Radhakrishnan Ramakrishnan
very valuable thinking from RADHAKRISHNAN. THANKS .K.M.RADHA
TOWARDS A GLOBAL CULTURE-Part IV
We live in an era wherein we can explore what is of value in all the world's cultures. It is our duty to extract and use all of them, to cherish all of them, what we might reclaim our global human heritage. Without such a world culture, there can be neither peace in the world nor the flourishing of any part of the world for any significant length of time. We know too well today we are all linked together, that the world is one. We know of immediately what happens in China or Iran, and it can affect us strongly. We can no longer life in one portion of the world and ignore the rest. The divisions of nation and culture must be swept away like the divisions of states and provinces within a country which only recently we have to go beyond. This is not to deny them their beauty or creative difference but to throw down the artificial boundaries between them. The air does not stop at any national frontier. The Sun does not shine differently across the border. We should have at least as much compassion and equanimity as the elements of nature.
There is much more to humanity than our current history tells us. It is hidden in our myths, legends and scriptures. Apart from our chronological history is an invisible or sacred time, the measure of our aspiration for the external. In in we find a spiritual humanity seeking the Divine and working for the evolution of consciousness. It is necessary to link up to this greater spiritual sense of the human being to enable us to go beyond the frontiers which have created the present world crisis. It is our connection with it that we find in the Vedas and other ancient teachings.
We live in an era wherein we can explore what is of value in all the world's cultures. It is our duty to extract and use all of them, to cherish all of them, what we might reclaim our global human heritage. Without such a world culture, there can be neither peace in the world nor the flourishing of any part of the world for any significant length of time. We know too well today we are all linked together, that the world is one. We know of immediately what happens in China or Iran, and it can affect us strongly. We can no longer life in one portion of the world and ignore the rest. The divisions of nation and culture must be swept away like the divisions of states and provinces within a country which only recently we have to go beyond. This is not to deny them their beauty or creative difference but to throw down the artificial boundaries between them. The air does not stop at any national frontier. The Sun does not shine differently across the border. We should have at least as much compassion and equanimity as the elements of nature.
There is much more to humanity than our current history tells us. It is hidden in our myths, legends and scriptures. Apart from our chronological history is an invisible or sacred time, the measure of our aspiration for the external. In in we find a spiritual humanity seeking the Divine and working for the evolution of consciousness. It is necessary to link up to this greater spiritual sense of the human being to enable us to go beyond the frontiers which have created the present world crisis. It is our connection with it that we find in the Vedas and other ancient teachings.
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