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Glimpses of World Religions
opposition, terrible quarrels and in summation, lack of peace for mankind has arisen.
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No religion of the world is opposed to perennial values of life, the supermost moral rules, truth and non-violence; yes, it cannot be. The ultimate goal of any religion is surely to remove the faults in men, and removing darkness, enhancing the glory of virtues, and to ensure development of virtues and the removal of darkness. By instigating inertness, blind faith, fanaticism and religious fanaticism or Jehad in the name of religion and thus by making human life on earth a miserable one, nobody would get happiness. Religion is, after all, a holy thing and since many ages, Dharma is busy doing the best activity of public welfare in different individualistic manner. It is Dharma which has provided support, maintenance and search for truth. At different times, the founders of religion and religious teachers have undergone unlimited sufferings for the cause of leading the mankind to the right path - they have sacrificed a lot of things.
The most essential need of the present age is equal respectful love for religions, tolerance of all religions, rather than synthesis of all religions and tolerance of other religions. The meaning of synthesis of religions is the synthesis of nice virtues. The chief aim of this synthesis is to see how men can be noble, and how can they be human in true sense. In the concept of tolerance of all religions, there lies the mentality to welcome all religions in the form of external tolerance as well as generosity, in their wide sense. But equal respectful love for all religions (Sarva Dharma Sambhav) does expect from us a special feeling for any particular religion and to have generosity and broadness of mind, even mentally. In order that this expectation may be fulfilled, we will have to make study of all religions liberally, with equal respect and with honour; and at the end of that study,
