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PRATAP BHOGILAL - JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE
government to issue a postal stamp and First Day Cover commemorating Virchand Raghavji Gandhi and the postal stamp and First Day Cover were released at a function on 8th November 2009 under the aegis of Pujya Gani Shri Nayapadmasagarji Maharaj. Four of his books were also released at the function.
World Jain Confederation holds interfaith seminars and has been propagating Bhagwan Mahavir's message.
World Jain Confederation is sponsoring a Business School on the lines of ISB (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad) but its courses will be intertwined with spiritualism, morals and ethics. It is a project which might cost Rs. 200 to Rs. 250 crores. The idea is to bring out leaders in future so that business and administration can be run by people with morals and ethics compared to the present inefficient and corrupt administration and unethical business practices.
World Conference of Religions for Peace
I was introduced to the World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP) which has headquarters in New York by my friend Arvind Vora of New York. I was invited by WCRP to attend the 8th World Assembly in Kyoto in 2006 and they appointed me on their Board of International Trustees. As such, I had occasion to meet many religious leaders of different countries while attending the meetings of WCRP. WCRP has affiliated to it 70 such Councils in different countries. Incidentally Arvind Vora and his charming wife lla and I have been good friends for the last 15 years.
It was also thought desirable that we should establish "All India Council of Religions for Peace” (AICRP) and this was formed in November 2008. AICRP has started work for projects which will benefit people, especially young boys and girls to think of spiritualism and morals and think broad mindedly about religious faiths and also inculcate in them the idea of service to humanity - a sure way of getting over fundamentalism. I think this is the necessity to combat the forces of fundamentalism and terrorism working so devastatingly in the world. The Council is at present
Bombs do not chose. They will hit everything. - Nikita Khrushchev
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