty-five years of age
should concentrate on LEARNING (education and training for their profession).
Although learning should continue throughout one’s life and professional training
throughout one’s career, the concentration during the years twenty-five to fifty,
should be on EARNING conscientiously, firstly to liberate oneself from dependence,
then for one’s dependents and thereafter for a larger and larger circle of one’s
brethren. In the third stage between fifty and seventy-five years of age, the
concentration should be on YEARNING. In the preceding stage, if not earlier, a
person gradually develops (or should develop) an interest in some pursuit, not
connected with his main field of concentration. Many pursue it more or less seriously
according to the intensity of their inclination and as time permits. In this stage, the
inclination should turn into an urge. In the stage over seventy-five years, the
concentration should be on the spiritual goal of a superconscious experience. These
stages correspond to raja yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga (though the yearning may
be other than religious), and jnana yoga. Persons in the respective stages may as
well be called raja yogi etc. irrespective of their religion, to emphasise their field of
concentration (The stages also correspond to pursuit of the four purusharthas or
primary objects of life, dharma, artha, kama and moksha).

Yoga means communion. It is used for communion with God/Holy Spirit/ Reality
(totality of Existence), as also for every path leading towards it. It is also commonly
used for the physical exercises – Asanas or postures and Pranayama or breath
control – which bring good health and are also conducive towards better conduct (as
has been observed by such training given to prisoners and workers), and then,
towards spiritual pursuit. It is desirable to call all formal religions as yoga, Christian
yoga, Mohammedan yoga, Vaishnavite yoga, Shaivite yoga, etc. This will emphasise
that all religions are various paths towards one goal. It should be realised by all, that
the physical exercises of yoga in no way suggest adherence to Hinduism, but are
necessary for a healthy and supple body and are also helpful for eventual spiritual
pursuit according to one’s own religion or belief. It should also be realised by all
religious leaders that the prophets and preachers of all religions were concerned
primarily with their followers’ spiritual pursuit towards communion with God/Holy
Spirit/ Reality, a superconscious experience of which love for all is an essential path.
Since these leaders attained pre-eminence and their word was law to their followers,
the latter imposed upon the former the duties of adjudicating in secular affairs. This
imposed duty was performed in accordance with need of their time and place,
changing their own tradition only where it was absolutely necessary. Thus, there is
need to conform these secular preachings to present and future global needs and
particularly to modern concepts of justice and the fundamental rights of equality
between man and woman and between followers of their own religion and others,
etc.
Spiritual research exploring the inside of one’s being should be considered as at
least as vital as research in outer space and funds should be allocated for it on a
similar scale. Scientists should involve themselves in this research, as their findings
are more universally accepted as the truth, whereas the preachings of spiritual
leaders are not so unequivocally accepted by people who are not their followers.
Doctors have already discovered the advantages of meditation and yogic exercise.
Scientists have also invented gadgets to monitor these, to know what is
advantageous and what is disadvantageous. Research in this direction should be
vigorously pursued. Spiritual research and training institutes should be set up and
liberally financed.

In the later years of the 19th century and the early years or the 20th century, scientists
discovered that all elements are made of the same subatomic particles with only
their number changing; that electricity and magnetism are aspects of one electro-
magnetic force; that matter and energy are interchangeable aspects of one entity
and that the entire universe is born of four forces viz. (1) electro-magnetic force (2)
weak force (3) strong force (4) gravitational force, with the second and third being
nuclear forces. Later, in the 20th century, they discovered that the forces (1) and (2)
are really one force and subsequently, that this latter force and the strong force, are
also one and the same force. Since then, they have been trying to establish that all
the four forces are in reality one and the same force. A strong contender for this
Unified Field Theory (UFT) or Theory of Everything (TOE) is superstring theory. They
only have to pursue this and other UFTs, to come to one conclusive force.

