Interfaith Harmony

There are many religions in the world. In today’s era of Globalization speed is increasing manifold and distance is reducing. Still in many part of the world peoples feel distance from each other due to their religious belief. When literacy %age in increasing day by day isn’t it our responsibility to understand the teachings of different religions to improve understanding? I personally feel that there is need of Interfaith harmony for promoting mutual respect and coexistence of different religions, faiths and sects which exists in the world. Religions can be compared to climbing stairs to reach the top of the house. Once we reach the roof, we see the same sky. Similarly, if we understand the religion in the true sense we will find that actually there is no contradiction with each other. 

There may be difference in expression of each religion due to timing gap, necessity to satisfy physical, mental and spiritual needs of aspirants which are different as per their capacities. Just as people follow different paths of the mountain to reach the top. When we start maintaining from different paths, we feel distance from each other but when we are near to top we find ourselves close to each other. Similarly, if we compare individual rituals of each religion we may find difference but if we compare ultimate objective of life, inquiry about higher consciousness the differences among religions decrease sharply and disappear at the highest level of consciousness.

Ultimately we need to understand that we can experience the peace only when there is peace in the word. It is possible only when we give due respect to each other’s religious and cultural belief.

When we study the ethics or the practice advocated by the various faiths, there is not much difference. They all believe in certain core human values like Truth, Non‐violence, Compassion, Love and Peace.”