Reno Sirrine

Response to Indira Gandhi

This talk was given by Mr Reno Sirrine, head of the delegation of the USA 

Worthy Prime Minister, Master Kirpal Singh, all of you religious leaders:

It has been my privilege to be chosen to thank the Prime Minister for attending, and to thank all of you for attending; especially the religious leaders of India who have made this Conference possible. The Prime Minister mentioned that this was the age of the common man, and I am sure that this includes all of us without exception.

Most of us came to India because India is the mother country of individual religious accomplishment. I came here because I want to walk without feet, I want to fly without wings, I want to see without eyes, and I want to hear without ears. If I am able to accomplish any one of these four things, I will have developed spiritually as an individual. And this is our job: to individually develop ourselves so that we become workers for world peace, for religious Unity; so that we can relate to each other man to man and understand each other. This great challenge is even greater than the physical challenges that we see around us day by day.

I again want to thank every one for attending, and all of the holy men for making this possible. I wondered yesterday if all of us were to just mediate for a second, and these men were to lift us up, what a tremendous surge of Spiritual Energy that would give to all of us. So as I walk back to my seat, would you, instead of applauding, thank God for the privilege of being a human being, and thank God for the privilege of being here in this wonderful country, where we have an opportunity to really get to know ourselves and our Creator.