India & love

Today is the day of love for many. But Indian culture & civilizations oldest. If you move around the entire East to North east mountains one can find treasurer of Ashoka all over. At that difficult age of communication “The great King Ashoka” had shown how to spread the word of love to every country. Today most of our neighbors & multiple countries of our immediate East follow him.

Patliputra of Bihar was kingdom & he ruled between 304 to 232 BC. History book says he converted himself to Buddhism seeing death of 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh peoples' death. Meaning of his name is “Painless without sorrow” in sanskrit. He is treated as first hero of India & his several symbols are used as national symbol

Now  we give an extract from an article titled "Convert from misery to happiness" published in The Statesman :

"Permit me to read a benevolent message from India to the world, inscribed in stone 2300 years ago, a message from the great emperor Asoka. The message from this ideal ruler says: “One should not honour only one’s own religion and condemn other religions.” This is an important message in today’s world. If you keep condemning others and insisting “mine is the best”, you create difficulties for human beings. The message continues: “Instead you should honour other religions also for various reasons”. Every religion has a wholesome core of love, compassion and goodwill. Honour every religion because of this core. The outer shell always differs ~ rites, rituals, ceremonies, beliefs. Do not quarrel with those, but instead give importance to the inner essence of all religions. And there will be no quarrel. The ancient message says, “By so doing, one helps one’s own religion to grow and also renders service to religions of others. In acting otherwise, one digs the grave of one’s own religion and harms other religions as well.” Understand, this is a big warning. The message continues: “Someone who honours his own religion and condemns other religions may do so out of devotion to his religion, thinking ‘I will glorify my religion,’ but his actions injure his own religion more gravely”. This is the message of Dharma, of the Universal Law: “Let all listen: concord is good, let us not quarrel…” Instead of disagreeing and condemning other religions, give importance to the essence of every religion…then there will be real peace, real harmony"

But the question remains after Ashoka followed some principles many more Religions has seen light. Every religion has broken down after quarrel within themselves.. Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism,Protestantism.Sia Sunni etc. This is not the essence of of religion. Peace is the essence. In the advent of many religion growth of old religions may have slowed down but we can say key essence of peace in India is intact. That is why we still light candles when terrorists gun down kids studying in school. we feel pain as much the other country feels. This barbaric attitude is not something unknown. We have seen how Kashmiri Pundits had to fled from Jammu. we have seen how atrocities on Minorities regularly happening in Bangladesh. why this is happening? why essence of Love is not followed?

We give an extract from a letter by Suvabrata Bandyopadhyay published in Dainik Statesman which quotes Swamiji, to prove~ there is one religion which is intolerant towards other faiths and preaches their instant annihilation:

"It is to be noted that in this respect, the Muslim faithfuls are the most immature and communal minded. Their principal mantra is Allah and Mohammad is the only Rasul. Anything outside these aren't merely bad, these are to be instantaneously destroyed. Any man or woman who is a minutest unbeliever of this faith, has to be killed and their devotional procedure is to be removed completely.  Any scriptures preaching a different faith is to be burnt down. ..... " (Swami Vivekananda Rachanabali, 4th Volume, page 125)(Translated into English).

We only want to tell all brothers,Blood terrify world but peace brings you closer. Terrorism destroy life. Bring essence of peace,love all bring education to see smiles to all citizens.

Oldest Civilization wants to see smile,Looking for love from all.