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Glimpses of World Religions
its tastes and qualities are uniform. It is only after its falling on the earth that the qualities of water get changed. If it rains on the sea, it tastes salty, and if it falls on certain parts of the earth it is heavy or difficult to digest; whereas if it falls on certain other parts, it is light and easily digestible.
Thus, the waters of the earth show differences, whereas there are no varieties or differences in the water of the sky. There is one-ness. Dharma resembles water of the sky; there is no distinction anywhere. The vision of the religion, in the form of experience of spiritual joy, is one only; but after the touches of sects, there enters the pervertedness (or pollution) of ‘Thine' and ‘Mine’. So one should be careful against it.
Religion is not meant to be ‘locked up' within the narrow walls, nor it is to be dumped in a pool. If we allow it to be flowed down freely as a river, the religion in the form of unpolluted water will be possible. It will, then, quench 'the thirst of religion of the poeple of each and every sect and in this way, there will be welfare of countless people.
We give different names to the waters of ponds, wells, large well with steps or lakes, such as water of so-andso particular well. But these are all easy arrangements done for the preservation of waters at different places and in a limited way. In the waters of all those places (reservoirs) the water-ness is the same. The water of the sky is independent and pours incessantly. What name can we give to it? Similar is the case of religiousness. We have to catch it in the form of dew.
Muni Amar, journeying for a religious cause, reached one . village. He was in search of a place worthy for a night-halt. One priest in charge of an Ashram said to him, “Go to the rest-house
