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Namah War and Peace

by a creative harmonising light of the spirit, Finally we must find ways and means for
must welter in a universalised confusion and conscious evolution rather than through the
discord out of which it is impossible to build a crash and clash of circumstances.
greater harmonic life (3).”
Uprooting the possibility of war
Certainly peace and not war should be the
goal of our human aspiration. But peace, like The roots of war as we have seen lie in the
every other divine quality has to be deserved. deep terrains of our unconscious processes,
Even as mankind strives for peace it must where through division and differentiation
understand that the roots of war and violence a complex unity is being built in creation.
are too deep to be uprooted by some kind In simple terms, differentiation involves a
of mental adjustment and accommodation state of apparent division. Apparent, because
or wishful thinking. No doubt, these things the division can only be a circumstance and
must be tried since it is through these partial not a finality. Everything has emerged from a
attempts that we eventually discover the real primal state of unity and hence tends towards
remedy. They are steps to climb by nurturing Unity. But in ignorance this tendency
our aspiration. But it will be a fatal error to towards unification takes place by abolishing
mistake them to be the end or even as a means differences and differentiations. This of
to the desired end of unity and peace. course is the most primitive way to attempt
building unity. It is this tendency that we see
in building of empires, wherein one nation
strives to blot out others.

We also see this tendency in religious conversions
through fraud or force or both. The same
tendency is seen in ideological regimentation
of thought where all are supposed to think
uniformly. An imposition of one language,
one custom, one uniform way of life all spring
from this early need for unification, albeit
through an abolition of differentiations. Wars
Therefore if we must find a lasting solution have been fought towards creating this kind
to the problem of war that shakes mankind of forced or enforced unity that tries to blur
in its violent grip like a convulsion we must out distinctions. But for obvious reasons
discover its inner psychological roots and this primitive method is foredoomed to fail
even its necessity in our present stage of because it is counter-evolutionary.
evolution. We must also appreciate the subtle
forms of war that keep shimmering in the Groups that stifle individual differentiation
background of human life and what seems to and variation eventually stop growing and
erupt suddenly, surely was growing within hence start declining because they lose the
for long. This way, we can discover its inner evolutionary impetus. Nature does not favour
reasons and work towards eliminating them. them. Often she seems to multiply the preyed

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