An Individual Initiative for World Peace - by Bhaskar Perinchery

Bhashkar Perinchery

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The following is an essay by Bhashkar Perinchery on what we as individuals can do to create and contribute to an atmosphere of peace and a quality of ease in our own life and in the world:

The 7 Day-Leap Within

The individual initiative for world-peace is starting with every individual themselves, as we begin to recognize the individual inner strength - because that is what is normally forgotten.

We always think that the politicians are the persons who have to decide, that somebody else has to decide, and we somehow forget, our individual strength and responsibility. There is in everything a deep interconnectedness and each individual is in a subdle way contributing to the wholeness.

Just as many individual drops of rain, which appear insignificant, coming together, can create a strong current of a river, so it is also when so many

individuals start bringing a different quality in their energy together. By recognizing what the roots of hatred in us are, what the roots of violence in us are, what the roots of the conflict in ourselves are, and clearing it up, a new energy field will be created. This is what is significant, because what we carry inside, gets reflected outside.

It has also been observed by the modern psychiatric research, that before wars are happening, there has been a higher percentage of neurosis among the human beings and when the war starts, much of the neurosis seems to subside. It is as if the inner tensions and the inner conflicts, which are undigested

and unresolved are spreading outside and that is coming out as war. As we take care to be clear with our energy, and take care that we are not emanating vibrations of destructivity, of hatred, of conflict, it will be a decisive step. The energy we emanate is affecting the climate of the world.

As more and more human beings take care, and recognize this about themselves that "I am part of the world", "I co-create this world", and that "I can individually do something...!!" - this is the real step. As soon as the energy changes in the atmosphere around you, then it is also bound to affect the whole functioning everywhere.

It is also like the osmotic process, that when there is a certain intensity of matter, it attracts and creates a movement towards itself. This osmotic process, is observed in the functioning of plants and the same also happens with energy in our life.

Many, many individuals needs to take a decision inside, that they will transform their energy, because that is the only step, which makes all the difference.

Otherwise, even if one so called dictator is taken away, this kind of an energyfield, which is unconsciously going on, will create further dictators, further destructivity. Those who are known as leaders are simply the flowerings of our human society. It is the hidden and unconscious tendencies in many, many of us which crystalize as seeds and create the climate for the outcome of the leaders of our human society. We carry a vast potential - through this potential, we effect the formation and growth of the tendencies and their manifestation as leading forces of the society. We affect ourselves, we affect others! We have to simply recognize this process in us and see the significance of our responsibility. Then only we can take steps to observe, to understand and allow a clearing of the blocked parts which creates strong conflicts and blind emotionalism or destructive depressions and resignation.

Those seeds which are sown inside us by ourselves come to flower as these leaders. So we need to see what seeds we sow inside ourselves. If the seeds of violence, hatred, dissatisfaction and disharmony are sown by us the destructive leaders are bound to sprout up. But if we look carefully and clear up the extreme disbalance inside ourselves - we sow seed of friendship, of love, of Harmony and peace. Only such a background of a society can afford to create leaders who are flowers of love and friendship.

Whatever we may believe or like to believe, the world now is one society - a global village. So, it is not just few individual leaders, which is the problem! These people are simply a symptom and a product of the general state of the humanity. It is just like, when our blood is impure, we may find a boil, appearing with puss, as a symptom of it. This boil is simply showing, that there is some impurity in the blood, some disharmony in the organism. So just by treating this boil outside, it is not going to be really cured and purified - one has to treat it more basically. We have to recognize, that this, what is a challenge sprouting as violence and organised criminality, are not isolated incidents. It is simply showing the state of the humanity. Unless there is a real inner decision in the human beings at large, understanding their inner strength, understanding their individual responsibility - there is no real change possible. Recognizing, that one doesn't exist separately from the whole, but one exists - just like the fish exist in the ocean - in the same atmosphere, in the same global climate, is important. This is a challenge, which reminds us, that a very basic transformation has to happen. Only through that, there can be a real difference and a healthy way of being in this world.

The peculiar thing about us, which we definitely need to recognize, is the fact that as long as we are being deliberately and consciously creative with our energy, all is well. But continuing unconsciously and being mechanical, automatically we become servants of destructivity.

