Washington welcomes the world we declare open The Art of Living fourth installment of the world Culture Festival [Applause] Oh wow look at this this is great greetings Washington D.C greetings America and greetings to the whole world on behalf of the Art of Living Foundation I welcome you all to the world Culture Festival 2023. [Applause] I’m excited to join you here for this historic Global event culture builds Bridges
Culture breaks down Wars culture brings the world together just like all of you here today I commend Shankar’s inspiring vision of unity diversity thank you for your actions for world peace and our planet thank you Daniel what and come down I want to thank the world Culture Festival
Organizers and the Art of Living foundation for choosing to come to Washington D.C and the United States of America I want to thank founder gurudev and I also want to thank the thousands of people who endorse and who live a life committed to peace
I want to make it very clear that DC is open and we are here to welcome you this time and every time welcome to Washington foreign Thank you for what you believe in thank you for your belief in Unity thank you for your effort to bring people together from all over the world uh thank you for what you’ve done for others and bring us all together One day I congratulate The Art of Living who under the inspiration and guidance of gurudeva have brought us all together this evening that Global thought an international understanding is so visible humanity is truly a diverse group and this is expressed through culture Traditions Heritage and identities it is with this approach
That India took up the responsibility of the G20 presidency and at him one Earth one family and one future is represented so well today before us culturally Thank you Force polarized our beautiful Globe music unites we need more music and more joy especially in the politics we are all winners here and Washington in Washington today let us celebrate this extraordinary days of togetherness with better owns out of Joy which speaks about the Brotherhood [Applause] Foreign Foreign ER we are all dreamer we dream we hold on to ideals but when it gets too much then we have to say just let it be let it be let it be so relax and get back to our true nature true self which is peace and then in between
We all have to say I am there for you we have the goodness inherentiness and that comes when we realize we are one world family let’s create more happiness in society let’s bring more smiles and white tears that’s humanness as we see today the mental health is a big issue there is
Aggression and societal violence on one side or depression and suicidal tendency on others and it is a celebration that can help us to come out of these anomalies of our mind [Applause] Yeah to have peace we need inner peace to communicate peace we need lead in peace and to live in peace we need The Art of Living but to have the art of living in peace we need to have communication with God and to have God we need to come back to the meditation
To the prayer if we learn this from the great culture of India in the name of father in the name of the Pope Francis that will the fraternity of whole human being I bless you and I bless this very big meeting and I think that this other
Living really will the future of our Humanity thank you thank you for you This is Olympics of world culture where everyone wins a gold medals the gold medal of happiness this is about we must all Build Together Awards we are everyone celebrates lets us Hollows away shown by and bring joy to all Foreign One of my most favorite Expressions is I sought my soul and my soul I could not see I sought my God and he eluded me but then I sought my brother and my sister and found all three how good and pleasant it is for brothers and sisters to dwell together
In unity and of one Accord I commend The Art of Living Foundation and all of those who have brought us together to participate and share in the Magnificent Elegance of the evening Oh my brothers are sisters We Gather here to acknowledge and celebrate diversity we have an unrelenting task of walking to Earth love kindness Brotherhood humanity and humaneness to the world of diversity go what I had given off then we will have one world of peace common security stability wholesomeness economic growth shared prosperity
Inclusive Society and gold Kingdom on us that is our goal to achieve the art of living Foundation is a veritable instrument to achieve these were the objective for the world thank you Isn’t this absolutely wonderful hundreds of thousands of people around tens of thousands of artists from all corners of the globe and they all come together to celebrate an age-old Indian ID the ID of Oneness thank you thank you so much today for bringing us together it’s great that you bring so many people
Together with your power we are all here you are a man of peace and the world need more trees to bring peace to the world [Applause] [Applause] all right
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