by Dada Vimaleshananda

One time in my childhood my mother encouraged me to do interviews. She gave me a book of Oriana Fallaci who had the venture to interview several state heads including Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Muhammar Geddafi, and others. I accepted her advice and I run three interview with sports trainers in my local town. One of these interview got published on the local newspaper.

I believe in the inherent spiritual gift that people living in the countryside have. It is on that strategically superior perception of the relationship between God and creation that I wish to tap into and bring it in political action. And it is through interviewing local farmers that I wish to bring up their consciousness of the spiritual value of farming life in order to give them the strength to remain struggling and fighting against odd legislations, weather conditions, lack of social recognition and generally ... hardship.

Needless to say in the countryside women are leaders. It is just an observation considering the level of involvement in social affairs and the capacity to tackle difficult situations. They are leaders in the school and in the education, they are leaders in the trade, they are leaders in the social service, wherever I go it is women that I found at the helm of responsibility and responsible choices. If I had to interview them I would ask:

* where is your strength?
* can you tell a story about what happened in a specific incident that required your strength to come in full expression?
* how you felt after?
* how you feel know remembering that incident?

The capacity to nurture our positive sides seems to be the winning element on the path of growth, spiritual as well as social. I do believe that in order to increase the strength of human society we have to emphasize the best of its characteristics and distinctive qualities. The process of integration is very different from the process of homogenization. I stand for integration and understanding, not for blending and making a whole gray color out of the beautiful differences in a rainbow.