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Unification of Religions
Unification of Religions
Among all the human tendencies, tendency to unify the things is one of the most
dominant. People though respect diversity, are striving within to unify the
things. The religions also were not able to escape from these unificationists.
Though this effort of unify can simply the things, unification of religions is not
at all desirable. For the ages, may philosophers, mystics and even emperors
have worked on this concept of unification and they had very positive and
constructive views behind those efforts. But, instead of so many efforts, this
unification is not possible. It is good that unification is not possible, because
this very concept of unification of religions is irreligious.
“If you find me standing on your way, just kill me and go ahead.”
It simply means that, Buddha did not want individuality of his
disciples to be affected by him. But when master is dead, only the rules remain.
Only theories remain. Which are just followed blindly and which simply kills
the individuality. In world there are dozens of religions, which at least allow a
little bit of diversity. This diversity is too little but it is better than having a
single religion.