Sunday, March 6, 2011

One world religion

In the world at present there are over a dozen religions, each with scores of sects, and they all have their different scriptures in countless numbers containing the spiritual experiences from ages. In the Hindu faith itself there are 4 Vedas, 108 Upanishad, 6 Philosophies, 2 Historical epics, 18 Puranas, 18 Up-Purans, 215 Sanhitas, 100 books of Ethics and over 64 Tantra-Shastras, all in Sanskrit. The writings in many of them appear to contradict each other.


Similar is the case with hundred of scriptures of other religions as well. Many scholars and preceptors have come forward from time to time to reconcile them but could not do justice with all of them; hence those scriputes that could not be reconciled with one's own established views were either disregared or ignored or even criticised vehementally.
For Mahamati Prannath, however, the case was different. Illumined by the integral knowledge (Tartamaya-Jnana) he actually saw and realised the hierarchy of the entire Divine Plan he discovered the relevance not only of the hundreds of the Hindu scriptures but also of several others of all the other religions, even those which originated in the Semitic families such as the Quran, the Bible and the religious writings of the Jews. He, therefore, took upon himself the responsibility of presenting the synthetic form of the Divine Plan of creation and showing the relevance of the various conflicting texts of the manifold scriptures.


Hitherto the world was divided. People remained confined to their respective sects. When Buddha talked to people, there were Hindu Aryans, there were no Semitics, no Arabs and no Negroes to listen to him. When Christ spoke, he spoke as if there existed nobody else other than the Jews. When Mohammed preached, he preaced to the Arabs, there were no Western tribes. But now the world has become small. The Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Muslims, Christians all are here, To whom is one to talk to? Earlier, possibly there was no need to talk about a Universal Religion; now the need exists, as he rightly says:


'The Languages are different, ways of life are different and each one is puzzled by different names. But I have to address all as one humanity. Up till now the Lord willed us to play the game of plurality, but now the time has come for His will to unite the multiple forms of Religion into the universality of the Revelation.'


Hence, One World Religion is needed; an integral knowledge (Tartamya-Jnana) is needed in which a synthesis of all religions could be possible. In future, religions will not be able to exist separately. Therefore, the freat soul of Mahamati Prannath was needed to create a base for the religious man of the future who will neither be a Christian, nor a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddha, a Sikh or a Parsee, who will be just religious. The time is now ripe for a great synthesis for a World Religion, it was never so before.


In fact, all the religions are one and speak about the same Reality. But, still, when each of them claims to be unique and differs from the others, the extent to which it differs from other it is nothing but sectarianism. Sectarianism is the creation of the priest class. For example when ten persons while describing about something state two things in common and the rest-eight things in variance with each other, any wise man can easily decipher that these two common things are the real characteristics, of the described thing and these two common things are the real characteristics, of the described thing and whatever else was stated contradicting others was only a subjective projection of the describer.



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