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CHAPTER 1. THE FUTURE BELONGS TO KRISHNA
In regard to our future we need to have a very clear and decisive mind. Do we want a pacifist world
in the future? If so, it will be a lifeless and lackluster world, which is neither desirable nor possible.
And no one will accept it either. In fact, life goes its own way. While the doves fly in the sky, the
hawks continue to prepare for war. and in the way of fashions, the pacifists will be popular for a
while and then the warmongers will take their turn, becoming popular with the people. Really, the
two work like partners in a common enterprise.
Krishna stands for an integrated life, a total life; his vision is wholly whole. And if we rightly
understand this vision, we need not give up either. Of course, the levels of war will change. They
always change. Krishna is not a Genghis; he is not fond of destroying others, of hurting others. So
the levels of war will certainly change. And we can see historically how the levels of war change
from time to time.
When men don’t have to fight among themselves, they gather together and begin to fight with nature.
It is remarkable that the communities that developed science and technology are the same that are
given to fighting wars. It is so because they possess the fighting potential. So when they don’t fight
among themselves, they turn their energies towards fighting with nature.
After the Mahabharat, India ceased to fight with nature simply because she turned her back on
fighting. We did nothing to control floods and droughts or to tame our rivers and mountains, and
consequently we failed, utterly, to develop science and technology. We can develop science only if
we fight nature. And if man continues to fight he will first discover the secrets of this earth by fighting
its nature. And then he will discover the secrets of space and other planets by fighting their nature.
His adventure, his campaign will never stop.
Remember, the society that fought and won a war was the first to land its men on the moon. We
could not do it; the pacifists could not do it. And the moon is going to exert tremendous significance
on war in the future. Those who own the moon will own this earth, because in the coming war they
will set up their missiles on the moon and conquer this earth for themselves. This earth will cease
to be the locale for war. The so-called wars that are currently being fought between Vietnam and
Cambodia, between India and Pakistan, are nothing more than play-fights to keep the fools busy
here. Real war has begun on another plane.
The present race for the moon has a deeper significance. Its objective is other than what it seems
to be. The power that will control the moon tomorrow will become invulnerable on this earth; there
will be no way to challenge it. They will no longer need to send their planes to different countries
to bomb them; this job will be done more easily and quickly from the moon. They will set up their
missiles on the moon, warheads directed toward the earth – rotating a full circle in its orbit each
twenty-four hours. And that is how each country on this earth will be available, every day, to be
bombed from the moon.
This is the secret of the great competition between the world powers to reach the moon first. And
that is why the world powers are spending enormous amounts of money on the exploration of space.
America spent about two billion dollars just to land one man on the moon. This was done not for
the fun of it; there was a great objective behind this effort. The real question was, who reaches the
moon first?
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