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LET US FACE THE CHALLENGE TOGETHER !

THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYhas placed a challenge before humanity

to CHOOSE LOVE OR HATE ! Humanity is on the brink of totalannihilation at the hands of TERRORISTS aka FANATICS. If we are to

survive, the only way is to wean the fanatics away from their war of

hatred to the path of LOVE i.e. to change the concepts of ONE AND

ALL in such a way that ALL feel that they belong to one affectionate

extended family and act accordingly. For this, the most urgent needs

are removal of poverty and PROPER education. How the objective of

ONE WORLD FAMILY can be achieved, should be debated by all whogenuinely feel concerned about the welfare of humanity, nay, even for

its survival. One humble effort is placed before you in this booklet,

more as food for thought for more knowledgeable persons to come up

with better and more practicable proposals and above all, to set the

wheels rolling to move Governments and the UNO and its Agencies to

take steps in this direction which may be evolved through a variety of

views of the people from all strata.

SO DEAR READER, READ THIS, FORMULATE YOUR VIEWS AND TRY

TO GIVE THEM WIDEST PUBLICITY. ABOVE ALL, USE YOUR VOTING

POWER JUDICIOULY TO ELECT PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS VISION

OF ONE WORLD FAMILYBEFORE THEM.

NOW READ ON..

D. L. Bijur

ENCLOSURES Title pages - 2Contents page - 1Introduction - pages - 2 Text - pages - 31 Total pages - 36


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ONE WORLD FAMILY-- THE GOAL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

D. L. Bijur


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ONE WORLD FAMILY--The Goal Of The Twenty-first Century(Revised Second Edition)

Copyright D. L. Bijur 2009

First Edition

2001 published byMinerva Printing Press

(India) Pvt. Ltd.New Delhi


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Contents

Page

Introduction

I World Language

II World Government

III Bonding of Humanity into One Family

IV Dawn of a New Era

V Spiritual Basis for One World Family


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ONE WORLD FAMILY--The Goal Of The Twenty-first Century

INTRODUCTION

The law for humanity is to pursue its upward evolution towards the finding and

expression of the Divine in the type of mankind, taking full advantage of the

free development and gains of all individuals and nations and grouping of

men, to work towards the day when mankind may be really and not only ideally

one divine family, but even then, when it has succeeded in unifying itself, to

respect, aid and be aided by the free growth and activity of its individuals and

constituent aggregates.

Sri Aurobindo

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own

prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Bertrand Russel

Emperors of bygone eras and dictators of the twentieth century had dreamt of

transforming the whole world into one empire. Many democratic leaders of the

twentieth century have also spoken of a world confederation of nations. Tentative

steps towards this were also taken by forming the League of Nations, after the First

World War and the United Nations Organisation after the Second World War. The

former became defunct because of the aggressive intentions of some nations and

latter may also end up similarly, for the same reasons, or for being starved of funds

for not acceding to the dictates of the nations which contribute the major share of itsexpenses. Even otherwise, the UNO is a weak organization; its directions are very

often not heeded by member nations concerned and, worst of all, it leaves member

nations free to wage wars between themselves. It is only the spiritual leaders who,

right from ancient ages, have been urging for realisation of the fatherhood of God


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and the brotherhood of Man, or the whole world as one FAMILY (Vasudhaiva

Kutumbakam). Most spiritual leaders preached this as a feeling to be developed by

spiritual aspirants more particularly as an outcome of the superconscious

experience and not necessarily under a political union of all nations. Fortunately,there have been some among them, like Baha-u-llah, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, who have started movements towards not

only spiritual regeneration of mankind, but also world government, world language

and integral education, with a common ethical or spiritual basis.

With the advent of the twenty-first century and the third millennium, it is now high

time for not only leaders in all fields, but also for the masses to be oriented towards a

world union. Unless there is constant pressure from the masses, the political leaders

of the world, whose leadership and support is most vital to achieve the goal, will not

feel the urgency of taking concrete steps to integrate the hopes and aspirations of

the masses, with the expertise of the knowledgeable who have been clamouring

for it for several decades to bring about the desired result. It is, therefore,

desirable for common men as many people as possible to publicly express their

ideas about how a world union and brotherhood of man should be created, so that

the experts and leaders in all fields (including political), can take stock of these ideas

and through cross-fertilisation with their own ideas hammer out a feasible way of

approach towards it. So one common man, who is neither well-read nor

knowledgeable, expresses his ideas briefly through this book!1

It is earnestly hoped that this will serve as food for thought as also

as an incentive for others to express better and more practicable

ideas to reach the goal of One World Family as early as possible.

Date : 09th May 2009.(on which this is placed on Web-site)

D. L. Bijur

e-mail : [email protected]

1These ideas are elaborated in the authors book Urge for Synthesis(Mumbai 1996 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan).


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Chapter I

WORLD LANGUAGE

To develop the feeling of one world family among all the peoples of the world, it is

desirable that they should have as many things as possible in common.

Communication in one language will greatly help in bringing about closer affinity

among them. Although English has almost attained that stage, especially with the

advent of the Internet, it is desirable to evolve a new language, with a rigid grammar,

to make it easier to take up the gigantic task of translation through automation, with a

script that is ergonomically more suited (less effort, with a slight sacrifice of this

quality to make it aesthetically more pleasing), and with clarity in the distinction

between one letter and another, for both computer printing as well as handwriting.

For speedier writing, one could perhaps use a running hand with connecting strokes,

while retaining clarity. UNESCO should undertake this task with the help of experts

from all countries.

The first step in this direction is to evolve a phonetic script after considering the

pronunciations of all alphabets of all languages. The next step is to allot one or two

letters as suffixes to determine the declensions and conjugations of words. The third

step is to compile root words, after studying morphemes in other languages,

especially classical mother languages, from which modern languages have evolved.

