Spirituality is inclusive and never exclusive. Religions of the world, however, are mostly exclusive and therefore divisive in their tendencies. They preach salvation exclusively for their flock and not for adherents of other faiths. Thus, the fundamental oneness of existence, the solidarity of the universe is not stressed on and a segmented, fractional, sectarian view obtains in some of the major religions of the world. This exclusive view dries out sympathy in the hearts of the followers of certain faiths for those who do not subscribe to them and basing arguments on exclusive personal revelations which do not allow for investigative scrutiny either by the scientific community or dissent by any which they either term heretical or as the handiwork of the infidel, they vitiate the otherwise amicable atmosphere of the world. The same applies for exclusive political philosophies/systems as well. Peace on Earth can never be achieved if this exclusive archaic approach to the human situation is not given up. Diversity is the plan of Nature as we can very well see from the bio-diversity of the world. There is a fundamental unity deep within this surface diversity and that is the underlying bond of us all. Even the scientific community is in search of this Unified Field of Nature where all diversity of space-time, mass-energy and force are finally, or shall we say, primally integrated. Even in the domain of the spiritual sciences as in the physical sciences such a Unified Field exists, the Field of Brahman. This is not a dogmatic assertion nor is it unreasonable but it is a verified and verifiable nature of the ultimate spiritual reality which throws an open invitation to all seekers without imposition of any precondition of subscription to a faith or belief in any of the principles which it invites seekers to investigate. This is spiritual science free of dogma, doctrine or faith. Rather, it calls for the full play of reason, doubt and sincere scientific investigation as is necessary for the physical sciences, the only significant departure being that it has the discerning mind as its investigating instrument and not any material instrument otherwise. This is the Eternal Philosophy of the Vedas, the Science of the Self of man, the system of thought that is in no way exclusive but rather is inclusive of all of humanity and all sentience even unto the ant and the worm and even the so-called insentient matter all of which it embraces within its fold as worship-worthy for all of it is the manifestation of the One Divine that animates all of existence, the Cosmic Life-Principle, the all-pervading Universal Consciousness. This is and will be the spiritual philosophy of thinking humanity who do not partition life into warring factions based on narrow ideological exclusions. This pristine philosophy of the essential divinity of all is neither blasphemous nor heretical nor idolatrous polytheism but is the grandest discovery of some of the most fertile minds that have ever trodden the face of this beautiful Earth. They were so far ahead of time in their realizations so far back in time that the thought of these ancient Rishis of India still remain unfathomable to present-day humanity in terms of the profundity of the principles and the subtleties involved in this supremely harmonic philosophical system the world has ever seen. Time it is therefore to stop our predatory moves on each other in the name of religious politics or politicized religiosity and to study thoroughly with unbiased scientific minds that we may learn to appreciate the higher principles of life and thereon learn to live by them harmoniously in amity with all, allowing for diversity within the ambit of the essential underlying unity that is the purport of the Vedas. Then only may we be called human beings and not before. Remember this friends, otherwise there is not much to separate us from the rest of our brethren, the so-called lower animals. The choice is ours, how we wish to be seen by ourselves when we look into the mirror of our selves---fanatical, barbaric beings or enlightened, cultured divinities as the Vedas declare us to be ?
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