As our great Mahatma Gandhi put it, "Religion is personal". Each person has the freedom to choose his/her own form of God (Or formless) to come out of his/her problems and lead a happy life.
Can we not understand this basic principle? Or Is it that we do not want to understand this principle? If we do not understand this basic principle, then we are all mentally retarded people. That leaves us with the other option, that we do not want to understand this principle, since there is an inherent discontentment in everyone, and religion is the most easy trigger to fuel the frenzy.
The present set-up in our country be it politicial, legal, cultural, religious cannot and will not help our country men to come out of this inherent disease.
A different approach is definitely called for. The approch is one has to feel connected with another to truly cause no harm for the other person. This feeling of connectedness is what is required at this moment to put an end to this chronic religious battles.
How do we feel connected with another person? The answer is one has to become completely enlightened like Buddha or Ramana or Ramakrishna Paramahamsa or Jesus Christ and so on...
There needs to be fundemental shift in our consciousness for us to experience this state of oneness.
I came across a beautiful site : www.onenessuniversity.org. Looks like they have a solution to the problems.
RE:Religious Battles
by ded de on Feb 02, 2007 02:36 PM Permalink
I fully agree with religion being personal. but applicable so long as that tenet is subscribed by all faiths. go to pakistan and sudi and try to preach the teachings of great men whose name you have just mentioned and find out youselve what is the future of india (presumably you wont be beheaded there for being a kafir as you believe in loving your enemy).
RE:RE:RE:Religious Battles
by A P on Feb 02, 2007 06:23 PM Permalink
So u think that not being able to follow a minority religion is good according to Islam? How many times you have been stopped from going to mosque in India?
RE:RE:Religious Battles
by KK A on Feb 02, 2007 02:55 PM Permalink
I am not in favour of any religion, all I am saying is all of us have mis-interpreted the great teachings of great masters for our selfish motives. I am not for teaching anyone the scriptures, I am advocating a serious introspection and see for ourselves the inner conflicts that is erupting as religious battles, tribal battles, caste battles outside. This is what the great masters saw and that is how they became great masters.
