Examining our personal relation with the making and use of the Bomb and thus finding our personal power to stop the use and eventually eradicate the existence of the Bomb.

1. Learning from Hiroshima
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2. From
6th August 1945
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6th August 2014

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4. By
Jimmy Shroff
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6. What have we learned?
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What can we do?

7. We know we have currently more than
2000 atomic weapons on the planet, each
almost one thousand times more powerful
than the atomic bomb named “ Little Boy”
which burnt and flattened Hiroshima 70
years ago.
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8. This stockpile of weapons is many times
more than what is needed to destroy
human civilization on this planet.
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9. But we do not seem to be too disturbed
by this state of affairs.
In fact each country tries to gate-crash
into the nuclear club and proudly obtain
the dubious distinction of having a nuclear
arsenal.
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10. The Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine,
(MAD) , projected by the USA, appears to
be working. It really has prevented a
nuclear war.
So far……
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11. Newly emerging countries such as India
and Pakistan, heeding the success story of
MAD, have also decided to get MAD.
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12. There have been a few hiccups.
During the Cuban blockade imposed by
President Kennedy against the nuclear
build-up at Cuba by the Soviet Union, we
did hold our collective breath for a while.
We did wonder if it was safe to be MAD.
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13. Also during the escalation of periodic acts
of hostility at the Indo-Pakistan border,
there have been times when we came
very close to calling the bluff of MAD.
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14. It may not be too long before a non-state
organization, seeking to push its own
objective, may be successful in seizing hold
of a nuclear weapon directly or by seizing
control of a nuclear state.
The world is full of real mad persons to
whom the MAD doctrine is not applicable.
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15. There is also the chance of starting an
accidental nuclear exchange with the
proliferation of nuclear weapons and the
reduction of effective control over its use.
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16. But still we have refused to invest in
creating a more sane and dependable
system of protecting ourselves.
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17. In other words, we have learned to love
the Bomb.
We have grown accustomed to being
MAD.
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18. We have also learnt from research carried
out at Hiroshima the deadly effects of
nuclear radiation.
After all, ‘civilian bombs’ such as Chernobyl
and the effects of a tsunami on nuclear
plants at Japan can also be as devastating
as a limited nuclear strike.
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19. We also did not waste much time after
Hiroshima, to carefully measure the
destructive effect in order to make more
efficient and more powerful bombs, in
order to burn and kill more human beings.
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20. We have enjoyed success beyond all our
expectation in creating numerous efficient
weapons of mass genocide.
Associating the words ‘enjoy’ and
‘success’ and ‘efficient’ with genocide
does seem a mockery of the human race.
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21. We seem to be raising each generation of
children as hostage for a mass human
sacrifice.
Have we mutated so radically in the post
nuclear age, in the last 70 years ?
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22. Although anti-nuclear street protests have
diminished over the years, the nuclear
threat has not diminished.
The nuclear stock-pile is still very much
lording it over living beings.
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23. What should we really learn from
Hiroshima ?
and equally important,
what can we do ?
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24. The very nature of a nuclear device can
offer us hints on what to learn and get
confident to act on our learning.
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25. The vast amount of energy released in
a nuclear device is a result of a chain
reaction of the splitting of atoms.
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26. Before the first experimental nuclear
test was carried out at New Mexico,
USA, there was some speculation
among the select group present, that
the controlled chain reaction sought
for, may become an uncontrolled chain
reaction.
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27. This event, although said to be a distant
100 to 1 odds, could result in a splitting
of the crust of the earth.
In other words, there was some risk of
murdering our mother earth, the womb of
human kind.
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28. But besides finding a way for a chain
reaction to occur resulting in a
terrible destructive consequence, we
have also found a way to channel the
energy in a creative peaceful direction.
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29. Now we must use the above scientific
principles in a deeper way, to use the
principle of chain reaction, not just for
helping to produce electricity, through
nuclear power plants, but to empower
each of us.
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30. We already know that every structure
on our planet is composed of atoms :
air, water, rock, trees, animals, humans
…….. the very planet and all on it,
enveloping it and within it.
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31. This organic inter-connection and
inter-penetration is actually far
deeper than what the above
characteristic of nature points to.
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32. Modern physics has pointed to an
underlying more fluid field of energy than
that composed of atoms or even particles
of atoms.
Our intimate relation with the planet, with
our solar system and even beyond is not
restricted to atoms being the final
indivisible building blocks of creations. That
is old physics.
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33. When we look at the violent separation
which we designed at Hiroshima 70 years
ago, we must remind ourselves of the
strong underlying unity which exists by
default…..
a unity which we trained ourselves to
break, although temporarily.
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34. Without the existing natural unity, there
could not have been any artificial forced
temporary separation, no extravagant,
destructive and wasteful show of energy.
The separation indicates the unified state.
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35. It is this default condition of unity
which we should recognize and
remember from Hiroshima.
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36. So let us retain our unity and use our
energy within safe bounds.
We should not yet aspire to become
stars, burning brightly to provide the
surrounding worlds with energy.
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37. By taking heed of unity, we have a
chance to avenge the past. We have a
chance to dance with joy.
In a way, we really are miniature
individual stars, learning to blossom
eventually into full size ones.
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38. This is possible since we are not just
physical robots.
In common with the other great kingdoms
of nature, the vegetation and animal
kingdoms, we have another unified field to
enable communication and inter-action :
Feelings.
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39. and although still not admitted by
science openly, basic emotional
activity is present even amidst the
inmates of the mineral kingdom.
But right now it is not necessary to
stray into this particular debate.
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40. The physical unity we have with our
universe provides us with an explanation
of the mechanical unity of the One :
it is the left-over of the ultimate unity
which was the state at a Big Bang, the
birth of a universe. It was the change-over
from the compressed latent consciousness
towards the growth of full expanded
universal consciousness.
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The Big Bang
The start of a Universe

