Interfaith Dialogue Leads to Social Harmony

INTERFAITH DIALOGUE LEADS TO SOCIAL HARMONY to promote a spirit of tolerance between people of different faiths and communities. While engaging in such dialogue, we must remember that society cannot escape being governed by that same law of Nature that produces roses, but only when accompanied by thorns. Roses are inseparable from their thorns. Even if people everywhere join in loud protests about these thorns, there is no way that they would go away. Even if they bulldozed all rose plants out of existence except one tiny plant, that little plant would produce its roses, and multiple thorns would still accompany them. In this way, nature tells us that bringing about harmony in society between different groups. We must learn to live in such a way that we accept that there will always be some ‘thorn’ things that we may not personally like or approve of but must tolerate to maintain the peace. Instead of quarreling with these ‘thorns’, we should tolerate them to have the ‘roses’ we like. We should know that without tolerating the ‘thorns,’ we simply cannot access the ‘roses’. As George Bernard Shaw so aptly put it: “Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is found on tolerance.”