Locus
Of Global Power Shifts From The West To The East
May 12, 2014 by
Anglo-American Axis Losing Power and Influence;
BRICS Economic Union Gains
The Earth has always spun in the same way. The planet
rotates so that the rising sun always appears in the east and sets in the west,
no matter where you happen to live. In the same way, civilizations have
both risen and fallen. Religions and philosophies have likewise come into
vogue as the sun moves from the East to the West. And so it will be for
the once dominant political economies of the modern era.
True to this timeless cycle of global transformation, the
Marxist Communism of both the USSR and China disintegrated at the end of the
last century. Each nation was destined to be released from its own
fatally flawed version of quasi-Marxist Communism. Both countries have
since struggled to find the form of governance and political economy which
accommodates their societies and meets the needs of their people. The
challenge has been made more difficult in trying to find the right balance in
today’s highly complex and interconnected world. Another determining
factor, that is often overlooked, is how well the system of governance fits the
temperament of the current generation of leaders. Were there to be a gross
mismatch in this regard, only dissension within and discord without will
result.
Likewise, the Anglo-Amercian Axis (AAA), which includes the
European Union and many other military and economic proxies, are on the cusp of
seeing the demise of their brand of Corporate-Crony Capitalism that currently
predominates across the planet. Although there are different forms of
capitalism found throughout the world today, it is this highly pernicious form
of predatory capitalism, which has been administered by the Anglo-American Axis
(AAA) since its inception, that is about to experience a similar fate as
Sino-Soviet Communism did.
It has often been said: “As Russia goes, so goes the USA.”
That time has now arrived. Except that there are now those
throughout the AAA who seem to feel that they can thwart destiny. And,
they are working triple time to forestall the inevitable, regardless that such
destiny has been preordained for aeons. How, pray tell, do the once
dominant British Empire, as well as the now crumbling American Empire, feel
they can stop the inexorable forces of national destiny and global
transformation? Here’s how one prescient author put it;
“Furthermore,
the [Anglo-American] empire could no longer be sustained politically,
financially, practically or ethically, as the seeds of its own destruction had
fully sprouted. The most fatal seed grew into that extremely corrupt and
predatory form of corporate, crony capitalism which was so socially
unconscious, and so environmentally unaware, it was quite doomed from the very
beginning.”(Source: GLOBAL MONEY MATRIX SELF DESTRUCTS)
History is replete with examples of once invincible empires and
kingdoms falling in a night and a day. All of them exhibited the very
same symptoms before their collapse, as we see manifesting today wherever
Anglo-American capitalism has prevailed. Therefore, it behooves those who
rule the realm to let nature takes it course, as it did with Egypt, Persia,
Greece, Rome and all the other ‘great’ empires of antiquity. Just as the
center of power moved from Rome to London to Washington over centuries, so to
will the dominant nations move westward to the slowly emerging powerhouses of
the East — toward Asia.
The time-tested mechanisms and outworking of this transfer of
mundane power are neatly hidden in history. Therefore, the historical
record reflects what the future holds in store for the new world that is now
upon us. Since “those who ignore history are always forced to repeat it“, this essay ought to serve as
a cautionary tale. After all, the world stage is really nothing but a
cosmic set in which history has shown us the same basic dramas since time
immemorial. Costumes change, actors are replaced, the sets are
rearranged, but the essential stories are quite similar throughout the rise and
fall of every ‘invincible’ empire.
The overarching theme of the current world drama concerns greed
and power. By exercising absolute control over the earthly realm, those
who populate the upper reaches of the Global Economic and Financial
Control Matrix (GE&FCM) were able to continually satisfy their greed.
Their insatiable desires for more in turn fueled their urges to exert
more control. Hence, a never-ending downward spiral of uncontrollable
desires breeding the need to exert absolute control to gratify those desires
set up a self-reinforcing negative feedback loop.
