Unity In Diversity “How do you tolerate religious intolerance” Brought to you by: The Hindu Students Council In association with: The Baha’i Students Association World Peace Buddhists Eastern Orthodox Christian Student Group Swami Vivekananda 1863-1902

GAYATRI MANTRA Om Bhur Bhuva Svaha, Tatsavitur Varenyam, Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi, Dhiyo yoh na prachodayat. May the physical, mental and spiritual worlds bear witness to my prayer. That adorable Light On which the enlightened meditate, May that illumine our intellect.

“As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.” Swami Vivekananda in his 1893 Speech at The world parliament of religions, Chicago

BIOGRAPHY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA By AJAY KSHATRIYA MS’05, STANFORD

“The idea that one man is born superior to another has no meaning in Vedanta; that between two nations, one is superior and the other inferior has no meaning whatsoever. Put them in the same circumstances and see whether the same intelligence comes out or not. Before that you have no right to say that one nation is superior to another.”

"Who has given you the right to say that truth exists nowhere else but in the Vedas?" “God is the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof.”

When I remember that All is the Self or Brahman, the saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else “A wise and learned man, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a pariah – these are all the same to the one who really knows.” - Bhagvad Gita

Prof. Paul A Khavari Carl J Herzog Professor Stanford School of Medicine

To the masses: “Pray to your father in heaven” To those who could grasp a higher idea: “I am the vine, ye are the branches” To his Disciples: “I and my Father are one” “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god. The Kingdom of heaven is within you.” ---Christ

Father Michael Anderson, Rector, St. Christina Orthodox church

“I would like to see more men like Gautama Buddha, who did not believe in a personal God or a personal soul, never asked about them, but was a perfect agnostic and yet was ready to lay down his life for anyone, and worked hard for the good of all and thought only of the good of all” “The high orders of Samadhi (or a state of self-awareness) that lend gravity to his religion, are almost all there in the Vedas; what are absent in the Vedas are Buddha’s intellect and heart, which have never since been paralleled throughout the history of the world.”

Monk of the Vedanta Society Swami Vedananda Monk of the Vedanta Society

Reverend Scotty McLennan Dean for religious life Stanford University

“How do you tolerate religious intolerance” Panel Discussion: “How do you tolerate religious intolerance” Panelists: Prof. Paul Khavari Fr. Michael Anderson Swami Vedananda Facilitator: Rev. Scotty McLennan

“Assimilation and not Destruction” “Help and Not Fight” “Assimilation and not Destruction” “Harmony and Peace and Not dissension”

We will ALL take care of our bodies Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha Sarve Santu Niraamayaha Sarve Bhadraani Pashyantu Maa Kaschid Dukh Abhaag Bhavet We will ALL be happy We will ALL take care of our bodies We will ALL look to the good of others We will NEVER choose to be sorrowful

Bon Appetit!

“How do you tolerate religious intolerance” Unity In Diversity “How do you tolerate religious intolerance” commemorating Swami Vivekananda