How to make a better world?
— Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj ji
Wcorruption, lack of freedom, rivalry, and absence or lack of love and co-operation at various levels of society.
Post this survey, if we conduct another kind of survey, asking every segment of society about what efforts e all dream of a better world where there is or improvements they expect from the other segments peace, happiness, and harmony, don’t we? No so that we may have a better world order, people one would like degradation of the environment, would say that they want - Scientists to have an loss of human lives due to wars and murders, orientation of spirituality, religious leaders to have a troublesome social, economic, and political conditions, scientific temper, doctors to treat not only the body embroiled with high tension and turmoil that but also the mind or the soul, education to have spiritual drain human energy and make life miserable. and moral development also among its aims, an
On the contrary, all would like life to be characterised omen to be given proper social status and man's attitude by harmony and health, well-being, and outlook towards them to be more spiritualised. wealth, and heavenly happiness and purity.
But the question is - what are those values and In short, society should have a balance of how can such a socio-politico-economic love and law and it should be based on the system be established that has those values principles of justice, fair play, and equality and will enhance human experience of opportunity. Now, these and such other and enable men and women to aims can be fulfilled if every segment
GUIDING LIGHT have such lifestyles that can make of society works a bit for the such a society viable? fulfillment of what other segments
If we conduct a survey among expect of it. For this global task, global various groups of people on this particular subject, co-operation is required. Hence, a new kind of we will find that their opinion would most probably bank to which each individual or institution can offer crystalise around ten or fifteen major points. They its contributions so as to build a better world is the would say that a better world is one in which the following need of the hour. exist only in milder forms or to a lesser degree than we have in the present-day world. These major problems or causes of suffering are wars, violence and cruelty in any form, poverty, unemployment and environmental pollution and ecological imbalance, (The writer is a spiritual educator & popular columnist for publications across India, Nepal & UK. You can reach to him at: nikunjji@gmail.com / http://www.brahmakumaris.com/)