Daily Meditation: Sunday, January 28, 2001

A country is like a river in which a great variety of souls …

01/28/2001

A country is like a river in which a great variety of souls are destined to meet at a certain period, just like streams meeting in a river. Some of these souls have already lived in this country but most of them come from somewhere else. When people, in the name of love for their country, think they are right to despise or even hate other countries, they are ignorant, they do not even suspect that, in some other incarnation, they were citizens of those countries and held the same stupid and narrow-minded views about the country they now want to defend!... A country is our homeland only for this incarnation. Many French people hated Germany or Great Britain without realizing that, in a past incarnation, they were themselves German or English, and hated France at that time... This law is the same for all countries around the world, and applies to religions as well. For example, many Christians hate Jews or Muslims and cannot imagine for one second that they were Jews or Muslims themselves in another incarnation. And the same applies to Jews and Muslims in relation to Christians. The experience of belonging to a country or a religion is always limited in time.