A noble world begins within.
Ripple Effect of Inner Awakening
One awakened person can influence countless lives. A single neutron can split certain atoms and start a powerful chain reaction. In the same way, spiritual awakening in one person can spread far beyond that person. It can inspire clarity, peace, and goodwill in others. Its influence moves outward like ripples on water, reaching lives we may never see.
Building a Noble World
Humanity has created technologies that would have seemed like magic to earlier generations. We communicate across the world instantly. Artificial intelligence can process knowledge at extraordinary speed. Medicine saves lives once thought beyond hope. Yet fear, anger, greed, hatred, and conflict remain.
Technology is not the deeper problem. The human mind that directs it is. A knife can prepare a meal or cause harm. Artificial intelligence can educate and heal, or deceive and destroy. Powerful tools magnify the intentions of those who use them.
Laws and institutions are necessary, but they cannot by themselves create peace. Lasting peace must also arise within the human being. When anger gives way to understanding, greed to contentment, and division to a sense of shared humanity, our actions begin to change.
This leads to a fundamental question: Who am I? Am I only this changing body and mind? Or is there a deeper awareness within me that remains present through every changing experience?
When we turn inward, we begin to recognize a deeper unity with others. That recognition gives rise to compassion. As Building a Noble World expresses it: “The feeling of oneness is defined as love.”
One person can make a difference. A single pebble creates ripples across water. In the same way, one peaceful and awakened person can influence a family, a community, and far more lives than may ever be known.
Inner transformation creates outward change.
As the book states: “Individuals make a family, families a society, societies a nation, and nations the world. Thus, individuals are the world. When individuals change, the world changes.”
The journey toward a noble world therefore begins within.
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Rama Tirtha's Vision
More than a century ago in 1903, Swami Rama Tirtha, a renowned spiritual master, claimed the Law of Periodicity applies to countries and their prosperity.
In his book, In Wood of God Realization Volume IV, Rama Tirtha stated, “After Japan, China will rise and gain prosperity and strength. After China, the sun of prosperity and learning will again smile at India.”
Understanding Meditation
The practice of yoga embraces meditation as an essential discipline. In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, meditation—known as dhyana—is described as the seventh step on the eightfold path. These eight progressive limbs form a complete journey toward self-realization: yama (ethical conduct), niyama (self-discipline), asana (postures), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), and finally samadhi (blissful absorption).
Kṣemarāja, the great Kashmiri Shaiva philosopher, illuminates this truth in verse 17 of the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam (The Secret of Self-Recognition): “Madhya-vikāsāc chidānanda-lābhaḥ”—which reveals that by awakening the central channel, the sushumna nadi, through the grace of Shaktipat, one discovers the bliss of pure consciousness.
Book, Building a Noble World
Building a Noble World presents a clear path to peace through inner transformation. Rooted in meditation and timeless wisdom, it shows how self-realization leads to unity, dignity, and love.
TV Interview: Building a Noble World
This TV interview of Shiv R. Jhawar for his book, Building a Noble World, by Ashok Vyas was aired on ITV in New York on the following dates:
Monday 10/03/2005 at 7 pm on ITV
Tuesday 2/21/2012 at 6:00 pm on ITV
Both Christ and Buddha are titles, not last names. All enlightened mystics have the same experience: they are one with the all-pervasive Absolute. Therefore, Christhood and Buddhahood are synonymous.
Whether it is Jesus, Gautama, Krishna, Moses, Zoroaster, Mohammed, or Nanak who achieves enlightenment as a founder of a religion, enlightenment is always the same and identical.
Let me ask you this: When you go to sleep, do you give up your religion?
Meditation is like sleep’s older brother because it leads to a similar state. Just as sleep lies beyond your waking state, so also meditation lies beyond your deep sleep state. If the deep sleep can be so refreshing, imagine how much more refreshing meditation would be.
“Why should we do good to the world? Apparently to help the world, but really to help ourselves,” said Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902). Every ripple counts. Together, we can build a noble world. Make a difference — donate now.
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“Changes are effected not by changing others, but by changing oneself. Individuals make a family, families make a society, societies make a nation, and nations make a world. Thus, individuals are the world. When individuals change, the world changes,” from Shiv R. Jhawar’s Building a Noble World.
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