World Fellowship of Religions

by Baron W.F. von Blomberg

The Master says that the World Fellowship of Religions (WFR) is a common platform to bring leaders of all religions together to create better understanding among them, while Ruhani Satsang is meant for those who want to go deeper to have Inner Spiritual experience. The WFR now has active groups in England, Paris, Ghana, Berlin and Iran with individual members all over the world.

World religious leaders are beginning to realise that basically all faiths have one and the same object – helping the soul to attain its full evolution. We can have real peace only when this aim is achieved. No matter how we fritter away our time or fight against one another, the human aspiration is so strong and so natural that no other aim or urge than identity with the Supreme Being can give us sure guidance in life.

True Religion dispenses with suspicions and bickerings and makes the aim of True Life clear. The Spiritual View of life then comes to the forefront. Genuine peace and happiness are inextricably linked with Spirituality. Time and space have necessitated religions taking different forms. With Spiritual Awareness, we have proper understanding of outer forms; rituals and symbolisms of each faith. This understanding will eliminate hatred prevalent among different religions. All of us know only too well the terrible shedding of blood in the name of religion. The number of religious wars in human history and sufferings caused by them is indescribable. Today we witness injustice, narrowness and cruel behaviour in the name of religion.

One great danger is that in the terrific progress of science and the mastery over nature and its forces, man is apt to look upon himself as omniscient, often mistaking material gains for the Ultimate Goal of life. Thus we must keep in mind that the basis of religious belief is not material but spiritual.

In a recent visit to the headquarters of American astronauts I came to know that: with the great success of space science, those participating feel themselves coming closer to Spirituality and have a recognition of the Spiritual Forces. In fact: the terrible world destructive inventions today drive us to the spirit as the only protection and the only answer.

We see in these destructive forces the ghost of our own annihilation and thus look for a way out of the quandary. The way out is through the Spiritual Door through Truth, Love and non-violence. We can neither benefit from scientific advances nor escape our doom without Spiritual Values.

True Religion is a man’s Inner Experience. Man know thyself, as Sant Kirpal Singh often says. It is the key to the mysteries of the origin of life and the relationship between man and the Supreme Being.

The World Fellowship of Religions brings leaders of world religions together, very often for the first time. Meeting together they begin to love and understand one another. Even if they do not agree, they begin to understand the meaning of each faith. If the World Fellowship of Religions attains only one of its objectives – bringing together world religious leaders – we shall be closer to world peace than ever before.