Help Save the Planet -- Global Unity & Peace.

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Welcome to Dharma University’s

Global Administration College

 

 

 

Global Dharma Keepers Training Course!

 

 

 

This pre-recorded training session covers lesson one, the definition of a

ksatriya.

 

 

 

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What I want to impart to you today is the unique global role the Global Dharma

Keepers Program seeks to play as a government solutions provider. Within the

role of the Global Dharma Keepers program, we are going to come to understand

the essential role and definition of a ksatriya, which is a fancy sanksrit name

for a global administrator.

 

 

 

Let’s first take a look at government. When we look at the role the government

plays in human society, from the perspective of dharma, we find that government

does indeed have an important role to play in helping people achieve spiritual

development, especially in the realm of state-funded education.

 

 

 

If we want to define a human being as something unique from all other species of

life, then he have to see the human as essentially a spiritual-seeker, because

that is the one human pursuit no other species of life engages in.

 

 

 

It becomes clear that when governments remain unaware, neglectful or act in

opposition to the spiritual development of their people, is when human society

becomes transformed into an essentially animalistic one, whatever else it may

accomplish materially.

 

 

 

Can we conclude therefore that modern society is making rapid spiritual

development, or is it rather going the way of the cats and dogs? I think the

answer to that question is self-evident.

 

 

 

This is the crux of the global dilemma we face, in that governments, by and

large, are ignorant, neglectful, and/or opposed to the genuine spiritual

development of the people.

 

 

 

So what is Global Dharma Keepers going to do about it?

 

 

 

Global Dharma Keepers is a direct solution to this problem that seeks to

directly serve the people’s interests for spiritual development in areas where

government cooperation is not available.

 

 

 

In addition to the Global Dharma Keepers program, Dharma Institute also works

indirectly for spiritual development through cooperative government programs

like its Government Ministry for Self-Realization, to educate, reform and expose

governments who are not acting optimally in the spiritual best interests of

their people.

 

 

 

To make it more clear, Dharma Institute is ready to empower government

ministries with the knowledge and skills they require to fulfill their fiduciary

responsibility to their people for achieving spiritual development, or if

governments are not willing to take up their duty, then Dharma Institute will

fill this long-standing spiritual gap through it Global Dharma Keepers program

as a free service to the planet for the overall happiness of all living

entities.

 

 

 

What we are talking about here is that the Global Dharma Keepers Program will

essentially function, for all practical purposes, as an independent

self-supporting (non) government ministry focused solely on spiritual

development of the people, and when we talk about government, this naturally

brings us to the role of the ksatriya, or global administrator, and our topic

for today.

 

 

 

Traditionally,the ksatriya is popularly portrayed as a powerful warrior with his

glistening sword, shield and horse drawn chariot, or in a more modern way as a

soldier with his rifle, a flack-jacket and maybe a tank. The lesser-known fact

is that, originally ksatriyas were first and foremost men who had dedicated

their lives to spiritual development; first to his own, and to others by

facilitating, developing and protecting the universal principles of dharma. And

if we distill this essence of the ksatriya and extract it, I think this is what

will find is what the Global Dharma Keepers program and what Dharma Institute is

really all about.

 

 

 

Of course, for some it may seem we are infringing upon the secularist’s holy

ground by challenging the separation between church and state, but I want you to

know in no uncertain terms, that Dharma Institute and the Global Dharma Keepers

Program perfectly maintains and supports these secular ideals. At the same time,

we also firmly believe that separation between church and state does not

preclude cooperation between church and state for the overall happiness of all

the people.

 

 

 

I think it is evident to most that the solutions to the global problems we face

today cannot exclude any tradition of knowledge or discipline from the planning

table. Perhaps the best example of this is the United Nations who recently came

to accept that a failure to acknowledge and incorporate universal spiritual

values into the UN policy-making process (and the individual policies

themselves) has globally rendered UN policy ineffective for all practical

purposes. The UN, to their credit, is currently in the process of rectifying

this omission and Dharma Institute has been ivited to play a role in this as

well. [Dharma Institute's director recently presented a paper at the United

Nation's first national level interfaith project in India, titled "Two Paths to

Global Unity" to be published by UNESCO].

