World Religions Conference November 1957

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

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Objects of the Conference and Akbar. They were the earliest attempts and endeavours by those eminent personalities at devising a common formula acceptable to all revealed religions in those days. During the last four hundred years under the subjection of foreigners, this tradition of exchange of religious give and take, has practically disappeared. In 1893 a Parliament of Religions was held in the city of Chicago in the United States of America. The World Fellowship of Faiths and the Theosophical Society have been holding conventions from time to time. Recently a few conventions of all religions were held in Japan,
All Religions Conferences on an All India scale were already organised and held at Bombay, Ujjain and Bhilwara in India. It is now intended to hold World Religions Conference in New Delhi, the capital of India. This historical city has witnessed great social, economic and political upheavals.
India has often sent her envoys to different countries in the West and in the East but they went and reached there to preach the message of Universal Peace and World Brotherhood. No aggressive armies were ever sent to any foreign land by India. When occassion so demanded, armies to restore and maintain peace have been sent out whenever requisitioned by foreign countries. Indian soldiers, like Indian philoso phers, have earned world-wide recognition of their peace mission and their laudable object of active service in the cause of peace. With this historical back-ground, the capital city of India was chosen as the Venue of the World Religions Conference.
I invite earnest and sincere co-operation and active participation of all the religious and apiritual minded people, as well as, the politicians and social workers and I depend on their hearty support for the success of the Conference. Let us re-generate ourselves and fulfill our duties to build a world by raising the spirits of human beings and make them descern Universal Oneness. The process of evolution suggests the methods for religionists and others to work and elevate them that entrust themselves to them. I pray to the Supreme Soul to give us strength and fortitude for the fulfilment of our mission,
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