Why freedom of speech?
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04 July, 2013
Today is American Independence Day.
Listen: Western civilization is a child. American civilization is less than four-hundred years old. The whole of western science is less than three hundred years old. They do not know the necessity for stability. Those civilizations are born out of wars.
Please understand, the context of American civilization is people who escaped from Europe; born out of running away. So what will be the first context, what will be the first requirement for them? Freedom! That is why the root pattern of the western civilization, the Mamakara (inner image) of the western civilization is 'I am controlled', 'I am powerless'. The Ahankara (outer image) is 'I am the most powerful.'
Their Swa-Anyakaara (image
about others and life is) is
'Everybody is out there to
destroy my wealth and my
country'. This is because their
whole civilization was born out
of threat, out of extreme
powerlessness, out of extreme
conflict, extreme survival
threat.
When I went to Chicago, I saw the museum there - how the people came from Europe and settled all over the U.S. and spread all over the U.S. When they came to the U. S., they were all completely shattered. They came just with their one Bible, one coat, a few utensils, in ships and boats. If you go to Chicago, you can trace your family tree and you can also find from which country your forefathers have come and settled in U.S. How many of you have seen the museum which I am talking about? Then you can understand. It means what?
Their whole Constitution is born out of the moment of powerlessness. That was the situation when they wrote their actual inner image and outer image and image about life and others. That is why, if you see their Constitution, it is all about freedom of speech. I think all the Inner Awakening℠ participants can understand very clearly what I am saying.
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