The True State of the Markets Illustrates the Real State of
Affairs
The real estate, stock, bond, currency, commodity, derivative,
insurance, etc. markets have all exhibited a degree of flux never before seen
in the modern age. In a phrase, they are all on the fritz. The reasons are many
and varied. However, the root cause of each of them is the same. An
illusion was carefully created by those who established them at the outset of
the Industrial Revolution. Then, they were obligated to maintain it in a
forever growing (and purposefully grown) marketplace fraught with unknown
variables, hidden factors, unforeseen consequences and the like.
What used to take a man behind the curtain not too unlike the
Wizard of Oz with smoke and mirrors, now requires armies of men and women in
the employ of so many alphabet soup agencies like the CIA, NSA, DHS, DIA, DEA,
FBI, FED, SEC, FCC, … … … weaving their respective webs of illusion
wherever their magic is needed to cast a spell. Of course, their “main
man” in this planetary enterprise is the MSM. The mainstream media, also
known as the MSM, is the critical cog in this deliberately built machine that
incessantly produces of magical spells.
Only through the systematic intervention into the economies of
the world by these agencies does the matrix (GE&FCM) maintain its
stranglehold on nations and industries alike. Likewise, only through the
relentless manipulation of the various financial markets are they able to
present the appearance of order and ‘fair play’. The stark reality,
however, which exists just behind the curtain, reveals an entirely different
state of affairs than the one presented on the nightly news broadcasts.
The unrelenting fluctuations in the marketplace, which now occur
daily with increasing frequency and on a greater scale, are graphic
manifestations of the inordinate pressures and myriad stresses operating 24/7.
Many of the national economies who got clobbered in 2008 saw the writing
on the wall, but were powerless to control the outcomes. Russia, China,
India, Brazil, and others suffered at the hands of massive macroeconomic forces
which were manipulated to protect the countries that make up the Anglo-American
Axis.
As history is getting ready to repeat itself , these same
nations are not only taking the necessary measures to protect themselves from
the upcoming economic armageddon and financial apocalypse, they are changing
the very playing field itself. By reengineering their respective markets,
the marketplace is being changed to a much more favorable place in which to
conduct their business. Most of this re-design has occurred as a result
of the very BAD moves made by the US, EU, NATO, FED, ECB, IMF and World Bank.
The extremely misguided moves throughout the global geopolitical
chessboard by the AAA have particularly highlighted the necessity to create a
new game. The BRICS nations have done just that with great care and
deliberation. Their very patient and incremental approach has proven to
work thus far. As the Western nations make one bad move after another,
the Eastern nations are able to capitalize on their inevitable mistakes at
every turn.
Those nations from the East which have seen their gold markets
manipulated through impositions from the West will be the first to throw off
the yoke of Anglo-American imperialism. Each of them has been waiting for
decades to take back their economies, financial systems and governments from
their Western absentee overloads. Although each of them has appeared to
gain their independence on the surface, the tentacles of domination and
oppression lay deep in the institutional arrangements which have operated for
so long under the strict management of the Anglo-American Axis.
However, the costs of staying with what was once expedient for
the BRICS nations has now greatly exceeded the benefits which are diminishing
by the day. NSA spying, CIA intrigues and intrusions, IMF demands, EU
instability, USA hypocrisy, NATO war-mongering, World Bank interference, have
all conspired to make the global marketplace not only severely titled to favor
the AAA; they are making it unbearable to for the rest of the world.
Insufferable is how many AAA non-aligned national leaders have quietly
referred to the current international predicament.
The Ukraine is now ground zero for the implosion of predatory
capitalism.
There is no place on the planet, which better illustrates the
current planetary predicament, than the Ukraine. The explosive atmosphere
throughout the Ukraine dramatically portrays just how serious the stakes are
for both sides of this war between East and West. No matter what you see
or don’t see in the daily news cycle, the tensions which have gathered there
are as historic as they are epic. Add to the pre-existing crucible of
animosities and injustices the inordinate determination of the AAA to maintain
at least the appearance of world domination.
