# The Whole World is but One Family

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> Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Harilal M. Munje, The Whole World is but One Family, bahai-library.com.
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> Copyright ~ 1985 by the
> National Spiritual Assembly of
> the Baha'fs of India
> 
> First Print l 980á
> Reprint 1984
> Third Edition 1985
> 
> PRINTED BY
> SKYLARK PRINTERS, NEW DELHI-110055
> INTRODUCTION
> I bad the pleasure and privilege of going
> through     Dr. H. M. Munje's          Booklet
> "Vasudhaiva-Kutumbakam"      which beautifully
> demonstrates, on Scriptural authorities, the
> fact that "the whole world is but one family."
> It affords an interesting and enlightening
> reading, and makes its readers realize the
> depth of religious knowledge of its author.
> It is interfused with quotations         from
> •Atharva-Ved', Bhagwat Gita', •Yajur-Ved',
> •Rig-Ved', 'Sam-Ved', etc., and also from the
> BahA't Holy Writs.
> 
> Great unrest is noticeable in the world.
> Its root cause is the disunity in thoughts and
> actions of mankind. The main problem of
> the day is the policy, not of pacification, but
> of unification, aimed at establishing the lasting
> peace in the world, and all efforts of the
> leading luminaries of var,ious nations are
> directed towards that end. How disunity
> disturbing the World-Peace is to be eliminated.
> and eradicated theologians ar J legislators,
> politicians and diplomats, sr,ciologists and
> educationists, economists and many other
> well-wishers of human: fall the World over
> have given their anxious thoughts to this
> subject in order to bring about unity and the
> Sovereign Remedy for establishing World-
> Peace which actually lies in preaching and
> demonstrating  world unity in thoughts, in
> words and in deeds.
> 
> The said booklet has justifiably made a Valu-
> able Contribution towards securing world unity
> and peace by propagating and demonstrating
> a fellow-feeling and synthetical development
> of the same in all walks and at all levels of
> human life based on the fundamental unity of
> all Faiths. The said booklet also demonstrates
> the aim and object of the Bah.i'i World Faith
> emphasising its main points in an actually
> workable God-given New World Order.
> 
> I wish every success to the said booklet as
> also to the lofty Divine Cause it is dedi-
> cated to.
> 
> Babula) Misra
> 
> Advocate, Head of the Law
> Department,       V. S. S. D.
> College, Kanrur, and General
> Secre1ary o     the Sanatan
> Dharma      Maha     Mandal.
> I
> 
> God
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> ~"'      SJ-srT~ arrm
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> -m ~ to-t:-~~-
> "He is called the Ancient, He again be-
> cometh New today ; ( similarly ) day and
> night are generated, ( this and that are )
> semblances of one another."-Atharva   Ved,
> X, 8-23.
> God is immeasurably exalted above all
> imaginable comparisons and likenesses. All
> the examples and semblances mentioned in
> the Divine Scriptures are only meant to facili-
> tate our limited understanding and thus make
> it capable enough to find out the Will of
> God on earth and to obey Him voluntarily,
> unreservedly and lovingly for its own benefit,
> and not for the benefit of God Who is highly
> exalted above all benefits and losses.
> The relation of a craftsman with his handi-
> work. a painter with his painting, a speaker
> with his speech, a thinker with his thoughts,
> 
> the sun with its rays, and so on, described by
> the Holy Books is but an example of the re-
> lation which exists between the Greator and
> His creation.   In fact, He is still Greater than
> and far far superior to each and all the ex-
> amples and similes.
> Howsoever perfect a painting may be it
> cannot understand the painter. Even if the
> painter makes his own portrait, it is his like-
> ness, and not he himself. All the accumulated
> speeches of the speaker are not the speaker
> himself. All the thoughts produced by the
> thinker do not constitute the thinker himself.
> Rays are but the emanations from the sun and
> not the sun itself, inasmuch as the rays are
> ever produced by and, therefore, dependent
> upon the sun and the sun is not the sum
> total of rays.
> Though    the   Thinker is Omnipotent,
> Omniscient    and Omnipresent      in all His
> thoughts. yet thoughts are thoughts after all,
> and not the Thinker Himself Who is the
> Creator of all His thoughts. There is sharp
> and inviolable line of demarcation in between
> the two which is vividly expounded in all the
> Divine Scriptures.
> 
> This discrimination between the thoughts
> and their Thinker, speech and its Speaker,
> the creation and its Creator: is very beautifully
> and unambiguously explained by God in Shri-
> mad Bhagwat Gita, Discourse XIII, 15 : 16 :
> 
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> -iftm t ~-, '(/t ~-
> "Without and within all beings, Immov-
> able and also Movable, Unknowable because
> of His imperceptible Subtlety, extremely near
> and far away is THAT.
> "Undivided amid beings and yet existing
> as if divided, is that to be known as the
> Supporter of beings ; He devoureth and also
> doth create.'' -Gita, XIII, 15-16.
> God alone, in his Own Incomparable
> Singleness : is, by Himself, the Uncreated
> Creator of the whole creation, Eternal in the
> past, Eternal in the future, Omnipotent,
> Omniscient, Omnipresent, Indescribable and
> Inconceivable by all else except Himself.
> It is He Who is the Sole Creator of time,
> space, nature and all that are therein and even
> beyond.
> In comparison with Him all else are but
> nothing. It is here that God is the Real Pre-
> existence and all else besides Him exist only
> by His behest throughout alJ eternity-an
> eternity which is also His creation.
> 
> Jl
> 
> The Man ifestatioo of God
> Between the Creator and His creation there
> is a Link called the Manifestation     of God
> Who reveals in every age the Divine Will to
> the world.
> 
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> 
> "Those who know God in His Manifes-
> tation    through a human     being know the
> One Who dwelleth in the Most Great Abode ;
> He Who knoweth the One Who dwelleth in
> the Most Great Abode and Who knoweth
> the Lord       of Generations    is the Great
> Knower of God, those who know Him,
> following Him, know the Pillar very well.''-
> Atharva Ved, X, 7-17.
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> 
> "What    is that Pillar with Which the
> Lord of Generations hath held fast all that is
> visible ? 0, teach us, what is it exactly like ?"
> -Atharva   Ved, X, 7-7.
> This Pillar is the Divine Religion with
> which the Lord of Generations            holds all
> within Its All-Encompassing      grasp. This is
> exquisitely explained in details at length in the
> same Atharva Ved, X, in its whole 7th Sukta.
> ( 1) The Glory of the Creator, (2) the
> attributes of the creation, and (3) The Com-
> mand of the Creator to His creation, are the
> Threefold Splendors revealed each time, in
> His unerring     wisdom, by the Manifestation
> of God in every age in order to instill a new
> Life, enhance the spiritual growth and cause
> the people to attain levels higher and higher
> successively from age to age.
> 
> Thus the Manifestation     of God is not
> God in His invisible and unknowable Essence
> but God in His visible and knowable Glory
> revealing for every cycle a definite pre-
> ordained   measure of the Infinite      Divine
> Knowledge, after having rendered the same,
> graspable by and beneficial to mankind.
> 
> This way, the Sun of Divinity is reflected
> in the perfect and sanctified Mirror of the
> Manifestation  illuminating the people as long
> as they rem a in turned towards     this holy
> Mirror.
> 
> God Himself as He is, being invisible and
> incomprehensible for us, is only known to us
> in His Manifestation, in which Station, the
> Unspeakable    talks to us Heart to heart,
> unveils His Beauty Face to face, and actually
> guides us, provided we earnestly seek His
> Refuge, step by step in all our affairs and
> activities.
> The Divine Sun neither comes down from
> His infinite heights of unknowable and un-
> born Self-Existence nor does He become so
> small as to be contained in the Mirror of the
> Manifestation,   nevertheless, we see the Sun
> in the Mirror and derive all our benefits
> from the Sun shining from the Mirror.
> 
> If we say, looking towards the sun in the
> Mirror : "Lo ; here is the Sun," we are not
> wrong, if the mirror says, "I am not the
> Sun, he too is right, and, if the Sun Himse)f, as
> manifest in the Mirror, says through the Mir-
> ror, "I am the All-Glorious Sun." He. verily,
> uttereth nothing but the essence of Truth.
> The Manifestation of God is like a radio-
> te]evision set. Sometimes we hear the sound
> of the cabinet and of the particles of mechan-
> ism contained in the set itself, and sometimes
> we listen to the sweet melodies of the
> singer and even actually visualise him who
> is. in himself, seated far far away from us and
> even from the set.
> 
> It is here that the Divine Radio-Television
> Set viz, the Manifestation of God, represents a
> th reef old splendor : ( l) the Voice and the
> Likeness of God Himself, (2) the Holy Spirit
> of the Manifestation      Himself through whom
> God is revealed to man, and (3) the physical
> human body of the Manifestation of God or
> Ishwari Avatar.
