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Background
create a suitable atmosphere for a One World State, so that all mankind may be united into One Great Family of Man.
In describing the true form of religion, he rightly said, that there was but one religion for the world and not many; but owing to differences of language and modes of thinking, we had so many seeming patterns. Truth is One but sages described it variously, is an Upnishadic text which is too true even now as it was then, owing to different ways of looking at it. But if we were to look intently with a "Single Eye", we will see nothing but Truth which is One and all-pervading. Man made religions with multitudenous forms by looking at the great and grand Truth from different angles. The Mongolians, the Caucasians, the Aryans and the Europeans all derive their descent from Adam, the one common Parent-stock but owing to provincial and cultural differences they appear as so many different groups, one apart from the other. With all these apparent divergencies and differences born of Climatic conditions, there is an undying and indestructible common essence in all, that sings with one voice all the while, Songs of Universal Brotherhood and Oneness and we hear echoes of the same revebrating throughout the universe. Earth is a common and indivisible heritage for all. We are the different members of one family and are moved by one common impulse of Truth and when that dawns in fullness, we rise above all differences and observe the light of Supereme Power of Nature and enter into Cosmic Awareness. Truth knows no differences and can create none and resolves all doubts that vanish like thin vapours into airy nothing; but material progress and prosperity divides Man from Man, and herein lies the greatness of religion.
Salient Features of Religion X
In the matter of religion, Man has always suffered from one weakness. Instead of presenting it in simple and plain terms, he tries to make a riddle of it, too difficult, even for a sphinx to solve, with the natural result that Truth now lies buried under a mass of verbiage and is lost to view. Again, it has become customary with us to consider our religion as the best and the most perfect in the world and we have come to believe that it is our sacred duty to thrust it upon others even at the point of sword, so much so, as to make it a field for death-dance over the ashes of others. In our religious frenzy, we forget that every religion has a kernel of Truth at its core though wrapped in so many coloured garments, and that the seeds of Truth can never be singed. We have before us shining examples of Rama, Krishna, Mahavira, Budha, confucious, Laotze, Christ, Mohammad and Nanak, all of whom were guardian angles of Truth, but we complacently close our eyes at the ideals they placed before mankind. We bypass even the most elementary principle of self-existence :-Do unto others as you would like to be done unto you. Religion is one infinite whole and indivisible and cannot be
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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