Response to
Mrs. Gandhi Reno H.
Sirrine WORTHY PRIME
MINISTER, Master Kirpal Singh, all of you religious leaders: It has been my
privilege to be chosen to thank the Prime Minister for attending, and to thank
all of you for attending; especially the religious leaders of India who have
made this Conference possible. The
Prime Minister mentioned that this was the age of the common man, and I am sure
that this includes all of us without exception. Most of us
came to India because India is the mother country of individual religious
accomplishment. I came here because I
wan to walk without feet, I want to fly without wings, I want to see without
eyes, and I want to hear without ears. If I am able to accomplish any one of
these four things, I will have developed spiritually as an individual. And this is our job: to individually develop
ourselves so that we become workers for world peace, for religious unity; so
that we can relate to each other man to man and understand each other. This great challenge is even greater than
the physical challenges that we see around us day by day. I again want
to thank every one for attending, and all of the holy men for making this
possible. I wondered yesterday if all
of us were to just mediate for a second, and these men were to lift us up, what
a tremendous surge of spiritual energy that would give to all of us. So as I walk back to my seat, would you,
instead of applauding, thank God for the privilege of being a human being, and
thank God for the privilege of being here in this wonderful country, where we
have an opportunity to really get to know ourselves and our Creator. |