42. The higher emotional unity is
constantly being modified,
affording each of us the facility to
dance with joy, without treading
on each other’s toes.
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43. So how does Hiroshima remind us
of a way to empower ourselves?
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44. Besides common physical and
emotional fields linking all of us,
human beings have developed one
more specialized atmosphere :
the unified field of thoughts.
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45. When properly understood, the latent
energy of this field, which allowed the
energy to be displayed for destruction
in the fire ball and the shock wave at
Hiroshima, can be used to surpass
the above and demonstrate great
benevolent activity.
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46. Our intellectual activity, developed
over millions of years, has resulted
in this refined unseen but
nevertheless actual energy field
flowing through and around each
of us.
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47. Our thought creations do possess
high energy and can and are being
transmitted and received each
moment by each of us.
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48. But since most of us are not
accomplished artists, most of our
sub-conscious thought creations
contribute to what may be termed
high energy smog.
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49. This mostly neutral energy of ours
can be used by those
comparatively few beings amongst
us who know how to, both for
good or evil purposes.
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50. We know we think, we know thoughts
require energy to exist, we know
energy is indestructible.
So let us admit we are creating
patterns of this high frequency form
of energy incessantly.
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51. We are creating semi-conscious
objects of this high frequency form of
energy each time we think and feel.
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52. and with this admission of our
natural empowerment, we must
start taking responsibility of
consequence for each feeling and
thought we create.
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53. We, the majority of world citizens
have contributed to the current
state of our mental soup in which
we splash around.
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54. And it is the pressure of this self- created
mental atmosphere which reacts on us,
which in turn influences our choices and
way of life.
A vicious circle is created but its quality
and influence need not be vicious but life
enriching.
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55. The breaking of the Berlin Wall and
the subsequent breaking up of the
Soviet Union, is a prime example of
the effect of pressure exerted by the
build up of feelings and thoughts by
those who suffered under the yoke of
an oppressive system for generations.
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56. The Soviet Union was one of the
most heavily policed state known in
history. It was not just President
Reagan, Pope John Paul or General
Secretary Gorbachev who dismantled
the empire, although they certainly
provided the proverbial last straw
which broke the camel’s back.
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57. It was mostly the culmination of
incessant emotional and mental
activity over several generations which
finally tipped the balance in the favor
of the citizens who, en masse, dared
to feel and think of a change, who
did not give up hope.
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58. The World Wars, global poverty, global
slavery, global warming and the
build- up of the world nuclear arms
inventory are other prominent
examples of conditions which derive
their subsistence from the world
atmosphere.
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59. It does not require much deliberation
on our part to admit that the
atmosphere currently is not very
joyful.
Mass disaster is held barely an arm’s
length away.
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60. We appear to be at the nadir of our
ebbing waters, when all the greed,
cruelty and rapacity latent in us is
laid bare.
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61. This is good news, for it means the
flood tide is at last nigh, to refresh us
and lift us to higher ground, to the
glorious high water mark, if we allow
ourselves.
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62. And in the meantime we start cleaning
up the polluted mental environment.
We have polluted, so We have to clean
up the mess. We cannot hire other gods
and goddesses to do it for us.
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63. The threats to our physical environment
