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We know that many things are happening in the world. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of discrimination: cultural, religious, political, social, and national. I think it is very high time that every religion finds dialogue with each other and finds unity. Now, in the Jewish community, they have formed one organization called the Liberal Jewish Society or Association. It is worldwide. I think the president of that organization is Rabbi Abraham Schottendorf, whom you met or saw in Vienna at our conference. Rabbi Abraham Schottendorf, with whom you have already met at the World Peace Conference in Vienna, or you have already seen him. When I came to know him, it was a long time ago. We had a conference together, a similar one in Turkey, in Konya. Then we had conferences in France, at the United Nations in America, and in different places. Last week we had one at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Earlier this year, there were two very significant conferences in Budapest. That was an Interreligious Women's Conference in Budapest and an International Religious Conference. So, let's come to this point. The subject is that wherever we see in any corner of the world, there is restlessness, wars, terrorism, floods, hunger, poverty, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Why does all this happen? It never happened in past centuries all together like this. This is because of human actions. Humans wanted to make a new world. But the God-made world is perfect, and the man-made world is imperfect, and that's a big problem. Therefore, it is a time to think over and ask the question: what do we want? If you ask anyone in the street, "Do you want war or peace?" everybody will say, "I want peace, not war." No mother wants to send their children into the army; no father wants their child to die in the army. We don't want to kill. Life is dear to all, either humans or animals. Then why is it happening? There must be something wrong. Last Thursday, I had a meeting in Graz, in Austria. It was, again, a multi-religious dialogue. The Dalai Lama is organizing a program called Kala Chakra. The Dalai Lama organizes a program called Kala Chakra, and there were representatives of certain religions. There was one from the Christian side—actually from the Catholic Christian side, it was presented by one politician—and Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus. Everyone spoke very nicely. Everyone said, "In my religion, or this religion, it is in our holy book: peace, harmony, protection of life, ecological protection, don't kill, be honest," and so on. Every religion said more or less the same thing. They all said that the main principles of their religions are peace, harmony, respect for life, not killing, and protecting the environment. It turned out that all these religious books say the same thing. But then, where is the problem? So, where is the problem? Recording location: Hungary, Budapest, Seminar