• Dr. Debajit Baruah

Religion is essentially associated with the human society from time immemorial. It has been recognized as a cohesive force in society. No doubt religion has played a great role in maintaining the peaceful social order. But we can not ignore the negative role of religion that it has played in society. History tells us both the positive or creative and negative or destructive role of religion in society. Religion literally means a bond of unity. It is the principle of unification and humanization. But it also instigates peoples to behave with others in the most inhuman way. This happens only when religion loses its purity. When religion loses its purity it paves the way for intolerance. Religious intolerance is that situation where peoples belong to one religion can not tolerate the peoples of other religions. This creates great chaos in society. In India various philosophers, saints, reformers have come forward to give right shape to religion and thereby to solve the religious conflicts. Swami Vivekananda is one of them. According to Vivekananda religion is Self-realization. This means realization of the individual self with the Infinite Absolute Self which in common parlance is the God, Isvara, Allah etc. Realization of oneness with the Infinite and realization of oneness with the other individual self is the core of religion. Every religion, great or small, teaches us this great truth. If we realize this truth religious intolerance will vanish forever from the human society.

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" Solution to the Problem of Religious Intolerance with special reference to Swami Vivekananda", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.648-657, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C53.pdf

" Solution to the Problem of Religious Intolerance with special reference to Swami Vivekananda", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp648-657, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C53.pdf