Extensive use should be made of root words that sound and mean alike in two or

more classical languages, or which are adopted in several modern languages. The

root words, with their combinations and derivatives, should be used to convey the

meanings of the words in the most exhaustive, general and technical dictionaries of

all languages. Where this is not adequate (because of too long combinations of root

words, etc.), the words should be picked up from other languages (by condensing

and changing to suit the world language), by variety of criteria:

a. The language in which it is most expressive.

b. The language in which the meaning was first expressed.

c. Alphabetic allocations for each language, etc.


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Thus the world language will have familiar sounding and meaning words for people

speaking all other languages.

After the formation of the script, grammar and dictionary of the world language,

UNESCO should set up a steadily expanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) complex, to

translate into the world language everything published in every other language, each

publication being indexed exhaustively. To facilitate this, faxing of a copy of every

publication to the local super-computer for transmission to and eventually

simultaneous translation by the AI complex, should be made compulsory, just as it is

now being sent to national libraries; translation into the world language should be

permissible at a nominal royalty determined by UNESCO, with both these provisions

being adopted by all countries. Various sections of the AI complex should take up

translations of various materials e.g. encyclopedias, songs, poetry and plays in one

section, other classics in another section, in two other sections in one from oldest

onward and in the other backward from the latest, etc. The exhaustively indexed

published material in the world language should be made available through an

Internet-like set-up.

Learning the script of the world language should be made compulsory in the final

year of the primary school. Every sign board, official letterhead, printing on currency

notes, etc. should be in this script also, in addition to that of the local / national

language, as long as they are in common use. The script should straight away be

adopted by languages which do not have their own script and later, by all languages.

Teaching of the world language should be compulsory, from the first year of

secondary school. Gradually, the world language should be the medium of

instruction at all levels and the erstwhile modern and classical languages should be

taught as second and third languages.


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Chapter II

WORLD GOVERNMENT

One-world government is absolutely essential to create a one-world family. The

United Nations Organisation, as already pointed out, falls too short of a world

government. As under it, the nations are free to wage wars between themselves,

huge amounts are spent on armaments, even nuclear armaments, that pose a

danger to the entire humanity. Even a fraction of the amount spent on armaments is

enough to remove poverty from the whole world and to educate its entire population.

The very existence of UNO is at the mercy of the rich nations, who make major

contributions towards its expenses and it is unable to take the same steps against

them which it takes against weaker countries mostly at the bidding of these major

donors for similar reasons. Undemocratic delegation of veto power to the Five Big

Powers, (who do not deserve to be called Great Powers), is its other major

weakness.

The political set-up all the world over should be truly democratic i.e. government of

the people, by the people and for the people. The people at the grass-roots level

should have a say in all three branches of administration viz. executive, legislative

and judicial, at the local level and the higher levels of administration should evolve

from the lower levels, with voting rights given to the people to choose the chief

administrator up to the national level.

Efforts should be made to persuade all countries to reorganize their political

structure. Every area with people living in closely integrated housing who number

one millionth of the world population, should form a ward and 100 wards should form

a state. Ideally, 100 states should form a nation. Countries with less than 1% of the

world population should form regional group with neighbouring country / countries so

as to have about 1% of the world population in the region. Countries with population

exceeding 1% of world population, should have regions of states which together

reach that population figure. Eventually, each region should become a single nation

and the world should have 100 nations.


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Each ward should have twin public halls. The ground floor should be for the

assembly of people between the ages of fifty and seventy-five (House of Seniors),

and the upper floor for those between twenty-five and fifty years of age (House ofGuardians). Persons below twenty-five years of age, or above seventy-five years,

should not participate in politics. This will reduce the overwhelming importance that

is now being given to politics in all other spheres. Non-political organizations should

invite people from their own fields as chief guests, etc. and should not issue free

passes to any member of the three branches of administration who does not

independently qualify for it. Persons who are members of the organization, or are

prominent in their field, even if they so qualify, should not be made office-bearer of

the organization if they are elected political office-bearers or appointed by the latter,

on any committee. This will also be conducive towards elimination of interference by

politicians in student organizations and leave the younger generation free to

concentrate on study or training in their jobs and the aged to take or pursue interest

in spiritual matters. The pursuit of both these generations is vital and forms the

foundation on which the edifice of all the activities of humanity rest, or should rest.

The halls should provide voting machines for members to vote on all issues that fall

within their jurisdiction and in elections.

Every year, the two Houses of each ward should jointly elect one person as the chief

administrator of the ward and ten persons to form his managing committee, who

should hold office for one year and who should be eligible for re-election, but not for

more than five years continuously. The two Houses should also jointly elect one

member, every year, to join a judicial committee of five members, for five years. The

judicial committee members should be law graduates residing in the ward or, if there

are not enough (and trustworthy) law graduates in the area, from judicial committee

members or residents of neighbouring wards. Each House should separately elect

two candidates every year (by a process of elimination by voting on all the names

suggested by their members), for electing one of them as the ward representative in

the state assembly for five years. The House of Seniors should elect the

representative from the candidates elected by the House of Guardians and vice


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the voters of the state. Each state legislature should elect one male member and

one female member every year to the House of Representatives (Lower House) of

the national parliament for a period of five years. The judicial councils of all the

states in a nation, should elect judges to the national judicial council of twenty-fivejudges, who should hold the post until they reach the age of seventy years.

The national administration should have all the powers on matters concerning the

world government, relations with other nations, national security (central police),

matters concerning all states, or two or more states (unless the concerned states set

up a joint organization to handle them), organized or heinous crime, currency and

financial regulations (concerning taxation, banks, financial institutions, companies,

stock exchanges, etc.), interstate and international transport and communications, as

also powers delegated to it for twenty five years by each state administration. The

laws passed by parliament should require approval of a majority of the national

judicial council before they are signed by the president. The national judicial council

or its benches should have powers to deal with appeals against judgements of the

state judicial councils and over matters concerning constitutional law and

fundamental right, including where justice is denied for more than three years. The

national parliament and the legislatures of all the states should elect two candidates

(in the manner in which the President of India is elected)2 below sixty-five years of

age from whom one should be elected as president, by all the voters of the country.

