MOTHER MAYA'S ADDRESS AT WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LEADERS INITIATIVE AT UNITED NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Blessed Soul,

Cultivating personal health and communal wellness is an imperative necessity before we can experience peace at any level. The Vedic Tradition, which is the wellspring of Wise Earth education, tells us that health and harmony are interrelated and neither can be found outside of ourselves. Health and harmony are our natural state of being. Indeed, we are wellness. We are consciousness. Disease is an imposter. Once we realize this natural state of being human, we discover that disharmony and disease arise from forgetfulness of the True Self -- the Self that is intrinsically Whole and Conscious.

Our primary commitment here at Wise Earth School is to harmony. We must strive to make this commitment greater than any other commitment or particular goal in our life. Goals change, problems change, perspectives change, but harmony is unchanging. We can find infinite strength when we make harmony our ultimate priority.

It is now a quarter century since I first began teaching the work we call Wise Earth Sadhana –an inner medicine educational model for health and wellness. During these years, I have guided thousands of precious souls into their healing from devastating disease and disharmony. At Mother Om Mission (MOM), where we serve some of the poorest people amidst the most devastated living conditions on earth, I have encountered thousands of souls striving to achieve a common goal -- inner harmony and self nurturance. To live in sacred accord with all things takes more than the desire to live without disease, conflict and poverty or the yearning for healthfulness, happiness, and prosperity. It requires a commitment to harmony and the discipline to strive for wholeness, peace, and health through surrendering every cell, tissue and memory of our being to nature’s rhythms. To seek out harmony and put aside lifelong habits and behaviours that tend to draw us away from the sacred reminders of glorious human nature into negative thinking and disharmonious activities, takes knowing that the understanding of peace and harmony lies solely within ourselves. Each one of us has the power to cultivate inner harmony and good health, and therefore to envision peace. Indeed, Wise Earth Sadhana provides us with a "cosmic vision" rooted in the vision of the Vedic rishis -- to discover our greater energies. Wise Earth work also provides us the "cosmic bridge" -- the practice of everyday sadhana -- to cross over life's perilous path and, as a result, to achieve this noble goal of harmony. At present, the world is in a time of deep, soul-searching transition --- wherein the passing of old, impure behavior must give way to the attitude of light and harmony and unification that naturally arise from knowing the True Self. In this understanding, we may eliminate the sense of isolation, fragmentation, and separation that causes disharmony, and in so doing, we may reclaim our own " inner medicine ", a power that each of us possesses, a power that only Mother Nature can revitalize and sustain.

Wise Earth Sadhana education is "inner medicine" work. As I take time to reflect on the twenty five years I have been serving humanity, I retreat into the forest, burrowing deeply within the bosom of nature here in the serene Pisgah Mountains, contemplating my fiftieth year to Mother Earth. I reflect on our wondrous human nature composed of kindness, compassion, and generosity and pray that we may remember our True Nature. May you feed, nourish and nurture yourselves peacefully from Mother's well. May your inner wisdom grow. May your sense of shared responsibility for the betterment of the world be blessed with many sacred gifts of the spirit.

The world's transformation into unity, peace and prosperity depends entirely on a more profound transformation – that of your individual cultivation of good health, and inner peace.

United Nations Global Peace Initiative Press Release