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War and Peace

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
Wars in one form or the other have always afflicted mankind. What is new however is the
impulse towards unity and peace that is beginning to seize humanity. It is important therefore
that we understand the real reasons for war so that effective and lasting remedies can be found to
eradicate it and establish human unity in an enduring way.

present human evolution.

Hence neither nature nor God allows it for
man. In fact the entire evolutionary history
of earth is riddled with clash and conflict
of forces. At the most material level, it was
the tremendous churning of elements in
the primordial soup that apparently gave
birth to life. Or more accurately, the Divine
War is not unique to human nature. What created conditions in the most material
is, however, unique to human nature is substrate of our earth to support the entry,
that there is something within him that awakening and the consequent evolution of
aspires for peace, asks for it though man life-forms. Matter was vigorously churned
does not yet know how to arrive at a lasting through a tremendous clash and mixing
and abiding peace that is free from any of forces and energies from the earth
external conditions. Always we want peace and the skies and the waters below. If it
but invariably believe that we can acquire could speak and sense, it may well have
this peace only if there is no conflict or clash regretted ever coming into existence. But
and we are allowed to live in our comfort- Time continued its orgy of violence and the
zones of life. But such peace, even if it were Divine Wisdom hidden in the heart of earth
possible, will be tainted and will be counter- watched patiently, until shaken off from its
evolutionary, at least at the stage of our primal inertia, native and natural to matter,

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