All this will however, explain only the physical universe. Scientists still have to find
out the real nature of consciousness and either try to establish that it is the TOE of
which the four physical forces are aspects, or arrive at the TOE, of which both
consciousness and the four forces are aspects. Researchers in every field of science
should make all - out efforts to ascertain whether consciousness is a finer form of
energy, in the same manner in which the latter is a finer form of matter. They
should see whether acceptance of consciousness as the omnipresent primeval force
from which all other forces and life itself have originated, could explain all their
speculation about the source of cosmic rays, Bose-Einstein condensate, Bohm -
diffusion, superstrings, microwave background radiation, Higg’s (Boson) Field,
Tachyon Field, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, ultimate disappearance of black-holes,
etc. and even of pre-Einsteinian idea of Ether as the ‘substance’ in which the
universe floats which some post - Einsteinian Scientists seem to be reviving in one
form or other.

Saints and mystics of all religions and faiths have reached a stage of communion
with God/Holy Spirit/reality and have treated the entire creation as one family. This
they have done by concentrating all their consciousness on God/Holy Spirit/Reality.
It is obvious from this that it does not matter what they believed but that it is the
intensity of their faith that helped them to concentrate all their consciousness on the
one Idea, and thereby reach a superconscious state. (There should, therefore, be no
dispute between various religions and faiths as to which is true and which is false).

This indicates that just as concentration of tremendous energy on a little bit of matter
generates super (nuclear) energy, concentration of all consciousness by any person
on a little bit of matter (idol) /energy (light) / consciousness (his concept of God/Holy
Spirit /Reality, etc.), generates superconsciousness.

It is possible for scientists to establish this by inventing more and more sophisticated
gadgets to observe the effects of meditation (from starting of meditation to the
highest stage of concentration, or the superconscious state), particularly by
experimenting on persons (yogis), who have had superconscious experience and on
others, to find out what the latter should avoid, to achieve similar effects. They can
then come up with even more sophisticated gadgets to guage the spiritual stage of a
person. This will then be the new IQ (Integrity Quotient). This new IQ may be
resorted to in selecting persons for the five highest executive posts in an
organisation, for selection of judges and candidates for election and even for
appointments at lower levels, where all other relevant factors for appointment are
more or less equal. Once this secular advantage of spiritual IQ is established, it will
create a common, competitive interest in spiritual training (just as present-day
management training has even for the best technicians at present), and the entire
humanity will reap its benefits.

Once the scientists arrive at the fundamental force of consciousness, or from which
consciousness and the other four forces emerged, scientists should express it as
their view that this fundamental force is what various religions and philosophies
express as God/Holy Spirit/Brahman/Reality; that it is infinite in infinite ways and can
be viewed, described and approached in infinite ways; that each religion expresses
one view and way of life based on that as an approach towards this infinite; that
salvation is communion with it. They, or some of them may even add that since it is
the sum-total of all existence, it is Omnipresent; that since it is the sum-total of all
energies and forces, it is Omnipotent and that since it is the sum-total of all
consciousness, it is Omniscient. Scientists could even say, or predict, that
communion with it is like establishing a hot line with it, through which man can draw
on these ‘Omni’ powers and be superman. Once this view is accepted by the
scientific community, it will be gradually accepted by all religionists and all religions
will be integrated. Swami Ranganathananda, late President of Ramakrishna Math
and Ramakrishna Mission, says, “It will be a great event in human history when the
spiritual energies of the world’s religions, so long working in isolation or at cross
purposes, become entirely positive and cooperative, and function as an integrated
spiritual grid to redeem man from the depth of worldliness and restore him to his true
spiritual dimension.”3

There is so much evil in the world that leads to crime, hatred and wars. The
beginnings of these, the fundamental causes, are rooted in poverty and lack of
proper education (including propagation of improper religious ideas by preachers,
parents or others), which turn people to seek riches by hook or by crook and then
more and more of it and more and more power, at first from riches and later from
organized crime and/or political office. The media highlights their misdeeds and
rarely goes into the fundamental causes and how the causes can be removed. The
media also fails miserably in giving proper coverage (which should be much wider
than that for the misdeeds and their perpetrators) to good deeds and to persons of
spiritual eminence. As has been said earlier, funds saved from gradual and total
disarmament, should be used for social welfare, proper education including spiritual
(inner space) research and training, to eliminate the root causes of evil.

