Swamiji honoring Mayor of Cary, Mr. Harold Weinbrecht Jr.

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A Reception ceremony was organized in the Divine presence of Sri Sri Sri Viswayogi Viswamjee Maharaj.

On this occasion, Swamijee honored leaders of the community for their service. The honorees were, Mayor of Cary, Harold Weinbrecht, Jr who is a Software professional and   as a Mayor gives importance to Balanced Growth of the community and protecting the environment. Morrisville Mayor, Jackie Holcombe who recognizes and appreciates the diversity of the community Steve Rao, CEO of TSG Academies and Founder of TiE, association for entrepreneurs. He is on the board of the NC State IT Advisory Board and is working for close cooperation between India and US. Dr and Mrs Sharma, Founder of Hindu Society for their contributions to promote Indian culture and Hindu religion. Swamijee started the speech with the song “God is one for everyone..God is Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Nanak,Baba”. Jesus said love thy neighbor as thy self.When he first came to USA, an immig officer welcomed him to USA and asked how he felt in USA..Swamijee replied coming to USA is like going to one room to another in a house. If you ask which room you like, you reply you like your “house”. Sages mentioned vasudaika kutumbam, The whole world is an Universal family.

Swamijee talked about the importance of Unity and cooperation..fill with your heart with love and peace. Indians living in US are very lucky to have 2 mothers, Mother India and Mother America. He said that every leader, Political or religious talks about World peace, but it cannot be achieved without two things – peace in an individual and peace in the family. Every individual needs 5 essential things, food,clothing, shelter, medicine and education. There is so much poverty in this world, especially in the African continent. This is very disheartening especially when there is so much advances in Science, where we are doing Space excursions and getting ready to go to other planets. Countries should not fight over religion or language differences. For e.g., when people are tired and thirsty and start asking for Water in different languages and don’t
understand that everyone is asking for the same thing (water) and start arguing that it is called “water”, “Paani” and so on, without knowing that they all need the same thing. If they realize that they all need the same thing, but acknowledge and respect their differences, they can unite. Similarly, when there is Unity, even small contributions can achieve great results.
 
He also said that USA is the Brain because this country was built by the intellectual power of the immigrants coming  from all parts of the world. India is the heart of the world. Both the heart and brain need to be healthy for the functioning of the human body. Both these countries should unite and work together and become strong, but not to rule other countries, but to bring together all the countries for World Peace.