The Future of Religion: Human Life - Education - Spirituality

The Future of Religion: Human Life - Education - Spirituality

Pravat Kumar Dhal

Religion and Social Communication 20, No. 1 (2022)

Abstract

In true sense, religion is not the communal or sectorial beliefs. It is eternal. Neither reason nor religion, but spirituality will be the future religion. Religion binds human beings together. Truth, Beauty and Goodness are the core characteristics of religion. It is not the cause for destruction of civilization. It is meant for wellbeing of society. It is created by God, which provides peace, truth, justice, knowledge, love, beauty, power, and light, etc. It is the gateway for spiritualization. Religious people get the divine, which is the sole motto of human life. A true religion embraces all religions. It does not attack others, like a flower does not attack other flowers. It was originally a means to awaken the human mind to the existence of higher power and higher realms of existence, got bogged into organization setup with its own creeds and dogmas, decrying of other systems.

The entire world is a school and all of life is education. The educational institutions should be a place of high concentration, aspiration and effort even as Temple, Church or Mosque, a House of God charged with power and grace. The teacher is the link, the channel of communication, the willing paraclete, like a mother whose ambience of love fosters the child between the pupil and God, the source of all knowledge. A real teacher enacting the power of divine love helps the child’s buds of consciousness to open out petal by petal, and to achieve fullness of bloom and ripe fruitfulness in the catalytic environment of the academy. The amalgamation of spirit and matter creates new vistas of a peaceful, harmonious and fine world.

Spiritual life is a life of inner culturing of consciousness. Spirituality is a matter of inner being, the living in the soul. It provides Truth, Bliss, Light, Power, Beauty and Peace. It helps in raising the consciousness. The outcome will be harmony and peaceful coexistence. It is only a spiritual orientation of life which can provide an everlasting solution to problems. All religions have to overcome divisions through spiritual unity. It harmonizes science and faith. It synthesizes spirituality and materialism and embraces life in its wide variety. Religion has to surrender in spiritual knowledge, feeling, and in spiritual life. It will act to prepare the human being for a higher, spiritually progressive life and for realization of God. Organized religion will move towards evolution of spiritual consciousness as leader of human progress. All life will be the manifestation divine unity.

Key Words: Future of Religion, Human Life, Education, Spirituality