Let us adopt true spirit of religion
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.
This world had been divided into different religions and people have also been divided and now no authority on this earth is in a position to collect all the people of the world in one religion. Different religions had been taking their birth at different places and in different times and that is the reason they have got different names. But we must accept that basic principles of all the religions are the same. All the religions are giving guidelines of the same kind to this man, but instead of adopting those guidelines, this man had been dividing this earth into different religions and if we go deep and read the history of this man, most of the wars had been fought on the basis of religions and if this man had been killing the other man, that too had been on the basis religions. We have seen that the man had been dividing itself into religions and this process had proved bad for the man. Religions had been established to guide the man and the religions never desired that the man must divide because of these religions.
But the true fact is this that these religions could not play a constructive role in the life of this man. Even at present the world is divided because of religions and we have seen that one set of people are turning terrorists and one set of people are turning rioters. The terrorists and rioters are at war and both are killing innocent people. Even direct wars are like riots because one set of people go and kill the other set of people only because they are declared as terrorists. Even in India we have seen that when the Sikhs were declared terrorists, they were given reply through riots of November, 1984 and muslims got reply through Gujarat riots. Similarly we can note attack on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Religions might have served this mankind in the beginning, but at present these religions have divided this mankind and this division and distribution of this population is very dangerous for the mankind. If this division continues, we shall lose the spirit of secularism and we must accept that tolerance shall be wiped out from this world. The world is at war and even Muslims are thinking that they should join and establish a Muslim state in one part of the world and they have at target all muslim states even India where they believe that a big population of Muslims is available. This Kasnir problem is also based on religion because Pakistan believes that if there is Plebiscite in Kashmir most of the Muslims shall not give votes in favour of India which they take up that it is not a Muslim country.
India is facing problems because of different religions and even Sikhs tried for the establishment of Khalistan and failed. We have seen that some local people are giving shelter, accommodation, money, men, local information and hiding places after the operation and a small set of people coming from Pakistan, now are reaching every part of India. So these religious trends are dividing this country once again
So religions are not playing a good role and even the next step at world level seem that they shall be establishing countries on religious levels and one set of countries shall become Christian, another set of countries shall become Muslim and the third could be of Dalits. This third front may not come into existence, but the first two seems a reality.
So the religions are not taking us to God, but on the basis of religions we shall be establishing countries and basic principles of religions shall be lost for ever.
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