Religion and Grand Zoroastrian Nation Essay

It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to find in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have disposed us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient modulate of monks in the population I thank you in the name of the bring forth of religions and I thank you in the name of the millions and millions of Hindu people of e rattling last(predicate) classes and sects. My thanks, also to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from faraway nations may well claim the honour of bearing to different lands the melodic theme of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept either religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation, which has sheltered the persecuted, and the refugees of all religion and all nations of the cosmos.I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by papistic tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion, which has sheltered and is still foster the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation. I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have restate from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated by millions of human beings As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies confused though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.Quoted from Siva Mahimnah Stotram 7. The save convention, which is one of the most august assemblies ever held, is in itself a defense force a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form I reach him all men ar struggling through paths which in the end lead to Me. Quoted from Geeta 411. Sectarianism, bigotry, and its imposing descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent all nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advancedthan it is now. But their time is come and I fervently hold that the bell that tolled this morning in honour of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings amongst persons wending their way to the same goal.