Becoming larger is growth, deleting incorrect ideas and adding correct ideas is also a kind of growth, avoiding untruths and adding truths is again another kind of growth. If we refine anything by separating unwanted items that is also called growth. In brief, increase in a quantity or in a quality both can be called growth.
The well-known example for such a social growth is the growth of science. All scientists appreciated and respected all earlier scientists and absorbed all their real discoveries. Based on that previous knowledge, they developed further studies and again achieved still better for their society. If scientists hated one another and their discoveries, we would be travelling on bullock carts by now. Unfortunately, religions show one book in one hand and say it contains everything, and if anybody utters a little better or a little less, then they declare them as blasphemous!!!
Now, the word ‘growth’ is meaningless in religions. We can clearly see the religions use an unwanted type of growth, instead of a good and healthier growth! Let us see what religions actually doing in the name of religious growth. Those religions who believe in creator God claim that their religious books were given directly by the creator God, but each claim’s that all other religions have many mistakes in them!! They fight one another for the greatness of their own religion. Now, we must think one point, if there is a creator God and had He given really all these religious books to human beings, would he like this? Would He wish a particular one of His religion’s victory over all other His own religions?
Religious life never starts with a particular mode of prayer or any other ritual, but religious life starts only with the sacrifice of one’s selfishness and pride. Everybody knows on this planet that the differences in the style of prayer and rituals in different religions caused horrible bloodshed throughout the ages, but when a person sacrificing his selfishness and pride, hatred vanishes and in its place divine Love appears, and we attain peaceful society instead.
Everybody knows that the Universal and divine Love is God himself. In short, religious development comes only when we accept all the truths and reject all the untruths from the angle of that divine concept the universal Love. Unfortunately, truths regarding rituals and prayers are claimed as the ultimate religion by almost all the religions!!! We should have the common sense to guess that the God never cares our style of prayers and its frequency, but He must be looking at our behavioural development. If we had cared the God’s latter advice, today we would have achieved the one greatest religion for all, with the great world peace, even along with the different religions’ exclusive identities!