Selected Stories, Writings, and Talks on Yogananda’s Teachings

The Metaphysical Cause of War

(Inner Cultural November 1939)

War is caused by preferring physical force instead of spiritual discriminative force in settling international or national differences.

Wars spring up through misunderstanding, jealousy, greed, blind patriotism, superiority complex, race and color prejudices, industrial selfishness, and desire for power and supremacy.

Wars settled by brute force do not accomplish any lasting good. According to the law of physics, no power results by setting one force against another force. When nations are pitted against one another they accomplish no positive peace.

If the heads of all nations could be brought together and taught to meditate in the Self-Realization way, and thus see God in all and God's plan for all, they would teach their people to love all nations as they love their own, to love the whole world as Christ loved it, and to love misguided brother nations, thus transforming the earth.

There is one God, and we are all His children. We must get together by parliaments of religions and leagues of international hearts, and not by insincere diplomacies, to dissolve our differences and make each nation an ideal, perfect state in the federated united states of the world.

With this goal in mind, and with man's energies freed to concentrate on constructive activities, man could banish and outlaw, within the space of a few years, ninety per cent of the earth's miseries–war, poverty, most diseases, slums, child labor, malnutrition, intolerance, ignorance, race and color prejudice, immorality , and crime. Thus he could establish permanent peace, plenty, and freedom for all, making it possible for all men to know the art of scientific living, a balanced life of physical, mental, and spiritual progress through international brotherhood, all- inclusive patriotism, and spiritual understanding.

I love and support the hundred per cent Americanism which excludes all superstition, meaningless dogma, and untruth and unkindness to brother nations and which is solely and wholly founded on lasting principles of Truth, true patriotism, international inter-racial and inter-religious tolerance and good will to all for which her great men like Lincoln and others lived and died.

My mission is to bring her people closer to one another and bind her by bonds of Truth universal, and the Highest Spiritual discipline so that materially strongest as she is, she may serve also to be the best Spiritual example in the world, and thus void the pitfalls into which other powerful nations of history fell through their carelessness and pride.

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