What I really enjoy about what MOM teaches is that it is from a global perspective. This is how I see things also so I find her words speak to my heart. What I like about here mission is that she teaches individuals how to transform violence, poverty, and disease into nurturance, harmony, and health. This is something that we can all use in our lives. Below is MOM’s letter to friends that I am sure everyone will find interesting and educational to read.

"Dear Friends,

The intention of this Initiative is to create awareness worldwide of the peace building process within ourselves. The primary commitment of the Initiative is to harmony. Each one of us must strive to make this commitment greater than any other commitment to particular goal in our life. Harmony is a living force within the heart and mind of each and every person and can be generated through living in sadhana -- peaceful everyday practices that reflect and recreate the universe's energies and rhythms. The investment necessary for manifesting health and harmony comes from the treasure trove that is within the human heart and its mining requires ardent commitment to cultivating inner harmony as a first priority.

Unlike the making of war, violence, and disease, harmony recovered requires each human to dig deep into the very heart of being to find their forgotten memory of harmony intrinsic to the human spirit. To recover our memory of nonviolence and nonhurtfulness, we must first develop the paramount expression of love and respect for each other - not in spite of - but, because of our human differences and diverse beliefs.

I am happy for this opportunity to present a radical new approach to nurturing and achieving World Peace. This Initiative is about the changes and transformation we can effect within ourselves in terms of embracing with love a person/persons for whom we may have formed an intense dislike; or showing respect for an idea or belief that we may find offensive. Inner transformation of Self is the most effective way to Peace and Harmony because it demands that we meet the challenges of self beliefs and ideas built around the profound traditions from which each one of us humans have emerged and to which we have formed potent images of beliefs we hold to be true, and more frequently, to the demise of the beliefs of other beings.

PAVE and WAVE Peace Initiative is not anti-war marches and demonstrations, or collecting signatures to send to Congress, or any of the otherwise positive, nonviolent approaches we may endeavor to support Peace. It is about doing our inner work: through nonharmful thought, mindful action, and prayer. First though, we must shift our thinking to accommodate the views and beliefs of others. We must also learn to fortify the Divine Energies within ourselves. The mission of PAVE and WAVE Peace Initiative is to broadcast the collective invisible expression of loving embrace and gentleness and compassion throughout the universal sound waves so that the globules and prana from which all life is formed - vibrational energies that know no boundary - can be invoked to influence the global energy of awareness, love, and compassion in every crevice of each mind and heart and in every corner of the Earth. Together, we do have the knowledge and power to manifest Peace on Earth.

Why then is Peace the most illusive reality in our time? Have the numerous wars of the world brought Peace closer to our lives? What will it take to cultivate a sustainable peace?
Since 1985, world military expenditures have totaled over $14 trillion. In the words of a Peace Pilgrim, we always seem ready to pay the price for war. Almost gladly we give our time and our treasure - our limbs and even our lives - for war. But we expect to get peace for nothing. Obviously, there is no price for peace because unlike war it is not a commodity.

Peace is a living life force within the heart and mind of each and every person and can be generated through awareness. The investment necessary for manifesting peace comes from the treasure trove that is within the human heart and its mining requires ardent commitment to cultivating inner harmony as human's first priority. Unlike the making of war, peace recovered requires each human to dig deep into their character, into the very heart of being to find their forgotten memory of love and compassion.
Harmony is the material that creates peace. When personal desire or communal challenge come in conflict with codes of conduct that is divine law, the mind is likely to source its response in ignorance. Every battle, war or fight, whether personal, religious, or political, sprang from someone's conflicted thought, followed by the articulation and expression of that thought. Evidenced by the great expenditures of war and the gigantic mess of violence in the world we live in, world leaders pose more like war mongers than peace makers. The process of peace eludes the world because we - the individual human person - have either forgotten or learned to ignore the living wisdom that protects life.

Personal peace must come first. Cultivating inner harmony is an imperative necessity before we can experience health and peace at any level. To achieve our inner resolve, we must make a commitment to harmony. Our primary commitment at Wise Earth Hermitage - which I founded twenty three years ago - is to harmony. Each one of us 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. Collectively, we can find infinite strength when we make harmony our ultimate priority.

