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Messages from Far and Near
India is, as it were, a World Conference of Religions itself since people belonging to all the various religious faiths live in this great country In loving company since ancient times. Inter-religious concord and amity is a historical process here which continues to this day. After the achievement of Independence by India this process is spreading all over the World. Its progress depends on our purity of heart.
Acharya Vinobha Bhave
We are not on an unchartered sea of life. Every bit of this vast ocean has been carefully chartered for us. There are no rocks in the sea, against which we have not been warned. They have all been spotighted. We can strike against them if we like but we have been well equipped to steer clear of them. The great Truths, which should shape. human conduct have been crystallised in the teachings of every religion. We do not have to waste any time in trying to unravel the mystery of life. For the common man, for his day-to-day functioning, the secret of life has been well brought out by the great seers and Prophets.
By hating a man, we hate Him, and by injuring a man we injure Him. The path is thus clear before us. What is needed is very a difficult thing to do.
I am confident the wise men who will gather at the Conference, will be able to show to the bewildered humanity the path that leads to selfrelisation. I wish every success to the deliberations of the Conference.
(Bhim Sen Sachar, Hyderabad).
I hope and pray that this great concept of the Universal presence hallowed by centuries of our ancestral though:, will guide the belief of all our contemporaries and touch their conscience with the balm of understanding, peace and love which the Great Buddha taught his people influenc ing our actions and thought even of a forgetful World."
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(Sh. Diwan Chaman Lall,
M. P. B.A. (oxon), Barrister-at-law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court, Advocate, High Court of Judicture Punjab, 8 Windsor Place. New Delhi.)
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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