The Declaration of a Global Ethic made by the World Parliament of Religions held at
Chicago in 1993, (in commemoration of the centenary of a similar parliament held
there, which brought Swami Vivekananda into the limelight), affirms that a common
set of core values is found in the teachings of all religions and that these form the
basis of a global ethic. Religious leaders of all communities should lay all emphasis
on this common core and preach that, along with their own philosophy about
God/Holy Spirit/Reality and their own ways of worship, prayer and meditation. They
should also simultaneously relax their hold on the other scriptural preachings, which
should not be deemed to be sacrosanct laws that have to be adhered to the letter,
but only as guidelines to people of that time and mostly according to their then
tradition. (It is surprising that many religious leaders ignore laxity by their followers in
observing spiritual guidelines, but lay overemphasis on observing the secular ‘laws’
of the scriptures!).

The common set of core values, arrived at right from local to global level meetings of
religious leaders, social workers, educationists, psychologists, etc., should be taught
in schools from the first year of primary school to the penultimate year of high school.
Initially this should be done through stories etc. and later, through parallel quotations
from scriptures of various religions. Courses of yogic exercises, suitable for each
year of schooling, with simplified pranayama, should be drawn up. Spiritual research
and training institutes should offer higher courses for those who opt for it. Many will
readily opt for that, because of better job prospects that even a little training may
bring, rather than go for training under a guru, who may ask for total renunciation of
worldly contact. As the Gita says (II-40) “Even a little of this Dharma protects from
great fear.” Even a little of this spiritual training that helps one to follow one’s religion
(way of life) intelligently, prevents a calamity. Government as well as other
organizations should be happy to recruit persons who have had even short spiritual
training as the trainees are likely to be less corrupt and more conscientious (their
spiritual IQ level having been monitored at their institute), and may even be satisfied
with a moderate remuneration. These organizations should, therefore, liberally
finance such institutions which should also offer short reorientation courses (retreat)
for batches of the donors’ staff, aimed at greater efficiency and evolving karma yogis.

The aim of such spiritual activity should be to evolve a ‘Universal Religion’ which will
be a guideline for all to practise their own religion intelligently and fruitfully. Swami
Vivekananda has already spoken of such a religion in the following words –
Universal Religion
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by
controlling nature, external and internal. Do this by work or worship or psychic
control or philosophy – by any one or more or all of these and be free.

This is the whole of religion. Doctrines or dogmas or ritual or books or temples or

forms are but secondary details4.

Establishing a SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION and

constantly evolving a better synthesis with the progress of science and the
consequent renewed reorientation in the other two branches, is needed for universal
welfare. If this is done, again in the words of Swami Vivekananda –

SCIENCE and RELIGION will meet and shake hands. POETRY and PHILOSOPHY
will become friends. This will be the RELIGION OF THE FUTURE, and, if we can
work it out, we may be sure that it will be FOR ALL TIME AND FOR ALL PEOPLE5.

3
The Message of the Upanishads page 24 (Mumbai 1993 – Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan).
4
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Vol.I-p.257.
5
ibid Vol. p.
Chapter IV
THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA

It is necessary to awaken the consciousness of the entire humanity and to focus it

towards achieving the goal of a one-world family. For this, it is necessary to make
everyone feel that the dawn of the 21st century and the third millennium is the
beginning of the Millennium – a period of great happiness and human perfection
which most religions look forward to – or Satya Yuga (the Eon of Truth) of the
Hindus. It is believed that an incarnation of God, or an Imam, will bring about this
change. The Hindus believe (For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the
wicked and for the establishment of Dharma I am born age after age, Gita IV-8) that
God incarnates Himself in every eon, to protect the virtuous, destroy the evil doers
and re-establish a righteous way of life. Some saints, like Sri Ramakrishna and Sri
Satya Sai Baba, have said that they will be reborn, to bring about an age of love and
harmony. Whatever it may be, the entire humanity itself should, on its own, try to
achieve this, without waiting for such a superior being to be born ( or to prepare the
groundwork for him), and should try to make the collective consciousness of the
entire humanity the new incarnation.

