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Shining World Compassion Award:
India's Animal Rights Champion, Maneka Gandhi (In Hindi)
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Today’s Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants
will be presented
in Hindi and English,
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Chinese, English,
French, German,
Hindi, Indonesian,
Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Malay,
Mongolian, Persian,
Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish and Thai.
Everywhere in the world,
we can observe
and be touched
by acts of kindness.
People from all walks of
life, faiths, and cultures
extend themselves
beyond the call of duty
to help others
unconditionally.
Through their noble deeds,
humanity as a whole
is elevated.
To commend
virtuous actions and
encourage more people
to be inspired
by their examples,
Supreme Master
Ching Hai
has lovingly created
a series of awards,
including the Shining
World Leadership
Award, Shining World
Compassion Award,
Shining World Hero and
Heroine Awards, Shining
World Honesty Award,
Shining World Protection
Award, Shining World
Intelligence Award,
and Shining World
Inventor Award,
to recognize some
of the most exemplary,
generous, caring,
and courageous people
who walk amongst us.
Maneka Gandhi is
a vegan Indian politician,
passionate
environmentalist,
animal protector,
advocate for
the plant-based diet
and author of
many thoughtful books
in the areas of etymology,
law and animal welfare.
Be it a withering plant
on a drying riverbed,
an injured sloth bear
in captivity,
or a hungry child
on the street,
in Maneka Gandhi’s eyes
their lives are
equally important –
indeed, interdependent.
A powerful voice
speaking up
for the voiceless,
Ms. Gandhi is committed
to protecting Mother Earth,
animals and humans from
all forms of exploitation.
If you really want
to save the world,
you have to stop
looking at the differences,
and see everything as one,
everything, because it is.
The person who cuts a leaf
harms me as much as
the person
who burns down a forest,
as much as the person
who runs a slaughterhouse,
as much as the person
who puts a choke chain
on his dog,
as much as the person
who abandons the cat
because he’s got
a new baby at home.
All this leads to violence.
If we could just stop that,
it will be such a fun world
to live in.
Ms. Gandhi began
her advocacy work
at the age of 27
after deep contemplation
regarding
what she could do
for the people of India.
To bring her caring ideals
to the wider community,
she entered politics
and won her first election
in 1989,
becoming a member
of the Lok Sabha,
the lower house
of India’s Parliament.
She remains
a Member of Parliament
to this day
and her compassionate
policies and visions
represent the hopes of
the noble Indian people.
She has also served as a
minister in four Cabinets.
Maneka Gandhi’s heart
which has always remained
in environmental
and animal justice,
led her to help create
India’s first Department
for Animal Welfare
and serve as its minister.
I believe that the
animal welfare movement
has to be a serious
scientific movement,
as good as any other.
So we have to decide
what is the equivalent
of leather?
What should schools study?
Should we have
an animal welfare course
in universities?
In 1992,
Ms. Gandhi started
the non-profit group
People for Animals,
which quickly became
the largest animal rights
and welfare organization
in India.
We save about
5,000 animals a day.
It's not a lot,
but it's something.
And we do it without
any government grants.
We do it
without any money at all.
We have 31 shelters.
We have 180 units.
We have about
300 to 400 pleas for help
coming in every day.
Every single day,
I interact with people
who are mean to animals.
I get the police
to deal with them.
I intervene at every level,
somebody’s neighbor
who’s mean to her dog
gets a call from me.
Ministers get a call
from me.
Administrators have to
deal with me.
In 1995, Ms. Gandhi was
appointed chairwoman
of India’s Committee
for the Purpose of
Control and Supervision
of Experiments on Animals,
a federal government
agency which exposes
and stops animal cruelty
occurring in
research laboratories.
She also helped
implement a national ban
on the use of animals
in circus performances.
I made all
the environmental laws
for India.
The coastal regulation
zones, the pollution laws,
the air laws, the water laws,
the transport laws,
the slaughterhouse laws,
I wrote the first law,
apart from
the Prevention to Cruelty
to Animals Act,
it's an accumulation
of all the laws on animals
which has been formed
since People for Animals
was made.
And now it's taught in
112 universities in India.
Then I wrote 38 booklets,
so that people would know
how to set up
a (animal) shelter,
how to run it,
how to look after donkeys,
and how to
look after monkeys.
I wrote India's first
(animal) first aid book,
because nobody knew
what first aid was about
for animals.
Under Ms. Gandhi’s
wise leadership,
better national
conservation policies
have been implemented
and she has supported
the country’s vegetarians
by helping enact
a food purity law.
I started something
called the Green Dot
and the Red Dot
which you have
on all food products now
because otherwise
people didn’t know
what were vegetarian
and non-vegetarian.
So a lot of products that
claimed to be vegetarian
were non-vegetarian
because they had gelatin.
