Santosh Kumar Pokharel

World peace is a state of no war, no killing, and particularly, is a state where people have peace of mind and they don't suffer from diseases. The coronavirus pandemic has unsettled our world in recent years, leaving thousands of people dead. Absence of pandemics also guides us towards peaceful state.

Wars, pandemics, and diseases are obstacles to peace on earth and besides, there is a declared number one enemy that has been beating millions, humiliating billions and killing hundreds of thousands every year, and that is hunger. Hunger comes with the caravan of immune deficiencies and diseases that ultimately kills millions. So, the absence of an empty stomach is a prerequisite to world peace.

Every war fought to date is a history of killings of the people and destructions of natural resources. One way or the other, wars have been a major cause of depletion of natural resources. Wars destroy peace and infringe upon our right to life. Wars exhaust oil, mines, and damage jungles and pollute rivers, seas and oceans. They destroy civilizations. The history of last 5000 years tells us that no war has been progressive. Human compassion and love are always crushed under the boots of aggressors.

Nature
Wars have killed many and forced people to lead a harsh life. They bring hunger, destitution and hopelessness. A poet, a singer or an artist would better prefer to have a tender heart to a harsher one, no matter how modern and progressive the latter might be. Literature has skillfully beautified the harsh utterances of harsh post-modernist poetry that have not sounded ear-healing.
Oriental epics in Sanskrit and the epics of Greek and Latin world were lyrical and still sound sweet to our ears. The absence of wars and the absence of harshness is a condition for a lasting peace in the world.
We all should admire nature and her creations -greeneries, wildlife, avians and people. Your love is returned to you in many folds by the nature.

Compassion is the foundation of love and peace in the world. For cultivating great compassion, you have to have a pristine look towards earthly and stellar objects. Sun, moon, and stars are in communion with a poet of high reach. Trees and vines too can feel your emotions and the animal world is no exception at all.
Look at them with a sense of love and care, and abstain from hurting them. Your proper communion with nature this way will boost your tender behaviour and you will be away from conflict of interests. The absence of conflict is peace.
Nature is a very high phenomenon that reigns the universe. If a universe is a big emptiness or a big void, Nature is what lets this void fill with lives and get going and manifest. Nature is the mother to all that manifest in the Universe.

There has to be a pact with Nature or it won't let you live peacefully. Would you let in your home a stranger that doesn't observe your set rules? The earth is not only for humans but also for animals, avians, reptiles, insects, and worms, and the space is not only for human's reign but also for entities that are still not given to human sights. Days are for us and nights maybe for others. No human can claim Nature's work but for him. Unnecessary exploitation of Nature may compel her to act her way and it can be a punishment to our life.

Nature pervades the terrestrial and stellar worlds. So, you have to be in harmony with her in every moment of your existence here and after. Aesthetics in the human mind has not simply come underway for granted but has been born to cognize the Creator, who too in his turn is bound to follow the rules.

See the stellar planets follow their trajectories in a most disciplined manner to hold the universe in place, so Nature is an eternal discipline all the creations shall abide by or the life system could extinct. Nature is a set of rules that have been in place here from time immemorial to our knowledge.

Emptiness as a source of origin of life here, and a refuge to your afterlives will remain here. Thoughts accumulated here remains in the space in wave-layers and is made available by Nature for the thinkers and poets in need, and your creations depend on what wave you catch. Creating poems and songs and making innovations and discoveries are results of the mere connection of our heart and mind with those layers. These layers are well preserved by Nature from when life here started. So, the absence of a polluted sky is peace.

Nature is the infinite abode where all the existence is given to our gross and subtle perception, and all those our perception is far from cognition of by our faculty of knowledge, have their place even after their physical existence is over. There shall be a pact or a negotiation or say in other words an agreement, with Nature to avail of her grace to peacefully live one’s life in full here.

Commitment
A pact with Nature is a commitment to no war, it's a coexistence agreement between human beings and Nature. This agreement is a tough pact to act in line with coexistence commitment that mankind shall fully observe. Mankind shall preserve forests and wildlife and avians, preserve aquatic lives, observe the cleanliness of rivers seas, and oceans. It's likewise a boon in return on Nature's part - good health and longevity of life. This virtual pact has been well observed by the sages and poets, by the singers and musicians, by the painters and sculptors and by the spiritualists and some others from ages.

( Pokharel is a poet)