The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

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Role of Religious Leaders and world Peace

Bivek Singh Bhandari ( Nepal)
Peace for Love

A nation is not merely an assembly of many societies. It is an organic organization comprised of and based on individual and families of love. Within it, perfect order and unity must be established and then the true peace of the nation can be realized. To express it in other words, even a nation needs love in order to realize and maintain peace. Even though the families, which are the basic of the nation, may be centered on absolute love, the nation as an organic body must be able to practice absolute love as a nation on the national level. The government and people of the nation should attain unity internally, and externally the nation should unify with neighboring nation, thereby realizing true peace. The religion should promote the spiritual and physical development of mankind.

Any unity should ideally be a positive tool for peace, love, and should spread goodwill thinkers in every age and every land are concerned with this problem of finding sound basis for comradeship and real bonds of unity that can achieve confluence of ideas and eventually lead to world peace.

All religion and culture of the world aim at the development of love for the World peace. A man is never satisfied with anything in the world; he or she wants more and more of it; may it be wealth, status, power, love friendship or anything else. It is because there lies a 'spark' of infinite or eternal in him and he is not fully satisfied until he reaches up to that 'spark' and is united with it. Love for the peace is not to be found in temples or churches or books or Leader's speech but within the heart of a true devotee, a godly person. True devotee of God kindles once this flame of love in a person. One feels more and more drawn towards God, develops the urge for unity.

THE UNIFYING ASPECTS OF CULTURES

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