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A state of peace is difficult for most societies to achieve, not because its citizens are bad or evil but because they are all inherently good. This may seem to be an irrational and exaggerated statement but really every man is good. Think of it this way, you are all to some degree aware of the feelings which arise in your own hearts when an injustice has been perpetrated against yourselves or against others for whom you care. The human race shares an innate sense of fairness and moral value, this morality comes from a deeper part of the your nature, deeper than your intellect or your ego. These moral feelings come from the part of your being which created your intellect and your ego, they come from a universal shared spiritual source.

The blueprint for your mind and body was created from spirit. This same spirit exists as a permanent psychological backdrop to your all thoughts and actions. It's greater wisdom continues to inspires you but its values do not rule over your ego or your intellect. Your ideas and beliefs are always your own, you are not robots which are preprogrammed. Your spirit permits you to have your own ideas and beliefs, even at the cost of contradicting your inner spiritual guidance. The remarkable thing is that despite your intellectual freedom, spiritual values are none the less routinely evidenced in the laws of your society as well as in your own personal lives. Even the worst human atrocities which were ever committed, were committed in the name of some twisted spiritual value.

So man operates with good intentions even when acting very badly. How then, you may ask, if man is good, how does that goodness get so distorted and produce all the apparent evil that exists in the world. How does man's good intentions get turned into conflict and cruelty ?

To shed a little light on this question let us isolate an the important psychological factor in all of this. This factor is man's free will, free will is primarily what differentiates man's form of consciousness from all the other forms of consciousness which exist here on earth. It is the evolution of free will that ironically is the necessary psychological precondition for the development of moral cognition and responsibility. If all your values were programed, or made instinctual, that is, if they were mandated biologically, we would never have been able as a species to become self aware. We would not have evolved to become human beings at all.

Free will is the necessary precondition for all moral and spiritual comprehension, and for the evolution of moral responsibility. Free will is therefore necessary to becoming human. Freedom of choice is at the heart of all human growth and development. Free will is an absolute evolutionary necessity. Yet free will is not all that you have been given, man's free will is subtly tethered to its spiritual home base. So your intellect or ego is not left out there, all alone, to figure it all out by itself. Through your intuition, your imagination, and your feelings, your higher spirit telegraphs you and secretly informs you of right action. Despite the communication which exists between your higher spiritual realms and your intellect, many wrong choices are frequently made. Even when there might be a direct attempt by your intellect to make contact your inner spiritual ideals and wisdom, great errors of judgment will still be frequently made.

It is your free will which allows you, through the theater of life, to experience all the ramifications of your individual and collective ideas, ideals and beliefs. Your free will by its own nature permits you to make moral mistakes and to experiment with a myriad of right and wrong actions. By doing so, it allows you to create rich cultural and artistic beauty. It is your mistakes and misjudgments, together with your great brilliance and genius, which produces the deepest most relevant means for your collective self understanding and self development.

All of you are haunted by a moral yearning to one degree or another, whether you admit to it or not. A dramatic example of this yearning may be observed in the arena of war or combat, where each side's anger and courage is roused and reinforced by the degree to which his own sense of justice is felt to be violated. Both sides in any conflict believe that God or the equivalent of God (Goodness) is on their side. This is because all men naturally seek to conform to an inner sense of love and right action which is felt to be a tangible force coming from within. All human beings without exception, no matter how depraved or apparently immoral, find it difficult to murder or to be murdered without some moral justification, no matter how far from reason those justifications may stray.

Thoughts and feelings are real, they are a type of energy which possesses electromagnetic force, this force can be described as event formation or reality building energy. This force is categorized in Yoga under the law of Karma. No man can be exempt from the laws of karma because it is under the laws of Karma that man receives the most tangible evidence of his own spiritual development. This law is therefore considered to be the very first law of life, it is only by experiencing the materialized consequences of your thoughts and feelings that you can eventually learn moral responsibility, and so evolve your inherent spiritual qualities. If you could learn moral responsibility without the aid of physical feed back then human life on earth would not be necessary. You would not need to experience physical life with all its dangers, sorrows and joys. You would be just as happy grazing on the grass or sleeping in the shade for the rest of eternity.

Earth is then a vital testing ground for your spiritual development, here is where your moral spirit always seeks new expressions and new development. The consequences of hatred and of love are both dramatically portrayed for you in your own private lives as well as in the historical events of your times. If you choose to hate, then that hatred always turns back against you, one way or another. Under the laws of Karma, you are always drawn to that which you hate, Karma is a metaphor, a description of the physics of when spirit creates matter. When you hate, that hate vibrates out through all the events and relationships which make up your every day reality. Then if you continue to hate, that hate will continue to effect all of your future realities as well.

Despite all the hate and violence in the world, I feel that there is extraordinary hope for humanity because every human being lives under the same laws of Karma and Karma is a wise task master. Its consistent wisdom will ultimately serve to create a world of joy and peace because love is the necessary precondition for all of life to exist. Love is what has created everything and hate is merely a reaction to its absence. With enough time, every man will learn to choose right actions, he will learn to embrace his natural feelings of love, forgiveness and mercy because cultivating these feelings is the simplest way to power, security, happiness and creative fulfillment.

There is no religion, no idea, no society, that is more powerful than the force of LOVE. You need to recognize this spiritual imperative within yourself and find the roots of compassion and forgiveness and love which lay concealed there. From this love and compassion you will create true peace, not only for yourself, but for the whole world.

Written by Ava