"Peace not Pieces"

[amandeep]

Dhan Nirankar to all loving saints!
Das was reading Swamy Vivekananda's address at the
Final Session in "The Parliament of Religions" and
thought to share a few lines from his speach:-
Much has been said of the common ground of religious
unity. I am not going just now to venture my own
theory. But if any one here hopes that this unity
will come by the triumph of any one of the religions
and the destruction of the others, to him I say,
"Brother, yours is an impossible hope." Do I wish
that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do
I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become
Christian? God forbid.
The seed is put in the ground and earth and air and
water are placed around it. Does seed become the
earth; or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a
plant, it develops after the law of its growth,
assimilates the air, the earth, and the water,
converts them into plant substance, and grows into a
plant.
Similar is the case with religion. The Christian is
not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, not a Hindu or a
Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must
assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve
his individuality and grow according to his own law of
growth.
If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to
the world it is this: It has proved to the world that
holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive
possessions of any church/temple in the world, and
that every system has produced men and women of the
most exalted character. In the face of this evidence,
if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own
religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him
from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that
upon the banner of every religion will soon be
written, in spite of resistence: "Help and not Fight",
"Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace
and not Dissension"
Das would like to recall Babaji's saying "Peace not
Pieces" which Swamy Vivekananda has summarised as the
ultimate goal of any religion. But the means to
achieve the same was not highlighted in the Parliament
of Religions. His holiness Babaji Hardev Singh ji
Maharaj is making "Peace not Pieces" possible by
imparting Universal Brotherhood thru spiritual
enlightenment yet preserving the individuality of
religion.
Bless das to learn and perform the same.