> 
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> 
> "The Lord of Generations,         the One
> greater than Whom none else is begotten,
> the One clad in the attire of Manifestation,
> entered, inhabiting the worldly abodes, bes-
> towing the richest bliss to the people while
> living among the people, is the Bearer of the
> threefold splendor He it is Who possesseth
> sixteen ('Kalas'   lit, parts)."-Yajur     Ved,
> VIII, 36.
> 
> These "sixteen" are the following ~ ~ ~wllt
> Sixteen   Kalas    representing  the th reef old
> splendor of the Lord of the Generations :-
> 1. Outwardly the Manifestation of God
> is a man like any one else. He has a body
> composed of the 5 elements, viz. (1) ~
> 
> ear     (2) ~ water (3) olftt1     fire ( 4) q1~
> air and (5) arTcfTT~heaven or space, with
> their energies and the power of attraction called
> ~~cirr Dehatma.
> 
> He has (6) STTOTlife which is the po\ver
> of growth or vegetative spirit called ~~citT
> Beslzajatma.
> 
> He has (7) all fif~ the senses, and He
> takes (8) 81''$1food for the maintenance of His
> animal economy called trrocfTcJITPashavatma.
> 
> He has (9) lirfui Might or Power to choose
> right or wrong ; it is this power which is
> called the human spirit irfi{cflcJIT or o1clITcJIT
> M anvatma or Adhyatma.
> 
> He has ( I 0) ~ Faith in God, Faith in
> all that God hath revealed through His
> Manifestation ; this is the spirit of Faith
> ~it~c'i I Dharmatma.
> 
> All the above ten Kalas are the attributes
> of the creation each in accordance with and
> proportionate to the different degrees of crea-
> 
> tion. All these are possessed by the Mani-
> festation of God. This is one aspect of the
> "threefold splendor."
> 
> II.   Another aspect is the Divine Spirit
> ~clkJ:ff Devatma or the Holy Spirit qfc1~1cirr
> Pavitratma respresenting (11) ~ell a New Truth
> (12) m.:ra greater Knowledge       (13) ~ an
> (
> unprecedented     Thought   (14) cfii:I'a newly
> revealed Plan of action or deeds and ( 15) ii'f
> the Holy Utterances or the Divine Command.
> 
> III. The third and the greatest of them
> all is the aspect of God Himself q\Jfwrf
> Paramatn1a represented by ( 16) ijTJJ Name,
> and that is al I.
> 
> God,   verily, is the most manifest of the
> manifest   and yet the most hidden of the
> hidden.
> 
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> "        ...
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> "The foolish disregard Me when clad I in
> a human body ; they know naught My sup-
> reme nature, I am the Great Lord of beings."
> -Shrimad    Bhagwat Gita, lX, 11.
> 
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> "I stretch bow for the howling in order to
> kill the tyrant and also enemies of the Great
> God ; I create all happiness for the people, I
> enter, prevailed in Heaven and earth, clad in
> the attire of Manifestation."-Atharva    Ved,
> IV, 30-5.
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> 
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> 
> "From time to time whenever there occurs
> a downfall of religion.. 0 Bharat (Arjuna), and
> the rise of irreligion, it is then that I send
> forth My spirit.
> "For the protection of those who achieve
> Me, for the destruction of the wicked-doers,
> and for firmly establishing the Religion, mani-
> fest I Myself from age to age," -Gita,      IV,
> 7&8
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> SJf.Jitfflqr;J-t
> 
> "From titne to time whenever Religion is
> decreased, and the unholy, the irreligious, the
> haughty people increase, the Lord adop-
> teth a body different from time to time,
> removeth, through His infinite bounties, the
> calamities of the good people, destroyeth the
> unholy, establisheth Holiness and protecteth
> the Chain (Bridge) of His Own sacred know-
> ledge and diffuseth His immaculate Glory
> in the world. The same is the motive of His
> Holiness Rama's descent" .-TUlsi Ramayan
> Bal-Kand, 1st. Sopan, 129.
> Religion is the greatest support which
> resuscitates human beings through the instru-
> mentality of the spiritual life of Faith in
> God which means Faith in whatsoever God
> has revealed through His Manifestation, as
> there is no other way of knowing the Will of
> God on earth.
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> Ill II
> 
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> cr~zrzr)f;r qR~f.=a    ~~Tfflf ~;:~      ffiT{~FnR
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> 
> "1 Know that Most Great Ruler \Vho
> like the brilliancy of the Sun, is beyond dark-
> ness ; having known Him alone is crossed
> the mortal stage ; no way is known for going
> but This."
> 
> "The Essentially unmanifestab]e    moveth
> within, the Lord of Generations        vividly
> manifesteth Himself repeatedly ; the steadfast
> behold from all sides the A bode of the
> Original Cause ; in That abide the worlds of
> the universe." -Yajur-Ved, XXXI, 18 and 19.
> 
> The Manifestation  of God is the Meeting
> Point of God beyond and the man on earth.
> It is the Manifestation of God Who gives
> us the Divine Knowledge not only theoreti-
> cally but also in practice by actually living a
> Human life exactly in accordance with what
> He teaches us to do.
> 
> The Manifestation    of God is thus a
> Practical Experiment conducted from time to
> time by God himself in the laboratory of the
> world in order to give us lessons of His
> supreme Will.
> 
> God wants us to love one another. The
> Manifestation of God, on one hand, in His
> Capacity as the sole Mouthpiece of God,
> commands us to love one another, and, on
> the other hand, in his capacity as a simple
> human being, he actually loves us and
> demonstrates the meaning of love in action
> and even the way through which we can love
> one another. So much so, that while actuaUy
> loving us he is conf rooted with bitter oppo-
> sitions and surrounded by severe afflictions
> and tortures which he patient]y bears and
> thus teaches us yet another lesson of 'Patience
> and forbearanceá in our lives.
> God wants us to be rooted in truth. The
> Manifestation of God, on one hand, pro-
> claims this Divine Commandment to us, and,
> on the other, he, in his capacity as a man
> like us, lives an actual human life of truth-
> fulness and piety. So that we may not say or
> be led to think that truthfulness and piety
> belong only to God, or that they are the
> utopia, or that it is humanly impossible to
> live a life of truthfulness and piety at all.
> Whatever lesson God wants to teach us
> He makes the Manifestation of God to first
> put it in action in His own human life as a
> perfect example and thus prove to mankind
> beyond doubt that the particular Teaching is
> humanly possible, and, therefore, each and
> every human being can do it, provided he or
> she cares to copy diligently the human life
> 
> and the manly aspect of the Manifestation
> of God.
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> 
> - 111or,
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> 
> "Whatsoever the Most Great Man doeth,
> the other people also do. It is He Who
> setteth forth the Standard, by That the
> people go.
> "Neither the least work is there in the
> three worlds, 0 Partha (lit. son of earth),
> which should be done by Me, nor is there
> any unobtained thing which should be ob-
> tained ; I still occupy Myself in action.
> "Should I not always occupy Myself, the
> Unwearied. in action the people all round,
> 0 Partha, foil ow My path.
> "Were       I not to        perform         action, these
> 
> people would be destroyed ; and, in that case,
> I would become the author of confusion, and
> I would slay these generations."-Gita,     Ill,
> 21, 22, 23 and 24.
> The Manifestation of God is thrown amid
> unspeakable tests and trials. He is surroun--
> ded by countless oppressions and tyrannies.
> He is left all alone as a man to encounter all
> these and to face bravely, patiently and with
> exemplary steadfastness and ultimately to
> emerge out as a victor proving the triumph
> of His Teachings which are not utopia but
> a great practicable Plan and an actually
> workable Programme for the betterment of
> mankind. Those who follow Him with
> unwavering Faith, love, devotion and unswer-
> ving active obedience are the persons called
> the re-born fa~ or resurrected or a New Crea-
> tion after a Pralaya which was the annihilation
> of the Spiritual Life or Divine Religion in
> mankind.
> This way the Spiritual Day and night,
> Birth and death, Creation and annihilation,
> Glory and abasement, Light and gloom,
> Religion and irreligion, come and go forming
> ages and cycles in the Spiritual World of
> mankind the resemblance of which is the
> visible day and night and the turning round
> of this planet-our  earth ball.
> The Manifestation of God is the Most
> Great Care and the Incomparable  Facility.
> 
> provided to us by the Divine Providence out
> of His sheer and most great compassion on us.
> 
> III
> The Three Existences
> There are three kinds of Existences :
> I. The existence of God Himself Who
> is All Alone abiding in His Own Place which
> is much Holy above all places and spaces
> created by Him, above all times, mentions,
> utterances,   signs, descriptions, definitions,
> heights and depths. He Himself is the only
> self-existent One and the uncreated Creator
> of all. It is He Who is birthless, shapeless
> and peerless, unknowable, incomprehensible
> and unimaginable. He is the Only pre-
> existent Cause of all causes. He, thus, is
> the First and the incomparable        kind of
> Existence.
