Defensive way of bringing unity in religions
The quarrel between the religions comes due to the fixed notion that the God found by a religion is the absolute truth and hence, the entire humanity should accept that [God] so that, that religion alone must exist. No religion has found the absolute original form of God because it is beyond the imagination of any human being. The unimaginable God can charge any imaginable medium and in such case, such medium gets identified with the God. Every religion found by a specific human being believes that a specific imaginable medium is God. Up to this point, the religion is correct because, such imaginable medium might have been charged and is identified with God. In this way, Krishna is God, Jesus is God, Mohammed is God, Buddha is God and so on.
Sometimes a religion may select a visible medium as God even if it is not charged by God. One religion says that fire is God. Another religion says that the cosmic energy, which is all pervading, is God. Based on the merits of the media, such medium can also be treated as God because any visible medium can be treated as the representative model for God in the light of the specific merit of the medium. The fire burns everything as God burns all types of the ignorance. God is all pervading like the cosmic energy. Based on these merits, fire and cosmic energy can be treated as God. You must not forget that these representing media are not actually the God due to their defects. Fire cannot burn water and cosmic energy is inert. In any case, the imaginable item can never be the actual unimaginable God.
The metallic wire is charged by current (God in a medium). This does not mean that the metallic wire itself is current. The national flag, which is a stick and a piece of colored cloth, can be a representative model of the nation. Obviously, the flag is the not the nation. The whole problem comes when the followers of the religions feel that the selected imaginable item itself is God and that alone is God. Every metallic wire charged by current can be treated as current.
You cannot say that a specific wire alone should be treated as current and other electrified wires should not be treated as current. Even if you don’t differentiate the current and wire, it does not matter much. It may be correct also due to the inseparable current from the electrified wire. But, you should say that every electrified wire is current. Similarly, the representative model can be also believed as God directly for the development of faith and devotion on God. But, every representative model should be treated as God in similar way. You accept the process of identification in one place and reject the same process of identification in another place. This is due to lack of development of analytical faculty in the human being. This is the defensive way of bringing unity in the religions.
Offensive way of bringing unity in religions
You can also reject the difference in the religions through the way of offence. Every religion says that God understood in a specific form as per their religion, created the entire humanity. He is the Father of all the human beings. In such case, He should not be partial to some children only even in the absence of the proper reason. You say that God in a specific form (like Jesus, Krishna etc) gave the divine knowledge to a specific region only in a specific time. Due to lack of communication between the countries, in olden times, lot of time was taken to discover another country. In this time gap, several generations have passed away. These generations could not get the divine knowledge and such gap of communication was not their fault. Before India was discovered, at least more than a dozen generations have passed away. My ancestors in those unlucky generations went to hell since they could not worship your specific God. Had there been the communication of this specific divine knowledge to them also, at least some of them might have worshipped your specific God and might have escaped the liquid fire in the hell. Such provision exists to the recent generations. Hence, for no fault of them, they went to hell. Is this not the foolish partiality of the divine Father?
If you say that your specified region contained deserving devotees, it is also incorrect. Most of them crucified your specific God in your specific religion. There were bad people in your specific region also. There are good people in our specific region also, who have become the devotees of your specific God. Hence, every region contained both good and bad people. In such case, the impartial God should have communicated the specific divine knowledge to all countries in the world in the same instance of the time so that good followers are protected and bad escapists are punished in all times.
You have no answer for this question. But, I can give the answer to this problem. From the beginning, the same unimaginable God in different imaginable human forms appeared in every region of the world and delivered the same divine knowledge in the form of different scriptures in the corresponding languages. Hence, from the beginning of the creation, knowledge was supplied to every region in uniform way. Good people, following the knowledge, were saved in any region and bad people deviating from the knowledge in any region were punished. Thus, the impartiality of God is established and now you can say that such impartial God is the creator and Father of the entire humanity.
The follower of any religion should have minimum analytical faculty in the brain to understand the above concepts. In such case, the unity of religions can be achieved. If the brain is filled with only conservative rigidity, emotion and violence, the unity of religions cannot be achieved through preaching. In such case of the situation, God will appear as the destroyer of such evil forces and will establish the peace and unity in all the religions.
