World Religions Conference November 1957

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

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Muni Sushil Kumar's Address
armament. We have never paused to consider the reasons for the increased lack of interest and apathy in religion and how to remedy the evil and as such we are responsible for the moral lapse that we see around us at present. Insted of loud talks, we ought to pay serious attention in this direction, as with this lack of religious faith, religion itself stands in danger of total annihilation. The floodwaters of Himsa (Violence) have already crossed the danger mark. and we have to consider the ways and means for controlling and combating the rising tide before it sweeps over mankind. We must therefore work on some well defined plan after discussing and deciding the basis therefor.
Long ago I had an opportunity to go through 'Khardarshan" of Acharya Hari Bhadra Suri, and Sarv Darshan Sangreh Granth of shri Madhvacharya and it struck me that all milk was white, in spite of the different coloured kine from whom it was milked. Thus to find 'Unity in diversity' is the key-note of this Conference. With all religious differences and distinguishing and distinctive garbs or outer marks of the various orders, there is yet one life-rhythm pulsating in all and that is immortal and everlasting; as opposed to seeming differences that are but ephermel and not of much consequence. In this age of science and reason I cannot
differences as insurmountable and we have to resolve them patiently as best as we may.
accept the so-called solve them out and
While discussing the transitoriness of the progress of science and Its unsubstantial character, Muni ji said that we should not sleep down in selfcomplacency but try to rise above body-consciousness so as to penetrate into the spiritual realms within. Without achieving inner peace we cannot possibly bring about peace without. On the contrary, we, in our attempt to secure world peace, are trying ways and means that are purely without us, with the result that like a will-o-wisp, it ever eludes our grasp. We need aids both inner and outer for without them we cannot succeed.
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Science may give us electric lights by the millions, but it miserably fails to give the inner light, which comes only from inner peace awakening of the soul. The world-peace, social development and universal love, all spring from the soul. The fact is that politics like science with all its outer splendour is moth-eaten from within. The politics In the Machiavellian garb has brought in its wake much evil, racial hatreds, national prejudices & colour animosities that are so rife all around. Political unions, international treaties and administrative pacts cannot extinguish the flames of unrest that are mounting high. It is only on the level of the spirit or love that we can be united Into one homogeneous whole and establish world-peace. As all religions spring from the human soul, the seeds of universal peace lie buried in the
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