There are two root causes for the entire chaos and terrorism in this world. One is the thirst for earning money and the other is the religious fanatic. Due to money, people are quarreling, whereas due to religion, countries are quarreling. Unless these two root causes are eradicated we cannot achieve world peace. The tree will not die by cutting leaves and branches. It dies only by cutting its roots.
There is no use in earning the extra money. Due to excess money, quarrels, mental worries and several other problems arise. Finally, it ends in loss only and not in any profit. You have to leave all this extra money here only and quit this world alone. Your issues may lose that money given by you. Such sinful extra money brings problems not only to you but also to your children. Neither yourself nor your children will be happy and peaceful. This entire world is the property of God and take whatever is required from it. This is said in Gita, (“Yavanartha….”).
In these days, buffet system is followed during feasts. In this system, large vessels contain various food items and people take food from these vessels according to their requirement. Similarly, God created this entire world and you can take the wealth from it according to your requirement. People are not following the same system when they are taking wealth from this world. The peculiarity is that most rich people follow this buffet system in the feasts but do not follow the same when it comes to earning the money. ‘Esavasya Upanishad’ says that one should return back this extra money to the Lord. Otherwise, the Lord will give the troubles.
In buffet system, if one takes extra food in his plate by over ambition and ignorance for a moment, he returns back immediately before starting eating. Veda says that you must return back the extra money for the God’s work if taken by ignorance. In the buffet system if you eat the extra food, you will suffer from diseases. Similarly, if you enjoy the extra money, God will punish you in several ways.
In this world, people belonging to any religion think that their religion only is the true religion. They think that the God of their religion can alone give the salvation and the worship of that God should be according to their religion only.
They also condemn other religions and invite people to convert people into their religion. They do lot of work to establish their religion only in the entire world which shows their ambition. It is just like Alexander’s ambition to make the entire world his kingdom. Alexander wanted to extend his kingdom. But, even he returned back after fighting with Porus (Purushotama) on seeing the loss of life in the battle. But, the ambition of religious fanatics is not subsided on seeing any amount of loss of life. Religion is considered to be backed with spiritual knowledge and the religious people are expected to be free from ambition. We can excuse ambition of any ignorant person like Alexander.
The heart of a religious fanatic will not change by any amount of kindness or love expressed in the appeals. Such appeals can change only the heart and the change in the heart is always temporary. Change in the intelligence brought by knowledge based on logic is always real and permanent. Intelligence (Buddhi) is considered to be the driver of this body, which is like a chariot running by the senses, which are like the horses. If the driver is convinced, the entire chariot along with the horses is in the correct path. The terrorist will not change by love or kindness shown to him. He becomes the terrorist due to the wrong knowledge that enters his brain. He was convinced by that knowledge. That knowledge can be changed only by the right knowledge. A diamond can only be cut by another diamond. Similarly, one type of knowledge can only be replaced by another type of knowledge. Then only, he will be convinced and changed forever.
So far, the trials made to change the terrorist were beating around the bush and therefore, they did not have much effect. Today, SRI GURU DATTA is giving the right knowledge to remove the religious conservatism.
The route of terrorism lies in the difference between the religions existing in this world. This is the main focus of terrorism since terrorism also appears for some political issues also which cannot be covered in this message dealing with the main focus of it. You can end terrorism by removing the differences between religions.
Religion is like the external language and spiritual knowledge is like the internal subject. Physics is taught in different states (of India) in different languages. For a standard, the prescribed syllabus of a subject is one and the same. The subject quantum mechanics is one and the same taught in different languages in different states (of India). A Telugu (a language in one of the states in India) student cannot say that the quantum mechanics taught to him in Telugu language alone is the real knowledge and the same subject taught in Tamil language (another language in one of the states in India) in other state is not at all the knowledge. The Telugu student further asks the Tamil student to leave the school in his state and recommends to him to come to Andhra Pradesh (where Telugu is spoken as language), learn Telugu language and here the quantum mechanics taught in Telugu. Is this not the foolish conservatism? Both the Telugu and Tamil students should be advised that the subject ‘quantum mechanics’ is one and the same taught in both the languages. You should make both to realize this common spiritual knowledge existing in the scriptures of all religions.
The quarrel between religions comes only to the people, who are unable to practice the spiritual knowledge and find all the time to spend in inter religion quarrels. Hinduism is a religion but can be taken as a micro model representing the macro model of universal religions. In Hinduism there are several sub religions like Shaivism, Vaishnavism etc., and the intra-religion quarrels in Hinduism went even up to the level of terrorism resulting in killing each other. You can explain the concept taking Hinduism as model and explain the efforts of Shankara, who brought unity in the philosophies’ of all these sub-religions.
Shirdi Sai Baba tried to bring unity between Hinduism and Islam. Satya Sai Baba and Swami Vivekananda tried to bring unity in universal religions. Lot of knowledge is also expressed by Me in this direction and several powerful arguments were given by Me. All these can be used to bring unity of religions. My knowledge is mainly based on logic and logic alone can convince the brains of anybody today. Now the brains of human beings are only functioning and not their hearts. Appeals will not be fruitful. Only arguments can bring results as in the courts. Youth is also easily convinced by arguments than appeals. The fate of the people involved in terrorism is the hell only in which very sophisticated and efficient equipments exist to give serious punishments. Punishment is inevitable if arguments fail.
Thank you for your interesting comments Sri Ram, lot's to unpack here and a great deal of food for thought!
Do you think Interfaith or Unitarian are possible roads to success regarding religious unity?
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