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OPERATION: WORLD PEACE
By
Maj. Gen. G. H. Israni, VSM and Dr. David R. Leffler
Introduction
Today we are living in a strife-torn world.
Terrorism, wars and conflict are prevalent in many parts of
the world. Lives are being lost every day. There appears to
be no end to rivalries and conflicts between communities,
religious groups and nations--big and small. Have people lost
the art of living happy, fulfilled lives?
Living in peace and perpetual happiness is
not only an intrinsic desire, but fervent collective wish
of humankind. Will there ever be an end to terrorism, war
and conflict? Is there a way to reduce collective stress and
create peace?
Perhaps. Invincible Defence Technology, drawn
from India's Vedic heritage, is awakening, creating new possibilities.
Modern science has validated its effectiveness. It is just
a matter of time before all militaries worldwide will deploy
Invincible Defense Technology as their first line of defence.
The Twentieth Century and Elusive Peace
The twentieth century was characterized by
tremendous strides in scientific and technological advancements
and explorations, including moon landings and space shuttles.
Never before in any of the earlier centuries had advancements
in technology been so rapid and with such far-reaching effects.
It was also the century of the rise and fall of great empires,
the end of colonialism, ideological rivalries, and the creation
of international organisations like The League of Nations
and The United Nations Organisation. Two centers of power,
the United States of America (USA) and Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), emerged, overshadowing the European powers
who had held sway until the middle of the century. During
this century, we engaged in two world wars, resulting in the
mass destruction of cities and great loss of human lives.
A glimmer of hope for peace emerged at the
end of the last century when the two super powers, the USA
(the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) and the
USSR (heading the Warsaw Pact Treaty Organisation) appeared
to be coming closer, in a mood of reconciliation and resolution.
However, the hope of bringing about stability and world peace
lasted for only a brief period.
During the arms race after World War II, the
Western economies thrived on production of ever more lethal
and sophisticated weapons, and their counter measures. The
conventional weapons and equipment produced by Western nations
found their way to the peoples of the Third World countries,
particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The armaments
and defence-related industries of the West continued to flood
the markets of the Third World with their sophisticated ware.
In return, they received raw materials and petroleum. Petroleum
became so valuable that is was informally called "black
gold." The Arab world used petroleum as an economic weapon
and wars were fought over it.
The eruption of conflicts in Kuwait, Iraq,
Iran, and Israel, as well as the nations of the Mediterranean
became grim reminders of earlier wars between the Cross and
the Crescent. Despite the various accords, treaties, negotiations
and talks, with US Presidents playing mediator, these rivalries
continue with ferocity. Collective stress is the root cause
of all these problems.
The Champion of World Peace
In World War II, amidst the destruction in
Europe, Africa and the Pacific, came an enlightened spiritual
teacher or Rishi. In the Himalayas in India, this sage began
to groom a protégé who would reawaken the world.
The Rishi was His Divinity Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the
respected Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math.
His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, having
received inspiration and blessings from His Divinity Swami
Brahmananda Saraswati, started a worldwide movement to teach
the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. He brought out
the knowledge in a non-religious manner. The ultimate aim
of this movement was to bring enlightenment to individuals
and peace and invincibility to every nation.
Maharishi's goals are attainable because the
TM programme reduces individual stress. This helps bring about
enlightenment. He knew that when large groups practice the
TM programme together, the result was less collective stress
in society. Hence, less tension, fewer conflicts, less strife,
and less war.
Over almost 50 years, the Transcendental Meditation
movement grew into a global community. It encompassed people
from many religions and cultures, and many walks of life,
including prominent scientists, doctors, lawyers, politicians,
actors, musicians, and other celebrities. Inspired by the
personal and spiritual benefits gained from the regular practice
of the TM programme, they began to propagate Maharishi's revival
of this human resource-based technology of peace.
Before Maharishi systematically revived ancient
Vedic knowledge, it was mostly confined to a select few in
India. Maharishi revealed that it was possible for every individual
to be happy and enlightened. In his simple, lucid and jovial
style, he explained that beyond the familiar states of consciousness
of waking, dreaming and sleeping, there are four advanced
stages of human development. These higher states of consciousness
are Transcendental Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, God
Consciousness and Unity Consciousness. Each higher state brings
a new dimension of experience, knowledge and fulfillment.
Maharishi’s Invincible Defence Technology
for World Peace
The point of Invincible Defense Technology
is to prevent an enemy from arising. Without enemies, everyone
wins. This is why the technology is invincible.
The modern inquisitive mind, particularly
in the West, abhors blind faith and seeks scientific explanation
for every phenomena. For this reason, advocates of the TM
technique and related programmes undertook scientific enquiry.
Today, there hundreds of scientific studies validating these
programmes as a viable solution to the difficult problems
faced by today's leaders in the areas of defence, government,
health, business, and education. (For more information on
this research, see Authors' Note.)
