One God but divided world ?
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate,
Formerly Employment Officer P.E.S.II,
E,Mail, dalipsinghwassan @ Yahoo Co. In.
In all the religious books established in this World, we have been told that God is one and one only and it has never been divided into parts. God was one when He was all alone and when He established this world and He remained one throughout the ages and even to day He is one and has not been divided. But when we base ourselves on the basis of religions, we have established so many religions in this world and when go further deep into the these religions, we find that every religion has got its own God and the people in each religion have got their own God and they worship that God only and if they go to the God of another religion, formaly or otherwise, they just perform rites as the people of that religion are performing, but in his heart of heart that fellow has got no faith in God of another religion. It has beome very clear that the people on this world say that there is one God, but since they have already divided this God into so many parts, now they are not in a position to collect all parts of God and unite the same into one God.
In history a time came when Akbar the Great tried to establish ‘ Din i Illahi’, but he failed and could not establish his desired common religion. Later on Shri Guru Arjan dev ji tried and he had been successful in editing a common Granth known in the name and style of Shri Guru Granth Sahib ji. But the Sikh Community has declared that this Granth belongs to them and they are not allowing establishing this Shri Guru Granth sahib ji in Hindu Temples and religious places of other religions. It means the Sikhs are not allowing that other religions should adopt this common Granth. So efforts to establish one religion have failed and now the people are fundamentally divided on the basis of religion and no power on earth shall be able to establish one religion on this earth and the people shall remain divided and there are chances that more and more further divisions shall be there on the basis of some religions or sub religions. Some sub religions have already taken their birth and at times, it seems that these sub religions are growing more and more strong and the people who are establishing these sub religions are becoming more and more rich and powerful and they are appointing guards to protect their properties.
We have noted that all the people in different religions are trying to establish their separate and different idendity and if we have a look we can identify that the man standing before us is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh,Christian or a man belonging to some sub religion because he has a hair cut of his own style, has got a different language, different way of saluting you, different way of behaving and having different cloth-cuts. They have constructed their places of worship in different way and they are trying to establish more and more identity-marks. When such developments are going on, we must believe that we would never be able to establish a common religion and people shall continue to establish that their own religion is the best in the world and they shall be collecting all good things, all good philosophies with their religions and they shall say to the world that their religion is the world and they shall be calling people from other religions to join them and if need be they shall convert others to their own religion and if we probe into the facts of history, we come to the conclusion that there had been times when people in power had been converting others to their own fold and some people had been killed because they did not agree to convert.
The divisions on the basis of religions would never allow us to become one world and this world shall remain a divided places and till these divisions are there, men shall be fighting amongst each other and shall be killing each other. nIf God wants that He should remain one, then He shall have to come down on this earth and shall have to unite this world and shall have to give them one religion. It seems, even God would not be able to unite this man on this earth because such divisions could have been stopped at the early stages. Now man has established these divisions and these divisions have been confirmed and permanently established. So concept of one God is no more alive on this earth.