From: Sugi Lanús <sugilanus@gmail.com>
To: bali-bali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:49:03 PM
Subject: Re: [bali-bali] Ngomongin Bali.
'The greatest event of our age is the meeting of cultures, meeting of
civilizations, meeting of different points of view, making us
understand that we should not adhere to any one kind of single faith,
but respect diversity of belief. That is what we should attempt to do.
The iron curtain, so to say, which divided one culture from another,
has broken down. It is good that we recognize and emphasize the need
of man to regard other people, their cultures, their beliefs etc. to
be more or less on the same level as our own cultures and our own
civilizations. It is not a sign of weakening faith; it is a sign of
increasing maturity. If man is unable to look upon other people's
cultures with sympathy and if he is not able to co-operate with them,
then it only shows immaturity on the part of the human individual. We
need co-operation, not conflict. It requires great courage in such
difficult days as the present to speak of peace and co-operation. It
is more easy to talk of enemies, of conflict and war. We should try to
resist that temptation. Our attempt should always be to co-operate, to
bring together people, to establish friendship and have some kind of a
right world in which we can live together in happiness, harmony and
friendship. Let us therefore realize that this increasing maturity
should express itself in this capacity to understand what other points
of view are'.
-Professor Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher, President of India,
his speech for the inauguration of the The Indian Institute of
Advanced Study on 20 October 1965. http://www.iias. org/
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