> II. The existence of the Manifestation of
> God is also called the Drawing-Point of the
> Will of God or the Horizon for the Divine
> Sun. The Manifestation of God is especially
> created by God as a Holy Mirror to reflect
> the Divine Attributes, Glory and Authority
> 
> on earth. It is through the Manifestation
> of God that God reveals His Will, Knowledge,
> Command, Intention, Mercy, Justice, Wrath,
> Love, Mysteries,      Truth,   Splendours, the
> Divine Method of living pious life, and what
> not, exactly in accordance with the require-
> ments and exigencies of mankind age after
> age. This is how the Manifestation of God
> is categorised as the second kind of existence.
> III.   The world of creation, consists of
> creations ranging from          (I) mineral, (2)
> vegetable, (3) animal, and (4) human, to (5) the
> spirit of Faith. This is the third category
> of existence.      (I) mineral,     (2) vegetable,
> (3) animal and (4) the human body are an
> ruled by nature, but, the human spirit and
> the spirit of Faith fall under the jurisdiction
> of the Divine Law which is above nature.
> The human spirit which is originally dark
> is in the third category of existence called
> the world of creation. The Manifestation
> of God is the Light which comes from the
> First and the Only Original Source of
> all sources-God.       In comparison with light
> the darkness is death. This fact is the essence
> of truth which each and every human soul
> 1nust conscientiously      know      and  wilfully
> recognize. Should the mirror of the spirit
> of man be cleansed, polished and placed
> facing the Manifestation       of God, it would.
> no doubt, reflect the rays of the Divine
> Commandments         in practical life and be
> 
> illumined thereby.   It is at this juncture that
> we can safely say that the spirit of Faith has
> actually entered into a human being. To
> acquire this spirit of Faith is the first and
> the fore most duty of each and every human
> being which he or she should voluntarily and
> painstakingly perform.     This is the supreme
> truth in life which should be independently
> investigated, thoroughly understood. sincerely
> acknowledged     and translated     into actual
> practical life, as without realizing this truth
> the human soul remains in perpetual darkness.
> It is this which has been unequivocally
> proclaimed by the Upanishada in the form
> of a prayer :-
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> "From truthlessness, 0, lead me to the truth ;
> From gloom, 0, lead me to Thy Kindly
> Light ;
> From mortality, 0, lead me to Immortality."
> There are two main stages in which the
> human spirit can move : one, the stage of
> death controlled by nature, and, the other, the
> stage of life which is supernatural.    In the
> stage of death there are again three sub-
> stages : (I) mineral, (2) vegetable, and (3)
> animal.   When the spirit of rnan detaches
> his heart and mind from these baser stages of
> 
> earthly appetite and sensual entanglements, he
> becomes undefiled and fit for the reception of
> the spirit of Faith which belongs to the higher
> stage-the    stage of spiritual Life.
> Our crossing the stage of death and acquiring
> immortality is only through the kindly Light
> of Truth which comes from the Manifestation
> of God on earth.     To attain to Him is to have
> complete Faith in and unreserved obedience
> to whatsoever Commandments          have been re-
> vealed through     the Manifestation     of God.
> Spirit of Faith is a link between the Holy
> Spirit of the Manifestation     of God and the
> human spirit.
> The human spirit is like a mirror.         The
> first requisite is to cleanse the mirror from all
> worldly defilements and polish the same to
> the extent in which it becomes worthy, so that
> the rays of the Sun of Truth may be reflec-
> ted in it. The second requisite is to turn the
> mirror towards the Sun. This is simply be-
> cause of the fact that howsoever clean and
> polished the mirror may be it is in itself the
> dark substance.     It gets Light only through
> the rays of the Sun of Truth.         To turn to-
> wards the Sun of Truth is to have complete
> Faith in the Manifestation      of God. to learn
> His     Commandments       devotedly,   practically
> and unreservedly      each time whenever the
> Manifestation   of God appears on earth and
> estab)ishes the Pillar of His religion in the
> world.
> 
> This is what has been vividly and most
> emphatically repeated over and over again in
> each Holy Book by every Manifestation         of
> God in many a nation and during all down
> the ages.
> This is the Way.        This is the Path.
> This is called the Religion.        This is the
> Pillar. This is the Will of God on earth.
> This is the Command of God proclaimed
> and re-proclaimed.     This is the Mercy of
> the All-Merciful    showered in the past and
> shall be successively showered all through the
> future for ever and evermore.        This is the
> irrevocable   Law     of God      for mankind.
> Nothing else, nothing     less and nothing be-
> yond. There is no other go but this :-
> 
> IV
> 
> Follow The Latest Command
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> "Listen thou again to my Supreme, the
> Most Hidden Word, favourite art thou to Me,
> and steadfast of heart, I shall, therefore,
> speak for thy benefit.
> "Merge thy mind in Me, be My devotee,
> sacrifice thyself to Me, prostrate thyself to Me,
> thou shalt surely come upto Me. 1 pledge
> thee My Truth ; beloved art thou to Me.
> ''Thoroughly      abandoning    all religions
> come thou unto Me alone for shelter ; it is I
> who will liberate thee from all sins."
> -Shrimad Bhagwat Gita, XVIII, 64, 65 & 66.
> We do not speak here in terms of this
> religion or that religion. According to God
> the Religion is man's strict obedience and
> unconditional   surrender  to whatsoever is
> revealed by and through His Manifestation
> each time to the world. God's Will is not to
> be questioned.    Because His Will is All-
> Merciful. He loves us much more than what
> we can ever hope to love ourselves. We, in
> our ignorance and spiritual darkness, do not
> appreciate what is good for us and cannot
> give up what is not good for us. By Faith
> in the Manifestation of God we get spiritual
> Light. By that Light we are enabled to gain
> the spiritual    Knowledge. The knowledge
> of Truth gladdens our hearts and thus
> strengthens us to do as we know. Once we
> are stirred up to righteous deeds in exact
> obedience to the revealed Will of God our
> 
> lives develop by leaps and bounds in com-
> plete harmony     with the Divine     life as
> practically demonstrated by the Manifestation
> of God in His human life.
> This condition is called the Kingdom of
> God on earth or Sat Yug-the Golden Age
> of Truth-which     is first established in the
> hearts and minds of the individuals,         and
> then gradually, as and how the number of
> such Kingdom-holder-humans,          the bearers
> of Sat-Yug, increase, the world, shall become
> a new world, a better world, a Glorious
> World, a ''BHAHI WORLD.''
> 
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> -:> --
> 
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> - «rirck,'3'~TRcfi:      ~ J ~ - ~ - ~ ~ • ~ - ~ J~ \ c; ~.
> "0    Exalted    Fire ! 0 Thou Merged in
> B HA H ( Glory) ! Rise          Thou     regularly
> shining out brilliantly     Thine Own progres-
> sively blazing Light ; make the world particu-
> larly and especially BH AHi and never-getting-
> old"-Sam       Ved,        Uttararchika,       VJ,
> 2-2-12-1-3/1385.
> A Manifestation   of God is All-Glorious
> and is God turned towards us in His Kindly
> Light. But, we get this Light only when
> we turn towards Him, and not when we turn
> our backs against Him. When we face the
> Manifestation of God it is our Day and when
> 
> we are in deep slun1ber spiritually it is as if
> we have turned our backs against Him, this
> is our night of the soul. Whenever the
> number of these night-souls is increased in
> abundance the spiritual darkness is prevalent in
> the world, such an age is called the Kali Yug
> or the Period of Gloom or strife. The whole
> spiritual life-process is basically reversed in
> that period, and hence, calamities, clashes,
> afflictions, tyrannies and even the Wrath of
> God come upon the people.
> It is at such a critical hour of distress that
> the Pitier of the downtrodden, the Patita-
> Pavan, the Liberator of the sinners, makes
> Hi1nself manifest in this wor)d through the
> instrumentality of a Perfect Hun1an being,
> and once again the Day of God dawns on
> earth for Good.
> But, alas, the persons of haughty, fastidious,
> obstinate, vehement, lethargic, retrogressive,
> aggressive, and such evil tendencies disobey
> the newly revealed Commandments of God in
> every age, refuse to partake of fresh Mercy
> of God, and thus, spontaneously invite their
> own annihilation.
> It is this which has been symbolically des-
> cribed by Atharva Ved, X 8-23, when it said
> that :-
> "He is called the Ancient, He again be-
> cometh New Today ; (similarly), day and
> 
> night are generated, (this and that are)
> semblances of one another."-Atharva Ved,
> X, 8-23.
