Meditation for politicians urged
Even the Greenham Common women’s achievement of their peace aims and a Government start on dismantling nuclear arsenals would not be a permanent solution to the problem of nuclear weapons and the possibility of nuclear war, says a visiting Indian yogi. Mr B. K. Jagdish Chander, one of 12 members of the governing body of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University in Rajasthan, India, said in an interview in Christchurch yesterday that for permanent change it was necessary to change the attitudes of people, and politicians in particular. “If politicians practise meditation they will have compassion, love, consideration, and control over themselves,” he said.
Mr Chander, who is on a month-long tour of Australia and New Zealand, will speak on reincarnation
in his only public address in Christchurch, at the Stringleman Room of the Canterbury Public Library tomorrow evening.
He has been practising raja yoga for 30 years.
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