#3.2 A Dialogue with Oneself

"There were four people – Somebody, Anybody, Everybody and Nobody. A task was to be done by Everybody. But he thought Somebody would do it. Somebody thought Anybody could surely do it. In this game, Nobody did it."

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Once we have realized that we ourselves are solely responsible to our deeds and the makings of this

world, we can safely try to go deep into the cores of our existence. In this journey, there is no ‘outer’

and ‘inner’ world. It’s like a tide going out and coming in. So it's our responsibility, not to change the

society but to see in our journey which we are going to take together, whether in that very movement of

taking the journey there is a possibility of changing ourselves fundamentally, a

psychological revolution, not a physical revolution. So let us go together.

Let us illustrate this with an instance – The scientific innovations of mankind have enabled it practically

to feed each and every one on this planet. Still we lose millions of starvation. What prevents us from

helping them is our division, division on nationalistic, patriotic lines. A Frenchman refuses his

responsibility for an Englishman and so on.

So basically it is our fragmentation which is preventing us from exercising our full potential. This

division induces conflict and again conflict distracts us from our real agenda. Since time immemorial, humans are fighting against their own kith and kin, the Humanity itself over

trivial and transient matters. Moreover we have celebrated these killings and exploitations as bravery.

In a way we are sustaining and nourishing our own destruction. If one is aware what's going on, we are

very primitive people. Though we have lived on this earth for forty-five thousand years, we are very

barbarous people, cruel people. We have been more or less what we have been from the beginning of

time - hating, jealous, frightened, and in our fear create all kinds of horrors. We have always tried to

escape them but never sort out them. So essentially we are trying to find out if we could radically

change ourselves. Not compulsively, or for a promise but wholeheartedly and seeing things as they are.

Shall man ever be free from his conditioning, not intellectually but with the necessary seriousness. We

all are utterly confused and frightened beings, either we admit it or not. And this poor state of being is a

state of crisis – A Crisis in Human Consciousness.

     

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