Herein lies the real crux of the matter. Red lines have
now been drawn by the East which will no longer be transgressed. Both
Russia and China know that there is far too much at stake to allow the AAA to
trample on yet another sovereign nation. Their list of recent conquests
is as long as it is morally bankrupt. Iraq and Iran, Libya and Syria,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, Yemen and Tunisia, Sudan and Chad are just a few of
those countries which have suffered from AAA warmongering. At some point
this pattern of “might makes right” must be stopped once and for all. That
defining moment appears to be the Ukraine.
If ever
there was a geopolitical predicament that possesses all of the right elements
for the global bully (aka the Anglo-American Axis) to have the shit kicked out
of him, it is the Ukraine. This is the land of the Babushka, the Balaclava, and
Beet Borscht. While none of those things may mean very much to those reading
this essay, each carries great meaning in this civil war.The Babushka is not to be messed with as they are the matriachs of the Ukrainian family. Mess with their families and you bring the wrath of God upon you — literally!
The Balaclava is the mask worn by many of those who have rebelled against the coup leaders in Kiev. Ironically, these masks were first known to be used during Crimean War of 1854 by the British troops fighting there. Not only do they keep the head warm, they also conveniently keep hidden the identity of those who now courageously defy the puppet, fascist government in Kiev that was put into power with 5 billion US dollars provided by the US Department of State.
As for Beet Borscht, anyone who understands the power that this food confers upon the nation who eats it regularly, they would also understand that you don’t want to tangle with that populace. The Ukrainians are an extremely robust and strong people. They have unusual perseverance and single-mindedness. Provoking a war between the eastern and western halves of the nation will produce a situation that is as explosive as it is interminable. Mutually assured destruction is all that will result from such a conflict, where EVERYONE loses.
(Source: The WAR for the Ukraine: What’s the real story?)
Unfortunately the Western powers who started this revolution had
no idea what they were doing. Yes, they obviously wanted to restart
the Cold War for so many political reasons and economic purposes, but
did they really think they would lose Crimea without so much as a rifle shot?
These same AAA provocateurs have even less understanding, and will, to
stop this ongoing revolution. The CIA planners at Langley appear to be
clueless about the seriousness of the battlefield on which they are now
playing. With Russia breathing down the neck of their Ukrainian
counterparts in Kiev, watching every move that the US-EU conspirators are
making, it may take a miracle to prevent this powder keg from blowing up.
Because of the many forces at work in the Ukraine, especially
financial and economic, each side is looking to gain ascendancy in that
extremely valuable geopolitical region. Furthermore, it appears that the very
future of Anglo-American capitalism may be on the line. The desperate
moves on the part of Washington and London get more extreme by the day.
So extreme that their many mistakes in judgement will likely bring about
their downfall. Particularly because the AAA has everything to lose, and
very little to gain, does this conflict seem to be a zero sum proposition for
them.
War has often been the primary change agent in the world of men.
Both nations — Great Britain and the United States of America —
have performed their roles accordingly. War, in fact, has often been used
by the Universe itself to effectuate changes which could not be made in any
other way. Horrible though it may be to live through, sometimes major
wars are the only way to get certain thing done. Witness the awesome
changes which occurred in the wake of both World War I and World War II.
Even the cataclysmic Napoleonic Wars were quite instrumental in
rearranging the geopolitical chessboard of Europe at the end of the 19th
century. The collapse of monarchies all over Europe would not have
occurred in any other way. Corrupt monarchies were meant to be a thing of
the past as implied by the French slogan: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Of course, two
‘monarchies’ gained considerably at the expense of the dissolution of the Old
World Order — the British Crown and the American Dynasty.
Both the USA and UK were destined to function as the world’s
policeman and globalist engineer, respectively. Whereas the sun never set
on the British Empire, that empire and its many interests are now very much
protected by Pax Americana. They have always (since the War of 1812)
coexisted as the Anglo-American Axis in order that one would always support and
protect the other. Their English-speaking common ground only ensured that
such an alliance would hold up when many others would come apart. English
is, of course, the language of commerce and finance, business and economics
across the planet.
