In the 2000, with the beginning of a new millennium, the thinkers and\u00a0the poets of the world were hoping that human beings will evolve to
\nusher in a new era of a new kind of humanity on earth, which will\u00a0bring an end to all wars, and conflicts between nations, religions,
\nraces and genders. Around that time, a Millennium World Peace Summit\u00a0was organised in New York. Nobel Peace laureate from Northern Ireland\u00a0Betty Williams, Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s grand-daughter Ela Gandhi, eminent\u00a0primatologist Jane Goodall and Vashti Mckenzie from the African
\nMethodist Episcopal Church attended a special session which waspresided over by Mrs Indu Jain of the Times of India group.<\/p>\n
During the summit, Betty Williams is reported to have pointed out that\u00a0war was essentially man\u2019s work. She said to men: \u201cNow move over. Women\u00a0will ensure peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stressing that practising non-violence is not for the faint-hearted,\u00a0she said it required exemplary courage. It is really true that most of
\nthe wars, almost all the wars, have been fought by men. The world is\u00a0always busy in wars because we have been appreciating male qualities
\nand condemning feminine qualities in people. Anyone who is\u00a0disinterested in fighting is labelled as effeminate. And if a boy
\nstarts weeping we ask him: Why are you crying like a girl? Be a man!<\/p>\n
This philosophy of condemning feminine qualities has been the root\u00a0cause of all wars in the world and it provokes aggressiveness and
\nbarbarianism in men. Our history books are full of appreciation of the\u00a0\u201cheroic\u201d deeds of Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte and other
\nsuch men who unleashed large scale violence in the world. We want ourcmale children to become brave heroes like them or at least imbibe some\u00a0of their qualities.<\/p>\n
This appreciation of aggressive male qualities has been more dominant\u00a0in the West. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche condemned Gautama \u00a0the Buddha because of his feminine grace and beauty. His idea of a\u00a0real man was to be strong and to be made of steel. Buddha was the most\u00a0compassionate and cultured of men, the most graceful man this world\u00a0has ever known. But his compassion, grace and beauty are essentially\u00a0feminine qualities that have been adored and worshipped in the East.\u00a0Nietzsche condemned Buddha\u2019s teachings also. He said that he could not\u00a0appreciate his teachings as they were harmful to the humanity. He\u00a0warned that if people believed in Buddha\u2019s teachings, the whole world\u00a0would turn feminine. Nietzsche appreciated the warrior, the military\u00a0man, who is always ready to kill or to be killed. The sound and the\u00a0rhythm of an army marching to the war zone was real music to his ears.\u00a0It is this philosophy that gave birth to monsters like Hitler.<\/p>\n
Nietzsche was certainly a genius who was born in the West and his\u00a0psyche was corrupted by the Western philosophy of conquering and
\nruling the world. So if we follow his philosophy we will have more\u00a0world wars and no peace. If we want peace in the world, we will have
\nto nurture feminine qualities to bring about a balance in the world.\u00a0It is about time that we avoid insane thinkers like Nietzsche and\u00a0embrace enlightened mystics like Gautama the Buddha. This indeed will\u00a0indeed bring a new era of peace. And prosperity also if we try to\u00a0understand Zorba dimension of life envisioned by Osho, an enlightened\u00a0mystic of modern time.<\/p>\n
Osho says: It is true that all great qualities are feminine \u2013 love,\u00a0compassion, sympathy, kindness. All these qualities have a flavour of
\nthe feminine. We have been giving too much emphasis to the head and\u00a0ignoring the heart. We are living an utterly miserable life because we
\nhave got hung up in our heads and have bypassed our hearts. The head\u00a0has dried our poetry of emotions, the sentiments, the smiles, the
\ntears, the laughter, and made our life so boring. Friendship has\u00a0disappeared from the world because our head calculates too much. The
\nhead is miserly and calculative. This is the head that has created\u00a0such monstrous concrete jungles that man has no time to look at the
\nsky and dance with the clouds and rejoice in the rains. The heart\u00a0wants to sing, but the head thinks about society and worries about\u00a0what others will say about us. The head has made us much too serious\u00a0in the name of sanity.<\/p>\n
Mrs Indu Jain rightly stated at the World Peace Summit that she would\u00a0like to invoke the all-pervading feminine power \u2013 the very embodiment
\nof non-violence \u2013 to be here with us. Give women a chance, and\u00a0non-violence will effortlessly be the religion of the new millennium.
\nThe new millennium should have a totally new vision and values of\u00a0life, in which women give a significant contribution of their feminine
\nqualities to men, and use their feminine power for peace. Let the head\u00a0and heart unite in meditation and create a new BEING in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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