Over the centuries, soldiers had been dying in wars away from their
homes. At first it was Gold then it became dollars and still we are killing
each other for property, money, power, position and nations. How much more
soldiers meet to sacrifice over political issues of borders and supremacy. When
we will learn from our mistakes. When we will learn why History subject is
taught to us in schools. When will we understand that love is above all?
It is said about Alexander the Great that the day he became the world
conqueror, he closed the doors of his room and started weeping. His generals
were very disturbed:
What had happened? They had never seen Alexander weeping. He was not
that type of man; he was a great warrior. They had seen him in great
difficulties, in situations where life was very much in danger, where death was
very imminent, and they had not seen even a tear coming out of his eyes. They
had never seen him in desperate, hopeless moment. What has happened to him now….when
he has succeeded, when he is the world conqueror?
They knocked the door, they went in, and asked, “What has happened to
you? Why are you crying like a child?”
Alexander said, “Now that I have succeeded, I know it has been a
failure. Now I know that I stand exactly at the same place as I used to be when
I started this nonsense of conquering the world. And the point has become clear
to me now because there is no other world to conquer; otherwise, I could have
remained on the journey, I could have started conquering another world. Now
there is no other world to conquer, now there is nothing else to do – and suddenly
I am thrown to myself.”
Instead of conquering the outer world we should focus on conquering our
inner world. The heaven lies in our heart. Heaven is no other geographical
place, it is our heart filled with pure love.
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