The intention of the heart has more power and potency than the protests and lawsuits that happen on the streets, writes KAMLESH PATEL
It is believed that in ancient times, gods and not kings ruled the world. Prayer was the means to request, protest, and communicate all needs. It was heart-to-heart. One prayed silently and earnestly, and this resulted in blessings. Heart was the centre of communication.
Now is the time of the mind. Having distanced from the heart, we have forgotten how to pray. The mind deals with logic and reason, so petitions once uttered in silence now take the route of the letter. So we lodge petitions, air our grievances, and have found many ways of seeking fulfilment. These don’t work so effectively, as man now uses more of the mind than the heart. The nature of the mind is not to listen, it is to say and do.
When dissatisfaction increases, the natural response is violence. The answer to the rule of the might is the strength of numbers. Hence, we protest, not alone standing silently but gather in vast numbers on the street. It is alright. A revolution may take birth in a living room with one or a handful of people, but it succeeds by the strength in numbers. The means, though, is one of silence and prayers.
Strength in numbers is enhanced through poise. Imagine a big gathering of people wearing signs of protest, silently standing in front of the offices of the kings of our times and offering prayer for resolution. Agitation is like fire. It gives expression to anger and separates us, whereas prayer is like water. It calms and brings us together. We need to breathe air into only one of them to succeed.
During the Independence struggle, great leaders worked hard for us, but the silent work of saints such as Swami Vivekananda, Shri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, affectionately called Babuji, and other spiritual giants propelled and catalysed this ardent process. Their power of intention, spiritual fuel, and faith improved the awareness and consciousness of the leaders. Perhaps that is why our Independence Movement was successful sooner than those in the rest of colonial Asia and Africa. And the protests were largely peaceful, moderate, and came from an altruistic space — from the heart. When that happens, the benefits of such protests go beyond just peace and calm, they extend to the future generations and help to promote the evolution of humanity. We see that the future belongs to the manifestation of the intention of the heart.
Heart's Intention
The power of intention or, as Babuji would say, sankalp, has much more potency than protests and lawsuits that happen on the streets. If we were to look at all the challenges in the world, how many would we protest against? How many would be heard? How many would find solutions and how many of those solutions would be executed effectively? All these questions lead us back to the heart; they lead us back to the power of intention, wisdom, and positivity of a prayer to be manifested as solutions. If all of us lead a life of altruism, then there would be no need for protests. If such a life of altruism is required, then peace needs to be birthed in the heart.
Babuji said, “It is, therefore, essential to find out means for developing within every individual a state of peace and contentment. Thus, all that we have to do for the attainment of world peace is to mould the mental tendencies of the people individually. That means proper regulation of the mind so as to introduce into it a state of moderation. That's the only way to bring peace into the world. It is, therefore, essential for all of us to develop peace of mind within. But that being exclusively the scope of spirituality, one must resort to spiritual means for the purpose.”
With such a spiritual purpose in everyone’s heart, where is the need for protest? Where is the question of right and wrong intentions? If life and our hearts were expressed in such natural ways, there would be no protests. ■
The writer, also known as Daaji, is the Heartfulness Guide
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