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Stephen Smith says in his article, it is clear that the modern world
has lost its moral compass.
Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders of quantum mechanics
who was also a spiritual thinker said of the quest for power, “I
believe that this proud will to dominate nature does in fact under-
lie modern science, and … the anxious question presents itself to
us whether this power, our Western power over nature, is evil.” In
other words, Pauli was pointing out that the problem lies in the
human mind itself and its approach towards Nature, in the inner
and not in the outer dimension of the mind.
Most thinking persons across the world would agree that there
is now an unprecedented crisis in human affairs. Many would also
say that the resolution of the crisis has to be sought in more intelli-
gent use of natural resources, better international laws and controls
to prevent wars between nations, better legislation to prevent racial
and religious conflicts in societies and so on.
Enter Krishnamurti. For him, the crisis is a more fundamental
one. It is a crisis in human consciousness itself (as Pauli the scien-
tist too suggested) and unless it is resolved at that level, there will
be no end to the conflict among human beings and to the destruc-
tion of Nature in which all life forms live, move and have their
being: “the inner always overcomes the outer.” As Donal Creedon
puts it dramatically and beautifully in his article, “Before the axe
has cut the tree down, it is already destroyed by the eye.” Hence
the seeing eye and the ‘seer’ have to change for any fundamental
change to take place. The authors in this volume describe how see-
ing this truth has affected their outlooks and changed their ways of
living and working.

Swami Chidananda comes from a background of long study of
the Advaitic (non-dualistic) teachings of Vedanta, which teach
how the ego process obscures the seeing of ‘things as they are’,
(the ‘what is’ in Krishnamurti’s language), and how the obscuration

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