MS20 - Wake Up To Who We Are

Mohanji speaks about the unrest that was brewing in America and stresses choosing love in all situations. He shares that it is time for us, as humans, to wake up to who we are. We only have one religion (humanity), one law (non violence), only one medicine (unconditional love), and only one education (compassion). This is today's and tomorrow's, 'food for thought'.

Transcript

Hello my dear friends, This is Mohanji. Today I would like to talk about something which is boiling over in America and it can boil over all over the world and this has a root in outright discrimination racism. Racism is something when some people feel they are superior and some people they feel are inferior. This is an aberration I have discussed about unity of consciousness many times. We are all one not only human beings we have been experiencing various dimensions of species of one of the examples hunting. We decide that we can take some life because we are stronger. If it is for a dire necessity of survival no problem that's understandable but if it is for pleasure taking a life for our pleasure for just being trigger-happy it's not acceptable. Today we are seeing tremendous violence all over America and there is a big threat that this will spill over in many countries across the world. It can be a very serious situation there can be riots there has been prediction that there will be riots and this situation is not controllable all the armies of the world may not be able to control it because armies are consisting of people. This is about people this is about situation which people created man-made situation it's not easy it's not easy to solve once the fire starts. We have seen that in forest fires somebody lit a matchstick and it became a forest fire. Here George Floyd was choked to death he's been telling I can't breathe and that became a slogan today people can't breathe when people breathe over their neck. We are free beings we are born free we will die free. I remember one incident a small incident but I felt at that time is there a discrimination in the world the ship I was traveling in was going towards Basra so you got to wait at the mouth of Euphrates and Tigris River waiting for permission from the American Navy they will come on board they will inspect the whole ship to ensure there is nothing contraband in the ship then they'll give permission. We were all asked to come to the deck stand hands up while a young marine will point his machine gun on us and we will all be standing with hands up until they complete the inspection and this man was young very good-looking young man and at one point in time he started talking to us so everybody except the captain is inside the ship and all the people including chief engineer and chief mate they are all outside including me and this young officer started talking so do you have a family where are you from and we are all from various nationalities we have Russians we have Asians Indians like me I think there was only one Indian but I was there then the captain was British so everybody representation of the whole world at one point in time he had tears in his eyes he said I really want to go home I don't like to do this and he almost cried but then again he's suddenly remembered he's doing a job and he collected himself I was thinking do we have to do like this do we have to point a gun at somebody at all now is a good solution love is a good medicine the best medicine rather and everybody should feel at home everywhere the kindness of the bishop transformed Zhang Bao Zhang in the book of Victor Hugo I hope my pronunciation is right I can't pronounce French well Victor Hugo demonstrated that kindness works much better than violence a convict who nobody wanted was served well with love by the bishop again a convict when he displayed his insecurity by stealing the silver candle holders and the police caught him and brought him back to the church bishops that I gave it to him didn't steal that completely shook the convict from deep within it completely shook him and then he became more kind more compassionate more loving than the bishop ever was we can transform the world we can transform the world with love with sincere love with compassion with kindness with understanding with acceptance and that's exactly how we must transform the world we have to transform the world this way it's not only people we should not ever encourage species of species of is terrible imagine species all the species on earth have to live in fear of one species human species it's unnatural we have actually been living in sensitively when you are battered down your whole body at the airports you feel miserable right why do we have to do that because we don't trust people we don't trust people we should have less policemen and more counselors I have told this in many many forums we should have less policemen less prisons less codes of law we should have more counselors and we should prevent a crime if somebody is resorting to crime which means there is anger frustration insecurity or some kind of aberration inside them which they have picked up from somewhere first of all prevention is always better than cure but if there is a need for cure of course we got to sort it out again in a very kind way not with aggression not by choking and killing people not by considering that somebody is inferior and somebody is superior this world belongs to everybody but everybody cannot have their own ways in the world it doesn't work that way I used to travel a lot I travel many times every month before the COVID situation I was on a flight most of the time one time I was traveling to a European country this was in Europe and I was asked to step aside while I was going towards the flight and two cops came and they checked me I was wearing seeming strange dress for them I was wearing my dhoti and kulpa and they checked my body then they checked my back then I asked them what do you want to know what do you want to see they said no random checking so I asked them is it the color that's bothering you so they looked at me with a stern look they were warning me not to speak maybe my hair my color which bothered them and they wanted to know same thing happened one time when I was coming out of Munich Airport I picked up my bags I was coming out but then I was wearing a jeans and t-shirt two cops came and stood in front of me so I thought it's by accident so I tried to go beyond them they stopped me again said where are you going I said to the city why are you coming here I said to meet some friends because I had a few programs there one program there not few programs one program so they checked my passport and then they verified that I have a visa of course without the visa I can't come out of the airport the immigration is already stamped it they asked a few more questions and I told them if you come with me I'll introduce you to the people who have come to pick me up they have already texted me that they are outside then they said no it's not necessary and they allowed me to go so I was thinking that they pick up people who look strange there is a lot