World Religions Conference November 1957

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

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Dr. Sarvanganand Chaitanya
of God in all his spheres of terrestrial existence came to be lost. And with what deplorable consequence? The followers of different religions have since long constructed dividing unsurmountable full works of sentimental, Imaginary and psyho-neurotic stuff amongst the body polity of human race. It is not only ignorance but underestimation to say about the founders of religions, that some of them had only a partial glimpse of the whole truth. If we gratefully remember their supreme efforts to preserve the Divine spark in humanity while struggling hard with Demoniac culture, bent on reducing humanity to contemptible beastliness, sacrificing themselves for the noble cause, we will realise, that the charge of having partially visualized the Great Truth cannot be laid on them so easily. Of course if their followers, failing to evolve themselves to the zenith of founder's Realization, have created a senseless deluge of imaginative side-shows.
current human conceptions about religion.
Man, both individually and collectively, happens to entertain several ways regarding religion, duty to one's self and others, ethies of action, devotion, worship, piety, sacrifice, social, political and national outlook etc. etc. in order to fulfil his evolution both terrestrial and celestial, such às :
1. By being a staunch religious man by correctly practising all dictum laid down by a particular religion inherited by him through his family, caste, society or nation.
2. By aspiring to possess a complete knowledge of all the religious literature of his own religion which he has enherited by birth or accident.
3. By succeeding in creating in himself a broad outlook of sympathy and tolerance towards all prevalent religions by deep exhaustive and a comparative study of literatures of all prevalent religions.
4. By engaging himself in such scientific researches as would enable him to manifest a dormant yet powerful dynamic energy from an atom of Inàlimate object; endowing his own nation with that discovery, unmindful of the possibility of its being utilised for the benevolent uplift of humanity or för humanity's downfall.
5. By Striving to ascend to the highest pedestal of one's nation's ruling machinery, with the object of enhancing peace and happiness of hümáñity and thus raising the status of his own nation.
6. By Persuading backward, less powerful and needy nations to accept the bribe of destructive weapons over-produced, money and amenities
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