Swami Maheshwarananda at the Parliament of the Worlds Religions

what do you see as the the value for the world of bringing together all the different faiths in dialogue in this way uh that will bring uh more Mutual understanding mhm among cultures and religions and with this is a big hope that through this there will be less fighting for the wars this is one step towards the peace but if they all accept this is this theory and practice is different terms of theory is nothing compared with the gra of practice do you feel that the traditions in their current form are meeting the challenge of the world that we're in today or do you feel that they tradition need to make some changes and adapt to the the new the new world that we are in well uh as you said now there are two different kind of worlds one is God made world and one is man-made world the God made world is perfect and man-made world is imperfect the man-made world is leading us towards the distruction so what we create today something as a pleasure or something good sooner or later it will be a cause of distractions we interfere too much in the cycle of the nature we polluted too much our mother earth we polluted all the rivers we polluted all lakes and we are polluting the ocean the ocean life is threatened and our life depends on the ocean also so one American Indian wise man said when the last tree will be ched off and the last fish will die then you will realize that you can't eat the dollars so all these problems because of the human mental pollution and all is created out of the human mental pollution because human thinks the human is great and they have learned and they know everything they think people who believe in God and religion they are stupid but they are not stupid therefore it very important and in religion is one problem that too much Theory Theory MH less practice and some religious people or religious leader they change their opinion according to the civilization and that's not good and therefore the prime duty of the religious leaders and religious people to keep this religious tradition very clean and with mutal and harmonious understanding and relation with other culture and other religions so and because this problem is because I told today that humans are empathizing too much and glorifying too much the humans only mhm none of them here spoke about other creatures no one spoke how the cows are suffering none of them spoke how the chickens are suffering none of they spoke how pigs are suffering none of them spoke how the animals are tortured that we need love should go there then the human will understand the human otherwise even humans will not understand the hum so there is Enlightenment there is a love the real Enlightenment is this that you see yourself in other and when someone is suffering then your heart has pain and your tears flow that is Enlightenment and not that you close eyes and said I'm enlightened God is enlightenment