Religious diversity has caused much disharmony and disunity but all religions are bound by love for our country which shadows the diversity and highlights the unity. This is Communal Harmony / Religious Harmony in India but धर्म के ठेकेदार (custodians of religion) of India suppress those because intolerance between religions is currently the best strategy for politics. These people are in most cases,linked to political parties.
The Indian Constitution supports and encourages religious harmony. According to Dalai Lama, India is a model for religious harmony.
He mentions ,"In the last 2000-3000 years, different religious traditions such as Jainism, Sikhism, Islam and others,have flourished here"
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.Some examples-
1• A group of young Muslim men had been performing the last rites of patients, both Hindus and Muslims, dying of COVID-19 despite being on Ramadan fast.
2• BAPS Swaminarayan Temple of Vadodara has converted its Yagnapurush Sabhaguru to COVID-19 facility.
3• Ajmer Sharif Dargah has been a place for Muslims Hindus and people of other faiths since the medieval times.4• Dharmasthala Temple has Shivalli Brahmins priests who are Vaishnava and the administration is run by a Jain Bunt family.
There are hundreds of such cases but none make it to the headlines. That says everything.
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