> 
> V
> Divine Arrangement of Human
> Affairs
> The Most Ancient, the Essentially Pre-
> Existent aspect of God, while still remaining
> hidden in His Own invisible, unknowable
> and unattainable     Entity, makes His other
> aspect of Manifestation to appear before men
> as a man, so that men may not be afraid of
> Him, they can love Him intimately, discuss
> with Him their problems and thus give Him a
> chance to arrange the affairs of their lives and
> establish a peacefully working order on earth.
> This is the sole purpose of the Manifestation
> of God in this world age after age.
> In every age the same ancient Sun of
> Truth generates and gives out new rays of
> Teachings, Laws and Commandments, as He
> is the Un-Exhausting Creator. He is never
> fatigued like human morta]s.
> At the same time His sole Unchanging
> Law of Love Jives permanently ever-new and
> ever-green   everywhere.   No changes and
> chances of the ages and nations and no revo-
> lutions of conditions, howsoever drastic they
> 
> may happen to be, can even hope                  to frustrate
> this  ever-advancing    universal                  Law      of
> Love.
> In fact, it is for the protection and prog-
> ress of this fundamental Law of Love that a
> set of subsidiary laws suitable to every parti-
> cular age is framed by God in His inscrutable
> wisdom      and revealed     through   His Own
> Manifestation of Love to Mankind.
> According to this Law of Love, God
> loves     Himself as also God loves His
> creation ; we the creatures       should also
> therefore, love God and at the same time
> love one another among ourselves.
> This is what has always been taught to us
> right from the time of Rig Ved, the Most
> Ancient-Known    and still extant Command
> of God on earth :-
> 
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> "
> «lff'lḥ-1'"~ḥ-lf~                         err~Fcrtn
> "l'"~zter:ijJ.t r;:t.:r     ~ir     ,
> ijJi Ii-fl cf arrc[fu:   ij'JfFfT ~lilf.:r er:I
> ~;rll~         cf) irr11"ll'iTsr:~ij'~«fa11 Sf{•cf~lcfl=g '9,
> amtfi t:;, JI~    ~ 0 1 3fo c;, qo   'it/~, a.ro ~ 0
> -~      ~€.~Iii~«lc1TT~. ~ am "
> "Like the enlightened ones of the past who
> used to acquire their share in unity, live ye
> all in harmony with one another, consort in
> loving sweetness with all, be one in thought
> and in knowledge."
> "Let mind-protecting Divine Command-
> ment be equal to all, let there be equal co-
> mingling of ye all, let aJJ their minds be as one
> mind, their attentions be in one accord. I
> command ye all to be equal under One Holy
> Command, I bring ye up all alike offering
> Myself as a sacrifice."
> "Be united in your purpose, let your
> hearts be as one heart, minds of all as one
> mind, so that your affairs may be co-operatively
> well-organised."- Rig Ved, Khand 7, Ashtak
> VIII, Mandal IO, 8-49/3, 10-191, verses 2nd
> 3rd and 4th.
> 
> VI
> 
> The Love-Seed Grows
> The Law of Love is the fundamental
> law of all religions whenever and wherever
> they have been revealed.    As it is an ever-
> living Law of God, it has got the power of
> growth which makes it ever progressive non-
> stop.    Any cessation thereof would mean
> death.
> 
> In pre--historic ages individual human
> beings lived isolated one from another. At
> that time every individual's love of his or her
> own-self kept all the limbs of his or her phy-
> sical body in perfect unity and living health.
> That was the sphere of love in action
> in those days of the infancy of man-
> kind ; and that was the limit of under-
> standing of the individual human beings at
> that time. Even at that time each human
> being incessantly felt himself and herself
> deficient in and by himself and herself. It is
> only God Who is perfect in Himself and by
> Himself, and nothing else.          What     was
> deficient in man is deposited in woman and
> what was lacking in her was created by God
> in man. This made man and woman inter-
> dependent, and hence, an irrepressible urge
> of a wider unity-the love of man and woman
> -was an established fact. This love, with all its
> resultant factors and paraphernalia, just as the
> institution and chastity of marriage, honesty
> with one another, proper care and rearing up
> of the children, children's obedience to their
> parents, respect to elder brothers and sisters,
> parents' duty of compassion towards children,
> sweet relations between families-in--law, etc.
> etc. was taught by the Manifestations of God
> which is still found recorded in the ancient
> Holy Scriptures intact. Even how to take bath,
> how to sit and eat, how to sleep, how to talk
> and many other points were taught in the anci-
> ent Divine Books of Laws. This was the chan-
> geable aspect of the Religion of God, as it
> pertained to the worldly affairs of man which
> always advanced along with the changing
> conditions of mankind.       The unchangeable
> aspect was the knowledge that there is a
> God, and that God is One, Unknowable,
> Indivisible, Non-Multiple, Pre-Existent, Ever-
> lasting Creator of the whole creation; that from
> Him we have all come and unto Him shall we
> all return, that He, out of His Love and
> compassion, sends on earth His Manifestation
> from age to age with His sole Authority to
> Whom we must all bow down in utter and
> loving submissiveness ; as His Divine Autho-
> rity is Absolute and unchallengeable, and that
> obedient devotees shall be generously rewar-
> ded by God and upon the deniers of His
> Manifestation in every age shall con1e the
> wrath of God and they will be severely
> chastised for their disobedience.
> This was coupled with a few prescnpt1ons
> for prayers, fasting and such other ceremonies
> suitable to the then capacities and circum-
> stances of the people meant for the spiritual
> upliftment of individual human souls.
> Under this Divine Code of laws remained
> humanity for a time developing itself gra-
> dually to the levels beyond the confines of
> familihood. As separate individuals, different
> families also found each one in itself defi-
> cient and in want of resources possessed by
> other families.
> 
> At human souls, without Divine Guidance,
> are dark in themselves, they started grab-
> bing other's properties for making up their
> own deficiencies, and tortured and butchered
> others who stubbornly refused to part with
> their possessions. There were feudal-fights
> and family clashes which destroyed morales
> in the human beings, and mankind wandered
> a\vay from the Divine Path of Love-the
> fundamental Law of Religion.
> This necessitated (I) on one hand the
> re-establishment     of love, the Essence of
> Religion, and (2) on the other, the extension
> of the sphere of action for the Law of Love,
> from familihood to the City-State merging
> within itself all the families forming one solid
> unit.     Such Laws were revealed by the
> then Manifestation of God as could create a
> perfect shell in which humanity could safely
> evolve to higher levels of life, both in the
> earthly and the Spiritual realms.
> Again, the life-force of Love rushed forth
> and the boundaries of City-State were over-
> thrown. That was, in fact, a heading forward
> towards a still wider unity. But, alas, the
> discarding of the divinely prescribed spiritual
> virtues by human mortals became the cause
> of warfare and miseries. Once again, the Law
> of Love re-asserted itself through the Mani-
> festation of God Who gave a larger set of
> Laws which could            effectively establish
> nation-building on one hand, and the individual
> purification of human souls on the other.
> 
> All this was till yesterday. Today a still
> wider condition is existing. Mankind as a
> whole is not at all living in a national age.
> VII
> This Global Age
> The whole human race, knowingly or un-
> knowingly, is living at present in a global age,
> though collectively yet not lovingly. Hence,
> the very foundation of the Religion of God
> is destroyed in the human life and soul as
> a whole.
> We say that we believe in some religion
> or the other, but, what we actually mean by
> the word religion is diametrically opposed to
> the Religion of God. God never wanted us
> to believe in this religion or that religion and
> haughtily hate others. God never wanted us
> to break His Divine Religion into hundreds
> and thousand-s of sects, sub-sects and petty-
> sub-sects with the followers of each small
> group thinking themself to be the only sup-
> reme people on earth and all other as demo-
> niacal. God never wanted us to divide our-
> selves in countless water-tight compartments.
> God never wanted us to turn our prayers to
> the darkened horizons. to utterly neglect the
> broad foundation of God's sacred Laws, to
> grow unmindful of the Merits and Virtues of
> His Holy Religion and regard only certain cus-
> toms, conventions, ceremonies, rituals, dogmas,
> 
> signs, symbols, murmur of a few verses, etc.
> etc., to be our supreme attainments of the
> glorious   pinnacle of spiritual  prosperity.
> God never wanted us to fall down from the
> Universal Law of Love to the nethermost
> depths of pride and prejudice, hatred and
> vainglory,   heedlessness  and    easy-going,
> grabbing and looting, warfare and bloodshed.
> In fact, God never wanted us to do anything
> of what we are doing today. Should we
> have our inner eyes opened we would surely
> behold our pitiable and lamentable spiritual
> downfall to the extreme in the minutest
> analysis of each and all our thoughts, words
> and deeds.
