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| SARVA
DHARMA SAMABHAVA : UNITY OR CONFUSION OF RELIGIONS |
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belief is a Dharma. A Dharma is a truth principle. A belief is a
conjecture held to be true. One does not believe that fire burns,
one knows it. To equate a belief, like that of Christ's resurrection
in Christianity or Mohammed's ascension to Heaven in Islam, with a
Dharma, is an error. There can be no harmony or unanimity of
beliefs. Beliefs are inherently limited, though they may have their
metaphoric value they can easily create distortion and division if
we take them literally.
Religions as we know them from the Western world are largely
belief systems which state that truth belongs to a particular
person, group, holy book, or name of God and that those who do not
share this belief are somehow wrong or evil. There is certainly no
record of any major Christian or Islamic leaders who contradict this
statement and state that Hinduism or Buddhism are as good as their
religions and that therefore all efforts to convert followers of
these religions are misguided and should be ended! If all religions
follow the same Dharma let all religious leaders say that they
accept the law of karma as valid and Self-realization as the real
goal of life. |
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