This research backed up Maharishi's specific
formulas for creating peace. Maharishi predicted that if 1%
of a population (for instance, a city) practiced the TM programme,
peace and harmony would increase throughout the city. Additionally,
he anticipated the same result if the square root of 1% of
a population (such as a country) practiced the more advanced
TM-Sidhi programme in a group. Many of these scientific studies
found that social indicators, such as acts of terrorism, war
deaths, war injuries, conflict levels and crime rates, showed
improvement when enough people meditated.
Scientists have discovered that the level
of super-unification described in quantum unified field theory
was explained thousands of years ago in the part of the Vedic
literature that describes the Laws of Nature. In Vedic language,
this Unified Field is expressed as “Parame Vyoman”--pure
transcendental consciousness, fully awake within itself. It
is transcendental to space and time. This is why it is invincible,
everywhere, and exists for all time. This is where Maharishi’s
Vedic Technology of Invincible Defence performs. The results
appear in our physical world.
Maharishi Alerts the World
Even after the USA-USSR reconciliation in
the nineteen-nineties, Maharishi warned that unless the strong
nations of the world deployed Invincible Defence Technology,
the beginning of the twenty-first century would spell doom
for the world, which may result in fierce conflicts without
any resolution. An announcement was made to the world press
that a global war was hanging over our heads. The world's
leaders were requested to create an Endowment Fund to support
a permanent group of peace creators. Their duty would be to
practice Invincible Defence Technology to ward off the large
danger that was looming. A few extracts from the announcement
that appeared on April 12, 1999 in the Wall Street Journal,
International Herald Tribune and The Financial Times of London
are below:
Today the UN has become a laughing stock,
failing everywhere and is ignored. So NATO has attempted
to control the Yugoslavian situation with violence. But
its bombardment has intensified the disaster and created
a new bloody history of the world. World Peace is now in
the hands of those with a power to destroy...It has set
an example to every nation in the world--if you don’t
like another country and they won’t obey you, then
bomb them and destroy them…Now bombardment can happen
to any country any time…Therefore, can we wait even
a single moment to establish world peace?
What is happening in Yugoslavia can happen
to any nation any time. Can you imagine if bombs began to
fall on Washington DC and to destroy the high rises of the
money markets of New York? Will NATO be able to prevent
this? When this happens it will be beyond the power of the
wealthy to save the situation.
Peace can only be created by taking recourse
to Natural Law--to create a powerful influence of coherence
inside and outside of any country with a group of experts
in the Technology of Natural Law (such as Transcendental
Meditation and Yogic Flying).
This approach will create such an integrated
and harmonious world consciousness that violent thoughts
will simply not arise, and there will be permanent world
peace.
September 11, and December
13, 2001
Unfortunately, the powerful nations of the
world did not heed the appeal. Despite the lukewarm response
to his appeals, Maharishi kept up the tempo and sent emissaries
to world leaders, urging them to act on his proposal. One
such emissary was Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Kulwant Singh--a highly
decorated, educated and honoured retired Indian Army terrorism
expert. He was sent to the USA, the most powerful nation of
the world, to warn leaders that no Missile Defence Shield
could totally protect its citizens. Dr. Singh once again offered
Maharishi's scientifically-validated Invincible Defence Technology
as a means avert the danger that had not yet come.
It is interesting to note that on 10th September,
after a press release of 5th September, the General appealed
to USA leaders to deploy Invincible Defence Technology. On
September 11, just minutes before General Singh was to address
a press conference in Washington, DC, the terrorist attacks
against New York and Washington, DC, were unleashed.
Maharishi was also concerned for the country
of his birth. India's collective stress was also rising to
a dangerous level. He dispatched a high-powered delegation
comprised of senior political leader, a respected Canadian
citizen, senior retired generals and prominent businessmen
to approach governmental leaders. In October 2001, this delegation
met with senior Indian ministers to advocate immediately organizing
40,000 pundits to perform a Yagya. The goal of deploying this
powerful Vedic technology was reduce quickly reduce India's
dangerous level collective stress. Reducing this stress would
not only to ward off trouble brewing in India, but also to
ensure the safety of people everywhere in the world. Due to
previous successes using Vedic technologies in other places
in the world, philanthropists in Western countries promised
to help financially with this endeavor.
Privately, the concerned ministers saw the
rationale and were convinced of the efficacy of the prevention
strategy. Unfortunately, due to political considerations,
they declined the generous offer. Soon the biggest democracy
in the world suffered an attack on their parliament house.
This was followed by violence in Gujrat in December of 2001.
The internal situation in both India and Pakistan deteriorated.
Havoc reigned even in the normally peaceful state of Nepal.
The World Situation Today
Although the USA was the world's most powerful
nation as the twentieth century ended, it was humbled at the
start of the twenty-first century. The situation throughout
the world is far from being peaceful. At the time of this
writing:
- Osama bin Laden is still at large, while
the country where he is thought to be hiding struggles to
recover from the after-effects of bombing by the nation
whose pride had been hurt.