This election should be held simultaneously with the five-yearly election of all the

state governors. The losing candidate should be the speaker of the Lower House.

The Upper House should elect its own Chairman. If a governor or a president is

unable to fulfil his five-year term (on account of death, illness, etc.), the state

legislature or the parliament, as the case may be, should elect a substitute for the

balance period.

The two candidates for election as governor / president should be provided state

funds for their election. (This will not be necessary for ward election or elections to

the Lower House as the candidates will be well known to all the respective voters).

In all election process, there should be no official recognition of political parties. The


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media also should not refer to a ruling party and opposition parties but only to

serving party and a cooperating party. This and the direct election of governors and

national president, will promote conscientious voting and eliminate the tendency of

opposition for the sake of opposition, or for political gain for the party, at the expenseof the interest of the people. This procedure of nomination of two candidates for

election as President / Governors will evolve two groups in each (Central & State )

legislature, which, in practice, will work like a two-party system and may eventually

induce all political parties to merge into two national parties. Code of conduct for

each wing of administration (executive, legislative and judicial), should be laid down

and any serious or repeated breach, should entail debarring the person from holding

the office.

The retiring president should automatically be a member of Parliament of Nations

(until he reaches seventy-five years of age), which should elect its own president for

a period of seven years, who should have a secretariat (like UN Secretariat). The

world, as well as national administration, should have councils for:

a. Physical welfare (food, clothing, housing, health),

b. Social welfare including transport and communication,

c. Education

d. Economic welfare,

e. Political welfare (a laUN Security Council),

f. Spiritual welfare.

Until formation of new nations, countries with a population of more than 100 million

should be permanent members of these councils (without veto powers). The other

countries should be grouped for rotational representation, for three years, so that

each group of nations represents about 100 million people. For this purpose, and

for all groupings, the European Union excluding U.K. and France should be regarded

as one nation. On the formation of new nations in all the countries having a

population of over 100 million, only the grouping system should prevail. The member

countries should appoint their representative in each council, for three years at a

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The Educational Council should, inter alia, undertake the task of evolving a world

language and dissemination of knowledge as detailed earlier in the book. The

Economic Welfare Council should appoint Governors of the World Bank (acombination of IBRD and IMF), and should itself look after other economic matters,

including those now handled by WTO. The World Bank should issue currency in the

form of plastic coated foils of silver, gold and platinum and promissory notes of one

million world currency units. National central banks should issue their own currency

(notes of other denominations and coins), against holding of world currency, up to a

specified minimum percentage. The promissory notes endorsed by the World Bank

to them, should be endorsable to other central banks, or to the World Bank.

The system of membership of the aforementioned councils of world government

should also apply to membership of the world judicial council, except that the

persons nominated by the member nations concerned, should hold office until

seventy-five years of age and vacancies on retirement, or death, should be filled up

by the nations who are members of the Council at that time in a rotational order.

The world judicial council should have powers to decide on all matters of

international disputes referred to it by any nation and not taken up by the Parliament

of Nations or by any of the other world Councils within three months thereafter or, if

so taken up, not decided by them within three years.

The judicial personnel at all levels should have computer access to laws that existed

in various countries on whatever matter comes up before them as also laws passed

by the legislatures of the area under their jurisdiction. They should be guided by the

spirit (rather than the letter) of the laws. Above all, they should CONSCIENTIOUSLY

come to the conclusion of what is the MOST JUST ACTION and act accordingly,

directing the concerned legislature to change existing laws where necessary. This

should cause no problem if proper education is imparted to all from school level and

emphasized in the law colleges to uphold the DHARMA that is right for an ideal

state of the modern age and the judges are known to have been selected on the

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Even before formation of new nations, all countries should move towards complete

disarmament, initially by eliminating nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and

then by disbanding the air force and the navy, when only the world governmentshould have these two branches of the armed forces. A small percentage of the

forces disbanded should be contributed to the world government by the member

countries. A percentage of the expenditure saved by the nations through

disarmament, should be contributed to the world organization and the balance

utilized for elimination of poverty and illiteracy and thereafter, for steadily improving

facilities and standards of education to more and more people. When the new

nations are formed all over the world, the world government and the nations should

have only police forces, equipped with armaments that are not more destructive than

machine guns and hand grenades. The state police should have no firearms other

than revolvers and ward police only pistols that fire not more than two bullets, without

reloading. Private security guards may be allowed to have a gun. Holding of firearms

by other citizens should be totally banned.

All nations should have a uniform tax system levying one percent turnover tax on

credits to all bank accounts (including time deposit accounts) except on credits (a) to

accounts of all wings of administration from ward to world organization levels, (b) to

bank accounts and (c) by transfer between bank accounts of the same sole / first

holder. There should be no other taxes or duties except that until one world

government comes into being, nations may charge export and import duties and

exempt credits representing proceeds of amounts received in foreign exchange from

turnover tax. The revenue generated should be shared in the following proportion

10% for ward administration, 20% for state administration, 30% for national

administration and 40% for the world administration. (Until world government is

formed, 30% should go to regional administration and 40% to the national

administration). Each higher organization should use a part of its revenue to ensure

that immediate lower organization will be aided to have equitable development with

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Payments and holdings in cash should be restricted. All payments towards amounts

due in excess of one thousand units of currency should be made by transfer to bank

accounts or by crossed cheque or credit / debit card. Amount to be held in cash

should not exceed amount received in cash during preceding five days or normallypayable in cash during ensuing ten days, whichever is more.

