「誤るなかれ 死者は死なない 彼らは目覚める 現世に生きる我々は真に 生きておらず夢見ている 死ぬことは　神や 太陽や月や星々　風　海 大地になることである これを理解せよ 死んだ者は今生の 夢から目覚める 賢者であっても 高位も奴隷も皆 神秘の国に向かう」

「私は真のグルのため 犠牲になります　 私は 疑いで彷徨っていました そして 彼は正しい道に 私を戻しました 主が恵みの視線を注ぐと 主は私たちをご自身と 結び付けられます」

「真実を食物として 真実を衣服として とる人々は 真実の存在に彼らの 家を持っています 彼らは常に 真の存在を称賛し シャバドの真の言葉 (内なる天の音)には 彼らの住居があります 彼らは主 最高の魂を すべての中に認識し グルの教えを通して 彼らは自分自身の 内なる自己の 家に住みます」

仏は言った ｢汝ら　 世尊薬師瑠璃光 如来の恩と功徳に 報いたいと念じる者は 常にこのように 一切の生きとし 生けるものを利益し 安楽させるべし」

仏は言った｢まさに かの如来の本願の 功徳を念じ この経を読誦し その義を考え 説法を聞くことを 示しなさい 彼らの願いは一切皆 遂げることができる 長寿を求めれば 長寿を得る 富を求めれば 富を得る 官位を求めれば 官位を得る 息子と娘の誕生を 求めれば　 息子と娘の誕生を得る｣

「真実を言おう モーセは法を神から文書で 受け取ったのでなく 生きた言葉からである その法は生ける人々への 生ける預言者の 生ける神の生きた言葉 全ての中に 生命の法が書かれている 汝はそれを草の中に 木の中に　川の中に 山の中に 天国の鳥の中に 海の魚の中に見出す だが　まず 己の中に求めよ」

「サタンの力を 投げ捨てた 汝らは幸いである ならば私が 私の母の天使の 王国へと案内しよう サタンの力はそこへは 入れない」 「汝らの母は汝の中に 汝らは母の中にいる 母が汝らを産み 汝らに命を与えた 汝らに体を与えたのは 母である そして汝らはいつか それを彼女に返すのだ」

｢そして愛に夢が あるなら 西の様にバラの香りがし それが訪れるたびに きらめくのを見せる 甘く祝福された何かを 天国が柱である 夢であり 魂と魂が混ざる 夢であり 私は喜んでそこを私の 心の安息の地とする」

「私達の短い期間に 存在をしるし付ける 苦難の年月を　私はどう あなたに知らせるべきか　 天国に一つの絶え間ない 夕暮れが現れるー 人間の心に一つの 絶え間ない夕暮れ！」

Today, we invite you to kindly join us in the following sacred prayers for peace from lslam. Saum (Fasting) A prayer by Hazrat Inayat Khan. “Praise be to Thee, Most Supreme God. …Draw us closer to Thee every moment of our lives, Until in us be reflected Thy Grace, Thy Glory, Thy Wisdom, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace. Amen.” To conclude our program, let’s listen to a meaningful insight from Supreme Master Ching Hai regarding the best prayer to truly bring about peace for ourselves and in our world. “The secret of response to prayers lies in the way we walk our lives. We must walk the way of love if we want to see love. We must walk the way of Heaven if we want to experience Heaven.”

For millennia, Buddhism has been a beacon of peace. The Noble Eightfold Path, taught by the Worshipped Lord Shakyamuni Buddha, helps humans bring happiness not only to themselves but also to other beings, thus creating peace for all. A Buddhist affirmation in the True Pure Land Buddhist tradition. “…I will try to be kind and gentle to every living thing, and protect all who are weaker than myself. I will try to think pure and beautiful thoughts, to say pure and beautiful words, and to do pure and beautiful deeds, knowing that on what I do now my happiness and misery depends. May every link in Lord Buddha’s golden chain of love become bright and strong and may we all attain perfect peace.”

