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Strengthening of Human Consciousness: Peace

By Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta ‘MEWADEV’

(H. O. D. – English , EKLAVYA MAHAVIDYALAYA , BANDA (U.P.) Affiliated by BUNDELKHAND UNIVERSITY, JHANSI, U.P., INDIA,)/ Home address – Mohalla Sudamapuri, Jail Road, Near Sahab Talab, Banda (U. P.- India) – 210001/Mob. - 09454173636/E-mail –dr.mewadevrain@gmail.com

Peace is a state of mental and emotional calmness, with no worries, fears or stress and the concern of the humankind for peace can be assessed by taking into account the fact that all religions, all religious scriptures and several religious ceremonies are committed to the cause of peace and all these advocates an elimination of war. We see that our reality is governed by the laws of step-by-step development that begins with the stage preceding conception and continues up to the end of growth with the ambitious goal of uniting One Billion of us, we intend to build the tipping point of peace. People often associate peace of mind with yogis, hermits or monks, sitting alone in a far off place, in an ashram, cave or monastery, praying or meditating all day long so it exists and counts the stages of development of every element of the creation until they reach their final state.

The power that compels the person to pass from one level to the next is nothing but the force of anguish and pain while the people of India largely enjoy a peaceful environment, however, the peace and harmony of the country are disrupted many times owing to various factors. This may be the ‘prime directive’ of effective spiritual practice, social action, and peaceful living, therefore, it is clear as noonday both from the standpoint of truth and goodness, because the whole contains only what is present in the particular and the benefit of the society is the benefit of each individual. It is, in reality, a condition characterized by peaceful, cooperative and harmonious conduct of international relations with a view to secure the all-around sustainable development of the people of the world especially in chaotic times like this, especially in the light of the tragic and terrible recent events in the world, we need to make our own inner peace a top priority. However, there have been several instances when peace has been disrupted in the country owing to different reasons for over two thousand years the dominant paradigm of the most powerful civilizations has been one of materialism, conquest, greed, militarism, war, injustice, inequality, violence, and dualistic thinking. In my view –

“There is light if you look hard enough

From a distance it all seems chaotic,

Faith abounds when we confront our deepest doubts,

That ember gives us light in our sea of darkness.”

© Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta “Mewadev”, Banda (U.P. - India

Yet the greater risk for the future will come from cyber warfare and potentially robotic weaponry through the people of our country live peacefully with each other, often the peace is disturbed owing to some political, social, economic and religious factors where decisions made in the political realm affect directly whether our community is healthy, safe and at peace. In order to give a safe and secure environment to its citizens, the government of India takes steps to maintain peace in the country so needless to say, the above-said only refers to the individuals who do their duty in the society, receive as much as they need and do not encroach on their comrades’ share.

Peace educators, concerned about the dangers of war, have ignored the environmental crisis, the central purpose of which is the empowerment of individuals and communities to challenge and change the world rather than adapt to unjust situations and this appears less satisfactory, because of the generally widespread use of the term 'peace' - so widespread and so generally acknowledged that it possibly presents some kind of substitute in this secular age for feelings of devotion and community that in former ages were invoked by reference to religious concepts rather than promoting top-down development strategies imposed by corporate elites who see ordinary people as ignorant, peace educators promote poor people’s involvement in planning, implementing and controlling development schemes.

“Ignorance is Strength. Slavery is Freedom. War is Peace”

This is the slogan of the totalitarian party that is ruling fictive mega-state Oceania in George Orwell’s dystopia 1984. It explains how the exploitative regime is able to maintain its control over the masses and perpetuate the societal hierarchy by manipulating the truth, keeping the population enslaved in the economic system, and waging an unending war. Orwell’s forbidden book within the book “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” explains that this eternal war:

“Is merely an imposture. […] But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. […] The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent the conquest of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word ‘war,’ therefore, has become misleading.”¹

The criterion of discrimination is salience to fundamental values, and thus the intensity of feeling and commitment and there are other special forms of this disease without number, but it has but one effect, that of making people dissatisfied with themselves. There is a way to achieve both peace and some form of justice for victims where we have to know what we people can do to make it possible: to deepen our knowledge of ourselves, of our neighbours, and of other cultures and, consequently, to look for a better dialogue among people of other civilizations. Similarly, I assure you that these minds over which desires have spread like evil ulcers, take pleasure in toils and troubles –

THE STITCHING OF REALITY

The things people don't say are louder than the words

Dappled shades fall on ground beneath the silent

When silence speaks, it tells a tale;

Even the trees exhale sweet love songs

And a last splendour burn the heavens of his feathers and in his eyes

Beaming with sheer joy as he hummed a halcyon tune

Mostly find the peace of mind

I thought there would be a grave beauty,

Silence speaks in splendour

With joyful, joyful endeavour

His heart, as mine in time not far away;

So he blinks just once but thinks twice

What goes around me don't deserve my words

To the lurid but exciting depths

Silence is the best language to speak in.

© Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta “Mewadev”, Banda (U.P. - India)

The peace versus justice debate is illustrated by the competing imperatives of retributive and restorative justice so contracts are usually thought of as this kind, such as a construction contract between two firms or a trade treaty among three states where a psychological trick consists of stressing the differences between 'us and them' in an attempt to rationalize and justify otherwise unjustifiable feelings and behaviors: stressing our virtues and mitigating our weaknesses, and, simultaneously, stressing defects of others, projecting on others our own failings, they -gays, handicapped, Communists or fascists, gypsies, or just 'immigrants'- become the scapegoat, responsible for all of our social problems. The latest peace process followed years of conflict, fleeting cease-fires, and fruitless negotiations hence men undertake aimless wanderings, travel along distant shores, and at one time at sea, at another by land, try to soothe that fickleness of disposition which always is dissatisfied with the present so an exchange society is dominated by exchange power; an authoritative society by authoritative power; a coercive society by coercion. The social reality, manifesting the harmonization of certain expectations among the parties, may be evidenced in specific documents (such as a written contract), physical structures (such as certain government buildings), and patterns of cooperative interaction, after all, we have still not learned that accepting human beings from other countries, with habits and cultures that might be different from ours, does not mean an inevitable loss of our own identity and patriotism. It may depart from common usage by not being agreed to 'by most', yet should not be entirely subjectivity. It should depict a state of affairs the realization of which is not utopian, yet not on the immediate political agenda and we cannot understand where we are now, and what problems the United Nations faces today in the field of peace and security, without understanding what was intended, and what has actually occurred in the intervening period time.

Any theory needs to explain in order to fully account for the observed phenomena: the peaceful relations between democracies on the one hand, and the war involvement of democratic regimes on the other hand while peace psychologists are now well positioned to further develop the theory that will enable us to more deeply understand the major threats to human security and to engage in practices that promote human well-being and survival with globalization the boundary between internal and external enemies has become increasingly blurry and global governance is gradually replacing the state in maintaining the new global peace regime and its social order through a combination of warfare techniques and de-territorialized bio-politics. This discussion of peace education theory has mostly focused on content, how different understandings about the problems of violence lead to different theories about how to achieve peace and there is no reason to believe that the future will not bring us richer concepts and more forms of social action that combine absence of personal violence with fight against social injustice once sufficient activity is put into research and practice while democracies tend to have peaceful relations with one another, this is not to claim that democracies are generally less war-prone than other regime types.

In fact, till today there have been present several hindrances in way of securing a stable, healthy and enduring peace while India is known for its democratic system and secularism that gives both political and religious equality to all its citizens to ensure peace and harmony in the country and we must ask all of our political representatives to place an emphasis on peace and sustainable development; it does more than just benefit women — it benefits us all, we will then free ourselves from the sufferings which history prepares for our future. Peace sounds soft, weak, naive, idealistic, and even dangerous and unpatriotic, particularly when the threat of terrorism is a salient concern and we may then slant the definition of 'peace' in the direction of the absence of personal violence, or absence of structural violence, depending on where our priorities are, it is suggested that factors such as economic development, financial integration, and convergence of state interests can shift preferences toward trade and peaceful interstate relations, after all, peace is endowed with meaning by being linked to other concepts within a particular perception of reality; and by its relationship to ideas or assumptions about violence, history, divine grace, justice. We are the seeds of the future, but it’s up to each of us to tend and care for our world to spread peace and harmony so there is increasing evidence to suggest that being peaceful, for example through yoga, tai chi or focused meditation, can have a direct and measurable impact on the world.

WORKS CITED

1- Orwell, G. (1950). 1984. New York: Signet Classic, p.199.

2- Howard, M. (2000). The invention of peace. Reflections on war and international order. New Haven: Yale University Press.

3- Salomon, G. (2002) The nature of peace education: not all programs are created equal, in G. Salomon & B. Nevo (Eds) Peace education: the concepts, principles, and practices around the world (Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

4- Ardizonni, L. (2003) Generating peace: a study of nonformal youth organizations, Peace & Change, 28(1), 420–445.

5- Blumberg, H. H. (2007). Peace psychology: A comprehensive introduction. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

BIO-NOTE

Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta “Mewadev”

H. O.D. (English)

Eklavya Mahavidyalaya, Banda (U.P.)

Home Add. – Mo. Sudamapuri, Jail Road,

Near Sahab Talab – Banda (U.P.) Pin – 210001

Mob. – 9454173636, 88858138054

Email: dr.mewadevrain@gmail.com

Website: www.mewadev.com

About the Author: Dr. Brajesh Kumar Gupta “Mewadev” is a recipient of the Presidency of the International Prize De Finibus Terrae - IV edition in memory of Maria Monteduro (Italy). He has been awarded an honorary doctorate “DOCTOR OF LITERATURE” (DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA) from THE INSTITUTE OF THE EUROPEAN ROMA STUDIES AND RESEARCH INTO CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW – BELGRADE (THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA) and from "BRAZIL INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL CONIPA AND ITMUT INSTITUTE". He has received Uttar Pradesh Gaurav Samman 2019. Presently he acts as III° "SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE WORLD UNION OF POETS" OF THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD UNION OF POETS FOR THE YEAR 2021(3rd Secretary-General of the World Union of Poets, in order of time, since December 30, 2017 until December 31, 2021). He is the author of 8 books and he is an assistant professor at Eklvaya P. G. College, Banda (U. P.) and he resides at Banda (U. P.) India. Visit him as Brajesh, facebook.com/brajeshg1, email him at dr.mewadevrain@gmail.com, and www.mewadev.com.