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etc. None of these Cultures can contain Life, whereas all of them are contained in Life. This is the main difference between Cultures and Religion.
Strenuous efforts are made to drag man towards Cultures (manmade castes and creeds) but knowingly or unknowingly man goes towards the Natural Religion viz. Life. Man is bound by the Order of Life becauce life itself develops into a Natural Want, and as such tries to meet that Want, and when that Want is met finds itself all content and peaceful.
Peace is, therefore, the automatic and natural result of the Perfection of the Entire Man viz. Manliness or "Manavata," and when the Object, the Objective, the Procedure, the process and the Sense of duty are all Perfect in the Entire Man, Brotherhood is naturally realised.
Presently a misconception is gaining ground that many ills have been brought by Religion, but this statement does not at all hold good with the Natural Religion of Man which is free from such a slur or blot. The ills are due to the varied contradictory dogmas of the man-made Cultures (castes and creeds) that have openly supported the so-called crusades or the righteous wars of man against Unless there is the proper understanding of the one Natural Religion in the Entire Man, these differences shall continue to exist.
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When, however, the Entire Man is made to understand Religion properly, there shall be no difference, disparity, conflict, confusion, corruption, indiscipline, caste, or creed and, therefore, no hatred and untouchability among mankind in the world. When such Manliness or "Manavata" prevails,-the Peace, the Brotherhood, the Love and the Non-Violence will irresistibly follow.
Ven'ble Visudhananda Mahathera
Mr. President, Fellow Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
As I join this conference attended by delegates from different parts of the globe, I seem to find a ray of hope in a dark and dismal scene and I for all purposes, consider the conference as a silver lining in the otherwise black and dark sky. With the spectre of atomic horror haunting mankind, the world to-day stands in a crucial stage of human history when time has come to decide once for all whether men are at all able to survive or are at the crucial point of collective suicide. After an astonishing adventure for
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