Humanity has created a very interesting idea about religions in that we somehow believe that they are all different, and one has to choose between one or the other. If a Christian wishes to follow the teaching of Mohammed then they have to 'convert' from Christianity to Islam. They cannot be both Christian and Muslim. I find this most strange and illogical. And here's why.

A Christian has no doubts that Jesus was the son of God. A Muslim has no doubt that Mohammed was a prophet of God. A Hindu has no doubt that Shri Rama and Shri Krishna were incarnations of God…. And so it goes on, whichever religion you look at, the followers are in no doubt about the status of the figureheads. So what if they are all right? What if God (the creator) has incarnated many times throughout our evolution, in different forms, in different parts of the world, each time trying to bring us to the right path in our own evolution? Sounds logical to me.

Is it logical to think that the God who created this entire universe billions of years ago, and has organised the evolution of his creation thus far, would only incarnate once?

Have we studied all the religious texts from the various religions? Maybe if we did, we would find that there are many fundamental similarities in their messages. Of course, this stands to reason if we can accept that they are incarnations of the same God. They all talk of achieving a higher state - second birth, self-realisation, yoga (union - with God), resurrection. They also talk about periods of time - the last judgement, satya yuga, age of Aquarius.

The amazing truth about the world's religions is that actually they are all one. They all stem from the same God. A being, we call God, has created this whole world, the entire planet and all that is in it (including evolution), and the universe in which the planet lives, and throughout our existence as human beings, this one God has incarnated many times, in different forms and in different places to help us along our way of evolution. Shri Rama and his queen Shri Sita, Shri Krishna and his wife Shri Radha, Lord Jesus and his mother Shri Mary, The prophet Mohammed, Guru Nanak, Confusius, Zarathustra, Moses, Abraham, Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi, Raja Janaka, Socrates, Lao-Tse. and Shri Buddha, were all incarnations of the same God (actually Buddha was not born as an incarnation, but he was a normal human being who achieved his self-realisation and took his place in the Virata having overcome his ego).

What has happened along the way is that human beings have claimed these Divine personalities for themselves and created artificial religions out of them, as a way to have power over the rest of us. The bible was not written by Christ. Christ did not start the Christian Church. That is not to say that there is no truth in the bible, but we have to understand that these texts have been written and edited by human beings. The organised religions are man-made.

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