Time has come when all he countries in the world must start moral and religious education in schools, in colleges and arrangements should also be made who are not going to schools or colleges. The present system of giving moral and religious education through religious institutions could not work well and we have noted that people are becoming more and more fundamentalists and they have started thinking that their own religion is the best in the world and all people in other religions must vanish or they should convert and our whole history given us so many instances where the rulers had been trying to convert its subjects to his own region and where people had been objecting or were not agreeing to the tune of the ruler, they were treated badly and there had been instances where the rulers had been converting the subjects forcibly and the people who were still objecting, they were killed. We can take the case of India where originally only Hindus were the inhabitants on this side. But we noted that the Muslim invaders had been conquering some areas and then they had been establishing their own rule here and then they started converting the people to Mohamdanism and a time came when they demanded another country and this India had been divided into two parts in 1947. Then the Christian rule was established and they also persuaded people and so many people converted themselves and accepted this Christianity as their religion.
We are sorry to note that some saints started here to establish a common religion, but that effort failed and now some are called Kabir Panthi and some have turned Sikhs and they are not accepting that they are part of Hinduism.
When we talk of moral and religious education, we should think that the basics of all the religions should be taken in hand and we must prepare syllabus as per those basic principles. The basic principles are very simple. God is one and we should accept that God is one and therefore, we all are children of one God and that is the reason we all belong to one family with one parent and therefore, we all are not strangers to each other. We must know that we should do good works the works which should please others and the works which create troubles for others and the others feel sad, must be avoided. We should speak the truth and we should not indulge in stealing things of others and we should not deceive others. We should not snatch away the share of others and we should see that we are not indulging in corruption, bribes, commission taking and grabbing away money of others.
We can direct our scholars to sit and find out all such good principles from all the religious books and we should introduce this book in schools, colleges and in all religious places. All the religious places should adopt these new books because these books shall be containing all the principles available in all the religious books and these books shall become common for all and the present system where we have separate books for each religion shall bring some change in them and they too shall be adding something new in the common books and shall adopt these new common books.
Since all the religious books contains principles which are turning us moral. We shall learn the art of morality and we shall turn moral beings. We have noted that in India Akbar the great had initiated to establish a common religion ‘ Din I Illhani’ but he failed because his own people did not like his installing himself as the ‘Khaleefa’ of that common religion. Later on this concept of common religion had been taken up by Shri Guru arjan Dev the fifth Guru of the Sikhs and he compiled a great granth known as Shri guru Granth sahib in which he collected all good works of the saints irrespective of their religion and caste and opened this granth for all. But in due course this granth had been adopted by the Sikhs only and the others could not leave their own path and thus the effort of establishing a common religion in India again failed.
Therefore, we should not make efforts to establish a common religion because the people shall not leave their own religions and they would not convert to the common religion. The only out way is that all the school going children should be given moral and religious education through new books which should be available in plenty and should be available in the market. In due course the people shall start reading these new books and then there are chances that all the present terrorism and all the wars and riots shall end because the new people shall not be fundamentalist. They would not be attached to a particular religion, but would be universal people believing in good idea, good thoughts and a good way of life. These books shall give moral education too and the man shall understand what is the value of man on this earth and therefore, no one shall kill a person only because he is not of the same views which are possessed by the killer.
We have already lost much time and therefore, we should start preparing books based on religions and moralities coming out of those religious books and we must start teaching to our students a new concept of life and that is the only out way. We must be sorry that we have lost generations and ultimately we have divided the whole world into religions and all are fighting a futile war which is just killing people without achieving anything.
