{"id":815,"date":"2007-04-24T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/library\/songs-of-the-soul\/war-peace\/"},"modified":"2012-06-22T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:25:12","slug":"war-peace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=815","title":{"rendered":"War and Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Man invents war. Man discovers peace.<br \/>\nHe invents war from without.<br \/>\nHe discovers peace from within.<br \/>\nWar man throws. Peace man sows.<br \/>\nThe smile of war is the flood of human blood.<br \/>\nThe smile of peace is the love, below, above.<\/p>\n<p>Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity.<br \/>\nWar is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity.<br \/>\nPeace begins in the soul and ends in the heart.<br \/>\nWar begins in the mind and ends in the body.<\/p>\n<p>War forgets peace. Peace forgives war.<br \/>\nWar is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine.<br \/>\nOur vital passions want war.<br \/>\nOur psychic emotions desire peace.<br \/>\nWar is clear futility in dire spear-stupidity.<br \/>\nPeace is flowing infinity in glowing eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Man seeks war when he thinks that the world is not his.<br \/>\nMan invites war when he feels that he can conquer the world.<br \/>\nMan proclaims war when he dreams<br \/>\nThat the world has already surrendered to him.<\/p>\n<p>Man seeks peace because his earthly existence desperately needs it.<br \/>\nMan welcomes peace because he feels<br \/>\nthat in peace alone is his life of achievement and fulfilment.<br \/>\nMan spreads peace because he wants to transcend death.<\/p>\n<p>The animal in man wars against peace in the outer world,<br \/>\nin the world of conflicting ideas.<br \/>\nThe divine in man wars against ignorance in the inner world,<br \/>\nin the world of mounting ideals.<\/p>\n<p>The animal in man wants war for the sake of war,<br \/>\nwar to devour the snoring world.<br \/>\nThe divine in man wants peace for the sake of peace,<br \/>\npeace to feed the hungry world.<\/p>\n<p>By: <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"..\">Songs of the Soul<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/selected-poems\/poems-peace\/\">Poems &#8211; Peace<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":803,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815\/revisions\/5083"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}