The feeling of the dawn of a new era should be brought home to everyone, in as
many ways as possible. For this, first the scientists should announce that with rapid
improvements in biotechnology (including genetic engineering), and research at the
spiritual institutes, it will be possible to bring about the birth of a superman, by the
end of the 21st century and that by that time, a foetus that is considered normal by
present human standards, will be considered as defective and will be remedied, or
aborted, and that the intellectual capacity and power of the superman will excel that
of man by geometric proportion, as man excels that of an ape.

This impending sea-change should be emphasized by all countries adopting a new

calendar, starting its year 9901, from the winter solstice (13.37 hrs. Universal Time
on 21st December) of the year A.D. 2000. It should be publicized that the era starts
from the time human beings became radically different from animal-like humanoids,
by marching towards more and more civilized life and intellectual exploration of their
surroundings to discover the laws of nature (science), and to use them for their
betterment; that human era will end in the year 10,000 and the superhuman era will
start. This will hammer into the heads of all peoples of the world the urgency of
getting and progressing together, in every conceivable manner, so that human
beings all over the world have superhuman offspring and not only a few rich, from
rich countries, who may kill or dominate over human beings just as the latter kill or
dominate over all flora and fauna. Scientists and the media should point this out and
governments and religious and social organizations, at all levels, should vigorously
pursue this object of total human progress with particular emphasis on spiritual
progress.

New concepts of time, latitude, longitude, weights and measures, etc., should also
be adopted (along with the new calendar, or as soon thereafter as possible), all over
the world to herald the dawn of the new era of global endeavour for the betterment of
the entire humanity. The longitude bisecting the Bering Strait, part of which forms a
part of the International Date Line at present, should be considered as zero degree
longitude. (This will turn the East into West and West into East!). Longitudes should
be numbered continuously (and not half of them marked East and half as West, as at
present), the numbering being westward, as the sun travels. (This will be a real
merger of East and West). There should be a hundred longitudinal divisions of a
hundred minutes, each of which should be of a hundred seconds. The latitude
should start with the South Pole as zero and the North Pole as hundred, eliminating
the present North or South of the equator notion.

With electronic watches and clocks showing time, day and date, and with universal
education, it will not be necessary to start the time from midnight and have different
standard times or for the date to change with the day, or with crossing any longitude
deemed to be an international date-line. There should be one standard time all over
the world, starting from and ending with noon, at the new zero degree longitude. This
period should be divided into a hundred hours of a hundred minutes each, a minute
into a hundred seconds and a second into a hundred moments. The year (from one
winter solstice of the northern hemisphere, to another), should be divided into 2520
dates, which total can be divided into any number, from two to ten or to twelve
months, as at present, by individuals or organizations, according to their needs, or
shifts (in the earth’s position around the sun or for shift duties). The longitude of a
place will indicate departure of its local time which may be relevant only for
weathermen and spacemen and to determine the day for religious purposes and
international airline schedules. (The actual nomenclatures for all the divisions of
space and time, will be different in the world language).

The World Bank should issue a currency which should have coins in the shape of a
ball bearing of strong plastic spheres, containing one gram of mercury. (This should
be the only link with the weights and measures now prevailing). This should be the
unit of its currency. The coin – and not the mercury alone – should be the unit of
weight; its diameter should be the unit of linear measure and its volume the unit of
cubic measure. The currency notes to be issued by the World Bank (plastic coated
silver, gold and platinum foils), should contain the precious metal weighing this new
one unit of weight (and not one gram). Temperature range between freezing and
boiling points of mercury at sea level should be divided into 1000 degrees. Electrical
measures (substitutes for Watt and Volt) should be decided on the basis of electricity
required to raise the temperature of one new unit of weight of mercury, by one (new)
degree, in one (new) second.

