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integral part of Kenyan life. They run educational institutions, welfare projects, as well as businesses and industries. After Gurudev's visit, their feeling for their fellow Africans deepened. As a result, they opened the Visa-Oshwal Eye Clinic which provided free medical care, transport, food, and accommodations for over eight hundred patients with eye problems. Many doctors from India came to Kenya to offer their services voluntarily.
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From Nairobi, Gurudev flew to London where he spent a week addressing groups and giving interviews. The talks Gurudev gave to Western audiences as well as to the thousands of Asians living in the vicinity emphasized the value of blending the technological advances of the West with Eastern philosophical wisdom. One had the means without a clear direction, while the other had a direction without the means to implement it.
"Any one approach to life, by itself, is unbalanced and one-sided. When we understand the polarity of the East exploring the secret of soul and the polarity of the West exploring the secret of atom, our knowledge becomes complete. Those who see nothing beyond atom strive only for material achievement and end up where they began, in the composition and decomposition of molecules. Seeing man as a machine, they risk their own annihilation. Equally myopic are those who neglect the study of atom for an exclusive interest in soul. They risk becoming engulfed by poverty, indifferent towards progress, and callous towards suffering living beings. By synthesiz-ing the two modes of thinking and living, modem man can attain the peak of evolution and the perfection of his humane qualities."
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Gurudev's next stop was The Hague. The talk he delivered at the World Vegetarian Congress made a powerful impact on his listeners, and eventually was published in the book Bondage and Freedom. Always glad to help even one or two people take a positive step in their lives, he began by saying, “The
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