peace4future

Unfortunately, there are millions of people in the world who do not have the pleasure of knowing where next meal is coming from, who hardly ever eat, who cannot remember when they last had a meal. Millions of people are dying in a world groaning with food. The world is so full of food that we do not know what to do with it. Sections of the world throw food away daily, and at the same time millions die for want of it. It is a terrible, painful situation – or should be painful. It is painful for the people who are neglected. It should be painful for all of us. It should be a pain, a catastrophe in life to know that this continues daily, hourly, moment to moment.
People are walking across deserts looking for aid agencies who, they have heard, are handing out food. Someone has said there is food being handed out, but eight days’ trek across the desert if they can make it. They take their children and walk across the desert. This is the reality for millions of people. It should be so shocking, so painful, that we cannot stand it for one more day.
As the Master said, the time is coming when we will look back at this time absolutely unbelieving, unable to understand how we could do it. “ When in future times men look back to these climactic days they will wonder with astonishment and disbelief at the ease with which we tolerate the iniquities of the present, the cruelty and pointless suffering which so besmirch our lives ”
We take it so easily, even those of us concerned about it, who write and talk about it, join groups, and applaud the work of the non-governmental agencies who distribute food unceasingly.
It is difficult to imagine how, as a race, we can put up with this state of affairs.
“ For how long ,” Maitreya says, “ can you support this degradation? ”
It is a degradation of our life. We are so-called spiritual beings who do not demonstrate their spirituality. We know it, but do not do it. We have not the will to do it. Humanity in its present state is able to see the harm, the need, the horrors of today’s world and shake their heads and give a donation to an aid agency. But we can quickly throw it off, unable to hold it and bring it to the point where the will takes over, so we can no longer stand that degradation.
What is needed is the will of humanity aroused, not just its concern, to cleanse the world of these ills. There are many more horrible iniquities in the word, terrible pain and suffering, disease and drug abuse. The use we make of other people, the unbelievable intolerance we have for other nationalities, other colours of men.
We think that we are quite well-educated, well-evolved. Obviously we are not. We all know it is horrible, but is it pressingly painful? Can we think about it with equanimity? If we can think about it with equanimity and it does not disturb us too much, then obviously we are not all that civilised, not all that evolved.
The Masters see humanity as having reached a point where they have the readiness to learn. That is why they are here. We have invoked Them by being ready as never before to follow the precepts of the Masters and to create harmony and justice. ............ THE ART OF LIVING by Benjamin Creme
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