Universal Brotherhood: Utopia or Real Possibility

All that which falls within the purview of the five senses is known as Empirical. As
these senses viz. smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing, are certainly the preceptors of pleasure
and pain, it goes without saying that advancements in empirical science have been resulting in
ever-increasing means to heighten both, pleasure as well as pain.

If we devote just a few moments to look at our own such sensations as a third party
outsider, we would conclude that these sensations are in fact being referred to our own ego and
the sense of “I” ness. If this were not so, then same objects would have produced the same
sensation in everybody and in equal degree. In this exercise, ego would be the traceable
birthplace of all desires and the relentless but futile struggle to satisfy them.

The question is who in reality is struggling in such a futile manner? If this is my body
and this is my mind, then who is the real I? The wise call it Atman. It is always the Atman who
wants to experience the reality in all creation. It is always ego or ahamkara the ruler of body
and mind that always short-changes the Atman in the process. In other words, the ego domain
forces an identification of the real self with body and mind

So strong is the grip of ahamkara that even in death it remains attached to the causal
body or the karana-sharira which in due course in re-born in another bodily form and yet
another round of struggle to appease the senses.

We can thus further conclude that in essence, the inequality amongst not just humans
but across all creatures is simply the inequality in the latent and manifest desires, both good
and bad along with the apparatus and opportunity made available by divinity to satisfy the
same.

As far as humans go, we see that the apparatus is misused since opportunity is greatly
misconstrued. The high level of “I” ness or ahamkara inevitably makes us oblivious to our
individually inherent deservingness with which we were born, leading to much distress and
disharmony.

In view of these underlying facts, all external efforts towards precipitating “Peace”,
“Mutual Brotherhood” will come to naught as the individual mind is distraught, being full of
unfulfilled desires, having their roots in the subconscious, in the form of innumerable
polarities.

Experiencing the commonality amongst all, realizing that outer differences manifest as
a result of differences in karmic past and finding an easy way to progressively free oneself
from these differences would in reality pave the way towards attaining these noble goals.

Realizing the One-ness of Atman is easier said than experienced. Fortunately,

animation of Atman takes place due to the grace of Prana Shakti, the dynamic principle of
Mother Nature.

If the mind as a lower dynamic aspect, forever engaged in desire-satisfying activities

dictated by the ego, merges into Prana Shakti, this Higher Dynamic Aspect which is also our
very own, traverses the subconscious storehouse of all desires, neutralizing the hidden
polarities waiting to be expressed bodily, over an unknown span of time.

Thus experiencing inner calmness, one can progressively experience Universal

Brotherhood in its true sense.