Cooperation of all nations is an ancient dream. Assuming we are building on the past, how can we assess the outlook now?

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The following question and answer is taken from The Inner Vision: Love of God, The Outer Mission: Service of Humanity, a series of  questions asked of Sri Chinmoy by Mr. David Rowe of the United States Mission

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Mr . David Rowe, Political Advisor, United States Mission: Cooperation of all nations is an ancient dream. Assuming we are building on the past, how can we assess the outlook now?

 

Mr. David Rowe, Political Advisor to the U.S. Mission, with Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy : The ancient dream of cooperation is not a human dream which has very little to do with reality . The ancient dream, to be precise, is not a dream at all but a faultless and divine vision-an unhorizoned vision-which is slowly, steadily and unerringly shaping the individual and collective destiny in humanity’s march towards the supreme goal of universal oneness and transcendental newness.

 

The world is evolving and progressing and reaching a higher standard of life. It is not moving in a horizontal way, but in a spiral. Therefore , at times this progress is not immediately noticeable. At times it confuses and baffles our human mind. But on the strength of our inner oneness with the world situation and world evolution, we see unmistakably the world’s slow and steady progress .. ..*

The ancient dream, nay, the ancient vision, will always remain a new and progressive vision, for creation itself is an ever-transcending reality. We shall have to open our heart’s door and our mind’s windows in order to see from the body-room the light that illumines and fulfills the world around us. Then only we shall discover continual progress in humanity’s march along Eternity’s road to Infinity’s Satisfaction-Goal.

– * The fuller answer to this question also appears in My Meditation-Service At The United Nations For 25 Years, Agni Press, 1995.  (see in 2nd thumbnail image below)

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The League of Nations was a dream-seed.
The United Nations is a reality- plant.
The aspiring and serving life of man’s universal
oneness will be the eternity-tree .

– This quote on the League and UN  is from the talk: The Inner Message Of The United Nations, given by Sri Chinmoy in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, January 4, 1973; Published in The Tears Of Nation-Hearts, Agni Press, 1974.

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