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Munl Sushil Kumar's address at the All Religions Gonference at Bhilwara
I have expounded the spiritual side of Religion only and I am convinced that all religions aim at establishment and maintenance of universal happiness, universal liberation and universal good. It is imperative that we discover and seek manifestation of one-ness, the Eternal Truth that is one, though variously described.
We ought to see this Eternal Truth with the eyes of Anekanta. Religions in the world are helpful and resourceful to those whose vision is pure, whese ideas are pure and whose conduct is pure. I firmly hold that all religions are true in their relative positions. None of them can be Inferior, false or defective. All of them mainfest complete guidance to reach the Supreme Sovereign Truth in some form or other. All are anxious to reach the same reality which is called the Ultimate Truth in Anekanta Doctrina and Theory. . .
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Gandhiji has pertinently said that orthodoxy and fanaticism, and truth-consciousness are poles apart. Toil hard to discover the real purpose of Religion. Learn the real implications of the religious teachings and get bathed in the illumination.
I notice one-ness and unity in the Divine Form of Religion. What are Sandhya, Namaz and Prayer? Are they not all modes of religious discipline? Are they not earnest endeavours for discovery of True Knowledge ? Mala, Rosary, Image,-Are they not tools and instruments for intellectual and spiritual elevation? Do they not mean and are they not intended to signify one and the same thing? Arhat, Rasool, Zoroaster, Moses, are not these the great names by which the world-renowned World Teachers are known to man? What are Narak, Jahannum and Hell? Are they not the places of punishment for the comittal or wrong, evil, wicked and hideous? the depth of human degradation. And what are Swarga, Jannat and Heaven? Are they not the most cherished rewards for accomplishment of right, virtuous and wholesome deeds—the height of moral elevation? Do not all Religions enjoin, applaud and advocate the utility and virtuosity of fasts, vows, pilgrimages, religious endowments, humanism, humanitarianism, compassion, humility, pity and purity ?
I have analysed the religious teachings on broad lines. In fact there is the requisite unity discernible in all of them, though viewed from different aspects and different spheres of life. To enjoy that one-ness, that unity, you ought to own the virtue of assimilation and tolerance; the heart has to be full of buoyant faith, eyes charged with love. To recognise that unity, own a harmonising reason, a heart of
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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