| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| SARVA DHARMA SAMABHAVA : UNITY OR CONFUSION OF RELIGIONS | |
| Religion
is as varied as any other cultural phenomenon like dress, language
or art. What is acceptable or laudable in one community may be
unacceptable or even taboo in another. Religion is hardly of
one piece only, nor does it only occur at the highest level. In fact
religion can be a place where worn out superstitions and
discriminatory practices are allowed to continue and often appears
among the least enlightened aspects of human life.
Our God may be allowed to get a way with passion, partiality or violence that we would not tolerate in our fellow human beings. When one holds that all religions are equal and the same, this unfortunately ends any real dialogue between them. It sanctions existing religions as they are, as if anything that called itself a religion had to be valid as it is practiced today among its majority believers. Naturally this attempt to end debate between religions is hoped to end any friction between them.Yet it merely serves to fossilize religions on the level at which they are at and does not provide further incentive for them to grow. It is like sanctioning all national boundaries as good and final, which would only make countries become more entrenched within their own separative identities. |
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