The world often presents the picture of various kinds of conflict, some of which take a fiercer form and larger dimensions. One option is to stay away and be neutral and indifferent while staying focused on one’s goal, moving towards it steadily until one is out of the zone of all conflicts and discovers the secret truth behind mutual oppositions that are reconciled in a greater, larger, vaster truth. This is the way of the seeker of knowledge who seeks liberation by going beyond the sphere of action.
However, most of humanity is action-oriented. Even if they are not and cannot participate physically in a conflict, yet people participate in a conflict intellectually, emotionally and, if possible, spiritually. This is especially true of those who are emotionally inclined or action-oriented. Here one must be clear about the choice of the side being taken. For this, one must be free from all mental conceptions and emotional reactions and try to feel the Divine Will behind the events.
Thus, for example, the Divine Will was for a unified India when the Cripps proposal came. But the then Indian Congress rejected it and the ambitions of Jinnah and the shortsightedness of Congressmen led to the division of the country that still bleeds. There are several examples of short-sighted virtuosity of human beings that led to so much subsequent pain and suffering in the aftermath.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
