World Religions Conference November 1957

Author(s): Sushil Muni
Publisher: Achal Singh Seth

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Objects of the Conference
All religions emphasize humanism and practice of charity and in spite of various forms, the eternal Religion is one and the same. The whole human race is entwined and intertwined by mutual attachment: mother and child, brother and sister are kinships based on nobler sentiments and sustained by this basic religious ideology, call it a socioreligious ideology. Religion has always been the Beacon Light, warning man against egoism, arrogance of pelf and power, intrigue, chicanery and consequent disharmonies and inequalities.
Religious tanatics resorted to violence and commited ignoble acts under false cloak of eccliastic mission. Sanctity of Religion has also been violated often in days gone by. Annals of history portray a sorrowful tale of orgies of violence, strifes, conflicts and bloodshed. All this was done under religious banner. In fact, Religion does not admit of race, creed or colour. The airtight and watertight compartments are evil machinations born out of shallow obscurantism. Distinction of purpose of Religion has not come to them who warp their intellect and dwarf their idealism. The sad truth is that to-day all mankind is sick is soul, and consequently sick in physique and is actually polluted. Atheism and heterodoxy are sapping the last drop of blood from our veins. Materialism will breed competition and contempt and will lead man to desruction. Religious fanaticism will create and rouse up the old, long buried demon of wickedness and hideousness. The materialist is a captive of matter and this is the ugly fact facing humanity. It is imperative to hasten the end of the old and currupt Order.
Mankind must be awakened from soul-slumber. The divine spark within is to be quickened, presaging man's awakening to his true selfhood. This can be achieved by sincere and genuine Impulse for Universal Religion by deep meditation, stilling of the lower mental and emotional processes, and entering into communion with Higher Consciousness, turning into the Infinite and the Eternal where Truth or Divine Wisdom is realised. The ever spreading atheism has been drying up all the milk of human kind. ness. The only hope, the reliable remedy is the resurgence of the pure form of revealed religions. International politics may then be affected and pervaded by these pure, spiritual sentiments and considerations and the human race would reflect and be guided by the Light of the New Era, awakening man from his soul-slumber.
World conditions are deteriorating and international tensions increas. ing and the Divine Strains of World Harmonies are missing. The World seems to have lost its main moorings. Moral and economic conditions are worsened with the decrease in the inspiration of the higher and the nobler. The panorama of history is before us and shows how the discord of schism fructifies into selfishness, vice, crime, misery. catastrophes, revolts
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