Tuesday, October 9, 2012

‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Landmark Address At Stanford University


“THE HIGHEST PRAISE is due to men who devote their energies to science,” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said, “and the noblest center is a center wherein the sciences and arts are taught and studied.” He wouldn't have heard many complaints from the audience he was addressing on the morning of Tuesday, October 8, 1912 — two thousand students and faculty of Stanford University.

 “We live upon this earth for a few days and then rest beneath it forever,” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá declared, as his words rose to a climax. “Shall man fight for the tomb which devours him, for his eternal sepulcher? What ignorance could be greater than this? To fight over his grave, to kill another for his grave! What heedlessness! What a delusion!”

Sometime later, Dr. David Starr Jordan was later asked for his impressions of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. “He will surely unite the East and the West,” Jordan replied, “for he walks the mystic way with practical feet.”

http://239days.com/2012/10/09/abdul-bahas-landmark-address-at-stanford-university/

8 comments:

  1. just enjoy it when you can, you only leave once, so don't get stuck to religion, because they are after your time and energy to use it for their own enjoyment, and promise you heaven!.

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  2. Anonymous,
    I keep telling you Google translation is not good.
    Get someone to write for you.
    As for "heaven", I don't believe in it.

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  3. So if you do not believe in "heaven", and not doing this for "heaven" then you ARE YOURSELF, after everybody elses time & energy right? life is time & energy and you are not happy with your own and looking to get some of others too right? and you have chick to call us a bad person right?

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  4. Can't understand what you are trying to say.
    However,go and read some of my older posts and you'll find out why Baha'is do what we do.

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  5. Here we go know you are playing dumb aren't you?
    I said the life is time & energy, and people like you are after that time and energy to use it for themselves. How they do it? they create a cult like yours, give it some kind of holiness that questioning anything is a sin and is punish-able by this imaginary third person that always agree with their time & energy stealing friends. Result is people like you send others to be killed and use and abuse them, from comfort of their house in say "canada". You have great life preaching, have good life and use your own time & energy (i.e life) to the best where other get shafted that serves you and friends fine. This is worse kind of cannibalism of human being one generation after other. People like you think they are smart to tell the weak what they like to hear and use their lifes for their pathetic selves. Should anybody complain and things get tight, they throw words like "TEST". You know you are wrong and that is why you get edgy.

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  6. I decided to publish this and let people judge for themselves.
    btw, you know nothing about me.

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  7. PEPOLE, do not care, do you think, they care? I can not see anybody, except us making comments, (that you hide half of them anyway). do you see anybody else read and comment on you posts.

    Beside, you don't know us either, and this is the best way, don't you think?

    You have question you can ask, we are scared of no-one, in-debted to no-one, get paid from no-one. and see no-one to be holy and can not be questioned.

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