Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Co existence of religions and faith

Being known to several riots on religious ground in India and now the riots between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, and specially after pondering over the most lethal of the threats to the modern civilization "The Islamic terrorism" which is spearheading in many parts of the globe, from India to Chechenya, America to southern china, Malaysia to its own patrons like Pakistan and bangladesh; a serious issue arises that whether the religious faith becomes so indelibly branded in someone's heart that it doesn't even valuate precious human lives and mankind's emotions & ethics for the sake of most of the times merely to perpetrate their own insecurities and feelings of malice towards others or simply the elements of hatred and jealousy. In such circumstances, in a country like India, where almost all religions of this globe find safe heaven, can exist peacefully in longer run or not. When we had a goal to attain freedom, Hindu Muslims Christians Sikhs all were Bhai Bhai (Brothers) but even before attaining, just with a foreseen reality when we came nearer to be free, or rather I should write "Independent" from foreign rulers, leaders like Jinnah displayed their selfishness and narrow-mindedness, by asking for a separate Islamic state, our weak leaders of that time did let it happen, that ultimately ended in the creation of our most jealous, slew, shameless, brutal son Pakistan. Coming back to our point of discussion of co existence, as we see in chemical reagents as well that if variety of substances in more or less equal quantity are tried to be treated, we notice highly unstable solution, it gets stable if we dilute it with one major solvent which works effectively as a stabilizer in the system thus rendering the solution to be stable. Similarly in India, Hinduism has been working as that solvent, but as Hindus are reducing in number and are being divided from within, we are facing instability in our society. If this solution gets concentrated in time to come, then certainly the existence of our nation will be in a jeopardy. We stamp RSS people communal when they talk about "Hindu Ghata Desh ban'ta" (Diminished Hindu Broken Country); but it is the time to realize this radical looking theory as a demand of the time line. It doesn't mean at all that we start killing our other religions' follower- brothers and sisters but at least try to be united and integrated within ourselves and thus strengthen the cultural framework of our society. Trying to make out with a non radical, calm perspective that what organisations like RSS talk about. It isn't a sheer coincidence that so many of the meritorious citizens of our country as well as the entire globe are members of it. I am this time highly devoid of personal experiences of other nations and their societies, but most certainly I shall find out more interesting permutations and combination to stabilize a multi-religious system and further. Till then wish if you could contribute in this debate further, Jai Hind!

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