> 
> This insight was granted by God to many
> a blessed Saints and Divine Seers of the past
> who fore saw thousands of years ago the actual
> conditions of this age and recorded the same
> by way of prophecies in their Books of predic-
> tions. They are innumerable. We read them.
> We know them. We even realise that these
> prophecies are proved to be word-by-word
> true, and, yet, alas, a myriad times alas, that
> we do not open our spiritual eyes, we do not
> try in the least to radically change our ways
> and views, and thus better our conditions by
> paying sincere attention       to   the latest
> Revelation of the Will of God on earth.
> We would not recount all the scriptural
> and other countless prophecies and predictions
> 
> over here. Only a few will suffice as our
> eye- openers.
> 
> VIII
> Sbri Ramchandraji's Prophecies
> There is a bird's-eye view of Ka/i-Yug
> (the Strife-Age) Shown more than five thou-
> sand years ago by Shri Ramchandraj i, Himself
> the Manifestation of God, to, and after hav-
> ing been described by Kag Bbushundi to
> Garuda     as recorded in Uttar Kand of the
> Holy Ramayana as follows :-
> "Listen to the treasury of Knowledge, 0
> Knower of God ! I am telling you something
> about the affairs of the Kali-Yug (the Age
> of quarrel, the strife-period, the Iron-Age)
> as visioned by me.
> "The sins of Kali-Yug have swallowed all
> religions, all the Sacred Books are concealed.
> The hypocrite imposters have promulgated a
> number of creeds which they themselves had
> invented out of their own vain imaginings.
> "The people had all fallen a prey to delu-
> sions and all pious deeds had been swallowed
> up by greed and evil passions.
> "The right course for every individual is
> that which one takes a fancy to ; a man of
> erudition is he who plays the braggart.
> 
> "Whoever launches spurious undertakings
> and is given over to hypocrisy, him does every
> one call a saint.
> 
> "He alone is clever who robs another of
> his wealth ; he who puts up false appearances
> is an ardent follower of estab1ished usage.
> 
> "He who is given to lying and is expert at
> joking is spoken of as a man of piety in the
> Kali-Age.
> "He who is a reprobate and has lazily
> abandoned the path of the Vedas is a person
> called the possessor of divine knowledge and
> the renouncer of the world in the Kali- Yug.
> "He whose nails are Jong and locks of
> matted hair spread undressed is renowned as
> a devoted ascetic at the time of Kali.
> ''They who are of maleficent conduct and
> causers of harms to others are held in great
> esteem and glorified.
> "The babblers and liars at heart, in deeds
> and words are eulogised as great orators in the
> Kali-Age.
> "Men are infatuated and dominated   by
> women, 0 Gosai. and, to the feminine tune,
> dance and trot like monkeys controlled by
> their trainers.
> 
> "People are given over to sensuality, greed
> and irascibility and are hostile to God, His
> devotees, Divine knowledge and Saints.
> "The disciple and the preceptor severally
> resemble a deaf and a blind, the one would not
> listen, while the other cannot see.
> '' A spiritual guide who robs his disciple of
> money but fails to rid him of his sorrow is
> cast into the nethermost hell-fire.
> "Parents calJ their children and teach them
> such religion as may fill their belly.
> Men and women talk much and high-
> sounding about the Divine Knowledge and yet
> in their greed for a worthless shell, they would
> kill the righteous and even their own spiritual
> guides.
> "The person who doth not see any differ-
> ence between him and God is considered as
> the possessor of knowledge, this is the charac-
> teristic condition and practise of the quarrel-
> some age, Kali-yug, foreseen by me.
> 
> "Doomed themselves, such people bring
> ruin even to those rare souls who tread the
> path of truth.
> 
> "Each and every person who poluteth the
> Vedas by dints of logic is condemned for each
> 
> one of his logics, to a bell for ages and cycles
> together.
> 
> ''All persons foJlow the courses of conduct
> at the dictates of their own vain imaginings ;
> the endless variety of wrong-doings find no
> words horrible enough to cover the atrocities.
> 
> "There are illegitimate admixtures every-
> where ; and the people, infringing the Sacred
> Laws, divide against themselves.
> 
> "They perpetrate sins and reap fear, dis-
> ease, grief, separation and desolation.
> 
> "Overcome by delusion and selfish motives,
> the people walk not in the path of devotion to
> God consistent with the accumulated discrimi-
> nations pointed out by the well-experienced
> persons whose hearts are detached from the
> world-a path which has the approval of the
> Vedas-and      fabricate countless ways and
> diverse creeds of their own.
> 
> "Overwhelming wealth is accumulated in
> the abodes of the detached sages, the prosti-
> tutes have snatched away the wealth as also
> the health and strength.
> "The detached bachelors, sages and ascetics
> are enormously wealthy, whereas the married
> and earning people are poor ! 0 God !
> 
> What an unspeakably astonishing      is this fact
> taking place in the Kali Yug !
> 
> "Sons obey their parents only till they do
> not bring mates in their homes.
> 
> "As soon as a man starts loving his wife's
> family, his own parents and family appear be-
> fore him as his enemies.
> "Kings and rulers have become slaves to
> their sins, having fined and tyrannised their
> subjects increasingly every day.
> 
> "Monied people, though churl and wretch-
> ed, are honoured as nobles.
> 
> "The sign of the re-born (Brahmin) is the
> so-called sacred thread he wears and of the
> ascetic his nakedness.
> "The multitude of poets is increased, and
> no generous one to reward them ; they are
> exaggerating to the extent unheard of in the
> world. so much so that not a single poet is
> counted as a strictly-metred  one in virtues
> and piety.
> "There are famines again      and again,   the
> poor people starve and die.
> "Listen, 0 Khagesh ! There are duplicity,
> perversity, deceits, obstinacies,  haughtiness,
> hatred, heterodoxy, heresy, hypocrisy, flattery,
> 
> concupiscence, infatuation, arrogance, beating,
> drunkenness, etc. etc., prevailing all through-
> out the world.
> 
> ''People have adopted, with unholy motiv-
> es, muttering of Holy Verses, penance, offer-
> ing of sacrifice, fasting, alms-giving ; Divine
> Bounties are not showered on earth ; seeds
> sown do not yield food.
> 
> ''The foolish wish for happiness and do
> not attach themselves to Religion. Small-
> mindedness,    stony heartedness,  and un-
> hum bleness (no-softness) prevail.
> 
> ''People are afflicted with diseases and
> maladies. No proper feeding. Pride and
> antagonism for nothing.
> 
> "None finds his own faults, nor is there
> any cool-headedness.     High and low caste
> people, all are begging.
> 
> "Jealousy, sword-like words, covetousness
> overflow equally in all those who go astray.
> 
> "Alms-giving is due to pride. there is no
> trace of mercy at all. Readings are full of
> materialism.
> 
> "Men and women everywhere are their
> own body-feeders, Slanderers of others are
> spread throughout the world."
> 
> IX
> Markandeya Rishi's Predictions
> Yudhishthir, five thousand years back,
> asked questions regarding Kali Yuga, and
> Markandeya Risbi replied as recorded in
> "Maha-Bharata" :-
> " At the end of Kali Yug there shall be
> great revolutions      in the society ... people
> will begin to doubt the life after death,
> lrreligion    will be rampant ... All        will
> malign each other in order to praise them-
> selves. Religion will be vanquished by irre-
> ligion, truth by falsehood, kings by slaves and
> men by women. Pious people will be short-
> lived and miserable, and the impious will be
> longlived and wealthy, Religion will be
> annihilated and sins will prevail all over.
> "Talkativeness   will be considered as the
> sign of culture.
> "People will not respect their oral
> promises and their oaths.         Greedy, cruel
> and bandit-like kings will grab the wealth,
> properties and women of their subjects.
> Extremes of cold, heat, mist, wind, rain,
> hunger, thirst, plagues, dissensions and worries
> will cause great human suffering ... Monied
> people will be considered of good clan and
> breed, virtuous and noble. They alone will
> be highly respected. Poverty will be consi-
> 
> dered as a sign of impiety. Earning members
> of the families will be so overtaxed that they
> would amass wealth by deceitful means. A
> little wealth will swell people's heads with
> pride and boasting ; ...
> "Brute-force will be considered as the only
> criterion for justice and religion.
> 
> "Brother will be dishonest to his brother.
> No one will befriend another.     None will do
> good even to his friend without the expectation
> of money.       Friendship  will be maintained
> only for pastime. Husband will recognise his
> wife to be his only friend ... Crows will
> increase and crow the whole time .. .In order
> to earn their livelihood        men will travel
> round the world. The whole earth will be
> trodden by all castes and classes of people ...
> Merchants     will be greedy and will deceive
> their   customers ... Travellers   not  finding
> food, water and refuge will sleep on public
> thoroughfares.