Another radical change that should be introduced is to allot official names to all
persons. There should be a directory of one million names, devised from root words
in the world language, so that the names will not indicate the religion, caste, etc. and
a name should be allotted by the registrar of births, by an electronic draw of lots,
which should ensure that no name is repeated until all the million names in the
directory are exhausted. To this, one letter (long vowels and soft consonants for girls
and short vowels and harsh consonants for boys) of the parents’ choice may be
added. The child should have its mother’s official name as its middle name and the
mother’s official surname at the time of its birth as its official surname. There will be
no stigma of an illegitimate child then. The mother should be regarded as the first
guardian and the person named by her who need not necessarily be the father, as
an alternate guardian. Only if the mother is incapable of guardianship and mentally
not sound enough to appoint a guardian, should the local judicial committee, decide
who the child’s guardian should be, who may or may not be the child’s father. No
change of official name should be permitted more than once in twenty-five years.
While registering marriages, the registrar of marriages should similarly allot official
names (first and second name if not already allotted and a new common surname),
to both the bride and the groom if either one desires a change of official name
already allotted. Only the official names should be recognized in all documents,
schools, offices and voters’ lists.

The sea-change in all the above mentioned concepts and the declarations by
scientists, will lead to all people burying the 20th century hatchets of disputes
between nations, races, religions, castes, families, individuals and organizations. It
will foster the spirit of unity.

Through increasing automation and the need to provide employment to all, it should
be possible to introduce a system of two parallel batches, working on alternate days
and also to progressively reduce the working hours and that too, being done mostly
from home through the computer networking, in a majority of cases. The concept of
alternate working day will trickle down to university and school education.

Society, thereafter, has to provide useful avenues for the free time available to all.
Throughout school education, learning music should be made compulsory. Music
imparts a sensitivity, activity and culture that will prevent a child from going astray. It
will provide an ideal relaxation and even a profession (if so chosen), in its adult life
which may ripen into devotion and meditation with the advancing years.

Similarly, facilities for sports, games and athletics, should be available to all. The
youth, when they take up their vocation, should be persuaded to take up spiritual
studies and training (for fruition of the seeds planted during schooling by moral and
ethical teaching), by highlighting its secular and spiritual advantage (including
possible superconscious experience). Everyone should be made to imbibe what the
ancient Indian sages have said :

If necessary,
‘Sacrifice oneself for one’s family
Sacrifice one’s family for one’s locality (village /town /city)
Sacrifice locality for the nation
Sacrifice the nation for the world
Sacrifice the world (renounce worldly attachments) for the sake of soul (salvation).

There are numerous non-government organizations ( NGOs) and even associations

of parliamentarians which earnestly endeavour to create a One-World Government.
There are others, including one of a number of Nobel Laureates, canvassing for
nuclear or total disarmament. If these objectives are achieved, it will firmly establish
security for the flora and fauna of the earth and the colossal funds now used for
armaments (and armed forces), and for diplomatic activities, will be available for
imparting the best of education to the entire mankind and for its physical, social,
economic, and spiritual welfare. The world community will then rapidly blossom into
a one world family. The most powerful weapon in the hands of the general public, to
force government to pursue these objectives is the VOTE. Well before nominations
are made for elections, the public should gather in large numbers and declare that
they will vote for candidates who are actively engaged in the pursuit of one-world
government and consequent total disarmament. Such candidates will then be
emboldened to enter the election fray. If they are elected in the central legislatures of
all countries in increasing numbers one-world government will be achieved within the
first two decades of the 21st century and total disarmament in the subsequent
decade and the next generation will reach the goal of one-world family.

Spiritual training taken up for secular advantage or even otherwise, will be found
attractive for its own sake, by many trainees as they make progress. The number of
persons who reach a culmination of superconscious experience will steadily
increase. Those who reach such an experience go beyond all limitations of
nationality, religion, etc., and treat the whole world as one family. Through their
preaching and example, all spiritual aspirants, and ultimately all people, will be
strongly attracted towards that goal.

