A World Post Covid
- By Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
After every destruction, a new creation comes up. After every Fall, Spring follows. Winter is over, then spring comes up. What happened after World War 2? You must have learned from history. Of course, many of us were not there at that time. But we have heard that many countries were razed to the ground. People had no food, they had no water, they had nothing. And now see, how all those countries have bloomed. We have risen from the ashes.
And similarly, what we are going through is nothing short of a world war. This is a war without weapons. It’s an unseen attack on the entire human population. Unprecedented! A global pandemic! And after this world war, I am sure the world will bounce back into a better place, which is more sane, more serene, more caring, a more compassionate world, a more prosperous world.
I’m very certain that the future of this country, the future of this planet, is going to be good. Though it might take a few months for us to get back to the normal way of life. Let us have patience in this time of crisis. Let us look inward, develop our potential, develop our humanism which we might have forgotten, reduce our consumerism, reduce the cut-throat competition we were into. Let us move together to build a more cooperative and considerate world, rather than a cunning and criminal society we were seeing in some parts of this planet. War mongering has stopped now. Nature is teaching us, ‘Wake up. You have done so much of self destruction, no more!’ This is a call from nature. Enough is enough! See, how much crime has been there in the world in the past several decades. Every continent was hit by domestic & societal violence – from South America, Central America, North America, Europe, India, the whole of Asia, Russia, China and Far East – everywhere. Crime against humanity was unbearable; domestic violence has been on rise. It is unfortunate how many wars the Middle East has seen in the past decades. Look at what happened in former Yugoslavia, former Czechoslovakia, Balkans, all these areas. How many internal conflicts have been there in the past century. Small and big wars have been happening and every war we have justified with our own reasons.
Now, Nature has said, ‘Let’s put a lid on all that.’ This is the time for the population of the world to wake up. Don’t play dirty games against humanity. Don’t pitch one human against the other in the name of race, region and religion. Wake up to the call of humanity. Wake up to the call of divinity.
