In 1854 Chief Seattle gave a stirring speech about the sanctity of the land and the need for careful stewardship of it.
In 1854 Chief Seattle gave a stirring speech about the sanctity of the land and the need for careful stewardship of it.
“I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest is details”. This quotation by Albert Einstein puzzled many. However, Einstein was pantheist – worshiper of all Gods. He may not have believed in any conventional notion of God. But believed that “a spirit is manifested in the laws of the Universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble”.
On the eve of Gandhi and Shastri Jayanti the Vivekananda Kendra Vidhyalaya, Tezpur tried to make its children cognizant of the contentment one can achieve by giving and urged them to give the things they don’t use anymore and yet in good condition, viz. clothes, sweaters, shoes, toys, tiffin/pencil boxes etc. The students showed sheer enthusiasm and we collected a reasonable quantity of donatives in two days. We intended to distribute the collection among some of the disadvantaged children of Baahbari Village on 5 th October, 2016.
Samarpanam
Albert Einstein has talked in his own style of real liberation.