Since the founding of the first corporation — the East India
Company — in 1600 in London, England, the very foundation and framework of
today’s corporatocracy has been painstakingly put into place. The rubric
of the corporation was central to the globalization of the marketplace, which
was soon to occur across the entire planet. As such, Corporate Capitalism and its corrupt cronyism,
were intended to be the primary features by which it would operate worldwide.
Overlaying this political economy on the existing British Empire proved
to be a natural fit, especially with English being the chosen language for
business contracts.
Just consider the manner in which American and British
companies, products, brands and corporate logos appear everywhere around the
globe as though they are given special access to markets which others are
deprived of. Besides Smirnoff, what other Russian brands does one see in
the West. Ditto that for virtually any other nation except the US and UK.
Truly, these two nations set up the global marketplace so that they would
always be able to buy low and sell high, while everyone else was forced to buy
high and sell low.
Russia’s confrontation with the USA/EU in the Ukraine Puts
Predatory Capitalism on Notice
It is quite telling that an American, Edgar Cayce, one
prophesied that Russia would serve as the hope of the world. Who would
have ever imagined that an ex-Communist nation would serve in the capacity that
it is now? Standing up to the US-UK-EU juggernaut is not for the
fainthearted, and is perhaps the greatest challenge on Earth, bar none.
And yet here is Russia responding to Washington’s typical gunboat
diplomacy as though the US Department of State is showing up in a dinghy.
“In Russia there
comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the communistic,
or Bolshevik, no; but freedom, freedom! That each man will live for his fellow
man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallised,
but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.”(SOURCE: Edgar Cayce, 1944, No. 3976-29)
There is now every indication that Kiev may very well end up
being Waterloo for the Anglo-American Axis. The violent and transparent
overthrow of a democratically elected government by the CIA and Company is now
common knowledge wherever this is internet connection. So is the
ill-advised US $5,000,000,000 investment in a regime change that was destined
to fail. Certainly the American people are not happy that so much money was
spent on such a destructive foreign enterprise, especially when the US economy
is in such tatters. The decision-makers in DC have never made so many
catastrophic decisions — both foreign and domestic — over such a short period
of time.
As the rest of the world watches this disaster-in-the-making in
the Ukraine with baited breath, there are those initiated in the highest
echelon of geopolitical chess, who fully understand that the AAA can only lose
this game. As they make one very bad move after another, the community of
nations rightly observes that the US-UK has lost all moral ascendancy. After
committing a litany of serious offenses against so many other nations,
particularly since 9/11, such unlawful and aggressive behavior will no longer
be tolerated.
The world has shrunk significantly with the integration of the
internet throughout nations and societies everywhere. Therefore, the relentless
news of AAA transgressions are now known in real time no matter where they
occur. The average person — regardless of what continent they live on — is now
more and more inclined to vote with their pocket book, since they are unable to
participate in US elections. As they perform this critical civic duty with
greater deliberation, the day is not far off that the Anglo-American
corporations of yesteryear are but shells of their former success and glory.
Just as the South African apartheid regime was brought down by way of
economic blockade, so to will Israel’s. Next up are the global bullies
like the US and UK, unless they quickly get their acts together.
As the world reserve currency is reevaluated, so too will the US
petrodollar be swept into the the ash bin of history, never to receive the
adulation once afforded to the Almighty Dollar. The entire model of predatory
capitalism will them be consigned to the history books, just as the business
entity known as the CORPORATION of predatory capitalism will be laid bare for
the damage it has wrought throughout the world. The very bad actor known as
Corrupt Crony Capitalism will then take its last bow, as the
corporatocracy created by the Industrial Revolution becomes a thing of the
past.
With the slow-motion collapse of the West comes the rise of the
East.
