Great Warrior Of Ahimsa

SR No.: 032307
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation
Total Pages: 54
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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(viii) lines at one of his important lecture and paper (*L) presented in the presence of distinguished thinkers presided over by Late Acharya Sri Sushil Kumariji at an International Conference on Non-Violence convened by V.H.P. at Penta Hotel, New York, in 1984. Strange are the ways of destiny and cosmic happenings....! Such a thing - Change of the warrior captain's heart - has actually and really, exactly, happenned just some time back. Both the suggestive indications of my above said Paper and this Play have co-incidentally materialised and come into a concrete event, an interesting happenning, unconsciously.......!! During my very recent 11th Lectures-Music-Meditation Tour Abroad, I came across in U.S.A a very useful and interesting, thrilling autobiographical Novel : "The Wings of Morning". It is a factual Novel of Self-happenning, written by E.Lorenzo, A Cuban Air Force Captain Pilot, who had dared to deny the disastrous orders of his superiors, even the President, to bombard while on War-running-duty in action. Seeing the innocent children and people playing and relaxing on the Sea Shore of Florida, the cowardly cruel act of bombing them all for no crime of theirs, was questioned by his own awareness-born self-reasoning, moved his compassionate humanitarian heart and spontaneously prevented him from carrying on his Superiors' orders of bombardments......!!! Involved in this daring act of denial or non-cooperation was the safety of his ownself and that of his small loving family which was naturally left behind in Cuba. He escaped on board with his country's fighter Air Force Plane just like a hijaker, took refuge shelter and asyulam in the U.S.A. by landing & surrendering himself to the welcoming U.S. Army Officers over there and as a result, was obviously served with wireless orders from his Superiors threatening him with dire consequences. Even Cuban President Fidel Castro himself is reported telling and challenging him with these words : as printed on the Title Cover of the said Novel; "IF LORENZO HAD COURAGE TO HIJACK AWAY MY AIR FORCE PLANE, LET HIM HAVE GUTS TO COME BACK AND TAKE HIS FAMILY..........". And lateron, the fighter Hero of this factual drama, planningly and courageously did so also, came in a Plane, daringly lifted his family from Cuba, flew back to U.S.A. and settled over there meeting the Presidential Challenge.......! As reported, he is staying now also in Florida, U.S.A., with his family. Well, this recent event of Cuban Airforce Captain Hero exactly resembles and as if incarnates the possible foreseen event of the character of the Hero-Major in this play. As we witness in the later part of the play, the Heart-transformed Major of the Star War refuses to bombard and carry on the enemy-nation-destroying orders of his Nation's President. Of course he does this diplomatically, with convincingly acquired consents of his fellow cosmonaut soldiers through reasoned dialogue followed by unanimous denial of bombarding-all in Non-violent Gandhian way, citing the ideal of Gandhi, the Unique Warrior ! What a co-incidence !! What was predictively foreseen and naturally slipped out of the pen of this humble self now in the last decade of this twentieth Century. Such events are yet going to take shape in future if the humanity standing on the threshold of nuclear disasters has to survive. This is going to be possible by uniting Science with Spirituality or Non-violence as foreseen by Gandhiji's right interpreter & heir Acharya Vinobaji. Certainly, mysterious are the ways of such happenings, of Divinity, of Mysticism, of Truth & Non-violence, unseen forces of which are at work unusually in such mysterious, mystical, unpredicatable events of Cosmic Order of Destiny......!!! Very recently I had the privilege to listen to a number of Global Thinkers on this subject and participate in their discussions while presenting my studious paper (*M) in the session of Science, Religion and Spirituality, a part of International Seminar on "GANDHI AND THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY" organised very successfully in Jan.-feb. 1998 at (*L) "VIOLENCE, WARS & WEAPONS", By self. (*M) "NON-VIOLENT VISIONARIES OF UNIVERSAL WELFARE", By self.