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o facere sita. Per do not realize in practical life the followers of different religions quarrelclosest connection of education with ling with each other for the sake of religion and so long as you are religion; this is all due to ingorance disposed to see a distinction between and for want of true education. God religious, moral or mental education, is no respector of persons and there you cannot find the happiness that can be no religion but one irrespec. education can bestow as a consequence tive of caste, colour, creed, or sect. and so far the training is imperfect, Religion should be distinguished from there can be no perfection in edu- Theology and divested of all dogmas cation without the perception of the and all distinction will disappear. If element of religion, there-in as a truth is revealed by different prophets most prominent factor: wherever there at different times there can be no doubt, is education, there is religion whether that truth is one and the same and you perceive it or not and as you it was promalgated in conformity to advance in education you feel in the times when the teachers appeared. your mind peace and harmony con- If you see the rays of the sun, reflecsciously or unconsciously and which ting different colours in a prism; you nothing but religion can yield. cannot say the colour of the sun is
violet or yellow or red or green and it Education is only a part of the
is nothing but folly and ignorance to great function of religion, and so
quarrel for upholding your belief long as this close union of both, with
that the colour of the ray is red or each other is not realized, you feel
blue or green when you see before lack of harmony, in your mind. This
yourself the sun and its true colour. is the most important lesson in life
Raise up the veil of ignorance and and earlier we realize it the earlier
you will see perfection of education we reach the goal of life. Religion
when all differnces will disappear from can be better expressed in feelings
your eyes and you will grasp the than in words: for Religion means in
real spirit of religion and the force short the chord that binds you with
of universal love. So every attempt the source, the chord that reminds
to seperate religion from education you of the spirit of brotherhood, in is quite futile: religion is born in the name of the source, the unknown us and we canuot seperate it from and the unknownable, which are all
any particle of our blood, although bound with the same link. The mo
we may forget the realization of it ment you realize this, your mind is and fight over the dogmas for some free from bondage.
time; but we cannot get harmony It is a matter of pity to see and peace of mind and eternal hapthat people may fight in the holy piness till we realize the very spirit name of religions to find Hindus, of religion in every action of life. Mahomedans, Cristians, Parsis and Such & stage in , education is
