Cooperative
Progress and the Golden Age
At
the Oneness University, Sri Bhagavan once spoke thus about
the on-going world transition. “If there is joy
and happiness inside you, would you cause trouble to others?
Never. Only an unhappy person can cause trouble to others.
If all over the world, people are happy, would there be
any problem with the external world? If this inner transformation,
which we call oneness happens, there will also be a corresponding
change in the external world. Everybody would be happy,
there would be no crime, no conflict. The inner change
is what we call the Oneness Age. The external change the
Golden Age.”
When
I was in India for the deepening process, my guide told
me “Ravi, the Golden Age is not an age where there
will be no progress in the external world. Rather it will
be an age of cooperative rather than competitive progress.
Right now, you progress competitively. What you do not
realize is that even though you win many times, you are
being pulled back by others. You take 10 steps forward
and 9 steps back. When progress is cooperative, you will
go forward at a much more rapid rate.”
As
I inquired into this statement, I started to realize that
the world is getting more and more cooperative in one
sense. In business, for example, there is an explosive
growth of “supply-chains”. These are basically
networks of companies that work together; it is apparent
to many companies that not only they but the entire ecosystem
around them needs to flourish in order to ensure their
continued health and growth. Of course, there are sometimes
competing networks of companies, but with the globalization,
the networks are becoming more and more intermeshed. The
fact that we are all connected is becoming more and more
physically manifest. In past times, this was well known
at a local scale, where everyone in the village was connected.
However, villages were somewhat isolated from each other.
Now, with the increasing ease of sharing information across
the globe, and the increased interconnection between people,
the same wisdom is slowly starting to emerge at a global
scale.
The
Oneness Conference in Los Angeles was held to bring more
oneness inside the teachers and to create more cooperative
progress among them. Of course this would help the consciousness
of the world make the same transition. During this conference,
Sri Anandagiri asked us the question "Is the shirt
you are wearing yours?" and went on to draw a beautiful
tapestry of how the cotton was first grown by the farmer,
the cotton tree being nourished by the Earth, given energy
by the sun, of how so many people were involved in harvesting
the cotton, of how steel miners and machinists built the
truck, of the people who drilled the oil that provided
fuel, of the truck driver who moved the cotton to the
factory, where still more people spun it into yarn, in
turn other people weaved the yarn into cloth, which the
tailors stitched into the shirt we are wearing today.
Listening to Sri Anandagiri, one actually could feel the
hardworking farmer, the cotton tree standing tireless
in the wind and sunlight, and so on. In fact, people from
almost every part of the world are involved in the shirt
that you are wearing; in a literal and not just a metaphysical
sense. A deep sense of connectedness awoke in the heart
of one and all.
Since
the conference, I am feeling the connectedness increasing,
increasing the power of the deekshas, and bringing forth
a higher intelligence. One of the aspects of the Higher
Sacred Self is the emergence of a Higher Intelligence;
if we are analogous to the cell, the higher sacred self
is analogous to the body. The body has a consciousness
and intelligence that is much greater that the sum of
the cells’ consciousness. In other words, the whole
is much, much greater than the sum of the parts. As cooperative
progress emerges, we become more established in this relationship
to the Body and this Higher Intelligence begins to emerge
more powerfully and Oneness becomes a reality rather than
a concept.
I
would like to close with a powerful example of synchronicity.
I was invited to an inter-faith conference recently that
was chaired by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. There, I met
these powerful and sweet grandmothers, in particular the
chairperson of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
(Grandma Aggie), who shared how they journey to different
sacred places around the world, pray for world healing,
and impart their wisdom to others. I immediately called
Monica and told her about it since I know she would love
them, and she goes “Oh my God, Cindy, (an Oneness
Teacher) from Ashland called and said that you have to
connect with Grandma Aggie and the other grandmothers.
They are highly respected shamans and leaders”.
Cindy had been researching them for a few days and even
as she called, I was speaking to the grandmothers. I shared
this story with the spiritual director of their institute,
and she said she has been invited by Journey to the Heart.
They were really touched by the whole story.
As
we are growing in Oneness the apparent coincidences increase
dramatically. Or perhaps more accurately, should we say
our capacity to recognize these coincidences increases?
Ravi
Krishnamurthy
Please
go to www.onenessmovement.org
and see more details and pictures from the Oneness Teachers
Conference.
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