> 
> "Learned priests will hide the Truth.       No
> one would be able to understand the correct
> meaning of the Scriptures.     The vain-glorious
> priests, having forsaken righteousness,        mis-
> interpret the Holy Scriptures.       Talkativeness
> will be considered a sign of learning. The
> priest will, in the name of religion, entrap the
> people.
> "The   whole world        will be   full of   evil-
> 
> thiLkers ... Many evil-thinkers will become
> kings and rulers.        They will fleece the
> people through falsehood, dishonesty, in-
> justice and tyrannical Jaws. Ultimately they
> will fight with each other and they will at-
> tempt to destroy one another. At such a time
> as this there will be cataclysmic world wars,
> universal conflagrations and world calamities."
> Beloved brothers and sisters ! The signs
> of the present age show us well the fast appro-
> aching end of the age of gloom and strife.
> After every gloom there is a light. As an un-
> failing law of nature the day must foil ow the
> night.    The Divine Religion must be re-
> established and the whole human race collec-
> tively must find rest and upliftment, love and
> spiritual Unity.
> To-day we are facing global problems, and,
> hence we must have global solutions, a planet-
> wide plan for peace and progress, a smooth
> working order encompassing the whole earth-
> ball. No smaller unities or narrower outlook
> can in any way solve any of our complex pro-
> blems burning throughout the whole world.
> ''~      ~~cfiir'    "The whole world is
> but one f amity" is the Divine Dictum we all
> must conscientiously recognize, unhesitatingly
> profess and unflinchingly put into practice in
> all walks of our daily life right from now on.
> The Divine Call of the Law of Love today
> is universal and nothing less.
> 
> X
> 
> The March of Love Continues
> The undivided and unselfish Spiritual
> Love, marching from victory to victory age
> after age from isolated individuals to family-
> units, from family units to city-states, from
> city states to nation building, and from nation-
> building to international-units,    has, for the
> first time in the annals of human life on this
> planet, pressed forward in its full bloom to
> the whoJe world penetrating each and every
> corner and embracing all the departments of
> human activities in this century.
> To-day we have to form this whole world
> as one soJid unit. Might be, our next step,
> after a thousand years or so, would bring
> about an inter• global unity, a still wider range
> for the functioning of the Holy Law of Spiri-
> tual Love.
> The only right method of re-establishing
> and spreading genuine and mutual love in
> the hearts is the peaceful, loving, dynamic,
> spiritual Renaissance of mankind as a whole.
> Unless and until this is effected no permanent
> world-peace, no true happiness, no real spiri-
> tual, mental and material progress is going to
> come. This is simply because of the fact,
> that the roots of the evil tree of all our present-
> day problems have gone deep into the very
> hearts and minds and souls of the people all
> 
> throughout    the world with its manifold re-
> mifications in our religious, economic, social
> and political life.
> This evil     tree of problems    must be
> thoroughly uprooted       in order to establish a
> living universal      peace having a completely
> warless world, a smoothly running economic
> world order, an undivided planet-wide human
> society, and the spiritual and religious unity
> of mankind as a whole, all sprung up from
> the innermost      consciousness of the funda-
> mental Universal Unity of the Religion of
> God.
> This is the only radical cure of all our
> diseases and maladies         in this global age.
> Without    this, all other patching      up work,
> here and there, whether local, national or
> even international,  is doomed to fail.
> Sooner or later we aJI must of a necessity
> realize this supreme fact of the day we live
> in. The sooner the better.         Let us do our
> duty conscientiously     before it is too late, so
> that we may not have to repent after losing
> the Blessed opportunity     offered by the Divine
> will of God on earth in this age for us.
> 
> XI
> 
> God Heals The World
> This is the call of God in this age :
> "That which the Lord hath ordained          as
> 
> the Sovereign Remedy and Mightiest Instru-
> ment for the healing of all the world is the
> Union of all its people in one universal Cause,
> one common Faith. This can in no wise be
> achieved except through the power of a Skill-
> ed, an All-powerful and Inspired Physician.
> This, verily, is the Truth, and all else naught
> but error.
> ••o friends !    It behoveth you to refresh
> and revive your souls through the gracious
> favours which in this Divine, this soul-stirring
> spring time are being showered upon you.
> The Day Star of his Great Glory hath shed
> its radiance upon you, and the clouds of
> His Limitless      Grace    have overshadowed
> you.    How high the reward of him that
> hath not deprived himself of so Great a
> Bounty, nor failed to recognize The Beauty of
> his Best-Beloved in This, His New Artire
> Watch over yourselves, for the evil one is
> lying in wait ready to entrap you. Gird up
> yourse1ves against his wicked devices, and, led
> by the Light of the Name of the All Seeing
> God, make your escape from the darkness that
> surroundeth you. Let your vision be world-
> embracing, rather than confined to your own
> self. The evil one is he that hindereth the
> rise and obstructeth the spiritual progress of
> the chi]dren of men.
> "Through each and every one of these
> Verses which the Pen of the most High hath
> revealed, the doors of Love and Unity have
> 
> been unlocked    and flung open to the face of
> men ...
> 
> "Consort with the followers     of all reli-
> gions in a spirit of friendliness   and fellow-
> ship ...
> "It is not his to boast who loveth          his
> country, but it is his who loveth the world.
> "Mankind in its entirety must firmly ad-
> here to whatsoever hath been revealed and
> vouchsafed unto it. Then and only then
> will it attain unto true liberty. The whole
> earth is illuminated    with the resplendent
> Glory of God's Revelation.
> "Be ye as the fingers of one hand,           the
> members of one body.
> 
> "Consider the Mercy of God and His
> Gifts.   He enjoineth upon you that which
> sha11 profit you, though He Himself can weJl
> dispense with all creatures.     Your evil doings
> can never harm us, neither can your good
> works profit us. We summon you who11y for
> the sake of God. To this every man of under-
> standing and insight will testify ...
> 
> "He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful,
> cherisheth in His Heart the desire of behold-
> ing the entire human race as one soul and
> one body.
> 
> "The Great Being Saith : 0 ye children
> of men ! The fundamental purpose animating
> the Faith of God and his Religion is to
> safeguard the interests and promote the unity
> of the human race and to foster the spirit of
> love and fellowship amongst men. Suffer it
> not to become a source of dissension and
> discord, of hate and enmity.        This is The
> Straight   Path, the Fixed and Immovable
> Foundation.      Whatsoever is raised on this
> Foundation, the changes and chances of the
> world can never impair its strength, nor will
> the revolution of countless centuries under-
> mine its structure.     Our hope is that the
> world's religious leaders and the rulers
> thereof will unitedly arise for the reformation
> of this age and the rehabilitation of its for-
> tunes. Be pure, 0 people of God, be pure ;
> be righteous, be righteous"
> XII
> The Prerequisites of World Peace
> "The Great Being wishing to reveal the
> pre-requisites of the peace and tranquillity of
> the world and the advancement of its people,
> hath written : the time must come when the
> imperative necessity for the holding of a vast,
> and all embracing assemblage of men will be
> universally realized. The rulers and kings of
> the earth must needs attend it, and, participat-
> ing in its deliberations, must consider such
> ways and means as will lay the foundations of
> 
> the world's Great Peace amongst men. Such
> a peace demandeth that the great powers
> should resolve for the sake of the tranqui-
> llity of the peoples of the earth, to be fully re-
> conciled among themselves.       Should any king
> take up arms against another, all should uni-
> tedly arise and prevent him. If this be done,
> the nations of the world will no longer require
> any armaments,       except for the purpose of
> preserving the security of their realms and of
> maintaining internal order within their terri-
> tories. This will ensure the peace and compo-
> sure of every people, government and nation.
> We fain would hope that the kings and rulers
> of the earth, the mirrors of the gracious and
> Almighty Name of God, may attain unto this
> station,   and    shield   mankind     from    the
> onslaught of tyranny.
> "The day is approaching        when all the
> peoples of the world wil1 have adopted one
> universa1 language and one common script.
> When this is achieved, to whatsoever city a
> man may journey, it shall be as if he were
> entering his own home.          These things are
> obligatory and absolutely essential.    It is in-
> cumbent upon every man of insight and under-
> standing to strive to translate that which hath
> been written into reality and action.       That
> one indeed is a man who, today. dedicateth
> himself to the service of the entire human
> race. The Great Being saith : Blessed and
> happy is he that ariseth to promote the best
> 
> interests of the peoples and kindreds of the
> earth. J n another passage He hath proclaimed :
> It is not for him to pride himself who loveth
> his own country, but rather for him who
> loveth the whole world. The earth is but one
> country and mankind its citizens.
> "Lay not aside the fear of God, 0 kings
> of the earth, and beware that ye transgress
> not the bounds which the Almighty hath
> fixed.
