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August Kranti Divas: 9th August to remember the historic resolution of 1942 that launched Quit India Movement against the British colonial masters, which later lead to the British leaving the country and India attaining independence...
http://ekawaaz.org/2011/08/09/9th-august1942quit-india-movement/August Kranti Divas: 9th August to remember the historic resolution of 1942 that... more
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Music 4 Peace presents the Gandhi Tour TV celebrating Mahatma Gandhi's 141st birthday on Oct 2nd 2010, the United Nation‘s International Day of Nonviolence, with a global live broadcast on Gandhi Tour TV, that is supported by Peace Day TV, the official broadcaster of the United Nation‘s International Day of Peace since 2009.
Featuring documentaries, music and interviews with and about people from around the world including Dr. Arun Gandhi, Tushar Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Lord Richard Attenborough, Ban Ki Moon, Santana, Bono, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, K' Naan, Artie Kornfeld, the founder of Woodstock, Baroness Kimberly Moore, Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam, Michael Douglas, Krishna Das, Tobias Huber, founder of the Gandhi Tour, 1001 Ways / World Fusion Band and many more.
The Gandhi Tour TV combines the power of music, art and media to call for peace and a culture of nonviolence with featured celebrities, local artists and well known International stars from around the globe. Music 4 Peace - Gandhi Tour TV‘s main goal is to stop extreme poverty by providing clean drinking water. The Music 4 Peace projects are supporting the achievements of the United Nation‘s Millennium Development Goals by 2015. http://www.gandhitour.orgMusic 4 Peace presents the Gandhi Tour TV celebrating Mahatma Gandhi's 141st... more
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The spiritual path requires the true practitioner to cleanse one’s heart and mind of all impure thoughts. Once it is achieved, the soul becomes purer and the Saadhaka or the spiritual-seeker makes faster spiritual progress. This purity of thoughts is reflected in the Saadhaka’s physical behaviour like talking/not-talking with others and so on.
There must not be a gap between thoughts and deeds. What is there in heart and mind must be reflected on one’s face. But, sometimes we Saadhakas pretend to be doing something else than what actually is going on in our hearts and minds. In other words, our intentions are different than what we actually are behaving.
This inconsistency between intention and physical behaviour creates Maanaseka [Mental] Vekaara [Illness] that actually becomes a stumbling block in the Saadhaka's spiritual progress. Such a Saadhaka does harm both to one's own self and other spiritual-seekers around.
For example, Swami Vivekananda while touring the- then Rajputana [the present day Rajasthan] came across a mahatma who did not show his ability and also did not talk about himself...! This mahatma fitted nicely into the traditionally held notion that "the one who is actually a Santa or Guru does not show his ability or talk much about himself...but those who are nothing do just its opposite."
This mahatma did not talk to anyone. He simply kept silent. All bhakta-mandalee around were busy requesting him to speak something. But, no, he would not budge! All Bhaktas made a bee-line to have his Darshana [Glimpse] and offered him various things like money, fruits, etc. and hailed him as a true mahatma!
Swami Vivekananda made an attempt to talk to this so-called silent/not-speaking-about-himself mahatma. But, this mahatma did not talk to Swami Vivekananda either. Then, Swami Vivekananda made a searching probe about this mahatma and found that this mahatma was actually no mahatma.
He found that this so-called Mahatma was simply taking the spiritual-seekers for a ride by pretending to be a mahatma by keeping silent. Then, Swami Vivekananda remarked that in India it is easy to become a mahatma! How? Just say nothingand you will be treated as the true saint/mahaatma!
By the way, this above-quoted example also shows amply: whether one shows one's ability/ talks much about oneself or not - that is not really important in spirituality. What is more important in spirituality is - one's intentions!
If a spiritual-seeker who shows one's ability or talks much about oneself with the noble intention of helping other spiritual seekers, it does not mean that the Saadhaka is not a true Saadhaka. Whereas not showing one's ability or not talking much about oneself is also no guarantee of the saadhaka being a true saint/mahatma as has been shown clearly by Swami Vivekanada himself through the above-quoted example!
