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Komponen-komponen dasar Perdamaian!
November 1st, 2009
by DR.T.D.Singh
Perdamaian merupakan hak asasi setiap makhluk hidup, tidak hanya bagi manusia tetapi juga bagi hewan dan tumbuh-tumbuhan, dan semua makhluk hidup.
—-Dr. Singh
Ada dua komponen pengetahuan yang harus dimengerti agar perdamaian dalam masyarakat manusia dapat dicapai yaitu:
- 1. Mengetahui Makna Sejati Kehidupan?
Apakah sebenarnya kehidupan itu? pertama-tama kita harus mengerti apa itu kehidupan ‘What is life?”. Keseluruhan peradaban atau kultur Kesadaran Krishna atau Kesadaran akan Tuhan Yang Maha Esa adalah untuk mengetahui ilmu pengetahuan tentang kehidupan. Ilmu pengetahuan (sains) modern yang bersifat Reduksionisme[*] telah mengantarkan kita ke arah pemahaman akan kehidupan yang bersifat materialistis. Setelah tragedi WTC tanggal 9 November 2001, perubahan drastis terjadi dalam paradigma (kehidupan). Para ilmuwan sekarang ingin mengetahui tentang Tuhan dan mengapa orang-orang religius bisa bertindak seperti itu (menteror/jadi teroris). Oleh karena itu, saya katakan, banyak hal baik sedang terjadi sebagai akibat tragedi WTC itu. Kejadian itu bagaikan membawa sesuatu yang bagus, membawa angin segar, karena ada perubahan dalam sikap para ilmuwan benar-benar drastis berdasarkan pengamatan saya. Oleh karena itu, sekarang adalah kesempatan bagus bagi kita membawa/memasukkan tentang bahasan/pengetahuan. Ultimate nature of reality (sifat sejati realitas tertinggi), yang sering dibicarakan, ke dalam paradigma spiritual. Kesadaran Krishna (pengetahuan spritual Veda) ini menyediakan interface, penghubung antara sains dan spritualitas. Usaha gabungan antara sains dengan spritualitas akan menghantarkan sebuah perdamaian baru bagi dunia.
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TD Singh Contibutions on Art and Culture
October 19th, 2009
Taken from Bhagavata-Sevarpanam
(a glimpse of TD Singh Achievement in Serving his Spiritual Master)
In the numerous conferences and festivals that Dr. T. D Singh had organized and attended all over the world, he introduced the divine principle of the Vedantic culture through the medium of arts. He did this through the literary, culinary and performing arts at a myriad of venues ranging from urban schools to the most prestigious universities, from senior citizen centers to the Kennedy Center, from South America to Singapore and to audiences from elementary school students to heads of states.
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A PEACE VISIT TO PAKISTAN
October 19th, 2009
August 26-29, 2004
by DR. T.D. Singh (HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami)
In order to promote a culture of peace, friendship and brotherhood between India and Pakistan, Parliamentarian Smt. Nirmala Deshpande led a delegate of 22 Indians consisting of two other Members of the Parliament – Sri S.K. Kharventhan (Tamilnadu), Mr. Mohammad Salim (West Bengal), 19 other social activists, religious leaders and university professors went for a 4 day trip to Pakistan. I was one of the delegates. For most of us this was our first trip to Pakistan. We went from New Delhi Station by Shatabdi Express through Amritsar and arrived in Lahore after walking for some distance from the Indian border to Pakistan border in the afternoon of August 26. Our Pakistani hosts welcomed us with great affection. Some young boys and ladies, youths and some elderly people garlanded all the Indian delegates. Among them a small sweet child with a welcome sign in his hand had attracted my attention.
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Greetings of Love and Peace
October 3rd, 2009
by Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of URI’s
(Sent By gopijana of www.Mayapur.com on Mon, 2009-09-28 17:33.
Today is HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja’s disapperance day.Maharaja is a dear most disciple of Srila Prabhupada. It was Maharaja’s desire to have URI (United Religious Initiative)Global Assembly in Mayapur.Honouring Maharaja’s desire, URI Global Assembly 2008 took place in Mayapur.This meeting has a profound impact for us in Mayapur,which gave a unique oppurtunity to understand the vision of Maharaja and work with URI brothers in spreading the message of love and peace. On this day, as a dedication at the lotus feet of HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja, we offer Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of URI’s letter on the URI experience in Mayapur.)
Greetings of love and peace. Hare Krishna! Namaste!!
Seven months have sped by since the URI community was blessed with your remarkable hosting of our Global Assembly – Pilgrims of Peace: Many Paths One Purpose – in Mayapur, but I don’t believe a single day has passed that you have not been present in our thoughts and in our prayers, with profound gratitude and a deep desire for blessing for the ISKCON community and for Jayapataka Swamiji’s return to health.
Indeed, in the conference room in our global office in San Francisco, which hosts nearly constant meetings every day dedicated to the ongoing work and development of URI around the world, there is a poster filled with pictures of the Global Assembly. I spend many hours each week in that room, always sitting in the chair where I can look at those pictures and feel that even as I am sitting in San Francisco some part of me is connected with your remarkable community on the banks of the Ganges.
Down the hall, Mark Mancao’s office wall is adorned with large posters from Mayapur. In my office, there are several pictures of our beloved Dr. T.D. Singh, including one with Jayapataka Swamiji. URI’s You Tube site has over 60 videos, most of them from the Global Assembly.
