Religion started reformation?
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.
If we go deep and trace the history of this man, we come to the conclusion that the man had gone astray and the people who started reforming this man and giving him right directions are really the founders of religion. They prepared codes for the people and the people who started following those codes turned into a separate unit and the people who were not coming to that code were forming a separate unit. At a later stage, more and more people had been establishing these codes of conducts and they started giving these units separate names. Today, we call these units as religions and sub religions.
It is on record that the people who started writing these codes were creating fear in the mind of this man and declared that those who are not following these codes shall be punished either in this world or the world to which they go after their death. These are the people who gave the ultimate name to the most powerful unit as God. They told the followers that God is supreme and we all have been sent on this earth by that Supreme Power. They gave different names to this Supreme Power and they also told us that every person who is created and sent on this earth has got a luck and this luck and destiny is written by that God and this work is done when the man is sent on this earth. They also told us that this luck is written only once and there are no chances to change this because the file on which this luck and destiny is recorded by God is never recalled by God for correction and change. So the man has to suffer or enjoy as per this writing and he is not in a position to get this change. The people who were writing down these codes also told us that there is an authority appointed by God who takes all accounts when we die and if our good works are on higher side, we could be given Heaven and if the number of bad works are on higher side, then we are given Hell. Some people get salvation and they never visit this earth once again.
All these entries in the codes give us guidance and this work is on since time immemorial and it is still on. But we must accept that this man is listening to all, but in very rare cases, this man follows the directions given in religious books and when confronted, he gives an explanation that it is very difficult to follow code of conducts given in religious books.
In due course, in stead of following the items given in religious books, the people started dividing themselves in names of religions and it is also on record that a sense of competition came into being. The religions are running in a race and they are trying to compete and come forward winners. They are utilizing all the methods to win this race. It is on record that they had been killing the people in other religions. It is also on record that they had been converting others to their own fold and if need be, they utilized force and if need be, they killed the people who were not agreeing to convert. It is on record that they had been destroying religious places of those in the opposing groups. It is also on record that all these terrorist and rioter groups are formed and established on the basis of religions which are fighting amongst each other. And in spite of the fact that people are pronouncing religious toleration and secularism, they are still fighting as terrorists and rioters.
If we go deep we find that all the religions are telling us the same things about God, about this man, about the luck, about the accounts taking, about the Hell, about the Hell, about the prayer and other religious discourses. But still they are divided and the people who established all these religions, if come to this life once again, they shall be sorry to note that what they had founded, all has gone wrong and some Devil Type force has started functioning in this man and it has gone astray. At present even governments are not in a position to control this man because they too are siding with one group of the other and their conduct is under doubt in each country.
We have noted that so many people have started explaining the principles laid down in all these religious books, but at the same time we note that these preachers are also trying to establish that the religious book they are preaching is the best in the world which clearly means they are dividing the people and they are not having any desire in their mind that this man should unite. We had seen in history that in India one ruler known in name of Akbar the great tried to establish one common religion in the name of ‘ Din I Illahi’ but he failed because his own people did not allow him to lead that organization. Similarly Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs forwarded this concept of common religion when he compiled Shri Guru Granth Sahib in which he included works of all the saints and Bhagatas irrespective of their religion, caste, colour and creed. But later on this Guru Granth sahib became the religious book of the Sikhs and the others are not accepting this Granth as their own religious book. So the Sikhs too got a separate religious book of their own and on the basis of this Granth they could declare that they are also a separate religion and they have actually been allowed and recognized as a separate religion.
Today, none of us is trying to establish a common religion. We are separating and going far away from each other. All the people in different religions are at fight and there is no love lost in between these religions and people in different religions. We have introduced some concepts of religious toleration and secularism in each constitution in the world, but all these are paper transactions and people are still at fight and they are killing people in name of religions either as terrorists or as rioters or in wars. Therefore, we can pray that God Himself should come down on this earth and He should set the things right and must establish the world which was in His mind when He was establishing this world.
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