If the solutions to our problems are guided by anything other than the one aimed at restoring harmony, then earth will be in perennial crisis, says Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj ji
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them, said Albert Einstein. Wasn’t he rightIJ If we look around, we would just realise that the world we live in is full of problems. However, none of us can pin-point any single major factor that lies at the root of all them. A look at these problems, most of which are interlinked, would show that the underlying causes, common to them all, have invariably been some kind of disharmony in politics, society, community or environment. If the policy, practice or solution had been other than the one that aimed at restoring the harmony, it had not only failed but had also led to a bigger problem because it caused greater disharmony.
let me give you an example. In the period preceding the invasion of India by Alexander, there was disharmony among the various princely kingdoms in India, which led each one of them to raise great armies. This, in turn, created fear and doubt in each neighbouring state and, instead of bringing in a feeling of security, it led to greater disharmony. The resulting disunity created rancour and ill-will and gave rise to the wish in the mind of almost every ruler that the other fellow be defeated, humiliated and dispossessed of power by some other powerful ruler. This kind of situation then was a tempting invitation to the powerful foreign rulers to invade India.
The Britishers also took advantage of this disharmony. Thus the devastating forces took a heavy toll of life and property everytime they descended on this country, disturbed the stability, ravaged the social and religious life and economy of this country and, as some of them settled here, they sowed the seeds for future disharmony.
Most of the people hardly realise that the cause of all social, political and other upheavals is inner disharmony. For example, in the above-mentioned case, history and historians are generally mute on the question as to what led Alexander take such a big army to India to conquer it.
Though history mentions social, political and other factors, it does not go to the root of all these. It discusses the life of his father Philip, Alexander and his mother but it does not lay its finger on the nerve that linked Alexander’s personal life to the historical role he played. It does not point to the truth that it was inner disharmony that led to disharmony in his family and, later, to continental disharmony. If mankind had understood this diagnosis, then people would not have tried to curb violence by using counter-violence nor would they have attempted to remove poverty by such over-ambitious developmental plans that cause ecological imbalance. Instead, it would consider universal harmony as the only worthy choice. Also, though political, religious, racial, spiritual or any other kind of harmony was considered the need of the time during different periods of history, there never was such an aggravated or urgent need for all kinds of harmony than it is now.