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RELIGIONS IN THE UNIVERSE

UNITY IN DIVERSITY

I am a former nuclear physicist who had his education at Harvard

as a scientist.

I write this article with infinite love and respect for people of

all faiths in the world, and indeed my love and respect for

all the religions of the world.

If religion can bring the people of the world together and thread

them in a garland of love then it is one of the most wonderful

things that ever came upon earth.

If by religion people simply mean that all have one father and all

are his children, and in this thought alone all religious

differences can cease to exist, then it can make a heaven on

earth.

If only we can understand that there is just ONE Creator

and that God in His Infinite Wisdom reached out everywhere to make

His presence felt before the diverse people of the world with

different languages, different cultures, different colors and

countries, then we shall indeed be able to live together in peace.

This world will become like a beautiful garden with different

religions as flowers of different colors existing side by side.

If we study the lives of the various founders of the faiths, we

find that they were the gentlest, kindest, most loving, most

sacrificing beings that ever came on the planet earth.

We must not forget that every religion has a history of hundreds

and thousands of years behind it, with its own culture and

civilization. And we must give every religion the due respect that

it deserves.

With the advent of science and the inter-connection of the world

and greater civilization, countries have evolved democratic

governments with political constitutions where they respect people

of all faiths, and you see their places of worship existing side

by side.

There is now a greater understanding amongst the peoples of the

world that they have no alternative but to live together, and

accept each other's race, religion, color and nationality.

A Hindu has as much right to believe in Lord Krishna as has a

Christian to believe in Lord Christ, or a Buddhist in Lord Buddha,

or a Muslim in Prophet Mohamed or a Zorastrian in Lord Zoraster,

or the Jews in Jehovah etc.

We love our family and our home as much as our neighbour loves his

family and his home. We will not ask our neighbour to give up his

family and to adopt ours. Let each person follow his path and do

you follow yours. We must love people of all faiths, we must love even

atheists.

The scientific concept of God has further brought home to people

that they must give up bigotry and strive for something higher,

more intellectual, more logical.

God is infinite, therefore His knowledge is infinite, His creation

is infinite, and His knowledge is seen exhibited in the vastness

of the universe around us.

It may come about that the youth of tomorrow may begin to turn

more and more towards science and tolerance of each other's

beliefs.

Science has postulated that the time will come when life will

be discovered on billions of planets existing in the Universe.

It is logical to assume that these billions of planets may have

billions of religions of their own. Our planet has about ten major

religions.

One day we will all have to come to the inevitable conclusion that

the Infinite God has devised an infinite number of ways to reach

Him all over the Universe. And that we will have no alternative

but to respect each other's faiths.

The greatest scientist of all times, Albert Einstein had this to

say about the Supreme Intelligence he saw working in the Universe:

"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is

the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true

science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists,

manifesting itself as the Highest Wisdom and the Most Radiant

Beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most

primitive Forms–this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of

true religiousness."

In ending I quote this article on the note of optimism that my

father envisioned for the world in the days ahead:

"Even as every night must give place to day and every autumn turn

to spring so it is the voice of my heart that the time is drawing

close when One God shall exist for all, and all shall be His

children, Love shall be His worship and the hearts of men shall

know a never ending peace."

Priya Nath Mehta

M.Sc.,M.S.(Harvard)