‘In my dreams, I consider Mahatma Gandhi as my teacher’
“Our guru was from India and your Lord Shiva from Tibet.” said Tibetian Spiritual leader Dalai Lama to a packed auditorium at Gujarat Vidyapith in Ahemdabad on Saturday afternoon.
Dalai Lama is in Ahemdabad for a Tibetean Festival organized by Darpana Academy and Kanoria Center for Arts.
Addressing students at the Vidyapith, the Nobel Laureate said : ”It is a great honour for me to be in the institute which was founded by Mahatma Gandhi himself.
“I am a follower of Gandhi and a great admirer of his. Though I have never had a chance to meet Gandhi,in my dreams, I consider him my teacher in the modern times .”
The Dalai Lama launched a book by mrinalini Sarabhai,’Mohandas kamchand Gandhi for Children’.
“In today’s time, insititutions like the Vidyapith have very important role to play since they revive ancient thought and take it forward. Non-violence has become a political message. Ahimsa was introduced to the world by India and then exported out to the other countries. Meanwhile it got vanished from here. Revive it, is my request,” he said.
