Tapping our Spiritual Intelligence

Everyone in this world desires peace, harmony and a happy life. However peace is an intangible feeling not amenable to description by words. It is transcendental. Yet it is the common need of humanity. The challenge is to make peace achievable for everyone. This is all the more imperative in the present times and the ‘Global Citizens for Peace’ initiative has articulated this well in its Ten Pillars of a Sustainable Peaceful Civilization, taking into account the realities of the present:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/the-ten-commandments-for-a-sustainable-peaceful-civilisation.html

Every individual is a repository of peace, though he may not be aware of it or enjoying it. Our Spiritual Intelligence is tuned to this peace and is in-built within us. It is our basic requirement and the foundation upon which our lives are built. Our entire life is ultimately tuned to achieve this and we become discontented if this is hampered. In our deep sleep state we enjoy this peace and become fully relaxed and refreshed. Whatever we think or do in our waking state is structured around this inner core of peace or bliss, which is our true ‘self’. If they do not fit into this pattern then our ‘conscience’ is affected and we feel stressed. We try to set right our thoughts and actions so that the disturbance in our conscience is gradually healed.

Thus our conscience, which is a manifestation of the inner peace in the ultimate analysis, provides us with a mechanism to tune ourselves with peace. We have here a mechanism to contact and bring into our lives, that which is transcendental, beyond words, beyond logic and that which is sought by the entire humanity. Facilitating the expression of this conscience within each one of us through an appropriate political mechanism and integrating it with our day-to-day lives should be able to usher in peace at the global level.

Partyless Governance, where the individual’s conscience is made the center of all political processes would meet these requirements. Being directly connected to the transcendental and evasive peace, conscience based politics the significance of which is fully understood and accepted, would usher in a just and equitable world order by its very nature. Partyless Governance is possible when all the members of the elected house are elected as independents regardless of their political affiliations outside the house. They are thus enabled to act according to their conscience without being tied to their party line of thinking and are directly accountable to the people. An international effort to promote Partyless Governance at all levels would be a practical mechanism to usher in global peace.