World Religions Conference November 1957

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

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Dr. Sarvanganand Chaitanya into conflicting devotional methods or Taboos. If we succeed in rising above the relative layers of various chief and sub-religious sects, philosophic opinions, and dogmas, it is as easy to comprehend as the broad day-light that the main basis of all of them is the firm confidence in the existence of the One Unitary Lord of this manifested Universe, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, and the Omn'present, the Absolute Universal Being.
Analysis of diversity and ignorance of Religion
Tho apparent diversity and ignorance of Religion is undoubtedly as much created by diverse human opinions and conceptions as it is blurred by the side-lights of different times, geographical situations and local circumstances. Apart from them there is one more important and more powerful reason. The available scriptures of religions founded in the past by those exceptionally merited superhuman spiritual dignitaries, have failed to convey to humanity their own direct realization of the Most Supreme Truth as was actually realized by the original founders. It could not be self experienced and transmitted to posterity by their immediate followers. Because the realization of the Supreme Truth is necessarily always self-perceptible and direct. Whereas its literary interpretations, however skillfully done, prove to be a mere intellectual, conception of an indirect value. The Real Human Religion consists in realizing the basic Supreme Truth, who is no other than the Almighty Lord of this Universe, the Omniscient, the Omnipresent and the Omnipotent Supreme Divinity and to behave with all fellow creatures, with that self-illumination, which behaviour is not only of an imaginary. equality, but of actual preceptibility that all are parts and parcels of one's own real and world-wide existence.
It is superfluous to explain further that such wide outlook of human existence cannot afford slightest shelter to violence and other demoniacal_attributes. Such grand spiritual unanimity with mankind and Inseparable oneness with the one Unitary Lord of Universe as was felt and practised by the original founders of Religions could not be assimilated and appreciated by their subsequent followers, nor by them who composed intelligent literatures in the form of scriptures, later on, depicting their philosophies and devotional ethics. Even if some of such chronicles desired to do fuil justice to them they could not express it through the channels of words to the posterity. Thus the theoretical literary Interpretations of scriptures, failing to convey their easily transferable understanding, have unintentionally and adversely helped in creating diversity in religions and increasing mass ignorance about the real aspect of true human religion. Thus the all-pervading unanimity in all religions, which was competent enough to evolve a man to the pedestal