Shri Mataji's Vision of World Peace - Part 8

July 27, 2008

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'?....

Part 7 concluded with:

" Western people are so impressionable that they tend to accept whatever the

newspapers publish as the truth. This sensational trend is going from bad to

worse. For example, they are so scandalous that they wrote gleefully about the

price at which the undergarments of Mrs Kennedy were to be sold. So filthy and

so dirty is the mind, which writes about such things in newspapers.

Surprisingly, this trend has also now impressed the people at the helm of

religions. For example, in England some eminent leaders of the Protestant Church

are now adapting an attitude of " understanding " and " tolerance " in respect of

men and women cohabiting without marriage. This was regarded as a sin - but no

longer. "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Meta Modern Era

'World Peace'

Chapter 8

29/09/95

Here now, is Part 7.

violet

Shri Mataji's Vision of World Peace - Part 8

Since much of the Press and other elements of the media have abused their

freedom and have become a menace to children, to families and indeed, to society

- it is now necessary to bring them under proper control. I am fully in favour

of the freedom of human beings and also of the Press. But we do have laws to

control human beings and to prevent them from killing, raping or robbing. Why

can't we have laws to control a media that is running amuck? These days anybody

can start a newspaper. Only those who have a proven sense of responsibility and

dignity and some sense of understanding of other countries, should be allowed to

start newspapers.

All the editors must first be examined by a group of eminent persons to see if

they are unbiased, honest and noble people. Newspapers should not get into the

hands of crooks. Once a paper gets into wrong hands, it would be impossible to

stop all kinds of horrible, sensational, nonsensical news and editorials coming

in. Of course, one must acknowledge that some of the newspapers have done a good

job in finding out and exposing the grave misdeeds of men in power. But there

are not many instances of this kind, despite the fact that the media is very

powerful. This power of expression is so highly misused by these newspapers that

at present, one cannot do anything about it. Clearly then, there is the need for

a high-level Board or Committee which should intervene and punish newspapers

which engage in publishing palpably wrong or scandalous stories. No scandals

should be allowed to be published in the newspapers and this will be the best

that one can do for public life and for family lives.

The newspapers should be 'children proof', so that even children can read them.

What is the use of giving all the filth of hell as an announcement in the

newspaper. It is just money-making. Once the newspapers start sensibly and with

a sense of responsibility, I am sure they will make much more money, because so

many people who have given up reading newspapers because of their filth, will

resume reading them.

Apart from this, newspapers like to give distressing and shocking news all the

time. The front page is nearly always full of stories and pictures about war and

killings, about disease and starvation, about natural or man-made disasters. It

is much to much to begin one's day with disturbing and upsetting news of this

kind. It is essential that so much importance should not be given to such

horrible scenes or to such horrible happenings. A serious effort should be made

to give prominence to good happenings - to instances of people being helped, to

events which influence people and transform them into good, honest and chaste

human beings. But presently there is no way of expressing such ideas through any

media. They only want to know how many people died, how many were killed and how

many disappeared.

In the films, as in the media and the newspapers, nowadays there is a trend

towards showing very intense romances and love affairs for which the lovers or

their opponents engage in awful violence and even in murder. This really creates

an illusionary world of love and family life. It is not yet understood by the

film makers and also the media and the newspapers, that they are responsible for

ruining the society and all that is good. They do not try to put more accent on

the goodness of life. They are very money-oriented. They also have so many great

plans.

For example, some of them project a kind of 'missionary in a developing country'

who collects money by all the time showing off Christ's compassion, etc.

Substantial donations are collected and these are perhaps shared with the media.

Altogether, this seems to be a profitable business. The media can even build up

a Nobel Prize-winning image. No one knows where all this money is going and what

is happening. There are no properly audited accounts. People who are sensitive,

especially those in the West, get very impressed by such persons. Once a

missionary came to a conference and started saying: " You must think about the

poorest of the poor. You must take something out of your lunch for the poorest

of the poor " - and so on and so forth. All the Western people in the audience

heard these three or four sentences and, to our amazement, they started crying.

They donated so much money to that missionary, and it is said that this

missionary collects people from the streets, baptises them, and converts them

into Christians. Those who fall sick and die are buried or cremated

unceremoniously. The media are promoting the images of such missionaries in

practically every developing country.

Actually the media people work according to mental processes and the mental

movement is always linear and proceeds only in one direction. Presently it is

purely money-oriented. There is another serious problem relating to the media.

In the olden days, news was regarded as completely objective. Comment was free,

but it had to be made on objective criteria. These impeccable principles of

journalism have now been thrown overboard. The same event is reported in one way

by one newspaper and in quite a different way by another newspaper. Any

comments? Far from being objective, they are in many cases, brazenly biased. If

you read Rupert Murdoch's papers, you will know what I mean. No wonder the

reading public gets totally confused. Thus we remain attacked all the time,

facing all the horrible newspapers, which, according to Sahaja Yoga, can give us

blood cancer. I would blame the media the most for shattering the readers' value

system and bringing such disaster to this world.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Meta Modern Era

'World Peace'

Chapter 8

29/09/95

August 11, 2008

, " Violet " <violetubb

wrote:

" Actually the media people work according to mental processes and the mental