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WORLD CITIZENS AND ONE-WORLD EDUCATION

By Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati

Dear Fellow World Citizens,

This letter comes to you from Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati, the World Government of World Citizens commissioner for One-World Education.

The original manifesto for one-world government was written in 1956 by Nataraja Guru in collaboration with Garry Davis, coordinator of the World Government of World Citizens. Davis recently announced that the manifesto is to be serialized in World Citizen News.

As we are celebrating Nataraja Guru's birth centenary, I think it is appropriate that we share with you our thoughts on one-world education.

Day by day, the number of world citizens is increasing, and World Citizen News is being read with enthusiasm by most world citizens. There is no doubt that the central focus of every citizen is the one-world which is not only our country, but also our very self. Just as we do not think in terms of the governor and the governed, we also do not have in mind the duality of the teacher and the taught.

Education is a natural process that occurs both consciously and unconsciously in every person who is nurtured by nature and who is also exposed to all the laws implied in the interaction between living organisms and the environment. We are susceptible to being influenced by our environment, from a beam of sunlight that stimulates our eyes, to the sun that carries around it all planets of the solar system. Similarly, from the wisp of air that we breathe, to the star winds, we all share the cosmic atmosphere.

After all, life is a unique phenomenon of earth alone. Humans are privileged to modify their environment and to cooperate with the cosmic phenomena of changing and educating themselves.

There are two world views: one of religious believers, and the other of those who follow the light lent by common sense. For the believers, the world is a creation, and God is its creator. For simple folks, and not-so-simple scientists, everything comes as a projection of an effect-like phenomenon, from natural causes which allow alterations and variations in the laws which we know and which we do not know.

Socrates declared that man's best study is man himself. Today, we have a necessity not only to know ourselves, but also to know our next-door neighbor, who is also a cousin of our farthest neighbor on the other side of the planet. Every atom is a neighbor to the next atom, and yet the cosmos keeps its balance on the strength of the cumulative function of all neighborhood atoms.

Our knowledge of the secret of neighborhood is very, very inadequate. No education is worth its name without the knowledge of thefunctioning neighborhood functions and how it is structured. This knowledge has to be studied with reference to the physical, physio-chemical, psychological and sociological aspects of individuals, countries and our green globe.

Each day we are challenged by all the definitions formulated by sociologists and anthropologists, legalists and administrators, ecclesiasts and free thinkers. We have to decide the truth of the relationship between you and me, between you and your neighbor, between husband and wife, parent and child, and even between those who declare war on their "enemy." This resolving of theTruth of truth should also give us an envisioning of the Beauty of beauty that flickers in the transient, which draws its perennial sense of wonder from the eternal.

Only by resolving on Truth and Beauty as our immediate personal needs can we control ourselves and make a reverential appeal to the heart of humanity. Only by discovering our true good as the golden link between the satisfaction of your need and my need can we become world citizens.

Let this be the challenge of our one-world education. Please respond. My address is: N. C. Yati, Commission: One-world Education, World Service Authority, Narayana Gurukula, Fernhill P.O., Nilgiris-643004, India.

Love,
Your fellow citizen,

Nitya


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