Bridging the gap: The world we live in is fascinated by dualistic mindset. We try to discriminate everything and everyone in either black or white. So we have discrimination among religions, sexes, castes, color, money, status etc. At the deeper level we are one and connected as human beings but these discriminations crop up when mind becomes the dominant factor. The discriminations are at the superficial level and many of our religious leaders and politicians use these to cater to their own selfish desires. We Indians have been the victim of Divide and Rule policy, but have we learnt from it? Or are we still promoting it? God has not made human beings one nor any animals or plants of one nature and characteristics because the intention is that we should all complement and supplement for each other strengths and weakness and live in harmony. But we have misunderstood the purposes of these differences and are using them to pitch ourselves one against other. UI World Vision 2030 is a vision that dreams to bridge this gap by subduing the mind at its right place and when we realize that we are Consciousness we will use our discrimination for the right purposes. We will live in a world that Martin Luther King Jr. described in his famous speech. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Friends to sum up let’s return to the story of the sculptor where we started. Today the rock has rough edges; it is nowhere near the beautiful horse the sculptor saw. UI Vision 2030 is Vision that sees this whole Universe, mankind and nature living in harmony. It seems to be a fantasy at the first look but if we take the chisel and hammer and start the hewing with ourselves, the dream won’t be a distant fantasy but a present reality!