- By Shri Datta Swami
(Universal Spirituality for World Peace)
The quarrel between the religions comes due to the fixed notion that the God found by a religion is the absolute truth and hence, the entire humanity should accept that [God] so that, that religion alone must exist. No religion has found the absolute original form of God because it is beyond the imagination of any human being. The unimaginable God can charge any imaginable medium and in such case, such medium gets identified with the God. Every religion found by a specific human being believes that a specific imaginable medium is God. Up to this point, the religion is correct because, such imaginable medium might have been charged and is identified with God. In this way, Krishna is God, Jesus is God, Mohammed is God, Buddha is God and so on.
Sometimes a religion may select a visible medium as God even if it is not charged by God. One religion says that fire is God. Another religion says that the cosmic energy, which is all pervading, is God. Based on the merits of the media, such medium can also be treated as God because any visible medium can be treated as the representative model for God in the light of the specific merit of the medium. The fire burns everything as God burns all types of the ignorance. God is all pervading like the cosmic energy. Based on these merits, fire and cosmic energy can be treated as God. You must not forget that these representing media are not actually the God due to their defects. Fire cannot burn water and cosmic energy is inert. In any case, the imaginable item can never be the actual unimaginable God.
The metallic wire is charged by current (God in a medium). This does not mean that the metallic wire itself is current. The national flag, which is a stick and a piece of colored cloth, can be a representative model of the nation. Obviously, the flag is the not the nation. The whole problem comes when the followers of the religions feel that the selected imaginable item itself is God and that alone is God. Every metallic wire charged by current can be treated as current.
You cannot say that a specific wire alone should be treated as current and other electrified wires should not be treated as current. Even if you don’t differentiate the current and wire, it does not matter much. It may be correct also due to the inseparable current from the electrified wire. But, you should say that every electrified wire is current. Similarly, the representative model can be also believed as God directly for the development of faith and devotion on God. But, every representative model should be treated as God in similar way. You accept the process of identification in one place and reject the same process of identification in another place. This is due to lack of development of analytical faculty in the human being. This is the defensive way of bringing unity in the religions.
Offensive way of bringing unity in religions
You can also reject the difference in the religions through the way of offence. Every religion says that God understood in a specific form as per their religion, created the entire humanity. He is the Father of all the human beings. In such case, He should not be partial to some children only even in the absence of the proper reason. You say that God in a specific form (like Jesus, Krishna etc) gave the divine knowledge to a specific region only in a specific time. Due to lack of communication between the countries, in olden times, lot of time was taken to discover another country. In this time gap, several generations have passed away. These generations could not get the divine knowledge and such gap of communication was not their fault. Before India was discovered, at least more than a dozen generations have passed away. My ancestors in those unlucky generations went to hell since they could not worship your specific God. Had there been the communication of this specific divine knowledge to them also, at least some of them might have worshipped your specific God and might have escaped the liquid fire in the hell. Such provision exists to the recent generations. Hence, for no fault of them, they went to hell. Is this not the foolish partiality of the divine Father?
If you say that your specified region contained deserving devotees, it is also incorrect. Most of them crucified your specific God in your specific religion. There were bad people in your specific region also. There are good people in our specific region also, who have become the devotees of your specific God. Hence, every region contained both good and bad people. In such case, the impartial God should have communicated the specific divine knowledge to all countries in the world in the same instance of the time so that good followers are protected and bad escapists are punished in all times.
You have no answer for this question. But, I can give the answer to this problem. From the beginning, the same unimaginable God in different imaginable human forms appeared in every region of the world and delivered the same divine knowledge in the form of different scriptures in the corresponding languages. Hence, from the beginning of the creation, knowledge was supplied to every region in uniform way. Good people, following the knowledge, were saved in any region and bad people deviating from the knowledge in any region were punished. Thus, the impartiality of God is established and now you can say that such impartial God is the creator and Father of the entire humanity.
The follower of any religion should have minimum analytical faculty in the brain to understand the above concepts. In such case, the unity of religions can be achieved. If the brain is filled with only conservative rigidity, emotion and violence, the unity of religions cannot be achieved through preaching. In such case of the situation, God will appear as the destroyer of such evil forces and will establish the peace and unity in all the religions.
- By Shri Datta Swami
(Universal Spirituality for World Peace)