Whatever may be done collectively, it is necessary for everyone who finds this goal
attractive to accept that outlook wholeheartedly, try to persuade others accordingly,
conscientiously do one’s work (including for the steadily expanding circle of near and
dear ones, from the family to the whole world), as service to God and earnestly
endeavour for one’s own spiritual progress, each of these, with the motto:

YOU DO YOUR BEST

TO HIM LEAVE THE REST
Chapter – V
A SPIRITUAL BASIS FOR ONE WORLD FAMILY

It would be ideal if the edifice of One World Family is raised on a strong

spiritual foundation. The Vedas, the sacred scriptures of the Hindus, are believed to
have been ‘seen’ by (revealed to) the ancient Seers of India (and not ‘composed’ by
them). The spiritual content of these revelations is in the concluding portion of each
of the four Vedas, known as Upanishads. As concluding portion as well as the
highest culmination of the Vedas, they are known as Vedanta – (literally and
figuratively) the ‘end’ of the Vedas. The Vedanta philosophy has provided this strong
spiritual foundation to the cognoscenti of India. Vedanta philosophy may be
expressed in a nutshell in modern scientific terms as follows:

Vedanta in a nutshell

A verse attributed to Shankaracharya, the foremost propagator

of Advaita Vedanta, reads: “Shlokaardhena Pravakshaami Yaduktam
Grantha-Kotibih, Brahma Satyam Jaganmithya Jeevo Brahmaiva
Naaparah”. “I will say in half-a-verse, what has been stated in crores
(tens of millions) of books: Brahman (The Infinite) is the Truth (only
Reality); the world is illusory; the (individual) soul is none other than
Brahman itself”.
Brahman is defined as “Satyam Jnaanam Anantam Brahma”
(Taittiriya Upanishad, II.1) i.e. Brahman (the Infinite) is the Truth
(Reality or only Existence); (it is) Consciousness and is without an end
(in space and time). In modern scientific language, Brahman can be
described as the Unified Field from which emerged DARK ENERGY
(MAHAKAALI) which created DARK MATTER (KAALI). The
interaction of these two created, in succession, with interaction of all
preceding creations, Gravity, Electro-Magnetic Force, Weak Force,
Strong Force, Matter, the Universe and everything in it. This verse
says that this Unified Field is nothing but Consciouness (CHIT-
SHAKTI). It means that CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ONLY
ORIGINAL & ULTIMATE FORCE WHICH IS EVER-PRESENT
AND IS THE FINEST FORM OF ALL FORCES AND
SUBSTANCES.
The verse cited at the beginning says that the universe is Mithya
(transitory illusion). Shankaracharya reiterates what ancient Rishis
(Seers who have seen – experienced – Brahman) have stated that the
universe and everything in it appears Real because of Maya. Maya, is
stated to be the intrinsic power of Brahman. Maya can be explained
in scientific terms as the limitation of our senses of perception. We
have five senses of perception. If we had four, three, two or only one,
our concept of the world would be entirely different. So also, if we
had more than five or if our senses were either more or less keen than
their normal range, the perception would be different. For example, if
we had X-ray eyes, we would see persons, animals and things
differently. If we could see atoms or sub-atomic particles, we would
see only about a hundred (in the former case) or three (in the latter
case) varieties. If we could see “superstrings” (or whatever scientists
accept for the time being as that which by various formations,
becomes the various forces and substances), we could see that nothing
exists except super-strings. The sages have unequivocally affirmed
that in Samaadhi (Superconscious state), there is this FINAL
EXPERIENCE OF ONLY INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS
ENCOMPASSED IN ONE’S OWN SOUL. Those whose Sadhana
(spiritual endeavour) is based on firm faith in God having a specific
form, initially see that form in the Light of Consciousness (that is why
gods are called DEVAs – the shining ones) and thereafter merge into
the Final Experience. Sant Tukaram, an ardent devotee of Vithal, saw
the form of Vithal materialising in the Light of Consciousness and
thereafter had the Final Experience in which he saw himself to be at
once smaller – finer – than an atom or its particle and (infinite) like
the sky. (Anuraniyan Thokada Tuka Aakaasha Evadha).
THIS SUPERCONSCIOUS STATE CAN BE REACHED
ONLY BY INTENSE CONCENTRATION OF ALL OUR
CONSCIOUSNESS on, say, a bit of matter (idol etc.) or of energy
(light / flame etc.) or on a concept (which is a bit of consciousness) of
God / Reality, to the exlusion of awareness of all other surroundings.
Just as focusing the sun’s rays through a lens on a piece of paper
burns the paper or concentration of intense energy on a little bit of
(radio-active) matter generates super (nuclear) energy (far greater
than the energy used in the process), INTENSE AND PROLONGED
CONCENTRATION CAUSES THE IMPLOSION OF NORMAL
CONSCIOUSNESS RESULTING IN A SUPERCONSIOUS STATE.
The Infinite Consciousness, being the sum-total of all Existence,
is Omnipresent; being the sum-total of all consciousness, it is
Omniscient; being the sum-total of all energies and forces, it is
Omnipotent. It is Infinite in infinite ways and can be viewed,
described and approached in infinite ways. Every science, philosophy
or religion and each individual’s journey towards the Final
Experience is just one way of viewing / approaching THE SINGLE
TRUTH (“Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti” – Rigveda, I.164.4 –
THE ONE AND ONLY TRUTH is described variously by the wise).
Thus spake ALL who had REALISATION of that SINGLE TRUTH.
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ISLAMIC PRAYER “LA ILLAHA IL’ALLHU” (There is no Reality but God, there is

