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A Multi-Cultural Vision of the 21st Century
a line which entirly corresponds to the aim of the world's congress of faiths. She selected choice texts from all religions of the world to inspire the young ones to profound love and reverence for the world's great spiritual masters and to gender a thirst for truth and a willingness and ability to recognise it wherever they find it and above all she tried to evoke a real understanding of religious experience like the pilgrimage in Hardy's poem. They must themselves come back with magic in their eyes. This is what is inter-faith education and inter-faith culture.
Religion and culture comingling and communicating with each other, can bring magic in the eyes of the young. It is important, therefore, for us to think what we can do to dissimilate the quintessence of the culture of religions in all communities; the fantasy of the culture of all religions is based on concern, based on manifestations in the forms of art, sculpture tradition, folk lore and philosophy. That is why I referred to you, Anekāntavāda'(non-absolutism) logic of the Jains which recognises that there are many facets of reality. As we know global reality has many different facets and those facets must be seen by us. These facets are to be celebrated by us nevertheless we must recognise that we have diversities in the world. When I speak of the unity of those diversities I must tell you the unity of norms and diversities of forms must be systemitised in the single interacting frame work of unity of norms. And this is something which must be addressed by us in this parliament and hereafter. Well, some basic rules will have to be established. When I speak of the multi-cultural vision and values for the 21th century, I think a particular programme wouldhave to be drawn up, a practical programme of the basic norms what I call the ground rules on the basis of which multicultural interaction and togetherness will be promoted. There is a great movement of population but it is not for the first time, it has happened, it is happening for the centuries past. When I go to north-west, I am told how their language has its roots in India. When I go to Lithvenia unieversity in the Boltics, I am told Sanskrta is the root of their language. Now Sanskrta is not the only root of language. There are different roots for different languages, but the point to remember is that mankind has travelled without the facilities that we enjoy today and they have travelled far and wide and they have carried with them memories of their faith tradition and of their culture appreciation, what is beautiful what is
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| SR No. | 014010 |
| Book Title | Jainism in a Global Perspective - Collection of Jain papers of 1993 Parliament of World Religions, Chicago |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sagarmal Jain, Shreeprakash Pandey |
| Publisher | Parshwanath Vidyapith |
| Publication Year | 1998 |
| Total Pages | 402 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Seminar & Articles |
| File Size | 23 MB |