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**56. To Followers of the Various Religions of India
**New Delhi, 2 February 1986
1. Spiritual Vision of Man
I am pleased that my pilgrimage to India has brought me to Delhi, and once again to this Indira Gandhi Stadium. Here we are experiencing together, in a religious and cultural setting, the reality that is man in this your vast and fascinating land. You are representatives and leaders in various fields of human life and endeavour. To all of you I offer my greetings of friendship, respect and fraternal love…
**3. Man: Pilgrim of the Absolute
**India has so much to offer to the world in the task of understanding man and the truth of his existence. What she offers specifically is a noble spiritual vision of man – man, a pilgrim of the Absolute, traveling towards a goal, seeking the face of God. Did not Mahatma Gandhi put it this way: “What I want to achieve – what I have been striving and pining to achieve… is self-realization – to see God face to face. I live and move and have my being in pursuit of this goal”?..
Despite all the powerful forces of poverty and oppression, of evil and sin in all their forms, the power of truth, will prevail – the truth about God, the truth about man. It will prevail because it is invincible. The power of truth is invincible! “Satyam èva jayatè – Truth alone triumphs”, as the motto of India proclaims.
– Papa Joannes Paulus II
**New Delhi, 2 February 1986
1. Spiritual Vision of Man
I am pleased that my pilgrimage to India has brought me to Delhi, and once again to this Indira Gandhi Stadium. Here we are experiencing together, in a religious and cultural setting, the reality that is man in this your vast and fascinating land. You are representatives and leaders in various fields of human life and endeavour. To all of you I offer my greetings of friendship, respect and fraternal love…
**3. Man: Pilgrim of the Absolute
**India has so much to offer to the world in the task of understanding man and the truth of his existence. What she offers specifically is a noble spiritual vision of man – man, a pilgrim of the Absolute, traveling towards a goal, seeking the face of God. Did not Mahatma Gandhi put it this way: “What I want to achieve – what I have been striving and pining to achieve… is self-realization – to see God face to face. I live and move and have my being in pursuit of this goal”?..
Despite all the powerful forces of poverty and oppression, of evil and sin in all their forms, the power of truth, will prevail – the truth about God, the truth about man. It will prevail because it is invincible. The power of truth is invincible! “Satyam èva jayatè – Truth alone triumphs”, as the motto of India proclaims.
– Papa Joannes Paulus II