of insecurity there is a lot of doubt and non-acceptance you know you can't be natural this is one of the things which Bharat was India had always been proud of that we accepted everybody here before the invasions think about a scenario where all people who came here were well accepted well loved considered as our own and this culture should spread all over the world I have always believed in one world one family and that's what I always say one world one family all are one the unrest the unhappiness caused by people towards people should be totally eradicated removed we are all one and when I started traveling more and more to conduct programs I realized that all the people are saying everybody have similar emotions similar needs not only people people of all species everybody needs love all they need is love and genuine love from the heart not pretentious love for the sake of something genuine sincere love and we are capable of doing that giving that this is the right time to think to feel to display humanity I always maintained humanity is our religion and I have always maintained ahimsa is the way the rule or the law is ahimsa no violence and we cannot and should not look at somebody as inferior to us nor superior to us nobody in the world is superior nor inferior we are all unique beautiful flowers of existence and we should remain fragrant and loving all the time so many people have been killed in the name of racism in the name of religion and various other factors walls are waged because some people decided they need more even at the cost of other people's inconvenience including death insensitivity lack of respect this is what's bothered the world all these years all these generations even until now are suffering because of the suffocation created by human minds it's all in human minds we decide we are a superior race we are a superior species we can do anything we like we can put animals in the laboratory and without anesthesia inflict wounds on them give them pain agony frustration and death we do the same in prisons millions of people were burned alive suffocated to death by regimes Paul pot decided bullets are expensive and precious so he asked his soldiers to bang the heads of children on the walls and on the trees and kill them these are human expressions these are abnormal human expressions we have seen it all dictators political greed hunger for power pseudo supremacy feeling of supremacy superiority complex we need counseling world should have lots of counselors people who can psychologically cure and release people from these prisons of complexes balls we have created many walls mind is the biggest wall external expression of the walls that we have created we can see everywhere everywhere supremacy caste creed country culture color community religion everywhere we believe we are right and everybody else is wrong all of us believe 7. 5 billion people believing that we are the only right people what we think is the right thing and everybody else is wrong and this causes a lot of pain in the world separation suffocation we can't breathe we can't breathe it's important to understand and this time is very important very explosive time people have had enough they said enough is enough now it's time but then can violence change anything no it leaves more wounds violence always leaves wounds at least in the mind what is the solution harmony is the solution how listening people should listen we should understand people we should help people appreciate people the early birds club I started with this thing in my mind I wanted to create a world family one world one family this was my aim and this is still my aim where we unite children with children with teenagers with teenagers with women with women and men with men and adults together so a global unification and unity through compassion kindness unconditional love the highest of human expressions when we consistently express non-violence in thoughts words action we become a refined human being and this is our birthright and this is what we are non-violence is our responsibility every child is the responsibility of the society it's not just the parents society creates people not the parents they bring forth a generation but society maintains them when we have discrimination when we think that somebody is better than the other through intellectual supremacy emotional supremacy financial supremacy or just a superiority complex this is the way the world has always been if you look at the history of mankind why did we wage all these wars what did we gain millions of people perished in wars millions of people died because of religions religion is supposed to unite people with God but we are separating people and discriminating people and looking at people in terms of religion and thus dividing more and more we have enough divisions in the world and the attitude that if you do not believe what I believe in I hate you very wrong attitude it's degeneracy of human existence we have experienced that time and again what we see today is degeneracy of human consciousness to base levels of ignorance any violence any kind of violence is rooted in ignorance a compassionate mind cannot be violent non-violence is refinement violence is ignorance lack of refinement degeneracy George Floyd is just an icon an example he is an example of the frustration of generations he's not the first one who died this way there has been many before but now it reached a point where people said enough is enough and authorities governments who have come out of people cannot ignore it anymore we do not know which way a mob effect will turn we don't know like Mark Anthony said in Julius Caesar mischief thou art a food take what course thou wilt means when the mob rises what it will create which way it will turn nobody knows no control nobody can control it it's time to wake up wake up to ourselves look at ourselves accept ourselves accept the world there are no guests in the world for a guest to happen there should be a host there are no host nor guest everybody is at home here this is everybody's home beyond species beyond caste creed country culture color religions we are humanity only one religion humanity only one law non-violence only one medicine unconditional love only one education compassion I urge you to think about it and spread this message far and wide we are one world we are one family let us rise together for the sake of humanity and peace peace will not happen outside until and unless peace happens inside peace is what we are peace is our birth right but for peace to happen awareness should happen for peace to happen we must understand that every being is important on the mother earth all are equal no species of no religion no racism we are all one we just want a peaceful existence we just want love we just want to be cared we like to be understood we like to be appreciated we just have to live we want to live having said that I would like you to contemplate introspect how deep is your love it's important that we all must understand that we are not aliens here this is our home and we all should live harmoniously thank you very much