Peace
By Dhamma Rakkhita Bhikkhu.
How spectacular this sphere is! Affluent with fruitful woods, corns, grains, ferrule thicket haired, girt with rivers, streams, deserts and many others are lavishly magnificent and graceful gift of Mother Nature. Being overwhelmed with fascinating beauty of nature, poet composes poems, speculative one imagines inexpressible waves of effusion, beloveds ones being engrossed in erotic affairs fancy of imaginary world. This is the way variegated world goes on.
Man has no greater principle than
having loving-kindness and compassion for others. One slays another very easily
but loving-kindness and compassion is not an easy task and not a child’s play.
And that is what mostly today witnessed occurring in our surroundings. As the
fire cannot be put out by weapon, thus hatred can never be conquered by hatred.
Aversion can only be discontinued by loving-kindness and affection. So loving-kindness
and compassion which are positive qualities in man is essential for a peaceful
world which is expected by peace-loving and scrupulous people.
The great emperor Asoka who caused a
huge distraction of millions of lives and even his hundreds of step-brothers
could not flee to be slain from his gigantic sword. Finally he realized that
blood shading can never bring about peace and happiness, even though victory is
achieved over a country. It causes only a plight made upon of unhappiness, brawl,
malignancy, aversion and so on but spite cannot be ravaged. Only through
loving-kindness for all the beings grudge can be brought to an end.
In spite of that people are
engaged with hatred, barbarous massacre, world politics etc. disfiguring the
value and purity of his won life. Rage (Dosa) is the most perilous foe of man.
People sometimes commit wicked and unwholesome deeds being overwhelmed with
this rage. It is said to have no beast in the forest as fierce and formidable
as man. Concerning it an Iranian poet “Nizami” once quoted, “The being called
human in the world is much more ferocious and terrific than the beast like
leopard and bear. Certain people with amicable manner remaining in our society
always seek the ways to harm others for their won gain but fearful fatal never pretends
to be friendly among us to caused damage.
The Buddha directed the erroneous
and deluded people towards the right path of wisdom showing them the true
realities of life by his words of compassion and loving-kindness. But having
forgotten his principles of loving-kindness, people in the modernized world
started engaging in inhumane and brutal acts. Inhumanity is entirely occupying
us. As a result of that today people engrossed themselves in creating new
killing-weapons. On the other hand self-seeking one is holding a mask like
“message of peace” to get his sake done (evil motivation). Therefore today what
is the most vital in this merciless, ruthless, aggressive and grudging world is
the teachings of the awakened one. Once he remarked ardently:
“Na hi verena verāni-Sammanti’da kudācanaṁ
Averena ca sammanti-esa Dhammo Sanantano”
Averena ca sammanti-esa Dhammo Sanantano”
It means in this
world hatred never ceases by hatred it ceases by love alone. This is en eternal
law.
The
eminent poet laureate in Bengali literature-Rabindranath Tagore once composed:
“Shanta he,
Mukta he, he Ananta Punya,
Karuṇa Ghana
Herein, the meaning can be understood
like this, his address to peace, liberation and boundless merits serves in
keeping the sanctity of the world, is being stained and stigmatized.
It
the term Religion is meant to be way towards the emancipation from enormous
sufferings of worldly life and a path to the perfection of life, then the
philosophy of Buddhism reaches the climax of it” the remarkable saying of the
century prominent scientist Albert Einstein, with equal to the Buddha and his
teachings is very much striking.
“Ciraṁ tiṭṭhatu Buddha Sāsanaṁ”
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