________________
Talk by Archpriest Konstantin Ruzhisky
mothers and be born again? Christ said, "Nicodemus, you are reputed to be a very wise man. People worship you like anything. Don't you know that flesh is born of the flesh and spirit of the spirit ?" This, I am afraid, we fail to understand for want of practical people, adept in the Science of Soul. Unless all our organisations are guided by people who have got some first-hand experience of spiritual life, our organisations won't last long. Unless there is real life behind it, mere intellectual cogitations or wrestlings won't lead us anywhere. If we want peace in the world, we should love God, and love all humanity. With these words I thank alk my friends who have come here and hope that they all have got the same goal before them. We have passed a few resolutions in the World Religions Conference, and however worded they may have been, the spirit underlying was all this what I have understood. Thanks very much for your patient hearing.
Talk by Archpriest Konstantin Ruzhisky.
I have heard with great interest the words of wisdom uttered by our venerable host who is a learned spiritual teacher and I must confess that they have left a deep and lasting impression on my mind. The substance of his speech, in so for as I have been able to understand is that unless a man loves God he cannot love his fellow man. There is no doubt about it that in the World Religions Conference it was the wish and desire of every one of the participants to bring about unity and brotherhood of mankind and any one who has listened to the speaches delivered in the conference knows it that the attention of the conference was mainly devoted to this end. But we also know that beautiful speaches and fine words do not lead us anywhere.
I was present in the conference and I listened with deep attention to the speeches delivered by the representatives of the various religions. I listened to them with all the more interest because there are no differences among religious people in my country and I wanted to have a glimpse of the same unity here. I may take the opportunity to inform you, that in Russia, after the revolution, there are no differences among religious people. There are different religions in our country and they have their own churches and their own doctrines that they preach. Sometime back the representatives of different churches in Russia got together at one place and decided that if their differences continued it would weaken their own religion and therefore, they should sink all their differences and become one. Accordingly different churches of our Orthodox Russian Church, became one and as a result of that unity our church has become very strong both materially and spiritually. I. naturally wished to see the sama unity here in India amongst the
128
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
