Enjoy this beautiful Vishva Mitrata Divas message from HH Param Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji during our Sacred Ganga Aarti on the holy banks of Mother Ganga. He so perfectly shares that friendship is a state of mind and perspective.

“If we have the attitude of friendship – Maitri – towards others, then we see no one as the enemy. We must work on our thoughts and our mindset so that we expand its ability to see everyone as our friend…to see everyone as part of our one world family.”

He closed with a beautiful mantra from the Yajur Ved which prays that all beings look upon me with the eye of a friend, that we look upon all beings with the eye of a friend, so that we may regard one another with the eye of a friend.