What is Religion?
CLICK HERE for discourse on the GITA There are a lot of fancy and attractive names being bandied about by new sects that exploit the spiritual vacuum that exists within each individual amongst us all. Every good orator worth his salt is now propounding very seriously and with the help of the audio-video media, theories about religion, couched in sometimes pleasing and at other times in very passionate rhetoric, mixed with a heady though toxic core of diseased concepts. The concepts or theories propounded are usually: 1. your religion is in danger, 2. Enemy of your religion is your enemy 3. We all have to get together to destroy our enemies, 4. Yours/ours is the only true religion, all others are wrong and so on. In the recent times this has taken on an alarming and dangerous trend where the hidden agenda or ultimate object is to dominate in the name of religion and there are no boundaries and no exceptions. This is very much so where religion has been unthinkingly made