> "Walk ye in the fear of God, and be ye of
> them that lead a godly life. Rest not on your
> power, your armies and treasures.   Put your
> whole trust and confidence in God, Who hath
> created you, and seek ye His Help in alJ your
> affairs.
> "Know ye that the poor are the trust of
> God in your midst. Watch that ye betray not
> His trust, that ye deal not unjustly with them
> and that ye walk not in the ways of the
> treacherous.
> "The well-being of mankind,        its peace
> and security, are unattainable       unless and
> until its unity is firmly established.       This
> unity can never be achieved so long as the
> counsels which the Pen of the Most High
> hath revealed are suffered to pass unheeded.
> "That the divers communions of the earth,
> and the manifold systems of religious belief,
> should never be allowed to foster the feelings
> 
> of animosity among men, is, in this Day, of
> the essence of the Faith of God and His
> Religion.     These principles and laws, these
> firmly-established and mighty systems, have
> proceeded from one Source, and are the rays
> of one Light.      That they differ one from
> another is to be attributed to the varying
> requirements of the ages in which they were
> promulgated.
> "0 inhabitants of the world ! Of one tree
> are ye all the fruits and of one bough the
> leaves.
> "0 people ! The Day, promised unto you
> in all the Scriptures, is now come.
> "Glory  be to Him Who, through the
> power of truth, hath sent down the Manifes-
> tation of His Own Self and entrusted Him
> with His Message unto all mankind.
> 
> XIII
> 
> The Promised One is Come
> "Behold, He is now come.         Wherefore
> are ye downcast and dejected ? Why re-
> main despondent when the Pure and Hidden
> One hath appeared unveiled an1ongst you ?
> He Who is both the Beginning and the End,
> He Who is both Stillness and Motion, is now
> manifest before your eyes. Behold how, in
> this Day, the Beginning is reflected in the end,
> 
> how out of stillness motion hath been engen-
> dered. This motion hath been generated by
> the potent energies which the Words of the
> Almighty have released throughout the entire
> creation.
> "Acknowledge the exalted character of the
> Name of the Lord, your God, Who hath
> come unto you in the greatness of His Glory.
> He, verily, is the All-Knowing, the All-Posse-
> ssing, the Supreme Protector.
> "Verily, I say, this is the Day in which
> mankind can behold the Face, and hear the
> Voice, of the Promised One. The Call of God
> hath been raised, and the Light of His count-
> enance hath been lifted up upbn men. It be-
> hoveth every man to blot out the trace of every
> idle word from the tablet of his heart, and to
> gaze, with an open and unbiased mind, on the
> signs of His Revelation, the Proofs of His
> Mission, and the tokens of His Glory.
> "Great indeed is this Day! The allusions made to
> it in all the sacred Scriptures as the Day of God
> attest its greatness. The soul of every Prophet of
> God, of every Divine Messenger, hath thirsted for
> this wondrous Day. All the divers kindreds of the
> earth have, likewise, yearned to attain it."
> -"Gleanings   from the Writings of
> Baha,u'llah, Vll"
> Baba 'u' llib (Jit. "The Glory of God'').
> Right from the time of the Holy Vedas
> the most ancient Divine Scriptures still ex:
> tant in the world, we have been taught to pray
> to God beseeching him thus :-
> SIT~'{  ,=~=u: I
> dt«fctgq (Vll. 11irftqt4 ~ I
> 
> ~ lfR:Sl~ct41CJ.      ~ (~), ~áX-\~-~ o,
> II 5f{•q~,
> atfT                                            ~
> ~,ttcr<f, \ ('~). c;-t ~-'t- to, arf<fifi~
> u~, '"\~, ~inft.
> "0 Thou the Protector of all ! the Giver
> of life to all r the Remover of difficulties ! the
> Ordainer of perfect working Order !
> "0,    cause us to receive that most great
> All-Subduing GLORY OF GOD Who, en-
> lightening our intelligence and deeds, inspireth
> progress."-Rig     Ved, III, 3-3-5-62-10; Sam
> Ved, IV, 3-8-13-4-10, Verse 1462; &c.
> This Holy Verse is called the Gayatri
> Mantra, and is considered to be the Ved-Mata,
> the Mother of the Vedas.
> This was among the first glimmerings
> of the sacred knowledge of God on earth,
> still preserved intact by His Supreme Mercy
> for our guidance to the "GLORY OF GOD''
> even upto this day.
> This GLORY OF GOD was actually
> visualised by Arjuna through the Divine Eye
> f464'1~ granted to him by Shri Krishna
> when He showed His extensive Universal
> Form ft.<1e.fcl~q(!Xf
> which was then hidden in
> Him.
> 
> ffif: « mqqr     fcftSc?.1
> ~uirr        ~Gflr:   1
> fu°(t{T~ iicf~fi.RmlS@
> SIUIQ.1                   II iftar- ~ ~ -~ ".
> ''Then, he, Dhananjaya    (Arjuna),   over-
> whelmed with astonishment,      his hair    up-
> standing in ecstasy, bowed down his head
> to the God, and with joined palms spake."
> -Gita, XI. 14.
> a"~f~~                 +fT«@qTITT:Sfc(Cj@fqtiufl l1
> Gf1R«1-Rf.
> if@T ~ ~-~ 0
> "With splendours having filled the whole
> World Thine Blazing BHAH,         0   Vishnu,
> (the Omnipresent God), doth glow intensely."
> -Gita, XI, 30
> Wt~~~ llcf~e-if~~tlcf T I
> Fefer
> ~ m: «E:~f)m m~~~ ~wrr1: 11
> 
> -,;ft rftaT, ' ' - ' ~ •
> ''Were thousand suns to rise and shine
> out together at a time in the sky, it would
> then perhaps be like that of the BRAH of
> that Most Great Spirit."-Gita XI, 12.
> lf'IT ~ijf   cf~~~:        ij"iis{fhllfll~T slcrffi
> I
> fflfTocflfiirf(wTcficiTI:T
> fqQi@
> cltf'I,aqfufqGcCefu
> if@r ',-~t;
> "As rivers with many floods of waters
> rush impetuously facing towards the ocean,
> 
> so also these, Thine heroes in the world of
> men, enter into Thine      intensely blazing
> mouths."- Gita, XI, 28.
> It is upto us now to show our spiritual
> heroism and be inseparably united once for
> all in the Universal Ocean of the BAHA'f
> WORLD FAITH revealed over a century ago
> in the midmost heart of the globe and study
> deeply and wholly the Baha'i New World
> Order which is 'divine in origin, all-embracing
> in scope, humanitarian        in its principles,
> broad in its outlook, scientific in its methods
> and dynamic in the influence it exerts on the
> hearts and minds of the people.'
> There is no problem in the world at pre-
> sent which the Divinely-Inspired and detailed
> Teachings of the Baha'f World Faith do not
> thoroughly solve indeed. It has revealed ( 1)
> a Divine Polity for the firm establishment of
> permanent world peace without war, (2) a
> smoothly working world economy, (3) a peace-
> ful and loving social order, and (4) a religious
> world unity without pride and prejudice ; all
> these under "One Universal Cause, one
> Common Faith."
> Doubtlessly, the greatest and the only
> disease of the world at present is disunity,
> and, therefore, the Sovereign    Remedy is
> nothing but world unity-unity    in thoughts,
> unity in words and unity in deeds of man-
> kind as a whole.
> 
> XIV
> 
> The Unerring Prescription
> "The All-Knowing physician hath His
> finger on the pulse of mankind. He per-
> ceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in his
> unerring wisdom, the remedy."
> -Baba 'u' llah
> 
> Some of the ingredients of the unfailing
> remedy for the betterment of the entire
> human race on the surf ace of the earth in
> this age are as follows :-
> 1. Universal unity of mankind         as a
> whole in thoughts, words and deeds.
> 2. Absolute independence to each indi-
> vidual in investigating the Truth for himself
> or herself.
> 3. Fundamental unity of all religions
> forming one undivided world-wide organic
> unity.
> 4. Religion must be potent enough to
> establish actual world unity in each and every
> department of human life.
> 5. Religion must be potent enough to
> enhance and utilize science for the betterment
> of mankind.     There must be an universal
> 
> control of science for the benefit of the whole
> world.
> 
> 6. Men and women, the two wings of the
> bird which is mankind, must always progress
> and soar heavenwards with the same impulse
> having equal opportunities    and equitable
> privileges and duties.
> 
> 7. All sorts of prejudices and hatreds
> must be forgotten and all barriers between
> man and man must be removed once for
> all.
> 
> 8. Universal peace must be established
> on the sure foundation of spiritual humanism
> and the political machinery must be univer--
> sally spiritualized as a whole.
