An aside comment in the previous entry led to an e-mail discussion with a friend and it resulted in this thought:
"How were countries formed? Some religion based, some language based, some race based etc. And now we are speaking of countries having people of many religions, languages, races etc and being proud of this fact too!!! Also they take extra effort to maintain their pluralism or atleast proclaim so. So the foundations based on which the country-concept was formed have been shaken, isn't it? And the direct logical extension of this change is the removal this country concept. :-)
Maybe that's a bit too ahead of the times..."
Rigveda says:
"Ayam nijo paro veti ganana laghucetasam
Uttacharitanam tu vasudaiva kutumbakam"
(The para below is from here)
Only base minds reckon whether one be kin or stranger
Men of noble conduct take the whole world for their home(family)
Mystics of all lands have felt the same and Jung classified it under the great archetypal experience of Unus Mundus - the One World, the Totality and Interdependence of all things. If that is true then there is no way a man is a stranger on any part of the world, and nothing can be alien or hateful to him. But the Veda warns that only Noble Minds can reach this conclusion.
I don't what Noble Mind means. Maybe Brahmin. But that's not the point. The point is about OneWorld. What do you think? Friday, May 03, 2002
