Shri Mataji's Vision of World Peace - Part 6

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Dear All,

 

Shri Mataji does not give general advice for 'World Peace'. She pays attention

to every detail. It is clear that if the 'details' are looked after, that the

'whole picture' will change for humanity. So do human beings understand just how

important all the details are, to achieve a New Age where there is 'World Peace'

instead of 'World War'?....

 

We concluded Part 5 with:

 

" The theory that there should be absolute freedom for children, is also very

dangerous. Their real freedom can be given later, when they understand the

'meaning' of freedom - which can be benevolent if they are wise and mature.

Parents should take pride in their age, and not be 'crazy' like the younger

generation in their 'stupidity'. Once I had gone to Santa Monica, America,

accompanied by an Indian lady. One morning she knocked at my door and said: " Get

up soon, get up soon! " I couldn't understand it. I just came and opened the

door, and asked: " What's the matter? " She said: " There's an earthquake coming! "

I said: " What makes you think that? " She said: " All the people are running on

the road! " I said: " Where? " I came out and saw all the people running, no doubt,

because they were going for a jog. And I told her: " This is an exercise they

take early in the morning, called " jogging " . " She said: " No, no, but there are

many old women and men running also! So how can that be? How can they behave in

the same manner as the younger people are doing? " I told her: " You don't know,

this is America. Here older people have not yet matured enough, to understand

that it is wrong for them to run in the way the young people are running. In

America, the old people still want to do everything which the young people are

doing. They have no wisdom - so the young people do not respect them. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Meta Modern Era

'World Peace'

Chapter 8

29/09/95

 

Here now, is Part 6.

 

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Shri Mataji's Vision of World Peace - Part 6

 

Let us now move from the family to the society. The society in the West is

surprisingly not at all individualistic. Whatever the fashion is, they take to

it. Sometimes it is impossible to understand why they are trying to copy these

fashions every day, throwing away all their old clothes every year and buying

new ones - allowing the fashion designers to exploit them. The old people are

not living with the decency and dignity their age demands. If we teach children

how to respect themselves and keep their self-esteem intact, they will not take

to these ugly ways of the West, but will take to decent, respectful living and

will grow up as responsible citizens and good members of society.

 

When my grandson was young he told me: " You must get me shoes like those worn by

Grandpa and I would like to have clothes like Grandpa's. I said: " They are very

old " . He said: " It doesn't matter. I don't want to wear clothes like a person

who is 'mod'! " I was amazed that he wouldn't wear anything non-traditional.

Gradually, as time passed, he came in contact with other children, you see - and

he started accepting the Western clothes which earlier he had considered to be

very ugly, feeling strongly that there was no dignity about them. Nowadays even

children wear 'mod clothes' which do not give a personality any dignity.

 

The society of modern ideas is nothing but an 'accepted' shameless collective

expression of their weaknesses. There is an annual carnival in Rio. People

strive to save money to attend that stupid vulgar exposition. We have things

like Halloween celebrated everywhere. I wanted to purchase a house in New York.

When we went to the house, we noticed it had the horrible face of a witch on a

broomstick, symbolising Halloween on the front door - because it must have been

the month of Halloween. Seeing that, my granddaughter said: " Better not buy this

house. It displays a witch in the front. What's the use of going inside the

house? " It is very true, that these days there is no distinction between the

witches, the good ladies, prostitutes and the actresses. There is such a mix-up

in these modern societies, that you just don't know whom to choose.

 

For example, I have seen that in social parties the ladies come funnily dressed

in the sense that they are quite nude. And they try to flirt with the men,

smoking with such pride and looking at people with such lusty eyes. It is the

same with the men. Both men and women come to the parties mainly to flirt with

each other. It is amazing how people indulge in these activities in such a

shameless way.

 

Fairly old men have no shame in marrying young girls, one after another. I have

not yet seen any old man flirting with a very young girl in an open garden. This

means that there is some shame about it. But marrying a girl who is thirty years

younger, is not considered to be objectionable in modern societies. Even the

Prime Ministers of some countries do that. Some time ago, we noticed that a

particular person coming to the conferences in London brought a new wife every

time he came. Once he brought a girl of about eighteen years of age. My husband

whispered in my ears: " it is his new wife; don't address her as his

granddaughter. " I was shocked. He was an old man of about sixty-five years and

he had a little eighteen year old girl as his bride. I was told that these young

brides call their old husbands 'lolly father' (sugar daddy?) or something like

that. Of course they have their own boyfriends and just use the money of these

old Johnnies as they live in complete sin, marrying a good for nothing old man

and living with young people. Some men bring models or prostitutes as spouses.

It is ridiculous the way people have accepted this kind of thing. Even

officially, such spouses are invited and their travel expenses and hotel charges

paid for. Why not change this word " spouse " and make it " legal wife " ?

 

One of the curses of these modern times, is that people go on accepting all that

is destructive, all that is vulgar, all that is shameless - one by one. There is

no resistance of any kind, and if somebody resists, then they think that person

is absolutely not " in " . If the older people like to lead an immoral life, how

can we grudge the younger generation.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Meta Modern Era

'World Peace'

Chapter 8

29/09/95

 

[Written in the English way with the meaning of what Shri Mataji gave being

retained]