Peace can be found through meditation

CHENNAI, FEB. 21. If we scan the pages of history, we will find that saints and torchbearers of every religion have brought to the world a simple message: ``Peace lies within''. The process of achieving this ``inner peace'' is known as meditation, through which we can discover the light of the Creator shining within each of us. Contact with this inner light will bring about a profound transformation and we will be ``bathed'' in love. We will start treating all humanity as members of one family and begin to respect and serve one another. If we enjoy peace and happiness through meditation, we will live maintaining equipoise and anyone who comes to us will experience peace. Meditation hence elevates us to achieve an angle of vision in which we will be witnesses to the unity in the fabric of life and will look upon the world as an embroidered whole.

Leaders or representatives of a nation, religion, a spiritual path or an organisation should set an example by meditation, upholding ethical values and preaching love. No saint had taught hatred and violence but yet we see religious wars and mutual destruction. A cause for this strife is that people come to believe that their own culture and customs are the best and denigrate those hailing from other religions. It is time to call a halt to the fires of mutual animosity, and we can do so by first extinguishing the flames within ourselves.

Sant Rajinder Singh, explaining the message of Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission, of which he is the spiritual head, said in a lecture, once a person asked a gardener to plant a certain variety of a tree for which the latter replied that this would grow slowly and take a century before it reaches maturity, when the former said ``then we have no time to waste, plant it today itself.'' Similarly, each one of us should sow the seed of peace now itself by learning the simple technique of meditation which is bound to fetch joy within. Once the love of God is awakened, no one will hurt another.

``How can I alone bring about peace everywhere'', a question was asked by an individual. A man walking on the beach saw another picking up a fish and tossing it back into the sea. When asked why he was engaged in this act, the other replied ``If I fail to do this, they will die on the shore.'' ``There are so many fish and what difference can you possibly make?'' He took another fish and threw it also into the sea saying ``It made a difference from that one''. We too can bring about a change in humanity and bring prosperity by the actions we choose to take. ``Life is not a dagger stained with the blood of hatred but is a branch full of flowers of love and compassion.''

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