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Equal Respect for all Religions
Religion has got a very important place in human life. There would hardly be any country where one or other kind of religion might not be observed. Human life without religion is inconceivable. The freedom, which a man of present day of a scientific age, points out in justification of his being an atheist, is not really speaking a freedom or a novelty and the true support it has not procured. So he is used to speak out in helplessness :
As is rightly sung by the poet Sundaram :“Even though all gardens of the world w'd dry, And the lamps of Sun and Moon are put out,
But not the longings of our hearts for you, could ever stop o' Rama ! Thou, only Thou."
Thus, man's search for Dharma or for God is a perennial search. As per the saying 'Sadhana's name multitudinous', there are different ways to get God. From such half-baked, incomplete one-sided and rigid beliefs that any one particular religion is the best and all other religions in comparison to that are weak, conflicts between one religion and another religion, revenge
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