After witnessing two most destructive wars of the human race in the last century, the world is once again gearing up to indulge in yet another one. The mighty powers of the world are busy hoarding arms and ammunition at an enormously large scale. Tensions in the Middle East, Indo-Pak border issues, wide spread terrorism etc., are some of the major problems daunting us. The famous quote of Albert Einstein “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” clearly gives us the clue about the sophistications in defence technologies. Of course, the majority of scientific inventions that are reaching layman’s hands are spin-offs of defence research and development. Thus, I am of the opinion that science is the cause behind the effects called wars.
But, contrary to the war of science there is another war– the war of silence or ‘incognito war’ which is going to reap the harvest of affluence, health, wealth and happiness. Let us understand this ‘Incognito silence war’, for which the clear understanding of our own self is very essential. Suppose Ram is a two-year- old child weighing approx. 10 kg. He might weigh 60 kg at the age of twenty years. All through these years, Ram is the same person, but only his physical weight is changing. Thus, we can come to the conclusion that Ram is not his physical body, but gains this physical body from the external world, in the form of food all through these years. This body is made up of five elements viz. earth, water, air, ether and sun. However, we are different from this body. Who am I then? Or who is Ram then? Our ancient scriptures have identified and termed the real ‘I’ as a ‘soul’ or ‘atman’, a tiny dot of light, a self-luminous and self-existing entity. A soul is such a tiny dot of light that it has not yet been perceived by any of the sophisticated scientific instruments.
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