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Tolk by Sant Tukdo ji arms, to win them over by a human touch by awakening in them the fairer, finer and truer instincts of fellowship as may spiritualise their outlook and raise them in cosmic awareness at the level of the soul, the source and fountain-head of goodness and Divinity.
We are thus at the cross roads: one leading to subjugation and slaughter, Himsa or Violence, and the other to efflorescence of spirit through Ahimsa or love and non-violence. While the one leads to the armed peace,-the peace of the graveyard, by crushing all that is good in Man, the other points to the living peace,-peace born of love and good-will towards all and hatred towards none. The first is just epher. mal, evanescent as the fleeting clouds, the other is everlasting and eternal.
We are here with a purpose and what is that purpose? Either to plan out a noble edifice for mankind or else to help the cause of of bombs and missiles. You would agree with me that the might of love born of spirit is mightier than anything else in the world.
The people have not yet awakened to the realities of Dharma. God made Man and Man made religions, fossilised religions, binding himself body and soul with hoops and steel, and not with silken bonds of love and fellowship. Religion cannot possibly be established and stabilised at the point of bayonets or at the mouth of guns. The founders of the great religious movements and the religious leaders never advocated forcing religion down the throats of others, but preached their beliefs and tenets in a spirit of friendship and amity. The only way before us is that we, the leaders of world religions, should unite together to find out ways and means of propagating among people the greatness of Man, endowed as he is with latent God-head in him—the roof and crown of God's creation, higher even than the angelic hosts of heaven, provided he were to realise his divinity and to live by the same. The fact is that religions were made for man and not man for religions. We are all living as it were, in a great warehouse of the world with so many religions as our stock-in-trade.
even than the ange live by the same cilcions. We are
The way to true religion of mankind has so dwindled down through the encrustation of ages that we can hardly see any trace of it at the present moment. We see a great conflict between religion and religion-and what we call religion is but an empty husk of Reality which is dried down and is starving for want of life-giving waters due to neglect and apathy on the part of all. We are playing with pebbles on the seashore, unmindful of the Ocean of Reality that lies unexplored before our very eyes while seeing we see not and are but contented
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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