Thanks for sharing this. It is so appropriate for the times that we live in.
I feel proud that Gandhiji, who cherished and practiced the principles of
the Geeta, has been remembered on this day.
Veena.


On 9/11/06, Ram Chandran <ramvchandran (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
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> From: Mangesh Hoskote <mhoskote2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com<mhoskote2000%40yahoo.com>
> >
> To: Ram V. Chandran ramvchandran (AT) yahoo (DOT) com <ramvchandran%40yahoo.com>
>
> Dear Mr Ram Chandran,
>
> Please post this on advaitin list if appropriate. This was a message
> posted today by the Interim Dean, School of Education at Virginia
> Commonwealth University.
>
>
> Dear Colleagues --
>
> As we undertake the activities of the day and week, I hope that each of us
> will pause to consider the impact of past events associated with September
> 11. On September 11, 1906, Indian political leader Mohandis K. Ghandi
> launched his history altering pacifist movement by pledging to use
> nonviolence and civil disobedience in a quest for justice and peace for all.
> Ninety-five years later, the significance of 9/11 took on a more sinister
> association as terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, damaged the
> Pentagon, and took the lives of the brave souls of United Flight 93. Five
> years after those sobering events and 100 years after Ghandi's actions
> changed the course of human history, I hope, today, we will choose to
> remember.... and to reflect.... and to ultimately rejoice in the resilience
> of the human spirit.
>
> I am reminded, once again, of William Faulkner's words as he accepted the
> Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950:
>
> "I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
> He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures
> has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul,
> a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
>
> Beverly J. Warren, Ed.D., Ph.D., FACSM
> Interim Dean, Virginia Common Wealth University
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Also, there is an event today at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the
> 100th anniversary of MK Gandhi's launch of non-violence movement.
>
> http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/uploa...ringSept11.pdf
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>