 

 

 

As Dharma Institute is approaching governments for cooperation, it needs to be

noted that Global Dharma Keepers and Dharma Institute focuses exclusively on the

spiritual empowerment of global administrators for the sake of global spiritual

development, and absolutely takes no direct interest in any other facet of

government, like treasury, defense, economic development, or social welfare,

etc.. The ideological, social, economic and political functions of government

certainly can have a positive or negative impact on spiritual development, and

certainly Dharma Institute supports government policies that further overall

spiritual growth.

 

 

 

For anyone desiring to play a leading role in the area of spiritual development

of a nation, there is certainly an entrance fee, or price one must pay. The

price for spiritual leadership is nothing less than showing impartiality towards

all religions. That is going to be as true of governments as it is of

non-government organizations like the Global Dharma Keepers Program.

 

 

 

Additionally I want to note that since spiritual development is based on the

free will of the individual, a state-sponsored religion, or a state of theocracy

and forced religious adherence and conversion, would not be conducive to overall

spiritual growth on an individual or collective basis.

 

 

 

What we are approaching here is the concept of the Common Religious Teachings of

all the world’s religions. Dharma Institute is working in cooperation of the

Foundation for Religious Harmony and Universal Peace for the purpose of

identifying these common teachings, which will then be published and distributed

to the people through the Global Dharma Keepers Program, and other government,

religious and non-government organizations.

 

 

 

Dharma Institute’s will also apply these common religious teachings in its

Global Ideological Disarmament Campaign, which aims to permanently eradicate the

root causes of terrorism and terror. These common spiritual concepts will be

used to develop “unity-bombs” in the form of messages (ie. commercials,

articles, ads, community service announcements, etc) to be carried globally

across all known channels of communications in all known languages of the world.

 

 

 

This is of course equal to Global Dharma Keepers in the sense of it being a very

ambitious global project, and certainly one that is going to require state

sponsorship in order for it to be successful.

 

 

 

We are very confident that by repeatedly exposing the masses of people to these

universal unifying messages people will automatically become disarmed from the

deadly ideas that divide them, and which are not only the root cause of the

hatred that drives terrorism and the terrorists, but also the very root cause of

terror itself, on the side of the terrorized. After all, terrorism is a form of

communication that requires a sender and receiver.

 

 

 

Dharma Institute is totally dedicated to working the solution to terrorism from

both sides of the equation by 1) eliminating the potential pool of terrorists

(or the senders) by uniting with them and getting them to start seeing everyone

as part of their family, and 2) eliminating the potential pool of terror victims

(or the receivers) by making them fearless and thus immune from the deadly

messages of terrorist’s.

 

 

 

And even if we are unable to communicate to the terrorists themselves by

approaching the potential terror victims and eliminating the causes of terror we

also but an end to terrorism. We may not be able to put an end to death, but we

can put an end to terror. We can get people to become fearless and not affected

in any way by these senseless acts of violence.

 

 

 

If ever there was a time and a need for a program like Global Dharma Keepers, it

is now for the purpose of counteracting global terrorism, not by destruction of

terrorists, but through constructing unifying idea-bridges with them, and

through mutual global disarmament of divisive ideologies like nationalism and

especially considering one’s religion to be one’s identity, rather than a

process for realizing that we are all one family under God. Relgion is not an

identity but a process.

 

 

 

This is vasudevam kutumbakam, which expresses our highest nature, our highest

duty, and thus our most important dharma—to replace lust and greed-based

economic development with God and spiritual development as the center of our

lives, our family, our state, our nation and our planet. It is then and only

then that the Global Dharma Keepers can slow down, catch our breath, and feel

with some certainty that we may have saved the planet.

 

 

 

We have a historic closing window of opportunity through global communications

to create and propagate a universal culture of spiritual development for the

planet. I am calling on you, the future global dharma keepers to take up this

challenge and unite the people of the world with themselves through our common

relationship with God our creator.

 

 

 

The world certainly does not need me, but it needs you to get involved and

become a part of the solution. I want to thank you for joining me here today [at

Dharma University's Global Administration College] and I thank you in advance

for saving this planet from the spiritual ignorance and apathy it is currently

unnecessarily being consumed by. The knowledge is there, the solution is there

and we need you to implement it.

 

 

 

Thank you again . Begging to remain your servant.

 

 

 

This is Prabhu Dasa

 

 

 

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