Growing Number of Religious Places in India
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Growing number of religious places in India ?
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate,
Formerly employment Officer P.E.S.II,
E.Mail. dalipsinghwassan @ Yahoo Co.In.
As far as India is concerned, it has got so many religions and so many castes and that is the reason here we find so many religion books, so many religious places and even people are opening private religious places and are collecting huge amounts and thus here in India religion has become a profession, trade, calling and employment. And this trend of opening and establishing new religious institutions has not stopped but is on and on each day a new religious institution is being established and all old religious institutions are being re-constructed and in such a manner that those are losing all historical backgrounds.
If we look at our people, they are not religious in their work and conduct and if we study them, they are all having the same character, though they might belong to different religion, different caste or sub religion.The main number of religions could be four only and therefore, the main religions are Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and the Christians. But if we start counting religious places, we are surprised that so many sub religions have taken birth in India and people are joining these new sub religions in large number. These new institutions are coming into being telling us that there had been some defects in the old main religion and therefore, they have established these new sub religions and these new sub religions are flourishing like anything.
Since religious institutions can bring money, people are establishing these new religious places as individual properties and are collecting huge amounts. We have seen that these owners of religious places are having cars, good buildings to live and sometime they are seen travelling by air. They have appointed large number of guards to that the money they collect could remain safe. When money comes, we know that the owners would like to enjoy life like kings and therefore, there are news that these people sometime indulge in *** and innocent women are exploited by these owners. We condemn such instances, but at the same time we do not stop visiting these institutions and that is the reason these institutions are still running. If the people stop offering money or in kind, and if they do this new rehearsal for atleast six months, there are chances that all these religious institutions shall close because they have got no income source other than the offerings from the devotees.
Amongst the Sikhs there had been time when they had to launch a morcha for the independence of their religious places and they won that morcha because the state helped them and this Shromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee came into being. But the Sikh Community has returned to the same position and now there are more number of swants and Mahants with new religious institutions and we have noted that they are atttracting more and more people towards them and they are also turning rich because of huge offerings and if we have accounts, we shall note that these new institutions are collecting more money than the institutions run by the Shromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. Similar is the position in other religions.
We must note that in spite of all these religios institutions and in spite of all these religious books and explainers, we, the people of India could not become religious people. We are still divided on the basis of religions and uptil now we could say that God is one and we should worship one God. we have got different Gods and that is the reason when we are in a relaigious place of people of another religion, we shall not be having the same faith as we could have in a religious place of our own religion to which we belong. We have different way of worshiping God, different way of living, different way of saluting each other, we live in separate colonies because we have got fears when we live in a colony of people of a different religion, we wear different type of clothes and we have got different hair-cuts so that we could establish our idendity. We have noted that here in India we are afraid of people of other religions and at times we have started believing that our religion is in danger from other religions and therefore, our Goverfnment had to establish a Minority Commission to safeguard the rights of minorities living in India. And now a stage has come when people in majority have started thinking that the minorities are getting more and more favours from the state and they want their own rights.
It is very diufficult to maintain secularism in India because the divisions on the basis of religions are permanent and there could be no common religion in India. People of different religions would never allow this country to become a ‘Nation” and there shall be inteernal dangers throughout. We had been suffering because of these divisions and we shall continue suffering because of these divisions and till these sufferings are there, we shall not become a nation, which is the demand of time.
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Growing number of religious places in India ?
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate,
Formerly employment Officer P.E.S.II,
E.Mail. dalipsinghwassan @ Yahoo Co.In.
As far as India is concerned, it has got so many religions and so many castes and that is the reason here we find so many religion books, so many religious places and even people are opening private religious places and are collecting huge amounts and thus here in India religion has become a profession, trade, calling and employment. And this trend of opening and establishing new religious institutions has not stopped but is on and on each day a new religious institution is being established and all old religious institutions are being re-constructed and in such a manner that those are losing all historical backgrounds.
If we look at our people, they are not religious in their work and conduct and if we study them, they are all having the same character, though they might belong to different religion, different caste or sub religion.The main number of religions could be four only and therefore, the main religions are Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and the Christians. But if we start counting religious places, we are surprised that so many sub religions have taken birth in India and people are joining these new sub religions in large number. These new institutions are coming into being telling us that there had been some defects in the old main religion and therefore, they have established these new sub religions and these new sub religions are flourishing like anything.
Since religious institutions can bring money, people are establishing these new religious places as individual properties and are collecting huge amounts. We have seen that these owners of religious places are having cars, good buildings to live and sometime they are seen travelling by air. They have appointed large number of guards to that the money they collect could remain safe. When money comes, we know that the owners would like to enjoy life like kings and therefore, there are news that these people sometime indulge in *** and innocent women are exploited by these owners. We condemn such instances, but at the same time we do not stop visiting these institutions and that is the reason these institutions are still running. If the people stop offering money or in kind, and if they do this new rehearsal for atleast six months, there are chances that all these religious institutions shall close because they have got no income source other than the offerings from the devotees.
Amongst the Sikhs there had been time when they had to launch a morcha for the independence of their religious places and they won that morcha because the state helped them and this Shromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee came into being. But the Sikh Community has returned to the same position and now there are more number of swants and Mahants with new religious institutions and we have noted that they are atttracting more and more people towards them and they are also turning rich because of huge offerings and if we have accounts, we shall note that these new institutions are collecting more money than the institutions run by the Shromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. Similar is the position in other religions.
We must note that in spite of all these religios institutions and in spite of all these religious books and explainers, we, the people of India could not become religious people. We are still divided on the basis of religions and uptil now we could say that God is one and we should worship one God. we have got different Gods and that is the reason when we are in a relaigious place of people of another religion, we shall not be having the same faith as we could have in a religious place of our own religion to which we belong. We have different way of worshiping God, different way of living, different way of saluting each other, we live in separate colonies because we have got fears when we live in a colony of people of a different religion, we wear different type of clothes and we have got different hair-cuts so that we could establish our idendity. We have noted that here in India we are afraid of people of other religions and at times we have started believing that our religion is in danger from other religions and therefore, our Goverfnment had to establish a Minority Commission to safeguard the rights of minorities living in India. And now a stage has come when people in majority have started thinking that the minorities are getting more and more favours from the state and they want their own rights.
It is very diufficult to maintain secularism in India because the divisions on the basis of religions are permanent and there could be no common religion in India. People of different religions would never allow this country to become a ‘Nation” and there shall be inteernal dangers throughout. We had been suffering because of these divisions and we shall continue suffering because of these divisions and till these sufferings are there, we shall not become a nation, which is the demand of time.
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