DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

COMMUNIAL  RIOTS

18 June, 1927

 Commenting on newspaper reports of communal riots in Calcutta, Baba observed:

It is simply madness and foolishness on the parts of both Hindus and Muslims to break each other's head and injure and insult each other's religion in the very name of religion! Any religion that allows violating the sacred sentiment of another religion is not worth its name.

The work of conversion, turning a Hindu into a Mohammedan or vice versa, is equally silly and senseless. The increase in numbers of followers of a particular religion is no indication of the greatness or value of it. The struggle for religious supremacy is nothing but rank irreligion.

The real reason underlying these communal riots, as well as the general restlessness all over the world, is due to the coming approach of the spiritual outburst that takes place at long intervals. It will all end in unity and peace. You feel great discomfort and pain in the abdomen before having an unusually satisfactory [bowel] motion! It is just like that. These very disturbances are the indication of the coming peace. The combination of Islam, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism in my personality is not a coincidence. It has great significance!

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