Unity and religion

Unity and religion
The worst thing about comfort is that we only realise its merits when we are uncomfortable. Peace is one of the biggest comforts enjoyed by mankind since humanity learnt the nuances of conflict. The awareness of conflict made us aware of the comforts of peace and harmony. Though we realised that we must live in peace and harmony, yet conflict crept into our social system as an essential part of our lives. We fight from the day we learn how to talk. Conflict and tension arise out of a disturbed mind. A disturbed mind seldom ponders upon the output or results of its actions. On the other hand, a peaceful mind has the ability to realise the ultimate results of its doings: a peaceful mind is a rational mind.

A rational mind is what distinguishes us from animals. Animals do not think rationally, they do not evaluate the merits and demerits of their actions as we do. Animals cannot think of abstract concepts as that of happiness and sorrow, unity and peace. Such abstract thinking is limited to only mature minds as we humans possess. As humans we possess a remarkable amount of rationality.

Rationality enjoins upon us the merits of unity and peace. As rational beings, only humans can realise the merits of unity and peace, only humans can realise the immense potential behind the twin concepts of unity and peace: the concepts can change the world we live in, they can make our lives live; animals are deprived of an intellect to appreciate the merits of peace and unity. The animals who live in harmony do so merely because it is a way of life for them. The exigencies of life and its situations force them to act as they do. Animals live in peace and harmony or they fight amongst themselves only because their lives revolve around these concepts.

The very consciousness of the concepts of peace and unity is what distinguishes animals from humans. Humans are conscious of unity; as humans, we are conscious of the demerits of disunity. Though unity has the potential to change our lives for the better, yet disunity could wreck havoc in our lives. All of us are aware of the destruction and annihilation that could be brought into our lives if we continue to embrace disunity in our lives. Disunity remains the greatest problems of our times. We must do something about this problem before disunity engulfs us into its bowels. Immediate action is sought from us as it is only the humans who are capable of thinking.

As humans we have the ability to focus our thoughts and attention upon a single entity. We must focus our thoughts on a single entity for the sake of our survival on earth. Unity of thoughts entails peace. We ought to focus our thoughts and concentrate on a single entity to attain peace. We ought to focus our thoughts on The Creator to attain peace. This is how religion comes into the portrait of unity and peace. Religion could play a major role in our goal of attaining unity and peace. We would have to realise that all religion aims for the unification of mankind. Peace is another virtue ingrained into religion. Religion remains the flag-bearer of unity and peace on earth.

Unity and peace could be established on earth with the help of proper education of the masses. A divine civilization could be established on earth with the help of global education, global law and justice, and global religion. To make this achievable, the educational system of all the schools of the world should be the same, there should be one common institution that maintains law and justice in the world, and there should be one common religion. It is with this knowledge that a divine civilization could be established on earth that would be far superior than any other satanic civilization that exists today. Religion has been accepted by generations as it has been revealed to them through manifestations of God.

God’s presence has been so important in our lives that life seems to thrive on the connection that one has with Him. These connections that one has with God predicate a safer and more peaceful life for all of us on earth. An inclination towards God’s revelations in the form of holy books could create a rational, wise, good and moral being. Religion could prove to be the saviour of mankind from its ultimate end if only we understood the proper meaning of religion. The correct and logical meaning of religion has to be understood by all of us. For this, we need proper and adequate education.

Education could be the tool that would be required to achieve the seemingly impossible goal of world unity and world peace. The virtues of unity and peace remain abstract concepts in the minds of men. Education could help to bring all these abstract virtues out of the closets of our minds into our practical lives. We could prove to be rational if we embraced the virtues of education.

Education of mankind is a lifelong process. One seeks education from cradle to grave. One begins learning right from the moment one is born and continues to learn till the last moment of one’s life. Education is aimed at teaching man the virtues of life. It is aimed at bringing out the immense potential that one has within oneself. This is where the importance of a modern school comes into the picture. Education in all modern schools should be redesigned to suit the demands of the modern age, it should be designed to prepare the students for uniting the world despite the apparent differences dividing humanity.

Humanity stands at the edge of the cliff. It is in a very precarious situation as of now. It needs to shed its differences of caste, creed, colour, sect, sex, language, nation, race or even religion. Unless it does so, it is sure to fall of the precipice of happiness. Happiness demands our united and concerted efforts towards unity. This can be paraphrased as the truth that unity of mankind would entail peace and happiness. World happiness could be said to be the target of all our endeavours for world peace and world unity.

World unity and peace should be established to enable the happiness of everyone in the world. everyone could be happy and lead a peaceful life this way. Our lives would be a lot easier than what they are now if only there were peace and unity amongst us.