It depends on you. if you say,
i am Hindu and you are Muslim,or the muslim says , i am Muslim and you are
hindu,catholic,protestant,Buddhist, communist ,socialist - that you are
patrioltic, we are the greatest,all that stuff. so as long as you worship the
flag. you are nationalist, patriotic,as long as there
are..racial,national,religious differences ,there will be wars and there will be
no end to frontiers. you are following people, your
leaders,saints,gurus,teachers ,so that you have lost all sense of your own
clarity, because you are not a light unto yourself. you are the lights of
somebody else, perhaps who is dead and gone. so, you have to find out how to
live a different kind of life, and you wil, if you are educated properly, if you
are acquained with all things of life.
To be a democrat you must think for yourself, not be persuaded by propaganda, by
any leader or guru only then can you call yourself a true democrat. you must
have right education,not just technical education. be a total humanbeing,
intellectually capable to reason clearly , precisely, without any personal
projection in thinking. if you are a democrat in that sense, then you will
create the right administration, not for india but for the whole world. there
must be universal planning and only a true democrat can do such things for
heloves people, not a system.
First understand what we mean by wold, by destruction the world is where you
live isn't it? school. boarding house, playfield , your friends,family then the
relationship of that family to other families and the relationship of ht emany
families to the state, the country to other countries and so on andon, like
ripples when you drop a pebble in alake. that is what we call the world.it's
much more complex . but simple. leave it at that for the moment. what do we mean
by that word destruction? war, killing each other is a very expensive business.
So war destroys not only the country. people land, trees and human beings but it
also destroys the economy. people become more violet,more destructive ,more
vicious - there is anger.
So when we talk about destruction, it means not only outward things like trees
aeroplanes, men ,but also inwardly it destroys you. so can that be saved? when
you create hate greed,envy ,ambition ,all that is also destuction. the world can
be saved from destuction only by you. how you think,feel,live on the playing
field, in your boarding house, the way you eat, the way you talk, whether you
are greedy, enviouse and all that , and extend it. then only envious and all
that and extend it. then only it is possible. it starts from a little pebble.
There fore education matters immensely ,not what you are taught ,not from books,
though that matter, mathematuics ,geography , history and all the rest of it,
but waht matter much more is what you are , how you behave what you think ,
whther youare nationalistic, whether you say well , bihar , my county,my
language , my little courtyard .If you think in those terms you are destroying
the world.