Among the countries which are ready for mergers / divisions, the world government

should ensure that political borders of the world are redrawn every 40 years on the

basis of the latest census which would form 100 nations (on the assumption that all

countries participate) with more or less equal population. The national governments

should redraw the state borders once in 20 years to form 100 states of almost equal

population. The state governments should redraw the borders of their wards

similarly every 10 years. Thus the world should eventually have a million wards of

more or less equal population. The world government should ensure that the world

population does not go higher than 10 billion or lower than 5 billion. Thus each ward

should have a population of about five to ten thousand.

Scientists should discover more and more effective and easier means of population

control and come up with injections that, once given, will prevent pregnancy until a

pregnancy facilitating injection (that will permit conception of only one child) is given.

The former should be given to girls on their admission to secondary schools and the

latter at any time after they reach 25 years of age and are keen to conceive. The

pregnancy prevention injections should be given again before discharge from

maternity hospital. The pregnancy facilitating injection should not be given again at

all if the population is near the higher limit or at least until five years after delivery.

Euthanasia should be permitted in the case of persons who are considered by a

panel of doctors as incurably bed-ridden. Persons above 80 years of age should be

permitted to opt for dignified death by donating their organs (and even skin for

temporary relief to burn-victims), cadaver plasma (when scientists find ways to use it

effectively for transplant) etc, and their bodies to assist medical studies. Persons

eligible for this should be required to declare their intention for it in a sworn affidavit


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before a magistrate who should, as far as possible, ensure that there is no pressure

from others for recording such affidavits. If a person over 50 years of age who is

mentally sound makes an affidavit that he should be administered euthanasia if he

suffers from Alzheimers syndrome, his wishes should be fulfilled.

2Candidates are nominated by at least the specified number of members of the central / state legislature/s.

Thereafter, all the elected members of all the legislatures vote indicating order of preference. Weightage is given

to the vote of the member on the basis of the population of his state. If no candidate gets majority of first


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preference votes, the second preference votes are added and so on until one candidate aggregates a majority of

the votes so taken into account.

Chapter III

BONDING OF HUMANITY INTO ONE FAMILY

Turning the entire humanity into one family, should be the goal of the 21st century. To

do so and to retain it so integrated, it is necessary to impart moral, ethical, religious

and spiritual education. For this, educational institutions at each level primary,

secondary and university should get together and start dialogues with social,

religious and spiritual leaders, to form a common code of conduct, the DONTs for

the primary school level, the DOs (ethical), for the secondary school level, and

common religion for the university level. This common religion should be a way of

life and an approach towards ones own religion, as also towards other religions. The

organisations at lower levels should try to adopt, in simpler ways, whatever is

evolved for higher levels, e.g. the ethical conduct evolved for secondary schools may

be adopted for primary schools by way of stories, highlighting such conduct.

Religious and spiritual leaders, doctors and scientists should get together to evolve

spiritual training courses for aspirants, aimed at achieving a superconscious

experience. Governments and charitable organizations should ensure that such

efforts do not flag for want of funds. It should be realised by governments that this

will minimise corruption and crime and make workers and politicians more and more

conscientious, all of which will mean a huge saving of government expenditure.

The religious training should emphasise that those under twenty-five years of age

should concentrate on LEARNING (education and training for their profession).

Although learning should continue throughout ones life and professional training

throughout ones career, the concentration during the years twenty-five to fifty,

should be on EARNING conscientiously, firstly to liberate oneself from dependence,

then for ones dependents and thereafter for a larger and larger circle of ones

brethren. In the third stage between fifty and seventy-five years of age, the

concentration should be on YEARNING. In the preceding stage, if not earlier, a

person gradually develops (or should develop) an interest in some pursuit, not

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according to the intensity of their inclination and as time permits. In this stage, the

inclination should turn into an urge. In the stage over seventy-five years, the

concentration should be on the spiritual goal of a superconscious experience. These

stages correspond to raja yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga (though the yearning maybe other than religious), and jnana yoga. Persons in the respective stages may as

well be called raja yogietc. irrespective of their religion, to emphasise their field of

concentration (The stages also correspond to pursuit of the four purusharthas or

primary objects of life, dharma, artha, kama and moksha).

Yoga means communion. It is used for communion with God/Holy Spirit/ Reality

(totality of Existence), as also for every path leading towards it. It is also commonly

used for the physical exercises Asanas or postures and Pranayama or breath

control which bring good health and are also conducive towards better conduct (as

has been observed by such training given to prisoners and workers), and then,

towards spiritual pursuit. It is desirable to call all formal religions as yoga, Christian

yoga, Mohammedan yoga, Vaishnavite yoga, Shaivite yoga, etc. This will emphasise

that all religions are various paths towards one goal. It should be realised by all, that

the physical exercises of yoga in no way suggest adherence to Hinduism, but are

necessary for a healthy and supple body and are also helpful for eventual spiritual

pursuit according to ones own religion or belief. It should also be realised by all

religious leaders that the prophets and preachers of all religions were concerned

primarily with their followers spiritual pursuit towards communion with God/Holy

Spirit/ Reality, a superconscious experience of which lovefor all is an essential path.

Since these leaders attained pre-eminence and their word was law to their followers,

the latter imposed upon the former the duties of adjudicating in secular affairs. This

imposed duty was performed in accordance with need of their time and place,

changing their own tradition only where it was absolutely necessary. Thus, there is

need to conform these secular preachings to present and future global needs and

particularly to modern concepts of justice and the fundamental rights of equality

between man and woman and between followers of their own religion and others,

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Spiritual research exploring the inside of ones being should be considered as at

least as vital as research in outer space and funds should be allocated for it on a

similar scale. Scientists should involve themselves in this research, as their findings

are more universally accepted as the truth, whereas the preachings of spiritualleaders are not so unequivocally accepted by people who are not their followers.

Doctors have already discovered the advantages of meditation and yogic exercise.