We are at a critical juncture in the evolution of spiritual understanding. Do we have the spiritual resources necessary to meet the present challenges? Evidently we do. For timeless eon, the essential truths of living in accordance with divine law proclaimed by the rishis - Vedic seers - and numerous other faith traditions have been common knowledge throughout the world confirmed again and again as necessary to the welfare and harmony of life and living.

The Vedic tradition, to which I belong, teaches the principle of ahimsa - living in harmony with each other and all life through the transparent and conscious act of nonviolence and nonhurtfulness. Ahimsa informs that each person -- from all traditions, cultures, and religions, and every life form -- including space, air, water, earth, forest, and even a speck of sand -- possesses consciousness and energy. It is essential for humanity to recover its intrinsic memory of ahimsa - compassion and awareness - if we are to survive our present predicament.

According to the Vedas, ahimsa is the foremost human obligation in fulfillment of dharma, divine law. For the system of dharma to be universally valid, it must meet all the necessities of life - it must provide love, compassion, support, health, prosperity in all states of existence to all peoples and must be adept at serving the manifold needs and conditions of all communities. The Vedic way of life is rooted in the system of dharma. From the beginning, the Vedic tradition has advocated harmony among all peoples and all life forms, and this awareness has led to the ethical virtues that formed the Hindu lifestyle that are based on ahimsa - nonviolence, nonhurtfulness; in other words, reverence for all forms of life and the protection of nature's resources.

Ahimsa is a commitment to harmony. There can be no peace on Earth until we eradicate the mentality of violence. For this, we have to stop killing. If the paramount karma of humanity is to manifest peace, then we must first understand what it means to live peacefully. Peace cannot be gained without the personal cultivation of inner harmony and health for all humankind and compassion for all species. Harmony cannot be achieved at any level while any form of life suffers.

Peace, like violence, exists in manifold layers of existence. Harmony cannot be partial to the wealthy and privileged at the expense of those who are hungry and poor; justice cannot be partial to perpetrators at the expense of their victims; peace cannot be partial to the human species at the expense of other species. By divine ordinance, every person, animal, tree, river, and sky has a primordial and fundamental right to life and to live. The primeval right of the human is the right to live. The primeval right of the animal is the right to live.

The ancients have given us the knowledge to cultivate the reverence that allows human consciousness and its infinite diversity to express itself in Oneness. Unfortunately, our modern lifestyle with its acquired dependencies and deep-rooted imbalances alienates us from harmony. Human actions have severely trespassed humanity and nature's resources. We have learnt to live in communities - such as in my homeland of Guyana - that are riddled with violence, killings, hate crimes and manifold layers of pathologies. Every day 24,000 people die from hunger related causes. Impoverishment of the human spirit manifesting in the form of starvation, poverty, disease, and despair are paramount crimes against humanity, no less so than the atrocities of war. How can happiness and peace be within reach as long as the greater majority of humanity (almost 75% of the world's population) suffers so shamefully. In the last 50 years, almost 400 million people worldwide died from hunger, while the richest 20% of the world's population has been preoccupied with 80% of the world's consumption of goods and services.
Modern science and technology contributes its part to the massive despair of our planet, constantly struggle to control that which they have fragmentized and are attempting to reconstruct `scientifically' to create a false whole. These deranged actions of our humankind have escalated the loss of species and the destruction of the rain forests and its prehistoric life. As a result the memories they carried with them that necessarily fill the web of life to maintain universal stasis, is lost.

Once we realize that we are supported by the greater energies of nature, we discover that violence, disharmony and disease arise from forgetfulness of our True Self-- the Self that is intrinsically Whole and Conscious. When we are awakened to the Self, we become aware of our individual sense of consciousness that seek to love, protect, nurture, and nourish the Self and all life. Each thought and therefore every action must give consciousness, and care.