One side of any conflict almost alway gains at the expense of
the other, whether by human design or divine ordination. It is no less
the case in the ongoing and epic clash between East and West. Every time
the West loses something, somewhere, the East will pick up something
accordingly on this self-regulating geopolitical chessboard. However, in
this inexorable movement of power and wealth from the West to the East, a much
more profound and fundamental metamorphosis is taking place under the radar.
The secular materialism that has predominated throughout the
Western powers for quite some time is giving way to a different philosophical
mindset and spiritual pursuit which can only be found in the East. Their
vast spiritual wealth is meant to be shared with the world in a manner
heretofore unseen. The many different Eastern spirituality movements in
the US (and elsewhere throughout Western civilization) of the 1960s and ’70s
have clearly set the stage for this transition to take place in a rather
seamless way.
Truly, the world is in dire need of the global transformation
which will take place when the West meets the East on a completely level
playing field. Only in this way will each civilization be able to offer
and receive the best from each other. As the East rises economically,
politically and militarily, it’s influence will be felt in every sphere of life.
Particularly in the realm of spiritual science will that influence be
deeply felt. India, China, and Russia have much to offer what the West is
in great need of at this critical point of societal decay.
Perhaps the locus of power is now shifting with such purpose and
inevitability because of what the future holds in store for all of humankind.
Clearly, the world is at a pivotal point of planetary change and human
evolution. The signs and omens are all around us 24/7 beseeching us to
get into the newly emerging flow … or else. Only through an egalitarian
and respectful marriage between the best of what the East and West has to offer
can the planetary civilization successfully negotiate the path ahead.
Conclusion:
The evolutionary dynamic of the major political economies of the
world delineated herein has been in progress for many decades. The truth
be told, the dissolution of predatory capitalism began the very day it
manifested. Because every deeply flawed economic and financial model contains
the seeds of its own destruction, it is only a matter of time before it
produces the poisonous fruits that will ensure its demise. The entire
planetary landscape is fraught with examples of predatory capitalism gone awry.
When such is the case, it is only a matter of time before the whole
enterprise self destructs. How can it not?
Which is precisely why there is now a crescendo of activity
attempting to hide the many cracks in the facade. Those cracks are
merging and deepening and extending outward in every direction to the point
where the edifice of corrupt crony capitalism will simply collapse under the
weight of it own untenable maintenance. Just as Soviet communism collapse
in a day, so too will Anglo-American capitalism. The foundational texts
of Adam Smith and ‘scriptural authority’ of John Maynard Keynes have been
completely debunked for the farcical teachings that they present. So have
all the other modern-day economists who spin their webs of illusion hoping one
day to compete with David Copperfield.
In light of these profound unfolding developments, it can be
stated that the locus of power and wealth will continue to move westward toward
the East. In general, the cultures of the East are well known to be more
contemplative and therefore more prescient. Their societies are also more
deliberative and provident. Unlike the constant squandering of time,
energy and wealth in the pursuit of instant gratification throughout the West,
the Asian temperament is significantly more forward-thinking and prudential.
Which is why the people of China and India continue to buy gold in vast
quantities as a store of wealth.
When the current economic and financial paradigm crashes and
burns, as it surely will, even the average householder in the East will possess
more wealth than typical middle class American. Because the interest
rates for saving accounts has been so low for so many years, the citizens of
the Western nations have not been putting aside much for that rainy day.
Nor has the ongoing economic depression encouraged savings.
At the end of the day the shift of power and wealth to the East
will occur at the grassroots level, as much as it will take place in the upper
echelons of national governments, corporate boardrooms and global think tanks.
Russia, China and India, along with many other aligned nations, have
been silently building the foundation on which to construct new financial
architecture and economic systems. New institutional arrangements, trade
relationship resets and recent changes in inter-governmental dynamic have
already begun in earnest.
