Why the did room fall silent after 5 minutes?
Perhaps they felt sorry for the speaker. Or they thought that Gurudev had forgotten his speech.
But of course that wasn’t true.
Gurudev’s speech was as short as it was impactful.
He simply said, “Everything that the world is fighting about – religions, holy books and all that – is nothing more than the peel of a banana. People have thrown away the banana, which is the essence of spirituality, and are instead fighting over the banana peel. Does that make sense?”
How profound, isn’t it?
It would be discussed later at the same conference, how among 100s of spiritual leaders and their speeches, this specific one stood out!