TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE

Kashmir whole-heartedly were to accept this then great opportunities for all kinds of development would open up to them. The prospects of progress here in the fields of education, economics and other fields are not in evidence anywhere else. The Kashmiri Muslims should abandon the policy of confrontation. They should abandon the path of militancy in favour of education and progress. The final hour has now come for the Kashmiris to rise above their leaders and to view the whole matter afresh—not in the light of the pronouncements of their leaders but in the light of practical realities. In doing so, they must chart the course of their lives anew. There is simply no other way for them to succeed. In an open valley just outside Srinagar are beautiful scenes of nature. From the towering peaks rivulets cascade down the valley. If one sits on the banks of the river one can notice the way the stream flows till it arrives at a boulder. It does not try to break the rock to be able to move ahead. Rather, when it meets the rock, it simply swerves to the left or to the right, around the sides of the rock, and continues its journey uninterrupted. This is an inevitable happening with all streams and rivers, but when a foolhardy man finds a ‘boulder’ blocking his path, he wants to smash it so that he can forge ahead, even if that results in his journey coming to an abrupt end once and for all. This is precisely what has happened in Kashmir. This is a message from Nature to humans. This fact of Nature tells you that if in the journey of life you face a hurdle, you should not seek to hurl yourself against it to carry on ahead. Rather, what you must do is carefully avoid the hurdle and continue with your journey. This is the secret of success in life. This applies equally to communities and individuals. The only way to progress is to avoid the hurdles and avail of the opportunities to build one’s life. The only sensible way out for them was precisely what Nature itself has taught us—that is to say, to ignore the problems and avail of the existing opportunities. This is not a principle that one should adopt simply out of compulsion. This principle is a Today, the whole world has become a global village. Now the change in the political system has become relative. Our new global conditions have made it possible for anyone living anywhere on the face of the earth to communicate with people across the world without any restrictions.