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It’s my privilege and pleasure to introduce
the first of our distinguished guest-speakers.
He bears a famous name
and needs very little in the way of introduction.
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and industrialist
of course, he was the man who invented dynamites
and left his fortune to be used for the Nobel Prize
himself was a bachelor,
but Mr. Claes Nobel is his grandnephew.
He was inspired by the work of his distinguished forebear
and has himself had the inspiration to found an organization
which is called “United Earth”, which he is still the chairman.
And this organization has itself instituted a prize
in the ecological sphere
which is not one of the Nobel Prizes, there is no prize for ecology.
And this prize he calls “Earth Ethics”.
He met Shri Mataji last year in India
when he was the chairman of the World Philosophers conference.
So without any more ado, I’dd like to
invite Mr. Claes Nobel to come on to the stage, please.
Well, indeed, life is full of surprises,
after all we are meeting here inspired by the message and work
by Holy Mother Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
and She is not here in body, but She is here in Spirits.
Also the wonderful letter that we recently heard
from ayatollah Ruhani
which speaks very highly about the work and the mission
of the Holy Mother,
where he indicates the importance of women
in the world is needed here.
And frankly speaking, only 36 hours ago
I did not know that I would be here
tonight at the Royal Albert Hall,
addressing this audience.
Still I say: Dear Holy Mother,
and I also recognize her husband Sir C.P. Srivastava in the audience,
and I say, most importantly: dear friends, fellow-seekers of truth,
Are you out there? Because with all this light,
I can only see about 20 people in front of me.
So, say “yes”, if you are in here, then I know…
Ah…
Now I can see you, I can here you as well as you can see and here me.
With that said, I want to say I have a vision,
I have a vision for a world that is better, safer and saner
than the one that we presently are experiencing.
It is a world where people live in harmony and peace with themselves
and in harmony and peace with Nature.
Now, those words of vast, it’s a bold vision,
do I have a practical way of going from vision to reality?
Yes, I will share that with you.
And I will share it and indicate a tone of the meeting
by ten small words.
And they indicate how this global world transformation
should be undertaken.
And they are: Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Deeds,
Right Here and Right Now.
The key word, the key word is, of course, “right”,
this world is fighting about what is right,
what is right to you might be wrong to me or vice-versa,
it’s a grey area.
So we need a reference point,
so we can distinguish between right and wrong
and between truth and lie.
Tonight Shri Mataji will show us what is right.
Tonight Shri Mataji will empower us
to become the masters of our own destiny.
And tonight we’ll be guided
by the knowledge of Self Realization.
We will do so in the light of Truth
and we shall all know absolute truth and absolute peace.
Now, 100 years ago Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prizes.
These prizes represent excellence.
We have prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine, literature
and peace.
All those prizes, I hold the peace prize to be the finest.
And I want to tell you that Alfred Nobel listened to a woman,
he listened to his secretary Bertha von Suttner in Paris
100 years ago when she said:
”Dr. Nobel, you should use your vast fortune
for betterment of the world”.
Tonight we are listening to another woman,
we are listening to the message of Shri Mataji.
However, I am very much inspired first by my uncle
and later on, you will hear, by Shri Mataji.
Alfred Nobel talked much about peace.
He was frightened that his awesome explosive dynamite
which cleared up land for harbors and tunnels
could also be used for war affair.
Today, in the arsenal of military systems,
it’s like a small fire cracker,
but at that time dynamite was a most awesome destructive material.
Now, Alfred Nobel thought basically
about peace as absence of war.
But I assure you that peace is much more than absence of war.
And I see that peace exists in four specific areas.
The first area is the peace that an individual has in him or herself
how do we treat our mind, our emotions and our feelings?
How do we treat our body?
Are we slaves to other masters
or are we our own master?
Until we have the inner peace in ourselves,
we can never have an outer peace in the world.
And the safest and best way of finding world peace
is to have mass movements that include all religions and philosophies,
all enterprises, whether they are of political or scientific nature,
to realize what inner peace is.
And that’s what we are talking about tonight: Self Realization.
What does Self Realization mean?
Well, it means that we are realizing something, but what is the Self?
Ladies and gentlemen, the Self in us is the Divine Cosmic Power
that exist in each and every individual,
but which is dormant in most people around the world.
The spiritual leaders from ancient lores,
they knew about this and they spoke about this.
But this secret of secrets has been suppressed deliberately
until Shri Mataji with great courage and great wisdom,
being an old soul would decided by Herself
to come back to the Earth at this critical time in our history,
in order to share Her knowledge and wisdom
which is the Sahaja Yoga,
which is instant Self Realization,
which is to activate the dormant principle
that we all have: the Kundalini,
and have the Kundalini to rise up and thus we become
what it says in the Bible: “You are created in My image”.
That was the first category, first sphere of peace
the one we have in ourselves.
The next one is the peace that we have among each other
in the family, in our community, in our nation,
that we have peace with other ethnic groups
and with other religions,
that we really become true what I call “active listeners”
And, as “active listeners” are able to put ourselves
in the place, in the shoes of the other party.
Only then, when we have the outlook from their perspective,
shall we understand what they are trying to say.
We are always talking, talking, talking.
My dear wife, who is not here tonight,
she said: ”Claes, you talk too much, you don’t listen”.
I have start to practice what she calls “active listening”.
The third sphere is a sphere that put me in, originally.
