Tolerance and Hinduism

Generally I don't much bother about religion. I mean I don't practice any religion. Recently I saw a news and saw Dear Sourav Halder Da's question "It is actually what India and Hinduism all about... But the real question is.... Will a mosque allow the Hindus to do a puja in its premises?" draw my attention and I have an opinion about this. 

The main advantage with Hinduism is it always welcomes the new idea and doesn't matter how contrasting is the new idea it surprisingly assimilate the new idea inside it. Imagine where the main theme of Veda is - "GOD have no Image" (Na taswa pratima asti). Hinduism accepted 33 crore GODs. The main strength of hinduism is its freedom. Do what ever you want. The extreme example is Jainism and Buddhism. They are basically atheist religion (Believe it or not these two religion dont believe in GOD) and started as anti Hindu religion. Today many Jain and Buddhist dont know that they are not hindu. This is the beauty of Hinduism. Assimilate everything. Immense tolerance. Swami Vivekananda truly said in Chicago "We not only believe in universal tolerance but we accept all religions as true." We believe in so many gods that adding just extra GOD don't literally add anything new doesn't matter even the name of the GOD is "Allah". Did you notice in Hinduism we have thousands of classes and sects and everyone respect everyone. The worshiper of Shiva easily goes to the temple of Ram. And the worshiper of Kali heartily welcome the worshiper of Ganesh.

On the other hand the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) act really in a strange manner. They all claim and share the same history and theory of origin but always fight with each other. The rigidity is the signature of these religions. Not only they fight with each other, they even fight with the different classes inside the religion. A Shia always fight with Sunni, A catholic never see the face of protestant !!!

All religions are philosophy came from some particular human mind's thought and personal feeling. Like all philosophy they are to some extend true and to some extend false.Nothing is absolute true. So fighting among each other is the most foolish act I feel. I don't like and strongly disagree of many aspect of Hinduism but the world really needs the tolerance of Hinduism to get world peace.

Death of Child or Death of Humanity?

Last few days my eyes are getting stuck on some news about problems in the Middle East and Europe specially ISIS and refugee in Europe. Fortunately or unfortunately I am from such a country where problem is a part  and parcel of our life. Now we are so habituated with it that nobody cares about it. But here also the type of problem is different. Its about not having good roads, not having good computer facility everywhere. Not having good services in government offices. Of course some agitation is there near Pakistan border in Kashmir. But it really don’t effect much to our day to day life or it don’t come to headline much. The overall political situation is more or less stable here.

Coming to the point, a picture of a small boy dead on the sea shore of Turkey shocked not only me but the whole world. There is no word to express my feeling. Life and death is natural phenomenon but when death happens due to human it always hurts me. At least this is the cause of death we can avoid.

The rise of ISIS created a great problem in Syria and Iraq. Frankly speaking I don’t know much history about that region and I don’t know who is right and who is wrong. But at least I can say that what is happening is not good. There are many problems in our life, there are many struggle in our life due to nature and food, resident. But war is such a horrible and unnecessary problem caused by proud man. It feels shame to see everyday people are trying to cross see by small boat to enter Europe taking them in life and dead situation. Some are reaching and some are sinking under the sea. Feeling like whole humanity is sinking.

Human is so proud of their power but even they cannot save the life of a small kid. Even they cannot give shelter to 0.1 million people where the total population of world some hundred billion. I was literally surprised seeing the number of refugee in Europe. They cannot give shelter only 0.1 million people? My home town Kolkata have population over 25 million. 0.1 million people will just dissolve in Kolkata. Why so selfish?

Today news showed some of the European countries are agreed to give shelter to the homeless people in their country. I welcome this decision. It gives hope to  me that humanity still exist.

One more thing surprised me. When it’s a question of demanding something from any nonmuslim country or nonmuslim community Muslims countries shows so much brotherhood among them. But this time no Muslim country took any responsibility to give shelter to the refugees from Syria.

I am very optimistic person. And hope soon good thing will happen in this beautiful world and people will realize the value of human life. People will not become homeless, foodless. They don’t have to leave their home forever and take a small boat to cross the dark sea at night. Hope peace will occupy our planet again.