A few words about Parliament of Religions

Sarva Dharma Sansad has been constituted with a noble idea of establishing peace and religious
harmony, mutual understanding and universal brotherhood among followers of different religions. Religions are great gifts given by the Creator through prophets and saints to uplift the individual as well as the society. Different religions are gifted by God in different parts of the world. Every religion has got an immense zeal to uplift the human society through religious and spiritual values. In the beginning when founded by different prophets, the religious ideologies seemed to be flawless and perfect; in course of time some of them may appear to be either outdated or less meaningful. Since gradually many blind traditions creep in, some such defective beliefs and customs need to be reformed or amended for the welfare of human beings. Sarva Dharma Samsath is focussing on eradication of seven such socio – religious evils.
Usually based on caste, class, colour, race and gender human beings are discriminated as superior and inferior even though God has created every body in the same manner. So, only he who treats everybody equally will become the son of God and of this world. Lord Basavanna, the founder of Lingayat religion preached Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Humanity through his saying :
Don’t say who is he
Who is he, Who is he ?
Do say he is ours
He is ours, He is ours, Oh Lord
Make me the son of Thy great abode
Building up of Welfare State on earth.
A society which is a confluence of material, moral and spiritual values will be a perfect and whole
society. Because of corruption and selfishness, our society and nation are going in retrogressive direction. So whatever may be their religion every citizen should strive hard to build up a clean society with values like honesty, patriotism, dedication and sincerity . Then only we will be able to build up a Welfare State or Kalyana Rajya. This world is a great gift given by God and living in it is an art . Different religions are like different paths to reach one and the only reality, God. The world should be like a garland of many flowers, the flowers symbolysing different religions. It shall be compared to a garden of many kinds of trees; different trees being different religions. On festival days we sit for eating with many recipes in our plate. Some are sweet, some are sour and some are hot. Though they differ in taste, they never quarrel in the plate. We use our same hand to eat and same teeth to masticate them; they do not quarrel. Food enters our digestive system. There also it will not quarrel. Later on food is digested and assimilated into blood and gets
converted into energy. During this lengthy process also different eatables do not quarrel; but all put together give strength and energy to body. Likewise, if all religious thoughts work together to establish peace and harmony and to build a Welfare State or in spiritual terms Kingdom of God on earth God will be pleased. That is why Lord Basavanna Says:
This mortal world is Creator’s workshop
Who succeeds here will succeed there
Those who do not succeed
here will not succeed there
O Lord Lingadeva.
Different tastes of food add to the richness of food. Different coloured flowers add to the beauty of garland. likewise we should see, tolerate and enjoy unity in diversity of different religions.
We shall all join our hands to establish Welfare State or Kalyana Rajya on this earth.

--Sharanu Sharanarthi
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