And these are simply symbolic representations of the profound impact our time in Mayapur has had on the life of URI. Our time with you was a time of spiritual deepening and broadening for all who came – a time of deepening in our own traditions, and a time of broadening as people learned about the traditions of others they had never encountered before, and especially of the tradition of the ISKCON community. That deepening and broadening is an incomparable blessing to our work. Then I think of the flowering of our Young Leaders Program, catalyzed by our time there. I think of one young man’s journey of service to help set up a computer training center, with donated computers he had obtained, in Malawi. I think of another young leader who has set up a program connecting high school students in Israel and Iran.
I think of the work moving forward to observe the International Day of Peace with a major football match between the North and South of Uganda – a division in that country that was been deep, long standing and tragic in its consequences. This football match, which the organizers hope will attract international participation, was born of a vision inspired when URI and ISKCON youth played each other in Mayapur.
I think of seven young leaders from diverse parts of the world who are privileged to spend a week this summer at a youth conference organized by Ven. Jinwol Lee in Korea. And I think about the e-mail conversations that take place each day involving young leaders all over the world who have a deeper commitment to change the world, beginning with their own deep spiritual practice and service, and a higher vision of what is possible when we reach across the chasms that can divide us and unite in mutual respect and common purpose for service.
Let these few examples from our young leaders symbolize the far-reaching impact our time in Mayapur has had on URI’s development. We were enriched beyond expression by the deep spirituality and extraordinary hospitability of your community while we were there, and the seeds that were planted in that soil will continue to bear fruit as long as URI exists. As long as the URI story is told, the Mayapur Global Assembly will be a part of that story, and we will be forever grateful to you and your community for the incomparable gift you have given us.
I look forward as the months and years untold, to exploring ways we can continue to deepen our relationship, and trust that our dear brother, Vrajapati Das, will play an important role in that effort.
In the meantime, please extend my deepest gratitude and respect on behalf of URI to the members of your community who gave so much to our community. And please accept my personal thanks to you and my pledge that you and your community remain in my prayers to continue to receive blessing upon blessing, even as you bestow the blessing of peace, justice and hearing on our world through deep devotion and selfless service.
Faithfully,
The Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs
Executive Director
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Interrelligious Dialogue Concept :
September 13th, 2009
———— We are all Chilldren of the same Father!!! ———-
Short Speech by Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami *
(place : Bhakti-Yoga Ashram, Yogyakarta)
(Pada Kesempatan Kali ini, Srila Bhaktisvarup Damodar Maharaj alias Dr. Singh, berbicara kepada penghuni asram dan beberapa tamu dari Interfidei, beberapa aktivitis muda Dialog Lintas Agama. Maharaj menyemangatkan anak-anak muda ini agar semakin menggalang dialog antar agama, demi semakin mendorong adanya kerharmonisan dan kedamaian dalam pluralisme agama)
Saya baru datang dari Korea dalam rangka pertemuan Global URI (United Religion Initiative), dimana saya adalah salah satu pendiri & Koordinatornya. Ada banyak tokoh dari berbagai kalangan dan agama yang datang ke pertemuan tersebut. Ada dari kalangan kristen, buddha, dan lain sebagainya termasuk agama islam, seperti beberapa delegasi dari negera Malaysia, Indonesia. Mungkin Anda juga pernah mendengar tentang parlemen agama-agama dunia? Tahun lalu parlemen ini mengadakan konferensi di Spanyol. Selama ini saya aktif dalam mengadakan interreligious/interfaith dialogue, pertemuan & dialog antar berbagai agama dan kelompok-kelompok relijius, demi atau dalam rangka mewujudkan ‘world peace and harmony’ Kedamaian dan keharmonisan masyarakat dunia.
Perdamaian Dunia tidak mungkin terwujud tanpa adanya perdamaian antar-agama, perdamaian antar agama tak akan ada tanpa diawali dengan dialog. Dialog berarti berkumpul, duduk bersama, saling mengemukan masalah secara bersama, sehingga tidak ada saling salah paham. Lalu bagaimanakah caranya agar ada suatu dialog ? Tidak mungkin ada dialog tanpa ada Global Ethics (Etika Global). Maka itu adalah tanggung-jawab kita bersama untuk mengembangkan dialog.
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PERANAN UMAT MANUSIA DI ALAM SEMESTA*
September 13th, 2009
Dari Perspektif Vedanta
By Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami+
Saudara-saudari dan para peserta Parlemen Agama-Agama Dunia!
Tidak lama lagi kita akan memasuki sebuah era baru, dengan harapan baru akan sebuah dunia yang penuh makna, dimana segala (lapisan) umat manusia dapat hidup dengan damai. Modal besar untuk mencapai harapan ini berada dalam benak setiap orang yang tulus menginginkannya. Salah satu hal yang harus dipelajari adalah cara untuk saling menghormati satu sama lain, dengan setulus hati, meskipun kita berbeda dalam hal; budaya, tradisi, bahasa, warna kulit dan lain-lain atau dengan kata lain menyadari bahwa kita semua adalah “Anak-anak” Tuhan yang sama. Parlemen agama-agama dunia merupakan sebuah wadah yang sempurna untuk menciptakan dialog-dialog penting diantara semua komunitas religius yang ada di muka bumi ini, dan kami ingin menyampaikan rasa terima kasih kepada para pelopor organisasi ini.
Popularity: 25% [?]
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