The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith, is this, that it presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind. It is, in fact, the view which Reason, both speculative and practical, that is, philosophy and virtue, take. For, seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal; and virtue subordinates it to the mind. Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a renowned 19th-century American essayist, philosopher, lecturer, poet, and a leader of the transcendental philosophical movement. Emerson is most famous for his essays, through which he expresses ideas of freedom, spirituality, individuality, the great ability of humans to realize almost everything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Today we read a chapter from "Nature" titled "Idealism," about how ideal the connection between spirit and nature, between soul and matter, could be. In our spiritual awakening, we are to realize the ultimate oneness and purpose of all things that we've known in experience.

The black drop sank in Ansumati’s bosom, advancing with ten thousand round about it. Indra with might longed for it as it panted. Flying in terror from the snort of Vritra (negative force represented by a serpent), all deities who were thy friends forsook Thee. So, Indra, with the Maruts (storm deities) be Thy friendship: in all these (spiritual) battles Thou shalt be the victor. The old hath waked the young Moon from his slumber who runs his circling course with many round him. Behold the God’s high wisdom in its greatness: he who died yesterday, today is living. Then, at Thy birth, Thou wast the foeman, Indra, of those the seven who ne’er had met a rival. The hidden pair, Heaven and the Earth, Thou foundest, and to the mighty worlds Thou gavest pleasure.

Hinduism is believed to be one of the oldest living religions on Earth. One of the most cherished values of Hinduism is “ahimsa,” or non-violence. An example of this is how ahimsa is honored through a vegetarian diet, which shows compassion to all beings. Today we present Hindu hymns from the Sama Veda praising Indra, the king of the highest Heaven. “The well Thou clavest, settest free the fountains, and gavest rest to floods that were obstructed. Thou, Indra, laying the great mountain open, slaying the Ddnava, didst loose the torrents. When we have pressed the juice we laud Thee, Indra, most valorous.”

But the third Angel came and touched my eyes; I saw the mornings of the future rise, I heard the voices of an age unborn That comes behind us and our pallid morn, And from the heart of an approaching light One said to man, “Know thyself infinite, Who shalt do mightier miracles than these, Infinite, moving mid infinities.” Then from our hills the ancient answer pealed, “For Thou, O Splendor, art myself concealed, And the grey cell contains me not, the star I outmeasure and am older than the elements are. Whether on earth or far beyond the sun, I, stumbling, clouded, am the Eternal One.”

Today, in celebrating November 1, World Vegan Day, we invite you to hear what the great philosophers and ethicists have to say about the life choices concerning food, animal rights, and the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. "To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-live. At the same time, the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give to every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own." "That a man was not born a carnivorous animal but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows…. The basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral."

India – the home of many great spiritual Masters who have brought wisdom and truth to Earth, inspiring us to seek higher purposes in life, thus uplifting humanity to a divine state of living. One such great being is the spiritual master, yogi, philosopher, poet and politician Sri Aurobindo, who graced our planet from 1872 to 1950. “Collected Poems” is the Volume 2 of the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, which includes all short and narrative poems in English that Sri Aurobindo published during his lifetime. “It beheld the stars Born from a thought and knew how being prepares. Then I remembered how I woke from sleep And made the skies, built earth, formed Ocean deep.”

Baha’u’llah was the enlightened Prophet and founder of the Baha’i Faith. The Baha’i Faith rests on three core principles: unity of God, until of religion, and unity of humankind. Prayers and meditations by Bahá’u’lláh: I implore Thee, O Thou Maker of the heavens and Lord of all names, by Thy most effulgent Self and Thy most exalted and all-glorious Remembrance, to send down upon Thy loved ones that which will draw them nearer unto Thee, and enable them to hearken unto Thine utterances. Tear asunder with the hand of Thy transcendent power, O my Lord, the veil of vain imaginings, that they who are wholly devoted to Thee may see Thee seated on the throne of Thy majesty, and the eyes of such as adore Thy unity may rejoice at the splendors of the glory of Thy face.

"Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast." "And though of magnificence and splendor, your house shall not hold your secret nor shelter your longing. For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night." "Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain." "It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger."