We look with awe at human beings, who are born with exceptional unique
talents or feats, and somehow feel that they know better than we know. That
may not be true. Only persons of realization or far-sight see things
better than us, although they may not have any visible talents. We do
not see, as the realized persons see, how we are programmed by nature to
run mad after dreams and the so-perceived enjoyments with lust, anger,
greed, envy, ego, etc., harm each other, and all become losers, when we
could make our lives secure and happy for all. After organizing various temporary things, I established a
permanent volunteer organization to take care of all aspects of the
society in a locality. In the beginning, I faced an ocean of
hopelessness: "It won't work; nobody will join". By persuasion for
three years, in spite of ridicule and skepticism, I started seeing
the slow awakening of the human spirit in deep sleep inside. So much
excitement/joy as well as benefit for the whole
locality (continuing for so many years since my teens) was beyond my
imagination. My reading of some great thinkers, helped me in recognizing my
initiative in a locality, as an atom or a knot of a gigantic network,
which will have
the needed huge power/influence (the greatest we can imagine of) to be
able to bring about a good change in our societies. Considering what an
eighteen year old boy (I)
could do in one locality, without any money and along with his studies,
there is absolutely no reason why the same thing cannot be done in all
localities of the world by inspiring and involving in succession one
leader at the national level, one leader at the state or provincial
level, one leader at the county or district level, etc. and finally
one leader at the community level. Even doing the same thing at all localities on earth as I did in
one locality will improve the societies and lives a lot. In that sense,
this one initiative is equivalent to thousands of initiatives. In
reality, the proposed network will be infinitely more inspiring,
powerful, and successful than that isolated local initiative, because
of its size or all-hands involvement across the whole world. Because there is a dark or hopeless side in our societies or the
nature of some humans, the good forces have to think about minimizing
that side. It is possible to even dream of improving the society
only because there is a spirit in each human which can be awakened if
asleep
and there are already millions of sacrificing and spirited persons. What great benefits that little
initiative I took in one locality has been producing! It is foolish not
to have a volunteer organization from the national level to the
neighborhood. People have to be persuaded to believe that
the little time spent in doing things which are almost
fun together can bring so much benefit beyond the fun of
gatherings. I do not know how to make that one
click over the mind-screen, by which one can see the
tremendous benefit as well as fun in two hours a week in
joint actions. One person per 20 million people or per
small country is sufficient to start the fire at all
corners. The apparently dead human spirit is really not
dead; it is sleeping deep down; it needs a lot of pushes
and time to wake up. That pushing, as long as it is
needed, and doing beneficial work when support is
available, will be the almost only work for the rest of
my life. No noble initiatives go in vain; even
if they may appear unsuccessful currently, they will
leave marks for another generation to carry on. I am sure
that there are some, who, given the opportunity, would
like to do something in life more than just what
everybody does and to have the satisfaction of leaving a
mark in history. Realizations of the apparently
impossible human dreams have led us to where we are
today. Kindly realize the
pain in this heart (in seeing meaningless suffering, inefficiency,
etc., which can be channelized for something great, with a little from
a few. The project is all-encompassing because scattered initiatives
cannot eliminate deep-rooted problems. I do not know how to
say it clearly without sounding ridiculous but the fact is that nature
created me such that if you help to utilize the excitement of this
juncture of two eras to motivate people to start the new millennium
with a spirit of solving our problems together with 1% of our time,
this ordinary person can further inspire and organize people through
a network to jointly achieve a great milestone for our lives and
societies. It will be the greatest joy of my life, if others take the top
leadership of the proposed project. However, even moral support or
publicity by others will lead to the success of the project because
the idea is to generate an enormous effect with a little support from
many. Even one with positive attitude among a big bunch will be good
enough. I believe that there are
many others who are, like me, willing to achieve something great
together. I appeal for your help in spreading the news, so that we
can write to each other and form a body. This proposal from an unknown person may appear as a fantasy to
die out slowly, as thousands of others did. Let me assure you that
this is different. As a kid, I organized kids' games and later
organized other things. I decided in my early teens after reading the
biography of Buddha, to make personal sacrifices to at least try to
do something highly beneficial for the society. All my days, good or
bad, were geared towards this one goal. It is true that I cannot
contact and inspire millions of people world-wide personally, unless
others and the media help to utilize the excitement of this juncture
of two millenniums or eras. If I cannot have at least one helping
hand in each country, we all shall continue to be losers ("penny-wise
pound-foolish"). I will definitely do what I can, by personal
contacts at the grassroots level but that cannot change our
societies. In some countries, national leaders and police are partners with
evil powers. Even in the best countries, we know the games of politics and
interest groups, fooling people, inefficient use of tax money, etc.
Homicide, many other crimes, cheating, inefficiency, suffering, etc.
are in abundance. The only hope I see is to take an intensified initiative by all
parties together, at this most opportune time, for a flood of
publicity, sensation, and enrollment of volunteers by making them
visible and honoring them in many ways, and for a determined crusade
against evil, inefficiency, ignorance, etc. We have developed a
tendency to avoid any requests because thousands of hands are asking
for money, time, and "what not". Through unification, we can make
people open their heart the maximum possible. Somehow we have a culture which lacks the bigger and longitudinal
picture of our lives and societies (matter of a click on realization).
Until we are in trouble or shock, we push aside what the realized persons
said, assuming that we can spend life in current way of dreams and
excitements. Let us
not forget the thousands of incredible human achievements through
inspiration. Those who want to do something but cannot find a way to
make a real difference, for them inviting like- minded persons is the
way (then can discover how mighty they are). Indulgence entertainments or
relaxation, does not lead to long-term happiness. Let us jump out of the
couch, do something together to make our lives secure and happy, dance,
sing, laugh and be merry.
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