“Revolution is always personal.

Whatever is seen in society is but the reaction of this individualistic

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A WAVE OF CHANGE WITNESSED IN WORLD HUMAN LIFESTYLE

revolution. The basis of this personal revolution is positive and total transformation in people’s
lifestyle”.

………………Revered Gurudeva Shriram Sharma Acharya

Samajik, Naitik evam Baudhik Kranti kaise?

Vangmaya No. 65, Page1.24

Lifestyles can never be gauged merely on the basis of how people eat, sleep and rest. No doubt it is an
important aspect and yet it is miniscule. Its widespread basis is an individual’s thinking process and his
viewpoint of life. What do you think regarding yourself? What do you think regarding others? How do
you view society and nature? After speaking thus Daisaku Ikeda glanced in the direction of Betty
Williams seated nearby. Betty was already the winner of the glorious Nobel Prize. Despite being such a
well known scholar and possessing a highly eulogized personality Ikeda’s personality truly attracted her
attention. Ikeda opined that the most important revolution of the world always took place in people’s
lifestyle and mode of living.

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He is such a living personality whose life and thoughts are discussed avidly. Daisaku born in Japan in
1928 dwells in Tokyo city with his wife Kaneko Ikeda. They have 3 sons called Hiromasa Ikeda, Shirohisa
Ikeda and Talahero Ikeda. Regarding lifestyles and mode of living, his experiences are quite profound. In
childhood his health was not good. In between he was attacked by tuberculosis. Later he came in
contact with his Guru Josi Toda who changed the very foundation of Ikeda’s thinking. Under Toda’s
guidance and proximity he studied literature, history, chemistry, material science, politics, economics,
math and Buddhist Philosophy at Toda University. Ikeda was deeply influenced by Buddha’s life and
philosophy. Along with this he was introduced to Buddha’s place of birth i.e. India and was greatly
influenced. After his Guru Toda passed away he became the chief of his organization called Soka Gakkai
(SGI). This spiritual organization has about 15,000,000 members and it has branches in about 192
countries of the world.

Betty Williams was well versed with Ikeda’s special qualities. At that time she was very attentively
listening to what he was saying. He was saying that a lifestyle had 3 pillars viz. thinking, character and
social behavior. If revolutionary seeds get sown in our thinking they themselves transform our character
and social behavior akin to what happened in my life. My Guru Toda transformed my very thinking
process. In today’s times it can be said to the ill fate of humans and humanity that people today are
growing up akin to plants/trees of jungles and in a very wayward manner somehow grows up. There is
no gardener to prune and nurture them. This is the reason why today’s world is undergoing the curse of
a wayward undesirable lifestyle. In a certain sense distorted lifestyles lead to unrest, sorrow, downfall,
flood of psychic diseases, manifold suicides, bodily illnesses, family quarrels and social disarray.

In the meantime his servant Fukoshama brought glasses of a Japanese drink. Ikeda gestured him to hand
over this drink to Betty and himself continued speaking: Yet such a state of disarray won’t last for long. It
is the pinnacle of pain and anguish that gives birth to a revolution. Today the strife of our lifestyle too
has reached its peak. This is the reason why a revolution shall definitely usher in our lifestyle. In fact I
say it has already commenced. So many movements have commenced the world over viz. Yoga, Live
Positive, Thought Revolution, Art of Living etc. He kept talking and Betty Williams heard him out in a
focused manner. In the meantime Ikeda’s wife came there.

She offered a glass of Japanese drink to him and he accepted it smilingly. His wife smiled back. Smilingly
she said: If you give me permission may I say something? Betty Williams said: Please do! Ikeda’s wife
said that even spiritual Mantras are like seeds of thought that bring about a positive transformation in
our lifestyle. I have seen that if we do Japa of the Mantra ‘Nama myoho renge kyo’ mentioned in the
Lotus Sutra of Nichiren Buddhism along with carrying out our righteous duties mind boggling
transformation is seen in their lives.

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On hearing the topic of Mantras Ikeda’s enthusiasm surged forth. He stood up and in the room itself
while strolling up and down he said: While I had travelled to India I had heard about Super Mantra
Gayatri. Those who perform spiritual austerities using Gayatri Mantra experience revolutionary positive
changes in their lives and lifestyles. In the Sanskrit literature of India Maharshi Valmiki is highly spoken
of. His lifestyle underwent a miraculous transformation. In Buddhist literature Lord Buddha’s very life is
proof of the fact that when thinking reforms from the very roots, one’s lifestyle too transforms.
Buddha’s transformed life helped transform lives of thousands of other followers to the extent that a
ferocious demon Angulimal turned into a pious ascetic (Bhikshu).

This talk of Ikeda was in full flow. The Nobel Prize winner Betty Williams was thoroughly listening to him.
Truly Ikeda’s personality was very influential. The reason behind this influence was the profundity in his
experiences and its widespread nature. There are many examples of world famous personages who in
their respective fields oozed with brilliant talent. Some of these are Arnold Toynbee, Lins Polling,
Vangarimathai, Moriann Pearl, MS Swaminathan, Robert Bejiyo, Coret Scott King, Joseph Rotbet, John
Kenneth Galbraith, David Norton, Ba Jin and Rosa Park. All of these had met Ikeda and eulogized him.

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Ikeda used to say that in all world schools, colleges and universities all subjects are covered. Yet the
topic of life which is most important is overlooked totally. The bare reality is that if life is fully reformed
optimally the entire country and world gets transformed desirably. The world’s various governments are
worried regarding unrest and crime rising alarmingly and various judiciary specialists too are harassed.
For this new laws are being enacted and untold wealth is wasted in implementing it. Yet all this gigantic
effort is virtually reaping nil positive results.

Lest a small portion of labor and money used for all the above is diverted to bring about a positive and
creative transformation in world humanity’s lifestyle, the results shall be full of zest. In many ways I have
discussed all this in my books ‘Choose Life-A Dialogue’, Planetary Citizenship-Your Values’ and ‘Beliefs
and Action Can Shape a Sustainable World’. I have full faith that the wave of change seen in the arena of
our lifestyle shall slowly but surely get converted into a widespread revolution. This is because if a great
human revolution occurs in even a lone individual has the potent capacity to reform the destiny of
entire human race. In the form of an initial result of transformation occurring in the lifestyle of a person,
the form of transformation of the family too shall emerge for all to see.

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