The human race is moving at an irresistible speed. Today, humanity wants to forget those who have written their works centring around various kinds of fissiparous discriminations. Human beings want to channelize their whole range of vision towards the bright future – a future which will transcend all individual or group interests, all territorial limits of countries and states, and transform the fates of many people into one destiny. Human beings no longer want to rely on so-called providential favour. Individual heroism is about to lose its vibrant spirit. Nowadays people have learned that if the thrill of victory is due to anyone, it certainly belongs to humanity. About seven hundred years ago the Asian poet Cańd́iidása, from an obscure corner of Bengal, sang about the same great possibility:

Oh human beings, my brothers and sisters,
Humanity is the highest truth,
There is nothing beyond it.

Today not even the Pacific Ocean between Asia and America is difficult to cross. The people of Asia and America are touching each other’s minds and have learned to accept each other sympathetically as their own. Europe, Africa, Australia, Mercury, Jupiter, the stars, the comets, the constellations – none of them is alien to the other, none is distant from another. Gradually everyone has begun to realize the vibration of the One Integral Mind. It is my firm conviction that the future of humanity is not dark. Every human beings will attain that inextinguishable flame that is forever alight beyond the veil of the darkness of the present – and attain it they must. Those who will carry the message of that effulgent light will be forever revered by all humanity. I see the potentiality of those memorable and venerable people in the litterateurs and artists, and that is why I hold them in great regard. The American poet, Carl Sandburg, has said,

There is only one man in the world
and his name is All Men.
There is only one woman in the world
and her name is All Women.
There is only one child in the world
and the child’s name is All Children.

In exactly the same strain, perhaps with a sweeter language, the same idea has been expressed by the Asian poet Satyendranath:

There is only one race in the world,
And that is the human race,
Nourished with the milk of the same Mother Earth,
Dwelling within the same compass of the sun and the moon
The same heat and cold, the hunger and thirst,
We all equally feel,
Together we raise the tender green plants and make them strong
We all struggle to preserve our lives,
We seek friends and comrades, and build happy homes,
We all drown in water, we all thrive on land.
Black and white are merely external hues –
Internally the blood of all is red
By penetrating below the surface,
The true inner nature is instantly revealed.
The Brahmin and the outcaste, the great and the small,
Are all artificial distinctions that ultimately crumble to dust.
When love awakens in sleeping souls,
Then true human beings will emerge.
There is no difference between one colour, one race and another -
For the entire universe is pervaded by One Infinite Consciousness.

Human beings of today, in chorus with Cańd́idása, Sandburg, and Satyendranath, will move together shoulder to shoulder towards an exalted humanity, towards the highest fulfillment of their individual lives.

In inseparable unity all faiths and hearts will merge,
For there is no distinction among human beings –
The whole humanity is an expression of the Supreme One.
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Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar