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Vithalladas was a Hindu Monk in his forties. He was serving as a volunteer for a prominent humanitarian organization of India, which had a branch in Israel.
Ever since childhood he showed signs of being a bright-minded scholar. As he grew older he became passionately curious in learning about various religions and its philosophies, other than his own.
Which is why, he befriended many scholars, intellectuals, scientists, thinkers, clerics and monks from other religions. To name just a few; Vithalladas befriended Sister Agatha who was fulfilling her duties as a nun for a Catholic organization in Israel.
Other than Agatha, he knew Rabbi Elijah, Father James - The Protestant, Muhammed bin Aabid - who was an equally erudite & a broad-minded religious scholar like Vithalladas, Gururahim Singh - a devout Sikh accountant for a major Guru Dwara in Israel, the twin Buddhist siblings Kannika & Renzin - who were a part of the global Dhamma organization globally famed for their mindfulness courses, a Swetambara Jain Businessman of Indian origin, and an aged Zoroastrian priest.
All of them knew each other for a decade in Israel, so their friendship had become deep-rooted in the present time, and all of them shared a healthy bond with each other even today.
Vithalladas being a well-informed scholar was well aware how things were worsening around the World, from a geo-political perspective. He observed that gradually, humanity was headed towards the next World-War, owing to their religious, cultural and ideological differences, religious extremism, politics of greed, hyper-nationalism, and long-continued territorial disputes.
His fears became true when only a week back, a certain terrorist outfit launched a massive attack on all of Israel's major cities, from air, from land, and by sea, in which many hundreds of innocent citizens of Israel & tourists lost their lives. But the terrorists simply didn't stop their atrocities then & there, as they kidnapped hundred other civilians and took them to Gaza strip, threatening the Israeli government to kill them one by one, if it'd decide to invade Gaza.
Israel being a strong country, affluent with advanced militaristic technology immediately retaliated with multiple-airstrikes on Gaza, killing the many Terrorists and the Palestinian citizens alike. Day by day Vithalladas and his fellow companions observed that tensions were escalating between Israel & Palestine, and they feared that other countries may soon join either Israel or Palestine, which may eventually culminate in the third World War.
It wasn't the only armed conflict in the world at that time. Russia & Ukraine were also at war with each other for two years. Other than these two major conflicts, many other small to medium scaled armed conflicts, insurgencies and civil-wars were ongoing around the globe, which instead of improving were becoming worse with each passing day.
Moreover, many countries such as China, North Korea and Iran and many others, were becoming more & more hyper-nationalistic and were also aggressively engaged in rivalries with their neighbors.
Few autocratic world-leaders of such countries kept on increasing their nuclear arsenals, despite sanctions were already imposed upon them. They repeatedly threatened each other with nuclear-attacks, if anyone would try to stop them from achieving their motives.
Such a fragile environment around the world, made Vithalladas and his friends worry for humanity's future.
All of them decided to meet inside a bunker in Tel-Aviv.
During their meeting Vithalladas broke the ice and told them that if World-Leaders of various countries continued to retaliate the violence of their enemies by an equally destructive counter-violence, then it wouldn't take much time for the entire humanity to be mutually annihilated due to a Nuclear-War.
Since Vithalladas was a science-enthusiast as well, he added that it wouldn't matter to the Universe whether human civilization perishes from Earth or not. For Universe, our tiny blue-planet called Earth is nothing more than a micro-miniscule figment of...
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Vithalladas was a Hindu Monk in his forties. He was serving as a volunteer for a prominent humanitarian organization of India, which had a branch in Israel.
Ever since childhood he showed signs of being a bright-minded scholar. As he grew older he became passionately curious in learning about various religions and its philosophies, other than his own.
Which is why, he befriended many scholars, intellectuals, scientists, thinkers, clerics and monks from other religions. To name just a few; Vithalladas befriended Sister Agatha who was fulfilling her duties as a nun for a Catholic organization in Israel.
Other than Agatha, he knew Rabbi Elijah, Father James - The Protestant, Muhammed bin Aabid - who was an equally erudite & a broad-minded religious scholar like Vithalladas, Gururahim Singh - a devout Sikh accountant for a major Guru Dwara in Israel, the twin Buddhist siblings Kannika & Renzin - who were a part of the global Dhamma organization globally famed for their mindfulness courses, a Swetambara Jain Businessman of Indian origin, and an aged Zoroastrian priest.
All of them knew each other for a decade in Israel, so their friendship had become deep-rooted in the present time, and all of them shared a healthy bond with each other even today.
Vithalladas being a well-informed scholar was well aware how things were worsening around the World, from a geo-political perspective. He observed that gradually, humanity was headed towards the next World-War, owing to their religious, cultural and ideological differences, religious extremism, politics of greed, hyper-nationalism, and long-continued territorial disputes.
His fears became true when only a week back, a certain terrorist outfit launched a massive attack on all of Israel's major cities, from air, from land, and by sea, in which many hundreds of innocent citizens of Israel & tourists lost their lives. But the terrorists simply didn't stop their atrocities then & there, as they kidnapped hundred other civilians and took them to Gaza strip, threatening the Israeli government to kill them one by one, if it'd decide to invade Gaza.
Israel being a strong country, affluent with advanced militaristic technology immediately retaliated with multiple-airstrikes on Gaza, killing the many Terrorists and the Palestinian citizens alike. Day by day Vithalladas and his fellow companions observed that tensions were escalating between Israel & Palestine, and they feared that other countries may soon join either Israel or Palestine, which may eventually culminate in the third World War.
It wasn't the only armed conflict in the world at that time. Russia & Ukraine were also at war with each other for two years. Other than these two major conflicts, many other small to medium scaled armed conflicts, insurgencies and civil-wars were ongoing around the globe, which instead of improving were becoming worse with each passing day.
Moreover, many countries such as China, North Korea and Iran and many others, were becoming more & more hyper-nationalistic and were also aggressively engaged in rivalries with their neighbors.
Few autocratic world-leaders of such countries kept on increasing their nuclear arsenals, despite sanctions were already imposed upon them. They repeatedly threatened each other with nuclear-attacks, if anyone would try to stop them from achieving their motives.
Such a fragile environment around the world, made Vithalladas and his friends worry for humanity's future.
All of them decided to meet inside a bunker in Tel-Aviv.
During their meeting Vithalladas broke the ice and told them that if World-Leaders of various countries continued to retaliate the violence of their enemies by an equally destructive counter-violence, then it wouldn't take much time for the entire humanity to be mutually annihilated due to a Nuclear-War.
Since Vithalladas was a science-enthusiast as well, he added that it wouldn't matter to the Universe whether human civilization perishes from Earth or not. For Universe, our tiny blue-planet called Earth is nothing more than a micro-miniscule figment of...
