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divine," and still up into the higher sentient life, the souls of men, and still up to the perfect life-to the dwellers and realizers of the perfect bliss-through all the same spirit inspires and leads, and makes the worship one.
This is the true idea of Hindu worship. How do you like it? Does it not touch the cord of sympathy and acceptance in your heart? My American brothers and sisters, it is not a propagandism that I speak of, but a spirit, a universal spirit of love and power and answerable for the paractical realization of brotherhood, the brotherhood not only of men, but of all living things, whica by the prophets of of all nations is indeed taught, but which by the practice of the world is yet ignored.
This is the message of India to America. I have delivered it, conscious of my own weakness and inability to do justice to the spirit in which it was sent, and gratefully conscious also of that charity and brotherly love characteristic of your nation, in which it will be received.
I will now conclude with a prayer, which in India, we daily offer:
"May peace rule the universe;
in kingdoms and empires; may peace and in the lands of the potentates; may in the house of friends and may peace
the house of enemies."
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