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Every religion, philosophy, and system of government has always emphasized the importance of Truth. 'Know the Truth which makes for a beautiful Life.'
World is governed by certain laws. These are Laws of the inner world and laws of the outer world: laws of the material world and laws of the spiritual world. All these laws are natural and universal. In contradistinction with natural laws, there are laws made by man. These man-made laws keep on changing but natural laws are eternal. All that is created is transitory. A celebrated maxim of jurisprudence is "whatever is made, is transient, such as the pitcher. Whatever is uncreated is eternal, such as space. Lasting truth is uncreated."
Peace and prosperity is the basic requirement of all the human beings in world, irrespective of religion, caste, colour and creed. With this in view the United Nations was formed in 1945 in the wake of a crippling world war to work towards an environment for peace. It has recently organized a "Millennium World Peace Summit" which is the first since its birth for the last 55 years. This was held in New York for 3 days in August 2000, in which prominent religious leaders of about 75 main religions of the world were invited. Over 1500 religious and spiritual leaders from 185 countries representing more than 80% population of the world, have condemned violence in the name of religion and urged religious, ethnic and national groups to respect the right of freedom of others' religion, seek reconciliation and engage in mutual forgiveness. They also called for abolition of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, and promised to join the United Nations efforts in this regard. It calls for building an "Unprecedented collaboration" among world's diverse faiths and traditions to cooperate in building peaceful societies. Besides this, they have pledged in improving the, lives of the people, equitable distribution of the wealth within and among nations, and promoting global representation etc. etc.
All this indicates that peace and prosperity through spirituality is the need of the hour. Nevertheless, in a world despairing from legitimacy bestowed on the warlike uses of the atoms, there is ample scope for religious leadership to lift the spirit of the people everywhere with words of soothing concern.
Spirituality is the guiding sister of science. It gives to science the gifts of ethical values and peace of mind. It also gives a world-view and a unique belief-system. Together, Science and Spirituality can make the world much better by teaching scientific laws and spiritual love and cooperation.
Science will cause destruction, it violates Moral and spiritual laws. Whether one is scientist, a journalist, or a religious head, one is, first and foremost, a human being. One is born as a human baby and lives as a brother of someone, uncle of another one, and friends of many others. As a human being, one is related to the other humans being variously, but all these are human relationships. Love in these relationships is the essence of 'happiness. If there is any disturbance in any of these relationships. living in any part of the world, one's mind is disturbed, life is not worth living; it is a mere burden. With this, the very purpose of having invaluable and rare "human birth' is defeated.
It is often alleged that good people generally feel so unconcerned or detached that they hardly bother about the world. They wish to live in their cocoons and too invidualistic. They seem to forget that the world cannot become better if good people with a visioning will do not make concerted effort. Therefore one should know that we can win 'Noble prize in life, but the 'Notable prize' in life is constant and deep peace and bliss, and life without this is nothing but a slow suicide.
Keeping the above facts and narrations in view, to my mind, it is a wonderful and very big achievement on the part of the United nations', who need to be congratulated for having organized such a Summit, which is unique in history attended by such a large number of religious and spiritual heads all over the world, representing different religions/ ways of worship, who had nothing to lose, but their prejudices. This also indirectly indicates that the humanity at large in the world, is fed up with the religious fundamentalists, extremists, politicians and administrators, with full of egoism and corruption, and the human beings want to live in peace which will automatically bring prosperity, as they will be able to produce more and more, if living without fear and tension. With increased production, problem of poverty throughout the world will be solved automatically. This is the crux of all the religions of the world, which is called Manavta/Insaniyat/Humanity, and for United Nations' efforts, it can be said that "Well Begun is Half Done". It is sincerely hoped that follow-up action will be taken, as an ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.
R.P. Bhatia- Ex-Scientist
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