only God)* is an exquisite expression which is no different from Advaitic experience

at the summit of Bhakti-Yoga and Jnan-Yoga. It is possible to interpret Christian

concept of the Holy Spirit / Ghost in consonance with the scientific concept of a

single Original Force. It is desirable for all religions to continually explore possibilities

for re-interpretation of their concepts to embrace latest discoveries of science.

* “A Personal Religion of Your Own” – page 11- Ramesh S. Balsekar – Mumbai

(2008)- Zen Publications

When everyone, and everything is created by, in and of the same Primeval
Force, do we not belong to one family? Several religions have said that we are
all descendants of one couple / parent. Scientists say that we are all
descendants of one central African woman. This means that we are all
cousins, howsoever remotely connected. If only all people realize this and
address one another as ‘cousin’ (its equivalent in World Language) just as
communists call one another ‘comrade’, the evolution of One World Family will
be much easier.

“The essence of the Upanishads is distilled in the most popular scripture of the
Hindus – the Bhagavadgita. Many sages, saints and scholars have written extensive
commentaries on the Bhagavadgita. One such commentary, a marvel of exquisite
poetry in Marathi (language of the Indian state of Maharashtra), was composed by
Saint Jnaneshwar more than seven hundred years ago. It ends with the following
prayer and blessing which is relevant to the theme of this book –

Invocation for Benediction

Now, may God, who pervades the Cosmos

Be pleased with this literary offering (Yadnya)
And being pleased, may bless me with this favour.

May the crookedness of the vile disappear,

May the love of good deeds blossom in them,
May all beings develop affection for each other.

May the darkness of vice fade away,

May the Sun of virtue & duty shine on the universe
May their wishes be granted to all living beings

May the multitudes of ardent devotees of God.

Be showered upon this earth constantly
And may all beings meet them (the devotees)

Those, who are like walking gardens of wish-giving trees

Who are like hamlet (village) of mobile wish-giving gems
Who are like eloquent (talking) oceans of life-giving nectar
Who are like a moon without a blemish
Who are like a Sun without scorching heat
May such saintly beings be your kith and kin

In short, may every one in all the 3 worlds. (heaven, earth & hell)
In total happiness, offer prayers to God, always
And may all those who lead their lives according
to the sacred teachings of this treatise
Be successful in this life and hereafter.

Here, the Master of the Universe said ‘So be it’

(I grant you this blessing)
And with this benediction, Dnyaneshwar attained contentment & peace

(Translation by Prof. Smt. Sadhana N. Kamat, Mumbai)

May the Master of the Universe fulfil this promise at least in the Twenty-first Century
and impel all the people of the world to fervently repeat the prayer of the ancient
sages of India with which most religious functions of Hindus and spiritual discourses
in India are concluded:

May everyone be happy

May everyone be free of ailments
May everyone see what is good
May no one experience sufferings
OM (May there be) PEACE ! PEACE ! PEACE !

Amen.