TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE

TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE We often talk of peace in the context of war. But this is a very narrow and restricted notion of peace. Peace is deeply linked with the entirety of human life. Peace is a complete ideology in itself. Peace is the only religion for both—man and the universe. It is the master-key that opens the doors to every success. Peace creates a favourable atmosphere for success in every endeavour. Without peace, no positive action—small or big—is possible. THE KEY TO PEACEFUL LIVING E VERYONE likes a house surrounded by green trees. Verdant foliage beautifies our world. It is this idea that has brought farmhouses—houses in gardens—into being. However, it is difficult to find anyone who can listen to the silent message of the trees or who tries to adopt the culture of the tree in their own lives. The culture of planting trees is widespread but adopting the culture of the tree is seldom in evidence. Trees beautify our homes but they do not beautify the person living in that house. A tree lives in the same world as the one in which we live. Nonetheless, there is a difference. People’s lives are marred by tension, malice, hate and violence, whereas all these negative features are missing from the tree culture. Man is like a walking tree, but he fails to follow the culture of the tree in his own life. Trees share our world. For man, this world has become a source of complaint, hate and stress; this same world has a different meaning for a tree. The beauty we see in the tree has come from this very world. It has not been imported by it from outer space. How was this possible for the tree? The reason is that the tree, by nature, has adopted the art of conversion: converting things to one’s advantage. What does the tree do? It takes minerals and water from the soil and converts them into food for itself. The tree, through the process of photosynthesis, takes light energy from the sun and converts it into chemical energy, which is then used to fuel its activities.