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Konstantin Ruzhisky Archpriest of Russia with the loaves and fishes that we can collect in the name of religion and are crying in vain for the correct lead.
True religion is only one; the religion of Truth, Love and Non-Violence for which the founders of various religions lived and died but we having lost sight of the one saving Grace are trying to clutch at the loose ends that like the will-o-wisp ever elude our grasp. We are fortunate indeed that we have with us the religious heads from various countries engaged in serious deliberations to unite mankind on the level of one true religion which as said before just now is that of Truth, Loving friendship and NonViolence, and this indeed is the first step in the right direction and herein lies our first successful venture. Our next attempt should aim at distribution of this mighty task for which we have assumed a responsibility so that we may have peace and order in various counttries of the world, so many apartments in the mansion of God.
Kanstantin Ruzhisky, Archpriest of Russia
The Russian delegate while dwelling on the objectives of the Conference and stressing the need for securing world-peace, expressed in few words, his unanimity with the ideals before the Conference. He said that to love the fellow-beings was to love God and he who had no love for God's Creatures could not love God. Love was the be end and all end and without love one could achieve nothing. Love and non-violence were synonymous terms, for non-violence implies not to injure another and he who refrains from it can alone. love others. The armaments of the present age are most deadly and highly destructive and cannot be the means of securing or maintaining peace. I am at one with you that we should set up Ahimsa Research Insititute. The lesson of love and non-violence that we learnt from the life of Mahatma Gandhi is to be brought home to every individual. Dharma or righteousness must be made a living force and it can only be done by instilling this live and active principle in the common man, for without it human life is not worth its name.
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He presented Muni ji with a copy of the Holy Bible with the words that contained a Message of Peace for mankind, the very life and core of their deliberations. The gift was gratefully accepted with the remarks that it was a symbol of love and amity that the West had for the East. We have this day laid the foundations for bringing about a friendly union between the West and the East on the level of the soul and have pledged ourselves to do all that can stop all warfare and bloodshed in future.
There is a general belief and impression here that religion has been divorced and ex-communicated from the length and breadth of Russia, but
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