The slide reflects upon the important role religion plays in all our lives and the goodness this faith brings in our mind and soul.

1. Religion: The God’s Sweet Home
- Sirisha Akshintala

2. What is the religion?
• It cannot be defined as it is the way of life.
• One may be a Hindu or Christian or Muslim or Jain or
Buddhist etc.
• But on the whole we are humans and every religion finally
enlightens us to be a better human.
• A religion always creates an optimistic view on anything and
everything irrespective of living or non-living.
• In simple terms, religion is a pathway which connects
humanity and spirituality.

3. Is it mandatory to have a religion?
• If we look at the government application forms we can notice
a separate column to fill in ‘religion’.
• That means we must be a member of one or the other
religion.
• People around us judge us based on which religion we belong
to.
• Hence religion is more or less equal to our name.
• And one must have a positive opinion on it instead of having
chaotic feelings.

4. Secularism. Is it correct?
• There is famous quote which goes this way, “Science without
religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.” Isn’t so
true?
• Being a secular human is not wrong but condemning the
religious values and ethics in the name of secularism is
wrong.
• Religion is a morality touched by emotion which finally
inculcates devotion.
• With or without religion, we would have seen good people
doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
• But for good people not to do evil things, that takes religion.

5. Unity, it is!
• India is a vast country consisting of many religious faiths
including Islam and Christianity.
• The strength lies in everyone respecting each other’s beliefs
unlike many other parts of the world where we are forced or
coerced into believing one particular religion.
• This is why while many parts of the world are burning; there
is so much of unity in India’s diversity with some small
internal communal riots here and there.

6. The path to stability
• Religion also affects the human to its core, at higher index of
religious moral beliefs in adolescents enables better control
of impulses, providing better mental health stability.
• Religious preaching’s always stress on prayers and
meditation which enables the transformation of that
psychical energy into neutral energy which supports the
growth and development of personality.
• In this way it helps in not only the youth but in every human
being towards his/her growth, development and socialization
of the personality, leading to the improvement in mental
health.

7. The home of God!
• As a bottom line the one who believes in God can do wonders
in the world hence the home of God is the religion.
• Follow your own religion and respect the other religions.
• God is the protector of mankind and it is so much safe to be
under him to save ourselves.
• We own to decide our own spiritual owner and follow his
guidelines.

8. • The best way to know God is to live our life in a good way in
his home by following his preaching and spreading the
goodness of God through religion.
• Respect the religion and follow it faithfully to meet God after
the completion of our life.
• The sweet home is God’s home called ‘religion’ if we
understand it we will surely sense the essence of the God’s
grace.

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