Scientists have also invented gadgets to monitor these, to know what is

advantageous and what is disadvantageous. Research in this direction should be

vigorously pursued. Spiritual research and training institutes should be set up and

liberally financed.

In the later years of the 19th century and the early years or the 20th century, scientists

discovered that all elements are made of the same subatomic particles with only

their number changing; that electricity and magnetism are aspects of one electro-

magnetic force; that matter and energy are interchangeable aspects of one entity

and that the entire universe is born of four forces viz. (1) electro-magnetic force (2)

weak force (3) strong force (4) gravitational force, with the second and third being

nuclear forces. Later, in the 20th century, they discovered that the forces (1) and (2)

are really one force and subsequently, that this latter force and the strong force, are

also one and the same force. Since then, they have been trying to establish that all

the four forces are in reality one and the same force. A strong contender for this

Unified Field Theory (UFT) or Theory of Everything (TOE) is superstring theory. They

only have to pursue this and other UFTs, to come to one conclusive force.

All this will however, explain only the physical universe. Scientists still have to find

out the real nature of consciousness and either try to establish that it is the TOE of

which the four physical forces are aspects, or arrive at the TOE, of which both

consciousness and the four forces are aspects. Researchers in every field of science

should make all - out efforts to ascertain whether consciousness is a finer form of

energy, in the same manner in which the latter is a finer form of matter. They

should see whether acceptance of consciousness as the omnipresent primeval force

from which all other forces and life itself have originated, could explain all their


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speculation about the source of cosmic rays, Bose-Einstein condensate, Bohm -

diffusion, superstrings, microwave background radiation, Higgs (Boson) Field,

Tachyon Field, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, ultimate disappearance of black-holes,

etc. and even of pre-Einsteinian idea of Ether as the substance in which theuniverse floats which some post - Einsteinian Scientists seem to be reviving in one

form or other.

Saints and mystics of all religions and faiths have reached a stage of communion

with God/Holy Spirit/reality and have treated the entire creation as one family. This

they have done by concentrating all their consciousness on God/Holy Spirit/Reality.

It is obvious from this that it does not matter what they believed but that it is the

intensity of their faith that helped them to concentrate all their consciousness on the

one Idea, and thereby reach a superconscious state. (There should, therefore, be no

dispute between various religions and faiths as to which is true and which is false).

This indicates that just as concentration of tremendous energy on a little bit of matter

generates super (nuclear) energy, concentration of all consciousness by any person

on a little bit of matter (idol) /energy (light) / consciousness (his concept of God/Holy

Spirit /Reality, etc.), generates superconsciousness.

It is possible for scientists to establish this by inventing more and more sophisticated

gadgets to observe the effects of meditation (from starting of meditation to the

highest stage of concentration, or the superconscious state), particularly by

experimenting on persons (yogis), who have had superconscious experience and on

others, to find out what the latter should avoid, to achieve similar effects. They can

then come up with even more sophisticated gadgets to guage the spiritual stage of a

person. This will then be the new IQ (Integrity Quotient). This new IQ may be

resorted to in selecting persons for the five highest executive posts in an

organisation, for selection of judges and candidates for election and even for

appointments at lower levels, where all other relevant factors for appointment are

more or less equal. Once this secular advantage of spiritual IQ is established, it will

create a common, competitive interest in spiritual training (just as present-day


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management training has even for the best technicians at present), and the entire

humanity will reap its benefits.

Once the scientists arrive at the fundamental force of consciousness, or from whichconsciousness and the other four forces emerged, scientists should express it as

their view that this fundamental force is what various religions and philosophies

express as God/Holy Spirit/Brahman/Reality; that it is infinite in infiniteways and can

be viewed, described and approached in infinite ways; that each religion expresses

one view and way of life based on that as an approach towards this infinite; that

salvation is communion with it. They, or some of them may even add that since it is

the sum-total of all existence, it is Omnipresent; that since it is the sum-total of all

energies and forces, it is Omnipotent and that since it is the sum-total of all

consciousness, it is Omniscient. Scientists could even say, or predict, that

communion with it is like establishing a hot line with it, through which man can draw

on these Omni powers and be superman. Once this view is accepted by the

scientific community, it will be gradually accepted by all religionists and all religions

will be integrated. Swami Ranganathananda, late President of Ramakrishna Math

and Ramakrishna Mission, says, It will be a great event in human history when the

spiritual energies of the worlds religions, so long working in isolation or at cross

purposes, become entirely positive and cooperative, and function as an integrated

spiritual grid to redeem man from the depth of worldliness and restore him to his true

spiritual dimension.3

There is so much evil in the world that leads to crime, hatred and wars. The

beginnings of these, the fundamental causes, are rooted in poverty and lack of

proper education (including propagation of improper religious ideas by preachers,

parents or others), which turn people to seek riches by hook or by crook and then

more and more of it and more and more power, at first from riches and later from

organized crime and/or political office. The media highlights their misdeeds and

rarely goes into the fundamental causes and how the causes can be removed. The

media also fails miserably in giving proper coverage (which should be much wider

than that for the misdeeds and their perpetrators) to good deeds and to persons of


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spiritual eminence. As has been said earlier, funds saved from gradual and total

disarmament, should be used for social welfare, proper education including spiritual

(inner space) research and training, to eliminate the root causes of evil.

The Declaration of a Global Ethicmade by the World Parliament of Religions held at

Chicago in 1993, (in commemoration of the centenary of a similar parliament held

there, which brought Swami Vivekananda into the limelight), affirms that a common

set of core values is found in the teachings of all religions and that these form the

basis of a global ethic. Religious leaders of all communities should lay all emphasis

on this common core and preach that, along with their own philosophy about

God/Holy Spirit/Reality and their own ways of worship, prayer and meditation. They

should also simultaneously relax their hold on the other scriptural preachings, which

should not be deemed to be sacrosanct laws that have to be adhered to the letter,

but only as guidelines to people of that time and mostly according to their then

tradition. (It is surprising that many religious leaders ignore laxity by their followers in

observing spiritual guidelines, but lay overemphasis on observing the secular laws

of the scriptures!).

