How important are concepts like nation-states and national boundaries today?
Amma: What is wrong with nations, states and boundaries? Let them be there. What is really needed is the capacity to behold the oneness that is beyond these differences, to see the underlying unity to see the whole world as a beautiful flower. Each petal is a nation. If one petal is infested with parasites, won’t the others be affected? We shouldn’t allow that to happen. We should accept and love all nations, all cultures, all human beings, all languages… When there is such love and compassion, you’ll find all differences disappear and you behold oneness. In fact, compassion is a one-word solution for almost all the major problems our world is facing today. The different cultures and nations are like the different flowers blooming in a garden — it is the variety that lends beauty and life to the garden. Q5: What should today’s India be known as: the world’s economic super-house, the world’s knowledge hub or the spiritual reservoir of the world? Amma: This ancient country, Bharat, wa