Ms. Gandhi has even hosted
nationally-broadcast
television programs.
One program was called
“Maneka’s Ark,”
a weekly talk show
about animals.
Another program was
“Heads and Tails,” a series
that exposed cases
of animal exploitation
in India.
It was a program
which showed you
how a chicken became
a chicken sandwich.
And how a pig
became ham.
And how people did
animal sacrifices.
And how people carried
chickens upside down,
you know?
And it identified people
who broke the law.
And it showed you
two good people
and two bad people.
I mean not bad people,
bad institutions, bad things,
two good things.
And it turned a whole
generation vegetarian.
(Wow.)
I still get approached
by hundreds of people
saying,
“You know Mrs. Gandhi,
when I was young,
I saw this program
and I didn’t ever
touch meat again.”
Why did Ms. Gandhi
chose to be vegan?
I simply cannot see
the difference between
a two-legged animal
and a four-legged one.
And I can’t see them
think differently.
I can’t see them
love differently.
I can’t see them
talk differently.
We have to respect them,
as they respect us.
In almost every which way,
they’re cleverer than us.
They can fly.
They can navigate.
They can make straight
lines without rulers.
They can do
millions of things
we can’t do.
So to simply destroy
a superior species,
or to eat somebody
who’s related to you,
you know genetically,
the closest relation
to a human is the pig.
So to eat your first cousins,
seems to me to be gross.
It takes intelligence
to be a vegan.
It’s wonderful to see
in India all the people
at the top of the game,
are all vegetarian.
The richest community
in India
is not by any coincidence
vegetarian.
It’s because
God brings luck to it.
The Jains don’t have
a single poor person
in entire community.
What would Ms. Gandhi’s
like to do next to better
animal welfare in India?
What would I like to do?
What is my great dream?
It’s to get the money to
start a veterinary college.
The People for Animals
Veterinary College.
For her outstanding work
in safeguarding
vulnerable animals and
the fragile environment
as well as
promoting veganism
Supreme Master
China Hai
honored Maneka Gandhi
with the Shining World
Compassion Award.
A warm letter
to Ms. Gandhi
accompanied the splendid
crystal Award plaque
given to her, the following
of which is an excerpt:
Your kindness,
enthusiasm, and devotion
to saving both animals
and our environment is
an inspirational example
of love in action –
exemplifying
the meaning of Ahimsa.
Thank you
for all you have done
to ennoble humanity
by awakening us
to universal kindness and
the wisdom of compassion.
You are making
a significant difference
to the uplifting
of human consciousness
and to the betterment
of life on Earth, for all
her precious inhabitants.
For selfless dedication
to the welfare of animals,
for tireless exertion
to save the environment,
for the nobility
of your vision, wisdom
and creativity, and
for using your prestigious
position of influence
to serve all that is
righteous and good,
we applaud and celebrate
the outstanding
compassionate deeds
of Ms. Maneka Gandhi.
With Great Honour,
Love, and Blessings,
Supreme Master
Ching Hai
Thank you again
and I am honored
by this award.
On Supreme Master
Ching Hai’s behalf
our Association member
presented Ms. Gandhi
with a check
for US$20,000
to further the mission
of People For Animals,
Supreme Master Ching Hai’s
#1 international
best-sellers,
“The Birds In My Life”
and “The Noble Wilds”
as well as some
of her DVDs and CDs.
The world needs
the Supreme Master
very, very much.
I wish there were
thousands like her.
There is a belief
amongst our gurus that if
40,000 enlightened souls
sat together and
wanted the same thing
at the same time, especially
world enlightenment,
they could do it.
I wish the Supreme Master
would organize it.
I’m sure she can.
After the Award ceremony,
Ms. Gandhi’s
representative sent
Supreme Master Ching Hai
the following letter.
Honourable
Supreme Master Ching Hai,
This is with reference to
the Shining World
Compassion Award
conferred on
Ms. Maneka Gandhi
earlier this year
to help further her cause
of protecting the animals
and saving the environment.
Accordingly,
Ms. Maneka Gandhi
has transferred the entire
amount of US$20,000
to the non-profit
charitable Trust
that she heads,
People For Animals
to be solely used for
the benefit of animals
and the environment.
We should be most grateful
to receive your blessings
for this work.
With Humble Respects,
Ambika Shukla
For Maneka Gandhi
Chairperson
People For Animals
Ms. Gandhi, the world
is fortunate to have
upright individuals
like yourself
who speak out
without hesitation
on behalf of
our animal friends.
You truly set
a model example
for everyone to follow.
Be Veg,
Go Green
2 Save the Planet!
For more information
on People For Animals,
please visit
www.PeopleForAnimalsIndia.org
Generous viewers,
thank you for joining us
today on our program.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment
after Noteworthy News.
May we all live
and let live.
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