> 
> 9. Spiritual solution of all the economic
> problems of the world. A world plan for (a)
> agricultural upliftment, (b) industrial justice,
> (c) laws pertaining to taxation, and (d) to in-
> heritance, were divinely revealed a century ago
> offering an infallible economic justice for the
> unification of mankind as a whole.
> 
> 10. Education must be compulsory, uni--
> versal and ever-progressive.
> 
> 11. One universal language and script,
> auxiliary to the mother tongue of every one,
> 
> must be compulsorily taught to each and
> every boy and girl on the surf ace of the earth
> in order to remove all misunderstandings and
> foster a genuine feeling of the universal
> human unity, spiritual, mental and material.
> 12. One Universal House of Justice,
> exercising a th reef old authority-legislative,
> executive and judicial-supreme     and binding
> in all respects, must be firmly established to
> maintain peace, Jove, unity, justice, happiness
> and advancement of humanity at large.
> 
> xv
> The Seed Returns in Fruit
> The    Baba'{ World     Faith    has been
> presented to-day by the Almighty Himself
> as the fulfilment and completion of all the
> ancient Faiths, no matter in whatever land
> or age they may have been revealed. Thus
> the Baha'f Faith bears to all past Holy
> Dispensations exactly the same relation as the
> fruit bears to the flowers, the branches, the
> trunk, the roots, the seed, nay, rather, the
> whole tree.     The Baha'i World Faith is
> the Fruit     containing in itself the most
> Ancient Living Seed. It is nothing but the
> Fruit for which the seed was sown and it is
> nothing    but the Fruit    that    the  Seed
> returns in a fresh and new Life. In this
> sense, the Baha'1 World is a New Creation of
> 
> God, the Most-Great   and   the Glorious
> Creator, Who is the Most Ancient Pre-
> Existence, and Who again becomes New
> Today through The Universal Manifestation
> of ''THE GLORY OF GOD."
> 
> BAHA't HISTORY
> On May 23, 1844, a radiant youth of Persia, known as
> the Bab proclaimed His mission of heralding the coming
> of a Mighty Educator who would quicken the souls,
> illumine the minds, unify the consciences and remould
> the customs of mankind. After six years of heroic
> steadfastness and ardent teaching, in July 9, 1850, the
> Bab became victim of fanatical persecution and was
> publiciy martyred at Tabriz, Iran.
> Upon this preparation, the foundation of the Cause
> was laid by Baha'u'llah (Glory of God), whose universal
> principles of personal and social regeneration were
> revealed under conditions of cruel oppression
> unequalled in the annals of religion.
> As the desperate forces of reaction gathered against
> Him, Baha'u'llah and His little band of faithful followers
> were imprisoned in Tihran, stripped of their property
> and rights, exiled to Baghdad, to Constantinople, to
> Adrianople, and at last, as the supreme infliction, in 1868
> confined for life in the desolate barracks of 'A kka,
> Turkish penal colony.
> Baha'u'llah passed away in 1892. From then until His
> own ascension in 1921, 'A bdu'l-Baha, the eldest son of
> Baha'u'llah served the Cause as its appointed leader and
> interpreter, and through His unique devotion, purity of
> life, tireless effort and unfailing wisdom, the message,
> slowly but surely, penetrated to all parts of the world.
> 'Abdu'l-Baha, through His Will and Testament,
> appointed His grandson, Shoghi Effendi, as the Guardian
> of the Baha'i Faith and the authorized interpreter of the
> word of God. He organised the Administrative order of
> Baha'u'llah- whose supreme body, the Universal House
> of Justice is today guiding the affairs of the Baha'i Faith.
> 
> DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN
> 
> "The Baha'i Faith has been attempting all these
> years to underline the unity of religions and not over-
> stress the differences. I hope it will continue to do
> that work."
> 
> "I have been for long an admirer of the Baha 'f
> Faith, as it does not lay emphasis on the outer dogmas
> but stresses the inward conviction."
> 
> SHRIG.V.MAVLANKAR
> 
> "It has given me a new approach and a new light
> about the occasional coming of Prophets. Indeed it
> seems inevitable that Prophets must come in this world
> as Humanity progresses if civilisation and culture have
> to continue their progress on the basis of human
> evolution. This conception of the coming of a Prophet
> from time to time to put humanity on a firmer basis
> by a new outlook on religion and new social conditions
> is identical with the concept of the Hindu philosophy
> as expounded in the Bhagwad Gita. In fact it would be
> wrong to call it even the Hindu philosophy. It
> is properly named as the "Philosophy of the Human
> Life," (Manava Dharam Shastra). The Lord had told
> Arjun that "whenever there is any decline in the
> observance of Dharma, I come again on earth to re-
> establish it." What else is this but an assurance that
> the Prophets appear from time to time as the con-
> ditions and needs of the Society change ?
> ..
> The conception of "One God and One Humanity"
> is the need of the day for progress of humanity and
> world peace. I am happy that the Bah6'i Faith is
> making world-wide endeavour in the desired direction
> and I am sure that it wHI achieve success in the end."
> 
> SADHU T. L. VASWANI
> 
> "The nations today, are passing through a new
> Dark Age, dark forces threaten civilization, even Asia
> is turning away from her precious heritage of the ages
> and trampling upon the ancient wisdom of her seers and
> sages.
> 
> India herself-the    world's hope-is    invaded by
> chaotic forces. But there are groups in India and
> Europe, there are groups in America, groups in different
> parts of the world that still dream of a new world
> order, a new world-wide brotherhood of East & West,
> a new fellowship of religions and races, a new a waken-
> ing of women all over the world, a new world peace.
> In this dream of Rishis and Prophets is the heart of
> Baha'i Faith, in this dream of the seers and poets is the
> promise and potency of Baha'u'llah's revelation to our
> age."
> 
> SHRI A. RAMASW AMI MUDALIAR
> 
> "You are the fruits of one tree and )eaves of one
> branch," says the Prophet. Again and again I have
> come across such sayings which have forcibly reminded
> me of the teachings of the Vedas. "Whenever virtue
> subsides and vice triumphs, then I am reborn to redeem
> mankind," says the Divine in the Gita. The Baha'i
> Faith remarkably speaks not of one Prophet for all time,
> but of a succession of Prophets as Divine Dispensation
> sees the need for them.
> ...
> In fact the Bah.1'1 Faith gives us the great and
> precious message of unity in religion. The Bahfil's do
> not form a sect by themselves. Rather through the
> teachings of their prophet, they try to illumine the
> eternal verities of every religion and to quicken the
> noble impulses of the true followers of every religion
> with the spirit of catholicity and fraternalism.  How
> much the world needs such a spirit today.
> 
> Perhaps the Baha'i Faith is destined to be. and
> may prove the greatest single force in achieving that
> Godly consecrated consummation."
> 
> MRS. SAROJINI       NAIDU
> "The founder of the Baha'i Faith is undoubtedly
> one of the Great Seers of the modern age. The gospel
> that he enunciated and the programme that he enjoined
> upon his followers are singularly like a prophecy of the
> ideal and dreams that inspire the heart of youth with the
> quest for a brave new world built upon equity and
> fellowship of peace. In the midst of all the tragic horror
> of hate and bloodshed that surround us today. His
> message to humanity does indeed fulfil the meaning of
> His name and carries the Glory of God into the
> darkness."
> 
> PROF. BENOY KUMAR SARKAR
> "For over a quarter of a century-since my American
> days-I have been under the conviction that the Baha'i
> Movement serves to expand the intellectual or moral
> personality of every individual that comes into contact
> with it. The movement has set in motion some of those
> currents of thought and work which lead to the silent
> but effective conversion of men and women to humaner
> and world embracing principle of daily conduct because
> of these creative forces in the social domain the Bah:1'1
> movement is to be appreciated as one of the profoundest
> emancipators of mankind from the tradition of rare
> ch'avinism and ethno-religious bigotry."
> 
> iv
> ..The Revelation proclaimt•d by Baha'u'llah. His
> follower.; believe, is Divine in Origin, all-embracing
> in scope, broad in ils outlook. ,cientific in its
> methods, humaniurian in its principle, and dynamic
> m the influence ii enrts on the hearts and minds of
> men."
> ..God's purpose is none other than to u,her in,
> in ways He alone an bring about, and the full
> significance of which He alone can rathom, lhe great,
> the Golden Age of a long~ivided, a long-affiicted
> humanity. Its present sute, indeed even its
> immediate future, is dark, distressingly dark. Its
> disunt future, however, is radiant. gloriously radiant
> - \O radiant that no eye an visualize it."
> ..It is towards this goal-the goal of a New World
> Order, Divine in origin. all embracing in scope,
> equiuble in principle, challenging in its feature\ -
> I hat a harassed humanity mu,t ,1rive."
> - Shoghi Effendi.
>
> — *The Whole World is but One Family (Used by permission of the curator)*