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Unity In Diversity “How do you tolerate religious intolerance” Brought to you by: The Hindu Students Council In association with: The Baha’i Students Association World Peace Buddhists Eastern Orthodox Christian Student Group Swami Vivekananda 1863-1902 GAYATRI MANTRA Om Bhur Bhuva Svaha, May the physical, mental and spiritual worlds bear witness to my prayer. Tatsavitur Varenyam, That adorable Light Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi, On which the enlightened meditate, Dhiyo yoh na prachodayat. May that illumine our intellect. “As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.” Swami Vivekananda in his 1893 Speech at The world parliament of religions, Chicago BIOGRAPHY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA By AJAY KSHATRIYA MS’05, STANFORD “The idea that one man is born superior to another has no meaning in Vedanta; that between two nations, one is superior and the other inferior has no meaning whatsoever. Put them in the same circumstances and see whether the same intelligence comes out or not. Before that you have no right to say that one nation is superior to another.” "Who has given you the right to say that truth exists nowhere else but in the Vedas?" “God is the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof.” When I remember that All is the Self or Brahman, the saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else “A wise and learned man, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a pariah – these are all the same to the one who really knows.” - Bhagvad Gita Prof. Paul A Khavari Carl J Herzog Professor Stanford School of Medicine “Pray to your father in heaven” To the masses: To those who could grasp a higher idea: To his Disciples: “I am the vine, ye are the branches” “I and my Father are one” “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god. The Kingdom of heaven is within you.” ---Christ Father Michael Anderson, Rector, St. Christina Orthodox church “I would like to see more men like Gautama Buddha, who did not believe in a personal God or a personal soul, never asked about them, but was a perfect agnostic and yet was ready to lay down his life for anyone, and worked hard for the good of all and thought only of the good of all” “The high orders of Samadhi (or a state of self-awareness) that lend gravity to his religion, are almost all there in the Vedas; what are absent in the Vedas are Buddha’s intellect and heart, which have never since been paralleled throughout the history of the world.” Swami Vedananda Monk of the Vedanta Society Reverend Scotty McLennan Dean for religious life Stanford University Panel Discussion: “How do you tolerate religious intolerance” Panelists: Prof. Paul Khavari Fr. Michael Anderson Swami Vedananda Facilitator: Rev. Scotty McLennan “Help and Not Fight” “Assimilation and not Destruction” “Harmony and Peace and Not dissension” Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha We will ALL be happy Sarve Santu Niraamayaha We will ALL take care of our bodies Sarve Bhadraani Pashyantu We will ALL look to the good of others Maa Kaschid Dukh Abhaag Bhavet We will NEVER choose to be sorrowful Unity In Diversity “How do you tolerate religious intolerance” commemorating Swami Vivekananda