What is Peace?

In spiritual parlance, Peace is a state of being in which one has being experience of spiritual calm and mental composure. It is sate untouched by any negative thoughts and is characterized by equanimity and mental balance. In the state of peace, one has the combined feeling of super sensuous joy, contentment, well-being, mental ease and freedom of spirit.

One can have this state only when one has in harmony between one’s mind and intellect and one is free from any twitches and pains of conscience and has neither fear nor worry nor is one disturbed by lack of fulfillment of desires or waves of the well-known six vices. This state is not to be identified with dullness or passivity but its main characteristic is that one does not have any emotional disturbance.

Inner peace

One meaning of peace refers to inner peace a state of mind, body and perhaps soul, a peace within ourselves. People that experience inner peace say that the feeling is not dependent on time, people, place, or any external object or situation, asserting that an individual may experience inner peace even in the midst of war.

An affirmative definition for the concept of peace is, as worded by Sevi Regis: "the state or condition of restfulness, harmony, balance, equilibrium, longevity, justice, resolution, timelessness, contentment, freedom, and fulfillment, either individually or simultaneously present, in such a way that it overcomes, demolishes, banishes, and/or replaces everything that opposes it."

Peace and quiet

Peace can also mean a state of quiet or tranquility — an absence of disturbance or agitation. Many people find the natural world to be peaceful in this way.


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1)http://en.wikipedia.org/