You must have understood this in the Art of Living’s Part One course, right? Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.
You know, every child should know that they are a part of all the traditions in the world. Pakistanis’ ancestors were Hindus, Buddhists, Jains; many of the ancestors were from all these ancient traditions. Some were Parsis. The children in Pakistan should have been taught Upanishads, a little bit about Yoga and meditation. Yoga was born in Pakistan; born means it was taught and preached in what we call Pakistan today. Hundreds of people follow all sorts of preaching because they don’t have access to spiritual knowledge, they don’t know about it.
That is why it has become a very important duty for all of us to educate people about spirituality. Don’t you think so? So we have got to be more active now and see that any sort of fanaticism is transformed into compassion and fanaticism is changed into a commitment to do good work in society. So we all have to work for it.
