Spoken by Supreme
Master Ching Hai, The Czech Republic,
May 28, 1999 (originally in English) Videotape No. 654
Q:
Could You tell us something from the spiritual point of view about
the influences of war?
M:
What can I say? What can I say about the ignorance
of humankind that drives people to kill one another in cold blood?
What can I say to those who have suffered tremendous agony in the
war, who lost their parents, who lost their children, who lost everything
that they had worked their whole life for? I can only pray that their
sorrow will be eased somehow, that God will bless them inside so that
they know that life is eternal, and God always loves them. It doesn't
matter if they are bad or good, and it doesn't matter how much they
lose in this world, Heaven is still theirs.
I
can only tell you that if we, the spiritual aspirants, try our best
to raise our consciousness to a higher level of understanding, then
the world will be a better place. This comes only by knowing that
we are God inside, that we can respect the God who sits in front of
us or next to us. Only with God's love can we erase all the hatred
and differences between brothers and sisters, and then the wars will
stop.
Since
ancient times we have been warring with each other, destroying the
property and the nutrition of this planet. We have even destroyed
the teachings of the spiritual Masters; we damage their bodies and
their way of life. And what has it brought us? We gain nothing out
of this war or any war. I feel sorry for the ones who caused the war,
and I feel sorry for the victims. But I feel even sorrier for the
ones who caused the war because they are so far from God; they are
so desperate that they feel they have to resort to violence.
They
feel so much lack of love within themselves that they break out with
crimes of such a violent manner because they are so desperate. They
are so deep in the illusion of life. For the one who does not know
right from wrong anymore, we can only feel sorry. And we can pray
that God will bless them with more wisdom and more love, so that they
will be awakened to a better way of life. We can help shorten the
war and ease the conflict into a better state or even stop it if we
all put our positive energy and thinking together, and we meditate
daily for the betterment of this planet. The victims of the war, even
though they suffer so much in this physical life, will be welcomed
by God in the life after.
So
I am here to try to remind you that you have the power within yourself
to bless the world, to stop the war, to ease the suffering. It is
up to you to make use of it. The more awakened the people, the less
trouble in this world. Our world is getting better. There are more
spiritual practitioners and more vegetarians. In a few more hundred
years to come, we will see almost Heaven on this planet. If we live
that long!