The common set of core values, arrived at right from local to global level meetings of

religious leaders, social workers, educationists, psychologists, etc., should be taught

in schools from the first year of primary school to the penultimate year of high school.

Initially this should be done through stories etc. and later, through parallel quotations

from scriptures of various religions. Courses of yogic exercises, suitable for each

year of schooling, with simplified pranayama, should be drawn up. Spiritual research

and training institutes should offer higher courses for those who opt for it. Many will

readily opt for that, because of better job prospects that even a little training may

bring, rather than go for training under a guru, who may ask for total renunciation of

worldly contact. As the Gita says (II-40) Even a little of this Dharma protects from

great fear.Even a little of this spiritual training that helps one to follow ones religion

(way of life) intelligently, prevents a calamity. Government as well as other

organizations should be happy to recruit persons who have had even short spiritual

training as the trainees are likely to be less corrupt and more conscientious (their


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spiritual IQ level having been monitored at their institute), and may even be satisfied

with a moderate remuneration. These organizations should, therefore, liberally

finance such institutions which should also offer short reorientation courses (retreat)

for batches of the donors staff, aimed at greater efficiency and evolving karma yogis.

The aim of such spiritual activity should be to evolve a Universal Religion which will

be a guideline for all to practise their own religion intelligently and fruitfully. Swami

Vivekananda has already spoken of such a religion in the following words

Universal Religion

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by

controlling nature, external and internal. Do this by work or worship or psychic

control or philosophy by any one or more or all of these and be free.

This is the whole of religion. Doctrines or dogmas or ritual or books or temples or

forms are but secondary details4.

Establishing a SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION and

constantly evolving a better synthesis with the progress of science and the

consequent renewed reorientation in the other two branches, is needed for universal

welfare. If this is done, again in the words of Swami Vivekananda

SCIENCE and RELIGION will meet and shake hands. POETRY and PHILOSOPHY

will become friends. This will be the RELIGION OF THE FUTURE, and, if we can

work it out, we may be sure that it will be FOR ALL TIME AND FOR ALL PEOPLE5.

3The Message of the Upanishads page24 (Mumbai 1993 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan).

4Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Vol.I-p.257.

5ibid Vol. p.


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Chapter IV

THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA

It is necessary to awaken the consciousness of the entire humanity and to focus it

towards achieving the goal of a one-world family. For this, it is necessary to make

everyone feel that the dawn of the 21st century and the third millennium is the

beginning of the Millennium a period of great happiness and human perfection

which most religions look forward to or Satya Yuga (the Eon of Truth) of the

Hindus. It is believed that an incarnation of God, or an Imam, will bring about this

change. The Hindus believe (For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the

wicked and for the establishment of Dharma I am born age after age, Gita IV-8) that

God incarnates Himself in every eon, to protect the virtuous, destroy the evil doers

and re-establish a righteous way of life. Some saints, like Sri Ramakrishna and Sri

Satya Sai Baba, have said that they will be reborn, to bring about an age of love and

harmony. Whatever it may be, the entire humanity itself should, on its own, try to

achieve this, without waiting for such a superior being to be born ( or to prepare the

groundwork for him), and should try to make the collective consciousness of the

entire humanity the new incarnation.

The feeling of the dawn of a new era should be brought home to everyone, in as

many ways as possible. For this, first the scientists should announce that with rapid

improvements in biotechnology (including genetic engineering), and research at the

spiritual institutes, it will be possible to bring about the birth of a superman, by the

end of the 21st century and that by that time, a foetus that is considered normal by

present human standards, will be considered as defective and will be remedied, or

aborted, and that the intellectual capacity and power of the superman will excel that

of man by geometric proportion, as man excels that of an ape.

This impending sea-change should be emphasized by all countries adopting a new

calendar, starting its year 9901, from the winter solstice (13.37 hrs. Universal Time

on 21st December) of the year A.D. 2000. It should be publicized that the era starts

from the time human beings became radically different from animal-like humanoids,


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by marching towards more and more civilized life and intellectual exploration of their

surroundings to discover the laws of nature (science), and to use them for their

betterment; that humanera will end in the year 10,000 and the superhuman era will

start. This will hammer into the heads of all peoples of the world the urgency ofgetting and progressing together, in every conceivable manner, so that human

beings all over the world have superhuman offspring and not only a few rich, from

rich countries, who may kill or dominate over human beings just as the latter kill or

dominate over all flora and fauna. Scientists and the media should point this out and

governments and religious and social organizations, at all levels, should vigorously

pursue this object of total human progress with particular emphasis on spiritual

progress.

New concepts of time, latitude, longitude, weights and measures, etc., should also

be adopted (along with the new calendar, or as soon thereafter as possible), all over

the world to herald the dawn of the new era of global endeavour for the betterment of

the entire humanity. The longitude bisecting the Bering Strait, part of which forms a

part of the International Date Line at present, should be considered as zero degree

longitude. (This will turn the East into West and West into East!). Longitudes should

be numbered continuously (and not half of them marked East and half as West, as at

present), the numbering being westward, as the sun travels. (This will be a real

merger of East and West). There should be a hundred longitudinal divisions of a

hundred minutes, each of which should be of a hundred seconds. The latitude

should start with the South Pole as zero and the North Pole as hundred, eliminating

the present North or South of the equator notion.

With electronic watches and clocks showing time, day and date, and with universal

education, it will not be necessary to start the time from midnight and have different

standard times or for the date to change with the day, or with crossing any longitude

deemed to be an international date-line. There should be one standard time all over

the world, starting from and ending with noon, at the new zero degree longitude. This

period should be divided into a hundred hours of a hundred minutes each, a minute

into a hundred seconds and a second into a hundred moments. The year (from one


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guardian and the person named by her who need not necessarily be the father, as

an alternate guardian. Only if the mother is incapable of guardianship and mentally

not sound enough to appoint a guardian, should the local judicial committee, decide

who the childs guardian should be, who may or may not be the childs father. Nochange of official name should be permitted more than once in twenty-five years.