Just for fun, imagining, that suddenly from some other planetary system, other beings are coming and again beautifying the whole nature, changing the few leaders, removing all the harm which the human beings have done to nature, bringing it thus again to the original natural harmony and order!! Yet - if we human beings go about it with the existing attitude, we are bound to bring it again into the same catastrophical state in a much shorter period!!!. The individuals have to recognize, that we have the strength, and because of the strength we also have a responsibility. This responsibility has to be exercised, this has to be brought into living, that is the only real chance for any different quality of life and continuation of life in a healthy way on this planet. Now this challenge has come to such a point, that there can be an outburst of global war. If it comes to it, it is not a war of few countries killing few people. It is going to affect the whole earth. It can not be a local war, it can be only a global war, because the weapons and the impact of the weapons are incredibly large. We had come to experience, an accident in an atomic factory in Tschernobyl affecting people 5.000 or 10.000 km away all over the earth. That is proof enough to see, that a deliberate usage of destructive weapons, leaves hardly a hope for humanity on this earth. So in a way it is a moment for the human beings to really look and decide within, whether we are choosing the path for life, or wether we are supporting a mechanicalness, which is going towards death, towards self-destruction, towards global suicide?!!

Each individual has somewhere to decide, that one is wanting to direct the energy towards life, rather than allowing it to go unconsciously and mechanically into the destructive process. With this inner decision and the direction of the energy, one has to start with a few things, as a part of a 7 day process of individual initative for world peace.

The first step is, to go more consciously about the body and that has to do with two kind of approaches. The first approach is to be done by those, who have basically a healthy and nourishing intake of food. They need for 7 days to go about a different kind of diet. This diet and the partial fasting is a way of remem-berance, and allowing the body to create a supportive state, for the harmonizing, for the creation of a balance.

For example, those who are eating normal dishes, normal meals, they can start with fruits for breakfast, a green salad for lunch and a light soup for supper. For some days the intake can be even reduced to only liquid-food.

They can contribute to those, who are poor and undernourished. It will be helpful if they can create a certain atmosphere of celebration, a feasting, for those, who dont't have. We have to recognize that everything in this existence is interconnected. When we are also deliberately and consciously sharing things and celebrating it, that also functions supportively for creating a healthy quality. For those who have, it is an experiment to have a diet and partially fast. Those who are poor, have to be supported to celebrate in whatever way they can be supported, helping them towards experiencing joy and a life-affirming quality.

The second aspect is, before you go into the daily activity, take at least an hour to bring your life-energy into an intensity. It can happen in various ways - it can happen through activity or it can happen through passivity. Those who feel, that they are prefering to come into an intensity through activity, they can go into dancing, they can go into singing, they can go into jogging or swimming. They can go into any intense creative activity, which is more like a celebration, where they can go so wholeheartedly into it. Their energy, which they create deliberately and consciously is an energy of celebration, an energy of creativity, an energy, which is life-affirming.

And at the end of the activity, it is required to rest, letting the body loose, allowing nature, allowing existence to create its harmony and balance. At this point one need not do anything.

Those who don't feel to move into activity, they just can sit silently and be available, so that nature can bring about the balancing. They simply have to remember, that during this period they are not going to interfere with nature, they are going to allow nature to create a balance in them.

Those who feel themselves religious - a certain kind of prayer will be very beautiful; it doesn't matter, what religion you are believing in. You can go into a certain prayer, where you affirm your availability for nature to bring about harmony. You can pray that you be a vehicle for the peacefullness and love on this earth, and stay with this rememberance without demanding anything further, waiting silently and being available this way for about an hour. The prayer should not be any struggle or a demand. The prayer has to be a willingness from our side that we be a passage for the energy of love and peace. This has to be the starting of the day.

By confronting ourselves and facing the facts, we can transform our energies for life, for the continuation of this planet. That has to be somehow brought by deliberate actions - individual actions - into manifestation.

It will be challenging, but we have to remember, that this is only through facing this and going about this diet for peace, it becomes truly a step for harmony in ourselves and harmony in the world. We are creating and generating an energyfield through this, because this inner determination, and the readyness to take certain steps, which are taking us out of the blind and mechanical ways, is going to be very valuable.This deliberateness and the direction, which we give to the energy by starting the day with this intensity and availability and also finishing the day with a similar process of intensity and availability to nature, is very significant.

When individual beings start creating an atmosphere of harmony in themselves and peacefulness in their way of being, they will transform the whole energy of this world and that is going to be the decicive.

We are the world.

During this period it is good not to go in all kind of engagements to run away from oneself; instead it is most benefincial when you patiently and courageously

stay in touch with all that is arising in you and simply mirroring it all. This mirroring oneself in one's consciousness is a deeply beneficial and harmonizing factor.Everybody has been trying so many other ways to create peace, but it has not proved of any help.

The political leaders can continue with their efforts in their way to create peace, but let all the individuals, who want to do something for it, also start taking care from their side in this way. This is going to be the real foundation for the peace. Without it, even if somehow a certain immediate danger is removed, the danger continues, as long as the inner violence in human beings, is not encountered!