In anticipation of the rapid demise of AAA predatory capitalism,
working models, which will replace the structures and systems established by
the Bretton Woods Agreement, have been put into place at the regional level and
are operating in a beta mode. In this way those nations which have
unhitched their wagon from the AAA wagon train (aka theAnglo-American Juggernaut) will not go over the
real fiscal cliff on the horizon. As the
West inexorably approaches that cliff, both the US and UK will lose their
influence over world affairs and power to wage war at will, wars which are
always incited and paid for with the once Almighty Dollar.
Author’s Note:
Western Civilization is famous for discounting the true
historical achievements, cultural influences and scientific accomplishments of the
East. In fact many of the advancements, which have occurred in Western
societies over millennia, find their roots in Eastern thought and philosophy,
discovery and invention. Particularly ignored are the rich and profound
religious movements and spiritual traditions of India and China, most of which
predate their western counterparts. Therein (Asia) lies the true source
of each primordial impetus and foundational catalyst for all of the major
shifts in both consciousness and civilization throughout world history.
Meaningful planetary transformation has always started in the East during
the current 60,000 epoch, just as the evolution of the human spirit has begun
there.
Astute students of world history understand that there are
definite evolutionary patterns and geographic progressions which take place
over the long arc of history. For example, in the development of the
great religions of the world the appearance of spiritual leaders often occurred
first in the East. Then, after centuries of ‘incubation’ new religions
were born in those nations, before eventually taking root in societies
throughout the Middle East. Throughout antiquity, some of these same
religions were ultimately embraced by European and Western Asian cultures as
well, usually in a somewhat diluted form. In almost every instance the
major religions either ‘migrated’ from the East to the West, as was often the
case during the pre-Christian era, or whole new religions grew out of them
forever introducing the rudiments possessing unequivocal Eastern influences.
The most compelling example of this dynamic can be traced to the
extraordinary similarities between Buddhism and Christianity. The seminal
days of Buddhism occurred during the life of Gautama Buddha[1] in the later
half of the 6th century, B.C. To a great extent, Buddhism served as a
countervailing force to the corruption of the existing religious practice found
throughout India and neighboring countries. Such were the threats to both
the social order and natural law that divine intervention became absolutely
necessary. And so it came in the form of the Buddha.
In fact, much of Buddhist philosophy concerns itself with the
proper understanding of and living according to a strict moral code. The
Buddhist Dhamma[2] is simply that which supports ”cosmic law and order”.
Because the Hindu adherence to Dharma[3] became so compromised with
widespread ritual malpractice among the Brahminic class, a spiritual catharsis
and religious revival was as urgently needed as it was inevitable. Hence,
the appearance of the Buddha occurred at a defining moment of history to
literally save the civilization from itself, thereby protecting the universal
order.
Only in this way could a more peaceful and prosperous society be
established so that a more hospitable environment would be cultivated in order
for the individual soul to advance on his or her spiritual journey. The
Buddha himself was a product of strict adherence to a life of righteousness
(also known as dhamma or dharma). His was a sermon well
received by the people of those ancient Asian communities where he traveled and
taught the The Noble Eightfold Path and The Four Noble Truths. THE SERMON AT BENARES is just one example of the code of
ethics and litany of admonitions that the Buddha disseminated far and wide.
Just over five hundred years later, another spiritual giant
walked the land in the Middle East. His message was strikingly similar to
the Buddha’s. In fact Jesus the Christ had studied at the Tibetan
Buddhist monastery of the Drukpa Lineage, located in
Hemis, Ladakh (within the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir).
It was there that the young Jesus learned the Buddhist philosophy and
imbibed the Eastern spiritual wisdom that he would later teach during his
public ministry. In this way the most basic tenets of Buddhism were
promulgated in a westward fashion, like “the rising and setting of the
sun“.
Because Christianity has such deep roots in the very same moral
code taught by the Buddha, and preaches compassion and love for one’s fellow
man as He did, some have wondered if the Christ was really a practicing
Buddhist. Many in the East consider Saint Issa, as Jesus was known
throughout the Orient, to be a divine being who attained spiritual
enlightenment after years of disciplined yogic practice in India. As a
result of His final Self-realization, great healing powers were conferred upon
him which were displayed in the outworking of his spiritual mission in Judea.
