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 1 RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S VISION OF RELIGION By: Jyoti Ignace Tete INTRODUCTION India is regarded as the cradle of great religions. She unfolds a wonderful blend of races, cultures, customs, languages, religions and food habits. She is able to assimilate all the great religions and fuse them into a total Indianness. The ancient sages and seers had an idea of the divine and they were guided by this idea. Thus, they raised the country to a great spiritual height. However, the twentieth century has witnessed a growing religious intolerance among the masses. The demolition of the Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992 and the subsequent erection of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the destruction of a church at Ahmedabad in Gujarat on 9 August 1998, the inhuman murder of the Australian missionary Graham Stains and his two sons on 23 January 1999 at Manoharpur village in Orissa and the atrocities on Christian missionaries across the country have exposed the ugly side of our country. Such incidents have triggered religious conflicts in the country and all these pose a challenge to our communal harmony. Pluralism seems to have gone out of fashion, but uniformity cannot be the solution. People have an ambivalent attitude toward religion. Whether only one religion is true or all religions are ultimately true or all religions are equally false have polarised people. Religion is a part and parcel of our life, it is a unique dimension of human nature. Todays’ age is considered as the Age of Communication. We have seen science and technology making a mind-boggling progress. What was considered impossible about fifty years ago, has become a reality today due to the progress in science and technology. All the same, even in this age, people offer sacrifices to their Gods before setting out on an important work; they break coconut in order to lay the foundation stone to build a bridge. There have been incidents where people arranged frog marriages to please the rain gods and so on. All these are indications of the superstitious attitudes of the people our nation. Very often these attitudes are equated with religion. Can religion be equated with our feelings and emotions? Does it satisfy the human longings? Is there a universal

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