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Certainly No. Another religion will only compound the problems and will
not solve any of the existing issues. It will divide the world further. Now
we need something beyond religion.
Everything is evolving
Lifestyle has evolved. Technology has evolved. Engineering has evolved.
Varied fields of sciences have evolved. The field of medicine has evolved.
Everything has either evolved or at least everything has changed. Religion
alone hasn't. True, in its essence Religion cannot evolve, but it must evolve
in its expressions and in its practices. Yesterday's ways don't work with
today's mind. If there is so much confusion in the adult's mind regarding
religious practices and so much aversion to religious practices amongst the
younger minds, it is because religion, in its application, hasn't tuned itself
to the modern world.
In truth, this has essentially been the ways of religion. In essence, every
religion, when it was born, was born as an expression of timeless wisdom
with contemporary expressions. According to the time and place, in tune
with the adequacies and deprivations of the society at that juncture, in
sync with the temperament of people, one amongst them unfolded the
contemporary expressions to the already prevailing timeless wisdom, and
thus a new way of life unfolded for the masses… purely with the intent to