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Address by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji first was to know God. God first, and everything else afterwards. So when we look at the scriptures, we find that they all tell the same thing. The point underlying is that the old Masters, those great men who came in the past, they knew themselves first and thereby became conscious co-workers of the Divine Plan. They came into contact with the Reality within and from that standpoint they said, "All mankind is one."
So true religion begins by knowing what a Man Is. Man should know himself first. What we are? Who we are? We are too much after the organisations we have made, the purpose of which was to know ourselves first and then to know God. But that aim was just kept in the background and the outer preliminaries were taken to be the be-all and end-all.
I went to the West. The people there asked me, "How can we evade the dangers of atomic war ?" I told them, "only if you live upto what the scriptures say." All the scriptures say, "Love thy God with all thy heart, with all thy Soul, with all thy mind." And: "as God resides in every heart, we should love all humanity." In one way or the other the teachings of all the great Masters who came in the past were based on these two principles. I told them that if they followed these two principles there would be no danger of atomic war.
A man who loves God will naturally love all mankind as God resides in all hearts. Amongst the Hindus, even serpents are the objects of Worship, simply for the reason that God is immanent in every form. I will give you an Instance. I was once giving a talk here when a Cobra was spotted. He had his hood held aloft. Some of the people were frightened. I told them, "Never mind. Let him stay." I continued my talk and the serpent stayed on for a fullhour and all the while he was looking at my eyes. Thus you will see that love can conquer everything.
"Love and all things shall be added unto you," is what the Gospel enjoins. Love and Ahimsa are but synonyms. Love is the natural concomitant of Ahimsa. All saints who came in the past, whether Kabir, Nanak, Christ, Confucious, Zoroaster, Mahavira or Budha etc., they all said the same thing. This is the golden principle on which we have to stand for the unity of all religions of the world. And this we have forgotten. We have lost sight of the kernel and are too much after the outer details.
There are two aspects of aspect and the other is the outer.
religion : One is the inner The outer aspect of religion is
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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