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<body> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <img border="0" src="Slide1_files/image002.gif" width="576" height="432"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <a href="SlideFrameSet2.htm" target="_top"><img border="0" src="../../images/NextButton.jpg" width="150" height="52"></a></p>  <td width="50%"> <table border="0" width="39%" height="31" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolorlight="#FFFFFF" bordercolordark="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" align="center" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolorlight="#FFFFFF" bordercolordark="#FFFFFF" height="109"> <p align="left"><img border="0" src="../../images/Karis-shenlogo3.gif" width="282" height="127"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" align="center" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolorlight="#FFFFFF" bordercolordark="#FFFFFF" height="15"> <p align="center"><a href="../../AllContent.htm" target="_top">Site Contents</a><b> </b>| <font color="#FF8040"><a href="../../AllContent.htm#Library" target="_top">Library</a> <strong> | </strong> <a href="../../AllContent.htm#Registration" target="_top">Registration</a> <strong> | </strong><a href="../../AllContent.htm#Courses" target="_top">Courses</a><span lang="en-us">| <a href="../../AllContent.htm#Seminars" target="_top">Seminars</a></span></font> | <a href="../../AllContent.htm#People" target="_top">Members</a> | <a href="../../Donate/Donate.htm" target="_top">Donate</a> | <a href="../../Volunteer/Opportunities.htm" target="_top">Volunteer</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="30" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolorlight="#FFFFFF" bordercolordark="#FFFFFF"> <p align="center"><b><font size="4">Slide Notes</font></b> </td> </tr> </table> <div class=Section1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Before I begin my presentation, I would like to </span>thank the organizers of the conference for the opportunity to make this presentation on my favorite topic of URAM Bases Spiritual Education. I thank all of you who are present this evening to listen to it after a long and full day. I am delighted and honored by the opportunity.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">If I reflect on the question, “Why me with no formal education or qualifications in spirituality?”, I can only think of the following reasons:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">1. Time and place of my birth: I was born in 1937 in the state of Punjab, which was partitioned in 1947 between India and Pakistan. I grew up in an atmosphere of religious intolerance and hatred. I always wondered about the reasons of that madness and failed to come up with any.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. Parental Teaching: An invaluable opportunity of dialogs and discussions with my very spiritual parents on long morning walks. They gave me an open and spiritually inclusive perspective that I would like to share with you today.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. School Teachers: My school used to have an hour per week set aside for social, ethical and spiritual values. Our teachers instilled in us the spiritual values of one human family.</p> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">4. My Guru: My chance and fortunate encounter with a spiritually enlightened man, Brahmarishi Vishwatma Bawra, in my mid-life when I had just been through the usual struggles of establishing a family, a career, and a home. I was ripe to think about other issues of life. At this time, my half-baked childhood ideas resurfaced. I started to study to rethink and develop them under the direction of this enlightened man<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">.</i></span> </div>  <p> </td> </tr> </table> </body>