Universal Relationship: Freeing The Mind From Nationality And Race Through Aloneness

Aloneness may bring about loneliness or it may bring about freedom. Sometimes people are afraid of freedom because they do not understand what it means to be free. When you are free it is said that you are allowed to do things according to your likes and dislikes, and then perhaps you are afraid of doing the wrong thing, making a mistake. That kind of freedom is not freedom in the true sense. So long as you are afraid you are not free. Freedom is in action, not in ideas or ideals. So being alone is a very important thing for any one of us.

It is very essential to be alone. This aloneness plays a very important part in discovering truth or seeing the new in life, in having the new life. This aloneness does not necessarily mean that we have to go away from society, that we must leave our family, or must retire somewhere without seeing any human beings. The aloneness that I am referring to is mental aloneness; it means independence. So learn to be alone. How can we be alone? First of all we must see why we cannot be alone, to see what is wrong within us. The seeing of what is wrong brings about the right action, not the trying to get the right concept, the right idea to act correctly. That is perfectionism and it brings about conflict and contradiction in life. So instead we have to accept the fact, the truth, of ourselves. If we can be alone we can see what is the obstacle to aloneness.

After seeing that, now we can look at the question of relationship. How can relationship be fitted into this aloneness? In our everyday relationships can we have aloneness and have relationship at the same time? Surely we can and that is the way of life: to be alone and to have relationship. Aloneness allows real relationship. At the superficial level there is relationship between one person and another, between one thing and another thing. If we can look into superficial relationships from our aloneness and see how we relate ourselves to our friends, families, relatives, nation, country, or culture, and look into relatedness in life, seeing no conflict arises in relationship then we are building real relationships. We do not wait until we see everything clearly in order to have a good relationship because this will grow from the moment we go into what is wrong and what it means to have a relationship. Then life is flowing, life is moving deeper and deeper into reality.

If we can manage to have an objective relationship we can be in harmony with anyone. If we do not have the concept of race then we will not discriminate. People may come from different parts of the world, they may have different nationalities, but that is something for social convenience and when we are together there is no American, no English, etc. We are just human beings. Yes, somebody might come from a different country than ours but those are just places. The mind is free from nationality and race. Somebody may have different color skin but that does not matter because when one is born in a certain place then the color will be different. So there is no discrimination. We can have relationship with any one when we are alone. So this form of relationship can open the way to the world nationality, world citizenship. But there must not be the idea of some king of organization. It must come from understanding, not from organization because when it becomes an organization it becomes limited and is something separate from other organizations, and then there will be strife between one organization and the other. This is a universal relationship we can manage and then we can love; love and compassion will flow naturally in our relationships. Then we can recognize individuality, because there are certain difference according to training, education, and culture, but these differences should not be taken as obstacles to the universal relationship, and perhaps we can learn different things from different people: learn by knowing, recognizing, acknowledging the other things apart from what we are taught.