One more example, we all Saadhakas are talking a lot about ourselves in terms of our experiences/problems, etc and also showing our abilities by giving solutions to various problems being asked in different forums on numerous yoga websites. Does this mean that we all are not true saadhakas? No, we all are true spiritual-seekers! We are talking about ourselves or showing our abilities because [I presume] of our noble intentions to share our yoga-knowledge with the other spiritual-seekers so that the cause of the Vedhyaa [true knowledge] and the cause of the spiritual progress for all the spiritual-seekers is realised.
Finally, I would like to add that this article has been written inter alia with the pure true noble intention of showing that let us please not generalise/oversimplify any given statement/saying/notion. Everything has pros and cons.Everything has both positives and negatives. We must look into both aspects before making any conclusions about anything.The spiritual path requires the true practitioner to cleanse one’s heart and... more
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The Gandhi Tour and the World March for Peace and Nonviolence are celebrating the 140 Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.
The World March will begin in New Zealand on October 2, 2009, the anniversary of Gandhis birth, declared the International Day of Nonviolence by the United Nations. It will conclude in the Andes Mountains (Punta de Vacas, Aconcagua, Argentina) on January 2, 2010.
The "first-ever symbolic march" that will have participants from all around the world traveling through 100 countries across five continents to call for "an end to all wars and the use of arms to resolve conflicts." www.theworldmarch.org
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The Gandhi Tour and the World March For Peace and Noviolence are celebrating Mahatma Gandhi's 140 Birthday Oktober 2nd 2009.
GANDHI TOUR TV internet broadcast!
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The World March will begin in New Zealand on October 2, 2009, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, declared the “International Day of Nonviolence” by the United Nations. It will conclude in the Andes Mountains (Punta de Vacas, Aconcagua, Argentina) on January 2, 2010. The March will last 90 days, three long months of travel. It will pass through all climates and seasons, from the hot summer of the tropics and the deserts, to the winter of Siberia. The American and Asian stages will be the longest, both almost a month. A permanent base of a hundred people of different nationalities will complete the journey. www.theworldmarch.orgThe Gandhi Tour and the World March For Peace and Noviolence are celebrating Mahatma... more
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Truly speaking, I haven't been a Gandhi Fan for most part of my life until I really understood this great personality and his impact on the whole world, I was really confused with the term called "Peacemakers" throughout my life and I was always of the belief that there is hardly any concept like this and probably I never witnessed the need of such people. But as I grew and understood the people and the society around me, I came across the most important and terrifying word- "TERRORISM". Especially, when I m spending my life in a country, where terrorist activities have always impacted the daily life of my country-men and where the people almost daily come over the fear of the terrorist attack which has last happened and still continue to live a normal life. All this has made me think about how can we reach a world free of "Terrorists" and full of "Peaceful Life".
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by Lael
Daily Mantra received an email in its inbox this morning alerting it to the beginning of the 2008 Season of Nonviolence. This annual 64 day event, which begins on January 30 and runs through April 4, was started in 1997 on the occasion of the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., respectively.
Daily Mantra couldn't agree more with the stated goals of this commemoration:
*Honor the dignity and inherent worth of every human being.
*Understand that all of our words and all of our actions have impact.
*Choose to practice compassion with apparent adversaries.
*Become stewards for the rights of individuals and the environment.
*Use our talents to empower rather than to exert power.
*Engage in constructive dialogue with one another to solve conflicts.
While we love these objectives, our acute consciousness of the ever-present, unyielding Law of Attraction that brings about whatever is focused upon leads us to suggest a change. Why not rename this event in a way that frees it altogether from any connotation of violence? After all, the term "nonviolence" carries at its root the very phenomenon it wishes to negate. Instead of the Season of Nonviolence, therefore, we suggest practicing a Season of Kindness for All or, if you prefer, a Season of Universal Compassion.
In any case, we send love and gratitude both to the organizers of this worldwide series of interrelated happenings and to the two spirits, one an Indian Hindu and one an American Christian, whose profound commitment to spiritual truth and positive change continues to transform our world.
For more enlightening reading go to: http://www.dailymantra.comby Lael
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Gandhi's "Satyagraha" on 9/11 "100 Years of Nonviolence" the launch of The Gandhi-Tour at 10th Earthdance Peace Festival in California with the 1001 WAYS (world beat) multimedia live act and special guest Arun Gandhi.
http://www.gandhitour.org
http://www.music4peace.comGandhi's "Satyagraha" on 9/11 "100 Years of Nonviolence" the... more
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