Guest guest Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Light and Love Elocution contest on Nov 22 Express News Service: 18 Nov 2008 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, An elocution competition for college students will be organised by Sri Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust at Sai Gramam, Thonnakkal, on November 22. The competition, organised as part of the 83rd birthday celebrations of Sri Sathya Sai Baba, will begin at 10 a.m. The topic of the elocution is `The role of spirituality in Indian culture’. Five students from a college can take part in the competition. There will be cash awards for winners of the first three places. For registration, contact the office of the Sri Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust at Sasthamangalam. (Phone: 0471 2721422). http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Elocution+contest+on+Nov+22 & artid=zZuIxxuNuhg= & SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU= & MainSectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU= & SEO= & SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts Good luck for the youth who will take part in the competition. Swami advises: "Expand your heart. Enlarge your vision. Enlarge the circle of kinship and take more and more of your fellow beings into the tabernacle of your heart. Adore them in loving worship. Wisdom is only compassion at its highest, for through sympathy you enter the heart of another and understand him through and through. You go behind the veil of pretense and punditry, convention and custom, you go behind good manners and fashion that people put on to hide their agony and ignorance from the rest of the world. Finding unity in this diversity of roles is true wisdom." ------ Maybe it is interesting to know that 57 percent of young people (ages 12-25) see themselves as being spiritual, reported the survey by Search Institute’s Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence. The research surveyed more than 7,000 young people from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds, spanning 17 countries and six continents. Religion and being spiritual are related but different, according to the world’s youth. Respondents are still most likely to say they are both spiritual and religious (34 percent). Nearly a quarter (23 percent) say they are spiritual, but not religious. The survey found that about one in three youths consider themselves “very” or “pretty” spiritual, but this varied vastly across countries. Indian youths were more likely to say being true to one’s inner self (38 percent) is being spiritual more so than believing in God (33 percent). In the United States where 52 percent of the youth self-described themselves as “very” or “pretty” spiritual, and in Thailand where 50 percent gave this same response. Australia had the low of 23 percent youth who said they were highly spiritual. Almost half of the youth surveyed in Australia (47 percent) indicated that they are not spiritual, compared to only 12 percent in Thailand and about 20 percent in Canada, India, Ukraine, and the United States. American youths’ response was slightly different. They were more likely to say they are both spiritual and religious (43 percent) than the world’s youth in general (34 percent). A comparable number to international youths said they are just spiritual (27 percent). Being spiritual, for this young generation, most often is associated with believing in God (36 percent), followed by believing there is a purpose to life (32 percent), and then being true to one’s inner self (26 percent). Whereas in Canada, the youths said being spiritual is believing in God (52 percent) and then believing there is a purpose to life (48 percent). Also, more than a quarter of the participants from Canada (28 percent) said spirituality involves having a deep sense of inner peace or happiness, which was unique to Canadian youths. One in five of the youths indicated they don’t know. The data have represented in short by Michelle A. Vu , Mon, Nov. 17 2008.http://www.christianpost.com/article/20081117/survey-most-youth-worldwide-spiritual-say-religion-is-good.htm Namaste - Reet No virus found in this outgoing messageChecked by PC Tools AntiVirus (4.0.0.26 - 10.100.056).http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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