- Al Qaeda is still a force to reckon with.
America is still militarily involved with Afghanistan and
Al Qaeda terrorist cells apparently operate in many other
countries.
- There is no peace in South Asia. Tensions
between India and Pakistan still rise and fall. Turmoil
continues in Nepal. The shadow of terrorism spreads beyond
the northern states of India.
- Palestinian-Arab-Israel reconciliation
is but a distant dream.
- The war against terrorism started by the
powerful Western nations shows little results as terrorists
continue to strike at will, whenever and wherever they wish.
- Poverty and sickness are rampant in the
Balkans.
- Nuclear, chemical and biological terrorism
may soon rear their ugly heads.
Time to Take Action
It is now time for the nations of the world
to immediately create permanent world peace. Terrorist continue
to multiply. Defence experts predict that it is just a matter
of time before they attack with powerful weapons of mass destruction.
For this reason, it is too dangerous to continue to live in
a strife torn world with conflicts continuing in South Asia,
the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Africa.
Terrorism cannot be eliminated by destroying
the terrorists. Any step in the direction of destruction only
helps to create more terrorists. More terrorists only results
in more waves of destruction. There is no wisdom in initiating
a continuous theme of destruction in the name of protection.
Prudence dictates eliminating the underlying cause of terrorism,
war and all types of violence—collective social stress.
Relentless Efforts Continue
There is enough proof that the persistent
problems faced by governments could have been prevented had
the governments deployed Invincible Defense Technology. Unfortunately,
history shows that, generally, leaders are slow to adopt new
promising military technologies. For this reason, and also
due to the precarious situations outlined above, Maharishi
created a Global Country of World Peace. (GCWP). The GCWP
mobilized wealthy philanthropists worldwide to pledge $100
million to quickly deploy Invincible Defence Technology in
India. Hopefully, this coherence creating group will be fully
operational soon.
However, while the authors salute the noble
efforts of these wise and charitable individuals, they feel
that India should not depend on the charity of others in the
future. India is a strong and respected nation. The citizens
of India are already taxed in order to pay their military
to protect them. Since ancient times, it has been the duty
of the kshatriyas to defend the nation. To accomplish their
noble duty, India's warriors should have the best technology
available. Extensive scientific research and previous experience
show that Invincible Defence Technology is the best way to
reduce war and terrorism by preventing enemies from arising.
Maharishi proposes that every country in the
world employ members of their militaries to practice his programs
for peace. A Prevention Wing of the Military would use only
about 2% to 3% of the armed forces of India, leaving the remaining
military personnel to carry on their regular duties.
Conclusion
The USA has the largest defence budget in
the world. Despite this, it could not prevent the attacks
of 11 Sept 01. The humbling of the USA is a grim indicator
that continuing to use only conventional, weapons-based approaches
will not end negativity and create world peace. The time is
ripe to adopt a new approach. As Maharishi says: “Only
a new seed will yield a new crop. Only a new philosophy and
new efforts based on new knowledge will fulfill the age old
dream of the wise for prevention of crime, terrorism and wars
and maintenance of world peace on a permanent basis.”
Let us not waste any more time. Let us not
forget that the USA and India could have prevented what happened
on 11th September and 13th December, had they acted on the
fervent appeals to deploy Invincible Defence Technology. India
must act quickly.
Authors' Note: There
are many published studies about the principle component of
Invincible Defence Technology. For military readers, the authors
recommend two academic papers that summarize much of this
research. These papers are available on-line at the Security
and Political Risk Analysis Bulletin (SAPRA India) and Indian
Defence Consultants websites. Other articles appeared in Defense
Review, Indian Defence Review, and Indian Strategic Review.
Links to these articles are available at: http://www.davidleffler.com.
Major
General G.H. Israni received his MBA from
Poona University and his M.Sc. in Defense Studies from Madras
University. A forty-year member of the Indian military, he
was awarded the Vishist Seva Medal for distinguished service.
Major General Israni has served as a General Officer commanding
the Mountain Division, and as the Provost Marshal of Army
Headquarters in New Delhi. Currently, he is the Commandant
of one of India's premier military training institutions,
the Officers' Training Academy. He also edits Combat Journal,
the professional magazine of the Indian Army. Major General
Israni lives in Pune, India.
 Dr.
David Leffler received his Ph.D. on the topic of
Invincible Defence Technology from Union Institute & University.
His other academic degrees include: a B.A. in Education, an
M.A. in the Science of Creative Intelligence from Maharishi
University of Management and an M.M. in Education from New
Mexico State University. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force
for eight years. Dr. Leffler serves as a Peer Member at The
Union Institute and is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute.
He has given presentations on Invincible Defence Technology
at the Russian Air Force Academy, the Russian Academy of Sciences,
and defense-related institutions in the United States. Dr.
Leffler lives in Austin, Texas, USA.
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