POEM (PEACE ON EARTH MISSION) International is a nonprofit charitable organization incorporated to promote the cause of Peace and conduct charitable work.
POEM’s vision is a society that collectively recognize PEACE as a NEED to be fulfilled, a GOAL to be achieved and strive for achieving and sustaining PEACE.
Mission of POEM is to motivate, individuals, families, groups and communities and nations to accept Peace On Earth as one of their important Missions to work for.
POEM people are those who practice peace in their day to day life. It is an alliance of mission driven people from all walks of life, races, color, ethnicities , and religions.
Some of the basic beliefs of POEM people are:
POEM is not a religion. All religions’ aim is peace. POEM believes that religious belief and faith is a personal choice and there should be absolute freedom to chose one’s faith. Participation in POEM can be done by people of every faith and at individual level in every day thoughts and deeds
Those atheist who truly believe that God is not for rational thinkers and religions are entities to exploit human weakness and fears deserves to be treated with respect. Atheists of this kind are created by those abuser leaders of religions who use their positions for self gain. The divine spirit is in every individual, whether created by God or evolved through a material, evolution process. That spirit in the mind of the atheist is revolting against religions, corrupted due to some abusing leaders. That revolt is the result of the ’empathy gene’ which confuses the fake religious leaders as carriers of divinity . This misunderstanding leads to denial of God. They are fundamentally good people. They can be big contributors to peace.
Peace is not just avoidance of conflict. Peace is a state of mind for the individual, for the collective ‘mind’ of a family, group ,community etc. Peace is a state of “mind”; a collective conscience to be realized by the society . Start and derive peace from fundamentals, of human mind; utilize all tools and knowledge gained in this area by all religions, educators, gurus, and science with open mind;
As The Bible teaches, true Peace is not that the world gives but that comes from heaven. POEM read this “world given peace” as that comes out of satisfaction of material needs. The heavenly peace is the peace that comes out of satisfaction of the needs ‘self actualized ‘ soul. That is the state of satisfaction of the needs of body, mind and soul combined. This balanced satisfaction of emancipated SELF comes as a result of
True. All religions and theologies advance the method of inner peace for centuries. But peace is not coming through . This may be because many of such teachings emphasis on blind faith on a ‘formula’ or ‘method’ ,to be followed, as a final product. A ‘mine is better than yours” attitude and a tendency to denounce and condemn other views are retarding the march towards peace.
Further, a world view that religion and science are opposing each other is shadowing and darkening the path to peace.
POEM consider all teachings, researches, findings and advancements by religions, peace organizations, and scientific community, important. They are all results of human curiosity, and efforts to explore the unknown, and the never ending quest for a just and peaceful world.
Even those who advocate eternal life, salvation, moksha, nirvana etc should have no conflict about the need to peace in this present world. None is against peace of mind for the individual and families. Those who do not believe in eternal life ,too, are longing for peace in life. PEACE On Earth ,thus, should be a common goal for everyone. Just the realization of this fact will motivate all to strive for peace together, create an alliance and work for peace as a team. This is where POEM becomes relevant. The function of POEM is to kindle the fire of ‘Peace energy’ by pointing out to the Divine spark of righteousness . It is like the role of a small candle used to light up a huge torch of light.
Start working as a missionary of POEM in your own day to day life. First, try to regain your freedom to think objectively and analytically. Once you do that, you have already started and are on a firm footing. If you believe in God take your personal God as your guide, it may be Jesus for a Christian, Allah/prophet (PBUH) for a Muslim or Krishna for an Arjun (Hindu). It could be a role model like Gandhi for some, or simply a cosmic, universal conscience for others or simple common sense for those who have no faith in any super powers or models. Search for your guide’s words and teachings pertaining to peace and learn ways to practice them in life.
The first phase of your march towards peace is to shed hatred. At completion of this phase, you reach a milestone where you can do a self analysis and say to yourselves that there are no one whom you hate. You learn about intellectual empathy and are able to understand others from their perspective. You may not agree with them or even, you may oppose them. But you do not hate them, Everyone is loved but his/her activities are liked or disliked based on merit.
At this milestone you will realize that you have elevated yourself to a higher level. Your greed is tapered off and desires for material needs are in control. You start feeling the pain and happiness of the society as your own. Your SELF spreads in concentric circles to your family, and community. Your growth as a responsible member of the community has reached a high level.
You feel part of, and grow with the society NOT at the cost of it.
You are ready to take up the mission to spread peace.
You can work with POEM family in this phase get help and render help to others.
You could volunteer to work with POEM to spread the message of peace.
You can share your professional talents with POEM family
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Your most important participation with POEM is to effect change in your own life to become a messenger of peace to yourself first, and then your family, faith community and the society at large.
As Gandhi said, become the change you want to be, and your own life will become your message.
The difficulty in achieving peace is the popular expectation that peace will be showered from above, by God, a super power or a charismatic super human leader. The reality is that anything good including peace will grow only if rooted in ground; among common people and allowed to grow upward. Simple acts of simple people, if guided by the principles of peace are the basic source for a peaceful world. Like the big ocean is made of countless drops of water, peaceful society will emerge out of small daily acts of ordinary people . When, we common people, understand peace in simple terms and gauge and adjust our daily actions against requirements of peace, peace will take roots. It will then grow like the mustard seed mentioned in The Bible.
POEM Is supported by voluntary tax deductible contributions from people who subscribe to the views of POEM. Also, people, qualified in various professions are coming forward to donate their time as volunteers working on line and working in their communities. Those who want to donate money can send money to POEM’s account
With chase bank
routing number 111000614.
account number 899078005.
Those who donate money and want to get an official receipt and/or copy of annual financial statement may request it at poeminternational@gmail.com