Health and harmony are our natural state of being. Indeed, we are wellness. We are consciousness. Violence is an imposter. Health, peace, and prosperity are the result of lifeways that are in harmony among all who share the living space of earth, and contribute to the regard for nature and her cycles, seasons, and rhythms. There is only one way to a richly fulfilling, healthful and peaceful life and that is the path based on the time proven, timeless wisdom of nature that we have either forgotten or learned to ignore. To recover our memory of harmony intrinsic to the human spirit it is imperative that we develop love, awareness and respect for Self, Mother Nature and Her creation.

At this very moment, one little shift in consciousness is all we need to make a personal commitment to inner harmony. The only price for peace is what we are willing to donate toward the investment of cultivating the True Self. May each one of you find courage to evoke the memory of your inner medicine nurtured by Mother Nature. fulfillment of dharma, divine law. For the system of dharma to be universally valid, it must meet all the necessities of life - it must provide love, compassion, support, health, prosperity in all states of existence to all peoples and must be adept at serving the manifold needs and conditions of all communities. The Vedic way of life is rooted in the system of dharma. From the beginning, the Vedic tradition has advocated harmony among all peoples and all life forms, and this awareness has led to the ethical virtues that formed the Hindu lifestyle that are based on ahimsa - nonviolence, nonhurtfulness; in other words, reverence for all forms of life and the protection of nature's resources.

PAVE and WAVE Initiative will present a series of holistic, life generating practices you may endeavor to start cultivating inner harmony and Pave the way to Peace: The primary pillar for inner harmony practice is the cultivation of a vegetarian lifestyle. This Initiative does not view vegetarianism as a choice, but rather, as requisite human sustenance from which our innate memory of gentleness and compassion can emerge. Indeed, becoming a Sakahari - one who nourishes one's vital tissues with consciousness by feasting only on nature's earth growing vegetation - is a primal change toward making the commitment to Peace.

MOM's Practice for Peace: Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism as a way of peaceful living is a primal necessity toward the cultivation of inner harmony, inner health and world peace. Sakahara, the Sanskrit word for vegetarianism, means to imbibe and ingest nature's vegetables grown on the earth, in other words to live a sattvic, peace-generating, life. There can be no peace on Earth until we eradicate the mentality of violence. For this, we have to stop killing. To transform the mind of violence into an instrument of peace, we must do our inner work. Inner harmony cannot be achieved while life at any level suffers.

Taittiriya Upanishad says, "From the Earth came herbs. From herbs came the seed that gave life to humans." Vedas maintain that food for human is annam - of plant origin, which to some extent, is dependent on the earth's minerals, supplemented by the natural foods provided by animal, i.e., milk and honey - in other words, foods obtained without slaughtering the animal themselves.

In Secrets of Healing, I wrote, "We have distanced ourselves so far from the knowledgeable and reverent trading with nature practiced by the ancients that we can no longer barter with the lives of the animal for our survival because the most necessary faculty -- our ability to remember cognitively -- has become dramatically diminished. Through the loss of our own cognitive memories, we are unable to recognize the sacred memories carried by the animals."

In ancient practice, animal sacrifice for authentic human needs was conducted with permission from Mother Nature herself. Such a permit was `granted' owing to the intention of the human heart --
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's book, Dancing with Siva, informs, "the meat-eater's desire for meat drives another to kill and provide that meat. The act of the butcher begins with the desire of the consumer. Meat-eating contributes to the mentality of violence, for with the chemically complex meat ingested, one absorbs the slaughtered creature's fear, pain, and terror." In the US, 660,000 animals are butchered for meat every hour. Essentially, the senseless violence inherent in killing of animals today massively corrupts humanity's intrinsic sense of peace.

In maintaining a vegetarian lifeway, we contribute our consciousness to desisting the senseless slaughtering of the animals. As a result the treachery prevalent in "animal husbandry" today along with the artillery of poisons, chemicals, hormones, rendered protein, antibodies, and arsenic stimulants used to fatten the animal for its meat, will invariably desist. Humanity must recover its intrinsic memory of compassion if we are to survive our present predicament.

Ancient Vaidya, Sushruta, tells us, " A sattvic diet gladdens the heart, nourishes the body, and revives memory." Maintaining a sattvic diet is likely to reveal the treasure trove of heart where the memory of compassion resides.

Sri. Swamini Mayatitananda"