While registering marriages, the registrar of marriages should similarly allot official

names (first and second name if not already allotted and a new common surname),

to both the bride and the groom if either one desires a change of official name

already allotted. Only the official names should be recognized in all documents,

schools, offices and voters lists.

The sea-change in all the above mentioned concepts and the declarations by

scientists, will lead to all people burying the 20th century hatchets of disputes

between nations, races, religions, castes, families, individuals and organizations. It

will foster the spirit of unity.

Through increasing automation and the need to provide employment to all, it should

be possible to introduce a system of two parallel batches, working on alternate days

and also to progressively reduce the working hours and that too, being done mostly

from home through the computer networking, in a majority of cases. The concept of

alternate working day will trickle down to university and school education.

Society, thereafter, has to provide useful avenues for the free time available to all.

Throughout school education, learning music should be made compulsory. Music

imparts a sensitivity, activity and culture that will prevent a child from going astray. It

will provide an ideal relaxation and even a profession (if so chosen), in its adult life

which may ripen into devotion and meditation with the advancing years.

Similarly, facilities for sports, games and athletics, should be available to all. The

youth, when they take up their vocation, should be persuaded to take up spiritual

studies and training (for fruition of the seeds planted during schooling by moral and

ethical teaching), by highlighting its secular and spiritual advantage (including


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possible superconscious experience). Everyone should be made to imbibe what the

ancient Indian sages have said :

If necessary,Sacrifice oneself for ones family

Sacrifice ones family for ones locality (village /town /city)

Sacrifice locality for the nation

Sacrifice the nation for the world

Sacrifice the world (renounce worldly attachments) for the sake of soul (salvation).

There are numerous non-government organizations ( NGOs)and even associations

of parliamentarians which earnestly endeavour to create a One-World Government.

There are others, including one of a number of Nobel Laureates, canvassing for

nuclear or total disarmament. If these objectives are achieved, it will firmly establish

security for the floraand fauna of the earth and the colossal funds now used for

armaments (and armed forces), and for diplomatic activities, will be available for

imparting the best of education to the entire mankind and for its physical, social,

economic, and spiritual welfare. The world community will then rapidly blossom into

a one world family. The most powerful weapon in the hands of the general public, to

force government to pursue these objectives is the VOTE. Well before nominations

are made for elections, the public should gather in large numbers and declare that

they will vote for candidates who are actively engaged in the pursuit of one-world

government and consequent total disarmament. Such candidates will then be

emboldened to enter the election fray. If they are elected in the central legislatures of

all countries in increasing numbers one-world government will be achieved within the

first two decades of the 21st century and total disarmament in the subsequent

decade and the next generation will reach the goal of one-world family.

Spiritual training taken up for secular advantage or even otherwise, will be found

attractive for its own sake, by many trainees as they make progress. The number of

persons who reach a culmination of superconscious experience will steadily

increase. Those who reach such an experience go beyond all limitations of


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nationality, religion, etc., and treat the whole world as one family. Through their

preaching and example, all spiritual aspirants, and ultimately all people, will be

strongly attracted towards that goal.

Whatever may be done collectively, it is necessary for everyone who finds this goal

attractive to accept that outlook wholeheartedly, try to persuade others accordingly,

conscientiously do ones work (including for the steadily expanding circle of near and

dear ones, from the family to the whole world), as service to God and earnestly

endeavour for ones own spiritual progress, each of these, with the motto:

YOU DO YOUR BEST

TO HIM LEAVE THE REST


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Chapter V

A SPIRITUAL BASIS FORONE WORLD FAMILY

It would be ideal if the edifice of One World Family is raised on a strong

spiritual foundation. The Vedas, the sacred scriptures of the Hindus, are believed to

have been seen by (revealed to) the ancient Seers of India (and not composed by

them). The spiritual content of these revelations is in the concluding portion of each

of the four Vedas, known as Upanishads. As concluding portion as well as the

highest culmination of the Vedas, they are known as Vedanta (literally and

figuratively) the end of the Vedas. The Vedanta philosophy has provided this strong

spiritual foundation to the cognoscenti of India. Vedanta philosophy may be

expressed in a nutshell in modern scientific terms as follows:

Vedanta in a nutshell

A verse attributed to Shankaracharya, the foremost propagator

of Advaita Vedanta, reads: Shlokaardhena Pravakshaami Yaduktam

Grantha-Kotibih, Brahma Satyam Jaganmithya Jeevo Brahmaiva

Naaparah. I will say in half-a-verse, what has been stated in crores

(tens of millions) of books: Brahman (The Infinite) is the Truth (only

Reality); the world is illusory; the (individual) soul is none other than

Brahman itself.

Brahman is defined as Satyam Jnaanam Anantam Brahma

(Taittiriya Upanishad, II.1) i.e. Brahman (the Infinite) is the Truth

(Reality or only Existence); (it is) Consciousness and is without an end

(in space and time). In modern scientific language, Brahman can be

described as the Unified Field from which emerged DARK ENERGY

(MAHAKAALI) which created DARK MATTER (KAALI). The


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interaction of these two created, in succession, with interaction of all

preceding creations, Gravity, Electro-Magnetic Force, Weak Force,

Strong Force, Matter, the Universe and everything in it. This verse

says that this Unified Field is nothing but Consciouness (CHIT-

SHAKTI). It means that CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ONLY

ORIGINAL & ULTIMATE FORCE WHICH IS EVER-PRESENT

AND IS THE FINEST FORM OF ALL FORCES AND

SUBSTANCES.

