2. Hindus must study and practise their religion sincerely which would mean the furtherance of the process of discovery central to it.
3.The precept that one religion possesses the entire truth about God and man is the hotbed of fanatical violence. Amendment necessary.
4. Religious conversion is at the root of religious violence. Give up proselytising and peace shall ensue on earth.
5. Selective quotation from scripture and history taking care to conceal what would compromise your position is a betrayal of truth.
6. Man is man so long he is free to determine his course in life. He ceases to be so the moment he surrenders his independence to any.
7. It is cowardice on the part of so many who fear to resist evil that allows its free rise in life. Courage is virtue, cowardice vice.
8. Before a negative reaction sets in the mind cut off discussion on the confrontational point. Else, the issue blows out of proportion.
9. America talks of 9/11 all the time but hardly ever about Aug 6 and Aug 9 when in 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki were wiped out.
10. Millions die to appease the blood-thirst of a select few who claim to be the sole arbiters of truth and human destiny.
11. There is an overt agenda and a covert agenda which the faith fanatics pursue as they infiltrate positions in their long-term bid to pull off a takeover of nations. Population explosion, immigration, marital inducement and terrorising are some of the methods largely used to increase numbers before the fatal punch is delivered.
12. Christianity and Islam are at loggerheads over the conversion control of the world. Both believe in the numbers game unfortunately.
13. I lead myself and I follow myself and none else. There can be no way in which we may follow someone else.
14. The times are pregnant with possibilities, the age is set to enter a new phase of human evolution where the integrated vision of the Vedanta is about to unfold in the common consciousness.
15. Islamic ultra-conservatism in clash with European liberalism --- this is the setting for the coming cultural conflict.
16. We must teach our children the essentials of Hinduism by mastering the principles ourselves and then living them out in our lives.
17. The Hindus are largely ignorant of the grand philosophy of their religion and it is here that educational work needs to be done.
18. How far does freedom of speech run its course? Do we have the right to lampoon faiths, ideologies, personalities and 'holy' men?
19. We have to safeguard our democratic rights and not give in to religious fundamentalism that dictates what we may or may not do.
20. We are at the crossroads of history where a culture-conflict is heaving in the offing. The West and Islam are in head-on collision.
21. The environment poses a bigger threat to humanity than all of geopolitics combined. Global warming may simply wipe us out.
22. What is the solution to fanaticism, that is, how may it be combated? Your views are solicited.
23. It is necessary to face the brute wherever it be. Human barbarism must be countered with force as also on the ideological plane.
24. Arrogance is not a virtue; it is a form of behavioural violence. It springs from low egotism and contaminates the environs.
25. Douglas Jardine's ruthlessness in the infamous Bodyline Series was so very characteristic of the British attitude to her colonies.
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