That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
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If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.Satish Kumar
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
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We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
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Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
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With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
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That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
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