World Religions Conference November 1957

Author(s): Sushil Muni
Publisher: Achal Singh Seth

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Speech by Kakasaheb Kalelker
deepest depths of the soul and we have but to nurture and develop these seeds to bring about spiritual efflouresence in the form of world peace. To achieve this for myself and for others has ever been the grand purpose of my life and it led me to call for the All Religions' Conference in Bombay, the course of which was successfully piloted through the efforts of Babu Magan Lal Doshi and Shri Jagan Nath Jain. In the following years, we have had All Religions' conferences in Ujjain and Bhilwara. It was at Bhilwara that Seth Sohanlal Duggar moved a resolution to fix the venue of the next conference at Delhi and in pursuance of the same we are now having Conference here in the very heart of India. It shows that all the peoples of the world are with accord after Spiritual Oneness through righteousness, love & non-violence. This Conference has to a certain extent paved the way towards our objective and we have to find means for satisfying the souls' hunger for oneness. Whatever has been done so far in this direction brings credit to you all. We have now to plan our efforts for the future, to understand clearly the aims and objects of this Conference and for the success of the same, have to chalk out a clear programme.
Speech by Kaka Sabeb Kalekar
Friends, I have been asked, because I have been connected with this movement to some extent ; to explain the aims and objectives of this World Conference of Religions. I know that the people who come from outside, I do not call them foreigners, none of them is a foreigner, at least in India-in our country, Bharat never regards anybody a foreigner. Brothers who have come from other countries to India, they do not understand Hindi. I know that all of them do not understand English also--but this being the only other language that we know in our country Bharta, it becomes necessary to explain the aims and objects of the Conference in English, Those who know English may kindly explain and interpret it to others.
We are assembling at a critical stage when all the world, all the races of the world are trembling because of the development of science. Science is not only a gift of God but is a manifestation of God, Science is knowledge and God is knowledge in carnation. What ever highest power may be is in the form of knowledge, yet this science is misused by ignoble tendencies of man. Therefore, science is utilised for the destruction of mankind. Formerly wars were fought for the assertion of justice and now wars are fought for mutual destruction. It is impossible that one race would survive and other races would die,
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