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Entire World is family of One God

A discourse on spiritual education and universal unity.

"We should educate people spiritually, and do so with grace. We must avoid educating them with narrow thinking."

"Sanātana Dharma means to respect everyone's path and to give them the opportunity, to give them support to progress along their own journey."

The speaker advocates for a graceful, inclusive form of spiritual education that rejects religious and cultural exclusivity, which is identified as a root of fanaticism and terrorism. The principle of "Vasudhaiva Kuṭumbakam"—the world as one family—is upheld, using analogies of different fruits and prayers to different deities to illustrate the beauty of diverse, respected paths within a unified human spirituality.

Recording location: Australia, Canberra, World Peace Tour

We should educate people spiritually, and do so with grace. We must avoid educating them with narrow thinking, with narrow-mindedness—the kind that declares, "Only this religion, only my religion, only my culture, only my tradition." That is narrow thinking. Such an approach trains people to become fanatics, and from that fanaticism, terrorism emerges. Therefore, we uphold "Vasudhaiva Kuṭumbakam"—the entire world is one family under one God. I like to eat an apple, he likes to eat an orange, and she likes to eat a mango. Why not? It does not mean he is different from me, or that she is different from him. In the same way, one person prays to Kṛṣṇa, another prays to the Buddha, a third prays to Jesus, and a fourth prays to Muhammad, to Allāh. Why not? How beautiful that they have faith and that they pray. Sanātana Dharma means to respect everyone's path and to give them the opportunity, to give them support to progress along their own journey. And that is yoga. That is true freedom. Recording location: Australia, Canberra, World Peace Tour

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