Sunday, April 30, 2017

RACE OF THE RACES

Everybody believes that there is something special about their country, race, color or religion. If you observe these attitudes from people, you will be aware of stupidity that prevails amongst human beings. But it will be difficult for you to see your own idiotic, irrational prejudices. First, watch others, and then it will become easier for you to see that the same is the case with you, it is all about a game and the name of the game is ego. Do you realize that it was by an accident that you came out of your race because you did not choose it, did you? But you are helpless to believe whatever your family told you because you have been conditioned that your race is better than others. The family is programming every child according to its prejudices. If you are born in any race you will be continuously programmed for that race, and you will not ever suspect that your conditioning may be wrong, your conditioning will be preventing you from seeing yourself in others. Eradication of racism is not about preaching  to stop it,  not about carrying placard, not about sanctioning, not about be tolerant of others, because the very idea of being tolerant carries intolerance in it,  not about stop using the word “race” and replace it with another word like “ethnic groups”, you can see for yourself that all these things have not solved the problem of tribalism or discrimination  instead it suppresses it and however you suppress it, it will erupt like volcano one day, but it is about understanding  how you can see yourself in others, otherwise there will be no end to racism.

Everybody is against racism but almost everybody is a racist. Don’t you think about it that if you declare yourself the master race, or superior to everyone else, you are creating enemies all around? Who told you that you are the master race or on what ground are you claiming this? That is why we have to go to the root of this problem. Tracing of the root of racism leads us to the family, as the family is the basic unit of the society, in that case, families have to stop programming their children on better race, if not, this racism will not disappear. Every family commits the crime of conditioning their children that their race is the greatest race in the world. After you have been conditioned, you identify yourself with your race but this is just part of your ego, not part of you because you are not your race, your country or your religion. The self is a total freedom. It exists in its own right. It doesn’t belong to anything else; it doesn’t depend on anything else. You cannot belong to any nation, to any race or any religion. It is only fools that lives around the idea of "my" and "mine": my nation, my race, my family, my religion and he has come alone and he will go alone; Alone, empty-handed we come; alone, empty-handed we go. The wise knows it; hence the wise claims nothing as "mine."  You belong to existence itself. Why belong to small trivial crowds when you can belong to the whole universe? And with belonging to the whole universe, it gives you freedom because the whole is unlimited and there are no limitations.

Everybody needs to understand that intrinsically no two human beings are different; human beings are just human beings, the difference is only on the physical appearance and this differences was accidental because we have lived in different climates, that is how different races have evolved and we have encountered different situations, facing different challenges, we have passed through different histories; different minds, and this resulted in different qualities, so naturally we have learned to behave in different ways. Whether your skin is black or white or yellow or red, it does not matter. It is only a question of a few color pigments. Nobody is higher and nobody is lower; we should drop the idea of hierarchy or discrimination, each race is unique, in fact it is not a question of different races – no two individuals are alike, so comparison is out of it based on that, every human should be treated with equal right, we are just like a unit of body working together as a whole, because every race in the world has contributed something. And it is not bad that we have different races, variety is beautiful, and it enriches the world. It will be an ugly world where only one race is living. It will lose all charm, it will lose all beauty. And it is a well-known fact that if a man and woman who belong to different races get married, their child will be healthier, will live longer, will be more resistant to diseases, and will be more intelligent. So it will be good if people from one race marry into another race, and remember if crossbreeding becomes normal, all world violence or wars will become impossible. This earth is our home. Unless we put ourselves right, we cannot put humanity right, we cannot put this earth in such a way as to live beautifully. There is no need of nations; there is no need of races. It is one earth, it is one world, but one has to search within oneself first, in order to be able to see yourself in others. Embrace all the races, stop the race of the races because it is a disgrace to the human race, this whole world is ours, one humanity, it is our beautiful earth. It belongs to no race, to no nation; it belongs to us all until we realize this that is when we can be able to enjoy the grace of existence. Note many rivers in the world are named after colors. In China we have the Yellow River; somewhere in South Africa they have the Red River; in the U.S., I have heard, they have the White River, the Green River, the Purple River. In Spain they have a river, the Rio Tinto -- it has three names. Somewhere it is known as the Green River, somewhere as the Red River, somewhere as the White River. The river itself has no color; water is colorless, but the river takes the color of the terrain it passes through, the color of the shrubbery on the banks. If it passes a desert, of course it has a different color; if it passes through a forest, the forest is reflected -- the shrubbery, the greenery -- it has a different color. If it passes through a terrain where the mud is yellow, it becomes yellow. But no river has any color. And every river, whether it is called white, or green, or yellow, reaches naturally to its end, to its destiny, falls into the ocean, and becomes oceanic. Your differences are because of your terrain. Your colors are different because of your terrain. But your innermost quality of being is colorless; it is the same. Somebody is black, a negro; somebody is white, an Englishman; somebody is just in the middle, an Indian; somebody is yellow, a Chinese -- so many colors. But remember, these are the colors of the terrain of the body you pass through. They are not your colors; you are colorless. So let’s all cancel the races of races to become race less so to say.