by Sardar Singh

The news shows us so many terrible things happening in our world. There is enormous confusion, war, terrorism and endless division caused by nations and organized religions driven by their own agendas. There are divisions within nations due to power struggles between political parties. There are divisions within the same religious groups due to differences in beliefs, ideas, and values.

We may get upset by what is happening in the world but the vast majority of people delegate responsibility to leaders or to care of ‘higher powers’. There are those who are very much disturbed by the events but do not find an adequate response to the sordid human situation.

With history constantly repeating, we have seen that human beings have not changed during the past thousands of years in spite of so much misery and sorrow arising out of conflicts between religions and nations.

The way things are at present it appears almost impossible that a drastic revolution can take place.

But resignation prevents us from looking at the problem with a fresh and open mind.

We need to look directly at the thought process that creates the problems in the first place. We need to ask why human beings constantly divide themselves into so many different cultural, religious and national identities and what are the implications of this whole divisive process?