World Religions Conference November 1957

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

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Muni Shri Trilok Chand Ji
pleasure to hear the great ideas put before us and this has reminded me of the immortal times of 500 years ago when Lord Mahavir delivered his message.
We have to admit that significance of religion is in and from nonviolence. This has been recognised by all men of religion ; born in India and abro a Non-violence is the fundamental law of life, and until we adopt it as a way of life, no man can be happy either in this life or after. There are different customs and tendencies in our individual and social life and these should be combined into one religious life, just as different little streams combine into forming one river.
Our law of life should be such as to be universal in application and unchangeable. Non-violence is the law, unanimously adopted by all the avataras, seers and sages, teachers and founders of all religions of the world. But today, we find a strange phenomena--the various peoples of the world are rigidly clinging to their respective social codes of conduct and are therefore drifting away from true religion. However, the fact is, that religion provides everything. We cannot escape it. It is inevitably with us. What is required is the understanding of true religion for which we have assembled here.
All of you are aware that Delhi is full of buildings of various typesbig and small, but under all of them there is earth which is one and indivisible. In the same way the religion is one. We have to make endeavour with heart and soul, if there is to be a powerful emergence of non-violence. Let our life be helpful, righteous, our food pure. Let our hearts be purified day by day and let our treatment of each other be in a loving and friendly spirit for therein lies the panacea of all the ills of the world.
Speech of Swami Premanand ji
Swami ji began his speech by reciting a verse which meant that the river of love is about to be in tide; even now if we are not awakened into the realisation of the reality, the fate which awaits us will be a life of misery and desturction.
It is the force of soul, the force of love which is required to face the universal hatred obtaining in the present-day world culminating in the atom-bomb and hydrogen bomb. It is the spiritual bomb alone which can successfully face the atom and hydrogen bombs.
The other day somebody asked me as to what was the aim of the conference that we were organising? I replied that it was to start
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