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attending these huge conferences of people belonging to different religions. That is what
we need to recreate now in this country. It is a matter, I have been speaking about
Hinduism and Vedanta around the world. It is a matter of extreme anguish to me as a
Hindu, that we should have our churches being attacked. I went to first school I went to
first two schools, were catholic Christian schools, the Presentation Government in Kashmir
and Cathedral high school in Bombay. But quite apart from personal factors, this is
some thing which goes against the very grain of the Vedanta. The Vedanta teaches us
“,de~ lR; foiz% cgqnkonfUrA”. The truth is one the voice is called by many names. That
is the very basis upon which we have been able to sustain this civilization. lR;eso t;rs
our national moto says the same thing. lR;eso t;rs uku`re~] lR;su iaFk% fonrks nso;ku
;sukØeUr _f”k;ks a ;kg~rdke~] ;= r=L; ijee~ fu/kkue~A We are based upon certain moral
and spiritual principles, that is what India has stood for down through the ages and
today if these sort of the attacks take place upon defenceless Churches, it is a matter
of terrible regret. On the one hand you have the terrorists, they definitely go back to
Islam, there is no use pretending that they don’t. If you read there, the what the Indian
Mujahideen, those terrible messages that they have sent. They think that they are
going to create a Nizam-e-mustafa in India and the Naxalite want overthrow of the
Government in India. So we are dealing with people who are beyond the pale of rationality
and therefore have to be those are the hardcore but, of course, we ought to bring
the mass of the people around to understanding of the interfaith movement. Interfaith
movement involves interfaith prayers, it involves discussions, it involves debates, it
involves moving from different religious places to another. We can do that. I have
been involved in that, several people here in this conference also have been involved in
this and this is something which we have to now once again develop. I would submit, I
am very glad that you talked about youth. The youth is getting, if the youth gets
indoctrinated. In hatred and violence, then it is going to be very difficult later on to
control the situation. Therefore for young people we must have, unfortunately we can
not teach the essentials of the religion ……………………….. But what we can
teach is value based education. Charity, helpfulness, punctuality, cleanliness, togetherness,
these are, these are not religious concepts, these are civic concepts. You must
work together, you must think together, you must achieve together. The Vedas tells us
that very clearly, lg uk HkoUrq lg ukS HkqUDrq] lg oh;a Z djok ogsA rstfLoukvo/ks reLrq ek fon~
fo”kkegs& May we work together, may we achieve together, may there be no hatred
between us. ek fon~ fo”kkegs This hatered tks c