Not merely tolerance but universal acceptance which idea and ideal despite, perhaps, suffering millenia more of rejection will surely gain ground to grind all intolerance to the dust and establish harmony between seeming incompatibles grounded in scriptural limitations. Humanity must progress eventually to acceptance of plurality of paths spiritual which has been sounded in the Vedic invocation 'Ekam sadviprā bahudhā vadanti.' Barring the Sanatan Dharma all other religions, especially the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are opposed to this plurality of paths, but nonetheless, it being in keeping with the geometry of the cosmic mind, must come to pass in due course as envisaged by Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. As of now the murky political atmosphere of the world in which Islam and Christianity are playing their perfidious parts in proselytism to perfection, humanity is perhaps not ready for the lofty idealism of the Vedanta whence like life-giving streams issue the flowing ideal of universal spirituality as enunciated above in the celebrated Vedic mantra. But men will evolve and times will change to facilitate the flowering of this grand symphony of the soul. The ideal has to be preached but in truthful terms and not in compromised selective citing of scriptural passages while omitting due reference to barbarous ones utterly antithetical to harmonic pluralistic existence. But, as Swamiji said, "In the West they have a cathedral standing on the head of man and on top of it there is a book. And yet man rises." So, has there been for the past several centuries the slow evolution of man, and the onward march carries on. Till then we will have to wait as the prophecy of the Vedic Rishis finds fulfilment in the body politic of the world. As the scriptures say, "Kālenātmani vindati."
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