The verse cited at the beginning says that the universe is Mithya

(transitory illusion). Shankaracharya reiterates what ancient Rishis

(Seers who have seen experienced Brahman) have stated that the

universe and everything in it appears Real because ofMaya. Maya, is

stated to be the intrinsic power ofBrahman. Maya can be explained

in scientific terms as the limitation of our senses of perception. We

have five senses of perception. If we had four, three, two or only one,

our concept of the world would be entirely different. So also, if we

had more than five or if our senses were either more or less keen than

their normal range, the perception would be different. For example, if

we had X-ray eyes, we would see persons, animals and things

differently. If we could see atoms or sub-atomic particles, we would

see only about a hundred (in the former case) or three (in the latter

case) varieties. If we could see superstrings (or whatever scientistsaccept for the time being as that which by various formations,

becomes the various forces and substances), we could see that nothing

exists except super-strings. The sages have unequivocally affirmed


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that in Samaadhi (Superconscious state), there is this FINAL

EXPERIENCE OF ONLY INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS

ENCOMPASSED IN ONES OWN SOUL. Those whose Sadhana

(spiritual endeavour) is based on firm faith in God having a specific

form, initially see that form in the Light of Consciousness (that is why

gods are called DEVAs the shining ones) and thereafter merge into

the Final Experience. Sant Tukaram, an ardent devotee of Vithal, saw

the form of Vithal materialising in the Light of Consciousness and

thereafter had the Final Experience in which he saw himself to be at

once smaller finer than an atom or its particle and (infinite) like

the sky. (Anuraniyan Thokada Tuka Aakaasha Evadha).

THIS SUPERCONSCIOUS STATE CAN BE REACHED

ONLY BY INTENSE CONCENTRATION OF ALL OUR

CONSCIOUSNESS on, say, a bit of matter (idol etc.) or of energy

(light / flame etc.) or on a concept (which is a bit of consciousness) of

God / Reality, to the exlusion of awareness of all other surroundings.

Just as focusing the suns rays through a lens on a piece of paper

burns the paper or concentration of intense energy on a little bit of

(radio-active) matter generates super (nuclear) energy (far greater

than the energy used in the process), INTENSE AND PROLONGED

CONCENTRATION CAUSES THE IMPLOSION OF NORMAL

CONSCIOUSNESS RESULTING IN A SUPERCONSIOUS STATE.The Infinite Consciousness, being the sum-total of all Existence,

is Omnipresent; being the sum-total of all consciousness, it is

Omniscient; being the sum-total of all energies and forces, it is


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Omnipotent. It is Infinite in infinite ways and can be viewed,

described and approached in infinite ways. Every science, philosophy

or religion and each individuals journey towards the Final

Experience is just one way of viewing / approaching THE SINGLE

TRUTH (Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti Rigveda, I.164.4

THE ONE AND ONLY TRUTH is described variously by the wise).

Thus spake ALL who had REALISATION of that SINGLE TRUTH.

_____________

ISLAMIC PRAYERLA ILLAHA ILALLHU (There is no Reality but God, there is

only God)* is an exquisite expression which is no different from Advaitic experience

at the summit of Bhakti-Yoga and Jnan-Yoga. It is possible to interpret Christian

concept of the Holy Spirit / Ghost in consonance with the scientific concept of a

single Original Force. It is desirable for all religions to continually explore possibilities

for re-interpretation of their concepts to embrace latest discoveries of science.

* A Personal Religion of Your Own page 11- Ramesh S. Balsekar Mumbai

(2008)- Zen Publications

When everyone, and everything is created by, in and of the same Primeval

Force, do we not belong to one family? Several religions have said that we are

all descendants of one couple / parent. Scientists say that we are all

descendants of one central African woman. This means that we are all

cousins, howsoever remotely connected. If only all people realize this and


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address one another as cousin (its equivalent in World Language) just as

communists call one another comrade, the evolution of One World Family will

be much easier.

The essence of the Upanishads is distilled in the most popular scripture of the

Hindus the Bhagavadgita. Many sages, saints and scholars have written extensive

commentaries on the Bhagavadgita. One such commentary, a marvel of exquisite

poetry in Marathi (language of the Indian state of Maharashtra), was composed by

Saint Jnaneshwar more than seven hundred years ago. It ends with the following

prayer and blessing which is relevant to the theme of this book

Invocation for Benediction

Now, may God, who pervades the Cosmos

Be pleased with this literary offering (Yadnya)

And being pleased, may bless me with this favour.

May the crookedness of the vile disappear,

May the love of good deeds blossom in them,

May all beings develop affection for each other.

May the darkness of vice fade away,

May the Sun of virtue & duty shine on the universe

May their wishes be granted to all living beings

May the multitudes of ardent devotees of God.

Be showered upon this earth constantly

And may all beings meet them (the devotees)

Those, who are like walking gardens of wish-giving trees

Who are like hamlet (village) of mobile wish-giving gems

Who are like eloquent (talking) oceans of life-giving nectar


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Who are like a moon without a blemish

Who are like a Sun without scorching heat

May such saintly beings be your kith and kin

In short, may every one in all the 3 worlds. (heaven, earth & hell)

In total happiness, offer prayers to God, always

And may all those who lead their lives according

to the sacred teachings of this treatise

Be successful in this life and hereafter.

Here, the Master of the Universe said So be it

(I grant you this blessing)

And with this benediction, Dnyaneshwar attained contentment & peace

(Translation by Prof. Smt. Sadhana N. Kamat, Mumbai)

May the Master of the Universe fulfil this promise at least in the Twenty-first Century

and impel all the people of the world to fervently repeat the prayer of the ancientsages of India with which most religious functions of Hindus and spiritual discourses

in India are concluded:

May everyone be happy

May everyone be free of ailments

May everyone see what is good

May no one experience sufferings

OM (May there be) PEACE ! PEACE ! PEACE !

Amen.

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