Page 79 - https://ia800806.us.archive.org/12/items/mwk-eng-book/Leading-a-Spiritual-Life.pdf

Leading A Spiritual Life

people usually get offended as normal and adjust to it,
just as all situations, both pleasant and unpleasant, are
accepted within a family. A world without borders only
requires universalization of this family culture.
Once when I went to Spain and landed at the Madrid
airport, I remembered the words of an Arab tourist who,
after seeing the glorious developments of Spain, recalled
the days when Arabs were ruling over the country. He
said with great nostalgia: ‘Will the previous age ever
return to us?’ But when I saw the advances made in
Madrid, my feelings were different. In my travelogue, I
acknowledged the attainments of the people of Spain
and observed that, whereas Muslims in their time had
brought traditional development to Spain, the Spanish
people had now brought about development according
to modern scientific standards.

In the modern age, the maxim, ‘everything for
everyone’ has been accepted as a principle. If a person
takes the ‘passport’ and the ‘visa’ as parts of a normal
routine, he will be able to consider every country as his
own. He will happily accept these formalities.
In the modern world, nationhood is linked to the
homeland. This leads to the concept of patriotism. But
if a person lives by the concept of universal patriotism,
he will take the whole world as his own.

A world without borders seems unachievable at the
physical level, but, at the psychological level, it is quite
achievable for everyone.

78