On a different note, Westerners have frequently heard about the
many highly significant inventions and discoveries which actually occurred in
the East, not the West as some history books would lead one to believe.
Some of the most influential developments having to do with war were the
use of horses in military combat, as well as the invention of gunpowder by the
Chinese. Because war has historically proven to be the most fast-acting
and potent change agent, particularly in regard to the transfer of culture
across national boundaries, these and other advancements in the martial arts of
the East were ultimately parlayed by the West into the establishment of one
empire after another.
The Roman Empire of the Caesars and British Empire of the Crown
offer two vivid illustrations of the most obvious examples of where seeds which
sprouted in the East took very deep root in the West. The fruit from
those trees continue to fall all over the Earth today. Whether in the
form of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious traditions, or in the art and
science of modern-day warfare copied from Genghis Khan and his grandson Kublai
Khan, the knowledge and wisdom of the East can be found throughout every sphere
of life in Western Civilization and/or Christendom.
Endnote:
[1] The Buddha is well known in Hinduism to be the ninth major
incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the great deity of the Hindu Trinity. In His
lifetime as the Buddha, it is said that Lord Vishnu came to Earth with the very
unique purpose to subvert and check the corrupt priestly class known as the
Brahmins. Because they were using their powers over the people in such an
oppressive fashion and destructive manner, divine intervention became
necessary.
In the personhood of the Buddha, He was able to divert the
Brahminic class so as to sufficiently diminish the misuse of their spiritual
knowledge and occult powers. By focusing their attention on a very simple
moral code, which was quite needed for the many disparate warring kingdoms, the
Buddha saw to it that the abuse of sacred rites and rituals was arrested.
In this manner, His public ministry was very much a double-edged sword
cutting through the rigid and hollow Brahminic dogma, while at the same time
holding up an urgent moral code for a civilization marked by wars and rife with
conflicts.
Over the successive centuries, India — a fundamentally Hindu
nation — was spared much war and bloodshed because of the over-riding influence
that Buddhism exerted over the leaders and therefore peoples of its bordering
nations. Because of how strongly compassion, non-violence and inner peace
were promulgated by Buddhism, even the notorious warrior-king — Indian Emperor
Ashoka — became known for his eventual renunciation of war, and denunciation of
violence.
The vast majority of the world’s practitioners of Buddhism do
not live in India; rather, they reside in the many countries surrounding India,
thus a divinely ordained buffer of protection lay between India and the rest of
the world for many centuries. Because of this, Hinduism was able to
flourish within her borders … until the Mughal invasions of the 12th through
the 16th centuries. While those Muslim conquests served to effectuate the
greatest transfer of culture in Indian history, they were received by the people
of Hindustan in a manner which was significantly tempered by the principles of
non-violence and detachment inculcated by the preceding centuries of Buddhist
influence.
It is said that the divine mission of a true Avatar can never be
thwarted, no matter how formidable the earthly adversaries or prodigious the
forces arrayed against him from other realms. And so it was during the
lifetime of the Buddha … … … as it was for the contemporary Vishnu Avatar
– Lord Kalki – the final and
greatest incarnation of Lord Vishnu during the Kali Yuga.
[2] Dhamma (Buddhism) — Source: Wikipedia
Dhamma (Pali: धम्म) or Dharma (Sanskrit: धर्म) in Buddhism can have the following
meanings:- The
state of Nature as it is (yathā bhūta)[1]
- The
Laws of Nature considered both collectively and individually.
- The
teaching of the Buddha as
an exposition of the Natural Law applied to the problem of human
suffering.
- A
phenomenon and/or its properties.[2]
[3] Dharma — Source: Wikipedia
In Hinduism, dharma signifies
behaviors that are considered to be in accord with order that makes life and
universe possible,[10][note 1] and includes duties,
rights, laws, conduct, virtues and ‘‘right way of living’’.[7]
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