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Ekam World Peace Festival Preaches Awakening of Mind to Shun DiscriminationMore than 20 Millions of people meditate together to end discrimination on religious, racial or LGBTQ grounds and prayed well being of the world | ||
Hyderabad, Telangana, India Sri Preethaji and Sri Krishnaji are the Co-creators of Ekam, a powerhouse created to impact human consciousness. Among the various festivals and spiritual journeys, they founded, Ekam World Peace Festival, a massive 7-day online international celebration of peace. The online festival started on August 9 and will end on August 15. Over 20 million people attended the event. Sri Krishnaji Co-creators of Ekam and Mr. Meng Foon, Race Relations Commissioner discussing ways to resolve discrimination
Both the creators believe that when humanity comes together united by one single cause and meditates for it, change can occur in many aspects of life globally. They view peace as an essential attribute of our beings that we need to awaken to, so that we can support the overall wellbeing of man.
“Discrimination on religious, racial, caste or LGBTQ grounds arises because we fear different and we try to separate them from mainstream. Separation makes people feel superior to the other and hurt one another.” - Sri Krishnaji, Co-creator of Ekam.
Sri Krishnaji addressing various forms of discrimination we suffer from said, "Religious discrimination arises when the vision of awakening is lost. Racial and LGBTQ discrimination is because we fear the difference/different. The more we divide the greater the fear. The greater the fear the more we hurt one another.”
Today’s guest speaker was Meng Foon, Race Relations Commissioner from New Zealand. He appreciated the massive initiative of peace undertaken by Sri Preethaji and Sri Krishnaji. With a couple of decades of experience trying to resolve the conflict between the natives and the invaders. He said, “Racial discrimination affects the social, cultural, and economic wellbeing of the tribe. It suppresses their expression."
In spite of great peace talks of co-existence or co-habitat it always ended in one way - it hurt the natives much more. Speaking of the way to ease out the conflict and end peace he asked everyone to practice self-reflection. If we reflect on the pain of our past we will not give it to another. And if we can place ourselves in another’s shoes we feel their pain. We then will not be able to hurt them.
"People can join daily live-stream meditation and be a part of this grand vision by participating daily. We also invite you to participate on any of the days you resonate with," said Balu Boyapati, PR and Media Director, Ekam Foundation.
Website: ekam.org. |
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