Wednesday, 14 September 2011


Innovation and Change: Everything around us is in state of flux. “You cannot step twice into the same river” Yesterday’s pens and typewriters give way to today’s computers, and we don’t know what today’s computers will pave the way for in the future. This change around us also demands change within us. We have a new world that is evolving and the new world comes with new challenges. We need to adapt ourselves to these changes by being creative. Scientists tell us how the huge dinosaurs could not survive because they could not adapt to changes in the environment around them. We need to constantly reinvent ourselves to survive even in our daily lives. The mind is a repository of the past events, it reminds us to do the same thing over and over again. When we are connected to the Consciousness, we get new ideas; we become creative and can innovate intelligently. UI World Vision 2030 aims at bringing about this innovation and change in our personal lives.


Pollution and Wild Life: In a world where the mind is dominant we have a giant problem of pollution to deal with. It is greatly summed up in these lines by John Drinkwater: When you defile the pleasant streams/ And the wild bird’s abiding place/ You massacre a million dreams/ And cast your spittle in God’s face. We regularly hear about a Ship tanker carrying oil, goes down in the sea casting millions of gallons of oil in the sea water, causing danger to life. We are fresh with the memories of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy here in India. All these examples mentioned are some of the causes of the universe which is run by the dominant mind. In our selfishness, we never think twice before we destroy the environment. UI World Vision 2030 will help us to reconnect to our real selves. It will remind us what Gandhi said, “There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.” 

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