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Note
SEARCH
AFTER TRUTH
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When
a child is born in a Christian family , he becomes a Christian. When the
parents are Muslims the children also become Muslims; if they are Hindus
their children become Hindus. Why? Because most of the people of
the world go on imitating their forefathers, and as long
as
this kind of blind imitation is carried on, people cannot become united.
They fight over their imitations. Everyone claims that he has got the truth
and all others are in the wrong. People seldom stop to think that
had they been born into some other family with other beliefs, they would
have thought quite differently from what they now believe to be the only
true way.
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Baha'u'llah
teaches that Truth is One. If the people of the world would stop imitating
their
fathers
and reach after truth for themselves, they would all reach the same conclusion
and become united. The different peoples are like children who live in
different houses and look at the sun through coloured window pans. But
as the colour of the pans in each house is different from that of the other
houses, one child is looking at the sun through green
glass and thinks
the
colour of the sun in green, while another child is looking through blue
glass and thinks it
is
blue, and a third child believes the sun to be
red because his window pans are red. These children may
even quarrel over the colour of the sun, each believing what he sees
to
be the right colour. but if they would stop looking
at the sun through their little
window
panes, and step outside into the open, they would all see the true colou
r
of the sun and have nothing to fight over.
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Baha'u'llah
is calling upon the children of men to step out of the houses they have
inherited
from
their great grandparents and stop looking at the sun through coloured window
panes. For the sun we are looking at is the same sun, and once we remove
the coloured glass from
before
our eyes , we will all see it in its true colour.
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