Secularize Religion,Spiritualize Politics

20th of Oct 2008
University of Connecticut,
Storrs, Connecticut, United States

“The root cause of violence is stress, and a lack of understanding,” said H.H.Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at a comparative human rights conference which addressed the extent religious values, and philosophy promote human values.

“All cultures need to secularize religion,” he told the audience at the University of Connecticut. “The youth need a multi-cultural, and multi-religious education,” he said, “to help them understand that everyone is part of the worldwide human society.”

Citing Mahatma Gandhi’s method of combining spirituality, and political activism, H.H.Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said every nation must “spiritualize politics.”