In English
When one of the girl students spoke in the beginning, she addressed others as “friends”. This friendship may develop into anything. Therefore, I asked her not to address others as friends. In the life of students today, this friendship is spreading along a blind path and without restraint. So instead of considering others as friends, if you consider them as sisters and brothers, we know that towards sisters we shall never develop a bad feeling. Students must try to consider one another as brothers and sisters, and not mere friends, because even in friendship, sometimes there are bad meanings and bad interpretations. When introduced a new form of address at the Congress of Religions in Chicago, instead of addressing them as “Ladies and Gentlemen”, he addressed them as “Brothers and Sisters”. It was quite new to the foreigners, and they were so much touched and moved by this gesture that they applauded him incessantly for fifteen minutes. Of course, nowadays too, we are addressing the audience as sisters and brothers, but that feeling is not there in our hearts even for the time we are on the platform. What we do not feel in our hearts should not be expressed outwardly. We must give place to true feelings in our hearts and we must try to practice good things in our life.