Inner peace comes from empathy

We make a choice after a process of comparison and discrimination. But this comparison and discrimination is only meant for our material needs, so that we wisely choose the best for ourselves. However, unfortunately, this nature has registered in our very DNA and we compare and discriminate between the very source of humanity in the name of nationality, gender, caste, religion etc. We forget that our origin is from the same source and we belong to the same community called humanity. 

We only have to look at nature and our own blood to understand this. Blood is the same for every human, it knows no discrimination of caste, creed, nationality or status. The oxygen we breath is the same too. It gives life energy to an Indian, as it does to an American, as it would to a Pakistani. The divine is nature and nature is divine, because they are the same for all.  

Differences of opinion is the nature of the mind. Two people can never have the same view in a situation but they are the same as an Atman, at any given point of time. This is the highest transcendental knowledge in spirituality and the only knowledge that needs to be learnt and taught to the present generation to achieve inner peace to ultimately achieve and experience global peace. Without this realisation, we may reach the pinnacles of advancement but inner peace can never be achieved. 

Let me narrate a small story that illustrates the profound truth that we are all one in the presence of the divine. 

A group of pigeons inhabited a Siva temple. When the temple trustees started renovation work, the pigeons flew to the nearby church. Soon after, the church authorities began work on its roof and all the pigeons flew to the dome of a  mosque. A while later, when the mosque was being renovated the pigeons from the church, temple  and mosque together flew back to the temple and began living there. 

One day, a distraught little baby pigeon went up to its mother. “What’s the matter? ” she asked. “Mother,” said the little one, “We lived in the temple, we then flew to the church and then to the mosque with our friends from the church; now we’re all back at the temple. Wherever and whenever we go, we’re called pigeons. I don’t understand then, why humans entering the temple are called Hindus and the ones in the church are called Christians and the ones in the mosque are called Muslims. Are they not all humans”? 

The mother pigeon said, “You are right, they are all humans but they do not realise it. We do realise that wherever we go that we are all pigeons; so live a level above human beings.” 

To raise ourselves from the current level, it is not necessary to create a better external world but to create a world of inner peace free from comparison and discrimination. 

Wishing you a life of peace, success and abundance. Aham Brahmasmi!!