ONE
EARTH, ONE FAMILY
According to Dr. S. Radhakrishnan ,the former President of
India (1888-1975), we have had with us, from the beginning of history people
who told us ‘One earth, one family. Goodwill to the whole of humanity.’ But he asks ‘how many of us have really
become testimony to these great truths in our actual lives.’
Expressing his observation, he says that today violence is
much more common than it used to be, and
questions why it is that we are unable
to adhere to the teachings which our great sages and saints have given to us.
Religion is not a thing which one can buy or get from going
to a temple, church or gurdwara. It is a
thing which one can practise only if one wages incessant war on the baser
instincts, which still have so much on human nature. These are the things which
we have to set aside if we wish to be true followers of any great sage or religious
teacher.
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G. R. Kanwal
24 December 2023
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