Anand Krishna’s Writings
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The Gospel of Obama
Posted by Anand Krishna in Jakarta Post
Listening to President Obama’s historic speech in Cairo on June 4, I had to conclude that he would go down in the annals of mankind as one of the greatest men ever born, a mahatma, a great soul. Read the rest of this entry »
read comments (1)Between politics, faith and sex
Posted by Anand Krishna in Jakarta Post
While reading Friday’s Jakarta Post, a visiting friend remarked we were “a funny” country. Perhaps he was trying to use a milder term for something else. His remark came after reading an item concerning Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chairperson Tifatul Sembiring’s views on Bank of Indonesia’s Governor, Boediono, as the running mate of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his next term in the office as president.
Palestine & Gandhi
Posted by Anand Krishna in World Affairs
Sometime back, when i was interviewed by Indian Press in Sarnath (India) regarding the Tibetan Struggle for independence, i suggested that all Tibetans boycott the chinese products. The communist regime of China knows only one language, that of matter, of material - so they must be dealt with using the same language.
I reminded our Tibetan brothers and sisters that it was sue to similar resistance that the South African regime finally shunned apartheid.
I am thrilled to read that the Palestinians are now FINALLY LISTENING TO GANDHI….. I suggested this to the Palestinian Ambassador to Indonesia many years ago, at that time the then Ambassador even promised to present my sentiments before President Yasser Arafat.
Indian Express dt. 26.03.2009. We were even supposed to meet, but soon after President Arafat fell sick and left us….
BUT, NOW FINALLY…….READ THIS AS REPORTED BY THE INDIAN EXPRESS ON MARCH 26TH, 2009:
“Inspired by Gandhi, Palestinians to Boycott Israeli Products
Deriving inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s Indian National Movement, Palestinian activists in 50 villages of northern West Bank decided to launch a boycott campaign against Israeli products.
“We know change will go slowly, but we are determined to imitate what Gandhi did in India when he boycotted English salt,” Khalid Mansour, the chairman of the Popular Committees in Nablus told Palestinian news agency ‘Maan’.
As per official statistics Palestinians consume 2.6 billion shekels (USD 0.6 billion) worth of Israeli goods each year, Mansoor said.
28 per cent of this money is said to be spent on the purchasing cement from Israel.
Palestinians also consume 30 million shekels (USD 2.40 million) worth of medicines and 10 million worth of gold produced in Israel every year.
He said that subcommittees will be formed in each of the 50 villages to monitor the boycott and start awareness campaign at schools.”
An ‘Independent’ vs. a ‘Dominated’ Nation
Posted by Anand Krishna in Media
“I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.”
‘Global trends 2025: A transformed world’
Posted by Anand Krishna in Jakarta Post
This is the title of a special report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) of the United States last November. As the very title indicates, our world is undergoing some very radical changes.
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The morning fog has not cleared away when at His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama inaugurated and blessed a 2.5m high Buddha statue humbly offered by Indonesian interfaith spiritualist Anand Krishna. Conducted at the Central Institue of Higher Tibetan Studies (Deemed University), Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh), India, the inauguration was covered by several Indian media, e.g. K TV, Z News, DD News and Hindustan Times. The Buddha statue is made of the same source materials used to build the 9th CE Borobudur Temple in Muntilan, Central Java, Indonesia, and was offered to reaffirm the spiritual and cultural ties between the peoples of Indonesia and Tibet, also to support His Holiness’ non-violent struggle to protect the cultural heritage of Tibet.
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Indonesia-based spiritualist offers unique Buddha statue to Dalai Lama
Posted by Anand Krishna in Latest News
Sarnath, January 9: His Holiness the Dalai Lama Friday inaugurated the installation of a unique handcarved 2.5 meter-high stone statue of Buddha in the compound of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (Deemed University) here before carrying on with the second-day of a week-long teachings here.
Anand Krishna Thought about New Year 2009
Posted by Anand Krishna in Videos
Indonesia-based Spiritualist Presents Buddha Statue to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Posted by Anand Krishna in Media
Dharamshala: Interfaith spiritualist and author Anand Krishna on Monday offered a 2.5 meter-high stone statue of Buddha to His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a token of spiritual and cultural ties between the peoples of Indonesia and Tibet.
What is really “New” in this “New Year”?
Posted by Anand Krishna in Jakarta Post
“Old habits,” they say, “die hard”. We talk about change, but we dread change. We are comfortable with the old and known patterns of life and living.
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