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consists of a four-storey building along with a cellar, covering a total construction are of over 16,000 sq. ft. The total height of the building with kalash is 66 ft. and shikhar, 24 ft.tall An Ashtapad temple is housed on one of the floors along with a 'sthanak'. Other floors house ashri Adi nath Ji temple, Shri Mahavir Swami temple and temples of Dada guru Shri Rajendra Suri Ji and Shrimad Raj Chandra, The cellar provides a mini-theatre with audio-visual equipment and public speaking system. A meditation hall and a well-equipped library are also provided. The entire structure is highly impressive and attractive. For Jains, visiting America, it should be a 'must see' item on their list.
FIRST ASIAN VEGETARIAN CONGRESS HELD IN GOA The first Asian vegetarian congress was a great success. The conference was organized with the objectives, to meet like minded people, to learn new things and to spread the vegetarian idea in the country/continent, where the event takes place. The conference turned out to be a great success in achieving its objectives
The congress was inaugurated by India's former president, R. Venkataraman who at the high age of 91 flew from Delhi to honour the vegetarian event in Goa Goa's governor was present along with several other highly decorated guests. The local newspapers and a TV channel interviewed speakers and participants and reported about the event in a country where 60% of the population is still vegetarian and where even an Italian restaurant like "Little Italy" in Mumbai is completely vegetarian,
Nearly 200 like minded people from four continents except Australia attended the congress organised by "The Vegetarian Society of Mumbai" to pass a week together in Goa. Unfortunately, a delegation of 40 members from Thailand had to cancel their participation due to fear of war. The war in Afghanistan was also the reason why some speakers had preferred to stay at home. Jashu Shah, long term vegetarian promoter, General Secretary of the Vegetarian Society in Mumbai had together with his organizing staff carried out the event.
Asian Vegetarian Congress 18th October - 20 th October 2001
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Lectures covered subjects like project of bio-dynamic farming which is much felt in India too, yoga. Other lecture topics included health and nutrition for children. The very last lecture was held by a pediatrician, which was a good omen for the time to come as children are our future. The organizers had taken a lot of trouble to install a rich exhibition on all subjects of vegetarianism
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On occasion of the Asian Vegetarian Congress a new chapter of the Vegetarian Society was opened in Goa to make sure that the vegetarian Idea will revive in a country where more and more people are taking to meat eating. Following the inauguration of the new Goa chapter an
invited guest was impressed by the speeches and decided spontaneously to become a vegetarian. The same can be said of the TV camera man Micheal, who followed the whole sessions and thus was initiated to vegetarianism. Courtesy: Sigrid De Leo, Secretary of the European Vegetarian Union, Bluetschwitzerweg 5 9443 Widnau Switzerland. www.ivu.org/evu Received through: Mr. Y. Malaiya, E-Mail: ymalaiya@yahoo.com
EIGHTH WORLD ASSEMBLY OF RELIGIONS FOR PEACE AT KYOTO, JAPAN More than 2,000 people of faith from a hundred countries including some of the world's most troubled regions-gathered in Kyoto, Japan, for the Religions for Peace Eighth World Assembly. They stood fast together, condemning violence and committing to concrete ways to ease suffering and foster genuine understanding, Subjects discussed and deliberated included human family, blood shed and killings in war, destruction, sufferings by innocent, crushing weight of poverty, orphaned children, HIV/AIDS etc.
At the Religions for Peace Eighth World Assembly, delegates adopted the Kyoto Declaration, which pledged, "As people of religious conviction, we hold the responsibility to confront violence within our own communities whenever religion is misused as a justification or excuse for violence." All sectors of every society must acknowledge common vulnerabilities and assume collective responsibility to address them.
More than 400 participants coming from sixty-five countries joined in the Women's Assembly. They adopted a Declaration affirming, "women of faith make available strength and hope when all seems hopeless.". A Youth Assembly was also formally convened by more than 300 youth. They produced their own Declaration, proclaiming: "We choose hope because that is the only way forward." The assembly provided an incomparable means for both women and youth to build relationships, share experiences, and forge achievable plans of action in the years to come.
According to William F. Vendley, the organizer of the event this assembly in Kyoto was
ful because we as the Religions for Peace family returned to the city of our birth. When our wise founders first gathered in Kyoto in 1970, the world was a far different place. We were in the grip of a Cold War, and we were confronted with nuclear proliferation and the threat of annihilation. Today, our concerns and fears are far different, but what remains the same is that our quest for peace with justice remains steadfast-as does our belief in the beauty and power of inter-religious cooperation, August 2006. Courtesy: From: William F. Vendley E-Mail : wvendley@WCRP.org
ACHARYA MAHAPRAJNA ACCEPTS MOHAN BHAGWAT'S(RSS) INVITATION TO ATTEND SHRI GURUJI BIRTH
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