Crime
& Violence
by
Prema Baba Swamiji
 Q:
Premaji, I'm
disheartened by the continued violence in the world
among nations and individuals. What can I do to assist
in the creation of peace on earth?
-- D. Gyaltsen, Van Nuys, California
A:
Mahatma
Gandhi provided the world with an example of
spirituality in action to create social reform. His
leadership won the political freedom of an entire
nation. Only a few decades ago, Martin Luther King
exemplified Gandhi's teaching by opposing racism
through non-violence.
When
I was in India with Mahavatar Babaji in 1997,
he cautioned me to alert the West to be aware
of anti-spiritual elements within the Chinese
government. He foretold that certain interests
would soon begin to bring about spiritual
persecution in China, similar to their attack
on Tibet over sixty years ago. At that time,
Buddhist temples were destroyed and nearly a
million priests and followers were murdered.
Sri
Babaji cautioned that such aggression
threatens to snuff out the flame of
spirituality in the world. Imagine the
worldwide outcry if the Pope were forced out
of the Vatican, the Vatican destroyed, and all
Catholic Priests imprisoned. Have we not
learned from the Holocaust and the decimation
of the Jewish people that we must speak out immediately
when any group is attacked for
spiritual or religious practice? The world
spiritual community must not ignore such
intolerable violations of basic spiritual
rights, specifically the right to meditate.
Nearly
two years after Sri Babaji made this prophecy,
the Chinese government arrested and jailed
10,000 practitioners of the Falun Gong, a
Taoist practice of meditation. These guiltless
spiritual people remain imprisoned for the
"crime" of meditation, and their
torture in prison includes death through
starvation. This second overt display by the
Chinese government of its agenda to violate
the spiritual rights of humanity must be seen
as a threat to all spiritual people
everywhere. The Chinese government's
slaughter of millions of Tibetan Buddhists,
the refusal to allow the Dalai Lama to return
to his homeland, and now the recent
persecution of the Falun Gong meditators gives
a clear picture of where the Chinese
government stands on spiritual freedom.
China was allowed favored nation status
in the United Nations. Why?
When
a country is starving 10,000 meditators for
the "crime" of meditation, how can
the leaders of the world keep silent? If they
will do nothing, then it is up to you and me
to take action. If we overlook these
brutalities, we are encouraging the trampling
of our own spiritual freedom.
What
can you do as a spiritual being? Let us unite
in prema -- the highest
spiritual love. It doesn't matter if you are
Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, or
Islamic, prema is a universal spiritual
virtue that must be present on any spiritual
path.
United
in love we can take a stand and make a
difference. Cast your vote against spiritual
intolerance by taking one day a week to fast,
pray, and meditate. When others ask you why,
share with them that this is your way of
protesting the persecution of meditators in
China. Make it known through your spiritual
activism that you protest the Chinese
government's human rights abuses and the
starvation of 10,000 meditators. This is love
in action -- prema.
With prema,
from my heart to yours -- Namasté!
 This
article was
written by the author of:
The Initiation
by Prema Baba Swamiji
(as Dr. Donald Schnell)
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 About The
Author
Prema
Baba Swamiji (as Dr. Donald Schnell) is the author of The
Initiation,
a spiritual adventure story about his initiation
into the Ancient Order of Swamys by the eternal Babaji in India. He is
a
widely respected expert in the fields
of metaphysics, occult phenomenon, Eastern
spirituality, medical hypnosis, nutrition, exercise, and yoga. To learn
more about Prema Baba Swamiji and his wife, Swami Leelananda,
the spiritual workshops they conduct, and to order The
Initiation, visit www.TheInitiation.com.
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