After becoming Prime Minister of India Sri Narendra Modi has made history in many ways. This is a public letter requesting him to legislate for the following.
First, India should abandon capital punishment for good. The duty of a state is to protect life. If there are unacceptable crimes the way forward is to find ways and means to educate people so that the possibility of committing crime is reduced to a minimum.
Second, it is nice to know Sri Modi has embarked upon education reform in India. That is the right way forward. The philosophy of education should be to bring about unity among all sections of Indian society. This must be on Advaita – Non Duality or more appropriately ‘Oneness and Equality’ of the entire humanity.
In addition Sri Modi can try to establish ‘World Advaita Day’ through UN. He has done a great job by establishing World Yoga Day. He can discuss this option with UN Secretary General for adoption by the world as he did for World Yoga Day. Yoga is one of the six schools of Vedic philosophy. It is practised in almost every country in the world. No one has to convert to Hinduism to practise Yoga. Similarly Advaita is a universal philosophy. It is not ritual or religion. In the world it is the only philosophy based on scientific evidence. It is the true picture of what the humanity really is.
Jatindra Saha
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