is a direct effect of the state of our
influential mental atmosphere.
The mental field
is the sowing field,
the physical is
what we reap.
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64. Its not just Americans or Germans or
Japanese or Pakistanis or Indians or
the poor or the rich who pollute ;
its all of us, at our different capacities
to do harm…….. Or good.
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65. So, it is not just statesmen and
scientists who will save the world for
us.
Their number is small compared to
the rest of us. We will have to save
ourselves.
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66. But, learning from Hiroshima, we know
the underlying unified condition,
although mostly remaining out of sight,
facilitates individual action born from
individual feelings and thoughts,
propelled by the individual will.
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67. If we have managed to learn to tear
apart, we can also begin to remember
how to rejoin.
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68. The same facility by which we pollute, the
same facility can be used to purify.
Our thoughts get together by topic
magnetically and thus have a general
global effect. Thoughts directed solely to
local issues, besides a local particular effect
also have their general effect component.
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69. Is there any simplified guide line
whereby we can more consistently
purify and charge the mental
atmosphere within our environment ?
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70. Yes, there is.
In fact there is only one ability
available to all living creatures to
help us make our choice of any
act, mental, emotional, verbal or
physical act :
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71. We can only choose that what
appears to us as most joyful at each
moment.
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72. Of course we often choose what appears
to us as most joyful but after experience,
we find our choice was not so joyful.
But we cannot opt for freedom and then
settle only for error-free second- hand
experiences. Incident- free voyages are
welcomed by insurance companies, but
Mariners look forward to adventures, for
that is Life. We are Mariners.
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73. However, unless we prefer to
experience Hiroshima first hand again,
let us take heart and learn heartfelt
lessons from the heartless event we
enacted at Hiroshima.
Let us embark on more joy-filled
adventures.
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74. For the persons at Hiroshima
experiencing that terrible energy of
separation on that fateful morning,
and for us who experience it now
second-hand, we can all learn from
Hiroshima and can now make stronger
attempts to secure joy.
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75. By being more discerning and thus
being more consistent in securing joy
in our small every day acts, we
automatically contribute to purifying
the atmosphere, setting off a chain
reaction of benevolent energy through
our joy.
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76. And in a purified atmosphere, in an
atmosphere charged with love and
enthusiasm for life, what need is
there to opt for setting off any
weapon of mass destruction, of mass
suicide ?
Why would we even opt for the
burden of maintaining one ?
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77. We cannot intentionally choose
distress. We can only choose joy.
We will at last stop being in love
with the Bomb and resume loving
our Self.
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78. Love provides the highest level of
joy, and hence the most
dependable and surest form of
safety.
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79. Love can do all this because Love is
really the term used to designate
the highest form of energy.
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80. So, if we can derive any
advantage for us to have planned
Hiroshima, it is this, it is this.
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81. Learning from Hiroshima
END OF A BEGINNING
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You are a part of Me
Message from Our Universe

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The power unleashed by atomic bombs is similar
to the power unleashed by the sun.

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But the effect is different :
One provides life on earth,
The other is capable of extinction of life on earth.

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We have the power of choice :

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A Waste - land

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Or a refreshing day.
Every day