Many decades ago, Swami Vivekananda visited America and addressed them 'sisters and brothers' but unfortunately, till date, we have not become brothers and sisters. We remain Americans, Indians, Christians, Hindus, Sunnies etc. only.
It is because we still don't know the root causes. We define what is correct and what is wrong according to our convenience and then impose that on others.
Great Malayalam poet Vayalar Ramavarma (വയലാർ രാമവർമ്മ) deserves Nobel Prize for both literature and peace for this four lines below he had written long ago. It tells us the root cause.
മനുഷ്യൻ മതങ്ങളെ സൃഷ്ടിച്ചു
മതങ്ങൾ ദൈവങ്ങളെ സൃഷ്ടിച്ചു
മനുഷ്യനും മതങ്ങളും ദൈവങ്ങളും ചേർന്ന്
മണ്ണ് പങ്കുവച്ചു മനസ്സ് പങ്കുവച്ചു.
Even great visionaries like Gandhi and Martin Luther King failed to realize the hollowness and danger of religions and that is why I say, we should stop blindly following them. They had shown us the ways that they thought the best. But their views were neither ultimate nor perfect and therefore, we should make necessary amendments to whatever they said so as to make them as perfect and relevant as they can. It will not end there, coming generations will have more wisdom and ideas and therefore, they too will make amendments to whatever we pass on to them.
Then only we can say that we are growing.
We must come out of the cocoons we are in and start thinking rationally which will help us to look beyond religions and borders and any such things that divide us and unite and that will ultimately help not just us but the coming generations as well living on this beautiful planet in peace and harmony.
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/09/this-is-how-these-fucking-religions.html
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/03/i-have-that-dream.html
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/03/a-pathfinder-to-world-of-peace-and.html
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/03/blog-post_18.html
It is because we still don't know the root causes. We define what is correct and what is wrong according to our convenience and then impose that on others.
Great Malayalam poet Vayalar Ramavarma (വയലാർ രാമവർമ്മ) deserves Nobel Prize for both literature and peace for this four lines below he had written long ago. It tells us the root cause.
മനുഷ്യൻ മതങ്ങളെ സൃഷ്ടിച്ചു
മതങ്ങൾ ദൈവങ്ങളെ സൃഷ്ടിച്ചു
മനുഷ്യനും മതങ്ങളും ദൈവങ്ങളും ചേർന്ന്
മണ്ണ് പങ്കുവച്ചു മനസ്സ് പങ്കുവച്ചു.
Even great visionaries like Gandhi and Martin Luther King failed to realize the hollowness and danger of religions and that is why I say, we should stop blindly following them. They had shown us the ways that they thought the best. But their views were neither ultimate nor perfect and therefore, we should make necessary amendments to whatever they said so as to make them as perfect and relevant as they can. It will not end there, coming generations will have more wisdom and ideas and therefore, they too will make amendments to whatever we pass on to them.
Then only we can say that we are growing.
We must come out of the cocoons we are in and start thinking rationally which will help us to look beyond religions and borders and any such things that divide us and unite and that will ultimately help not just us but the coming generations as well living on this beautiful planet in peace and harmony.
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/09/this-is-how-these-fucking-religions.html
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/03/i-have-that-dream.html
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/03/a-pathfinder-to-world-of-peace-and.html
http://seban15081969.blogspot.ae/2014/03/blog-post_18.html
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