After all, I am a European Swedish business man,
why am I up here speaking the language of spirituality
and saying that that is where the hope of the future exists?
I am doing so, because I have a deep and profound
reverence for Nature,
as a Nobel Peace laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer said.
After, he add, worked and worked, trying to
distil the phrase that contained everything that he knew,
everything he wanted to say through his philosophy,
Dr. Albert Schweitzer calling the phrase “reverence for Life”
Nature is nothing but a plethora
of examples of life in its multifaceted version.
And I tell you, dear fellows seekers of Truth,
we, humanity today, in our ignorance,
in our greed and in our *** for power,
we are in the process of destroying the
very thing that makes this planet unique
and that is Life on Earth.
And, so far, we do not know of another planet in the universe
that harbors this miracle.
Earth is like a blue jewel in space
and is only one Earth and this Earth is fragile
and we must take care of her and respect her.
Earth is also called Nature.
We cannot break the laws of Nature,
we must live by the laws of Nature.
If we break them, Mother Earth will break us.
And we are only one species of –
we don’t know how many species we have – 5, 10, 15 millions.
But this we know
and this is being proven by the world foremost scientist
in Harvard University U.S., Dr. Edward O. Wilson:
we are today bringing to extinction 250 species per day.
That is as if we are deliberately and willfully
pulling out thread after thread after thread
of what consists the fabric of life
and Mother Nature will not let us continue doing that
without correcting us as naughty children.
The fourth sphere of peace is the peace that we shall know
between ourselves and God.
Any religion or any group
who raises their arms and destroys its enemy
in the name of God is not following what God has asked us to do.
The world should not know of violence
and the world should not know of war.
I call, as you earlier heard, these four spheres of peace
“Earth Ethics”
And tonight we will hear more from the Holy Mother
how we shall have a reference point, how we can distinguish
if we have a charlatan and a fraud in front of us,
or if it’s a genuine honest person.
And you, dear audience, you have come here tonight
from many different walks of life.
And like you, I have also been seeking for the truth.
I am beginning to discern truth rather clearly
and let me tell you this, that I look upon life on Earth
as a kind of a school, a school
where we are learning perfection and purification.
Now on Earth everything is interdependent,
interactive and interrelated.
And on Earth, as well as in Heaven, I guess
every action has a reaction,
every effect has a cause, every cause has an effect.
And the Holy Mother, as I said, She is a highly evolved soul,
She has learned from many many lives
what it is all about
and these what it is all about laws, the unseen laws,
the spiritual laws,
they’re always here and they work as infallible
as the law of gravity works.
It always works, all those unseen laws.
It is for us to learn and perceive that law.
I am very comfortable with the teachings of Shri Mataji
and I am very comfortable with the Holy Mother Herself.
I say so because in the Bible there is one saying
among several good ones: “You shall know the tree by its fruit”.
And lately, I have met young men and women
in different parts of the world,
and certainly from many different parts of the world
and they are all shining, beautiful human individuals
that radiate inner peace and balance.
They are unique.
You who follow or who are in a process of following
will be, I think,
those individuals who shall call themselves
“ambassadors for the Earth”.
And after tonight session is over,
I’m sure that you shall see clearly
how you shall distinguish between truth and lie
and you shall realize that blind faith
is of no value and that fanaticism and
to take up violence as a last argument is of no value:
eventually those things will bring you unhappiness
and will bring you conflict and potential war.
Ladies and gentlemen, I know that we hold the future in our hands.
I know that the future is in your hands
I know it’s in my hands.
And I also know that the future of the planet
exists in the heart of the individuals.
Now, I will close my remarks tonight by a fable from India.
I heard it when I attended the Rio Conference ’92,
that was the 20-th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference,
that for the first time put on the environment on the world agenda.
In Stockholm ’72 we had only two heads of states:
the prime minister of India and the king of Sweden.
In Rio, 20 years later, we had 110 heads of states.
A marvelous declaration was drafted, “Agenda 21”.
Just last week in New York there were 70 heads of state
that continued with “Rio plus 5”.
What is I told Sir C.P. when he asked me
about how is the outcome of this conference,
I said: Well, we are talking about sustainable future,
for it seems to me that in UN there is much
of a sustainable dialogue ongoing.
Tonight we should take the action.
Well, I asked the holy man from India, a white robed Acharya
and I said:
“Is there hope for the future?”.
And he said: “Mr. Nobel, I will answer your question as follows”,
and this is what he said: “When the Dear Lord had created the Earth,
He was very very happy, very very very pleased,
it was His finest creation in the Universe
and He decided to celebrate, to have a party.
And God invited in all angels and all the devils.
When they were there,
He toasted them and wished them welcome as a good host
and said:
There is only one rule that you must strictly obey while you are here
having a good time. And, by the way,
the best food and the best wine was served, the ambrosia and nectar.
And He said: "There is one rule and that is that while you are here"
celebrating My creation, you may never bend your elbows.
The devils cried out and said:
We don’t want any part of such party.
How can we enjoy it, not bending our elbows?!
So they left.
Then the party started,
the angels were having a jolly good time
and the Dear God was very very happy.”
Now, how could they eat and drink, without bending their elbows?
Well, I sense that you can see what the moral of the fable is.
The angels were feeding each other,
they were sharing and they were caring,
and that is what we shall do in the future together.
Thank you very much.