When A Mosque, Temple & Gurdwara Cleaned A River

    • indiatimes.com
    • Publish Date: Apr 11 2018 11:42AM
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    • Updated Date: Apr 11 2018 11:42AM
When A Mosque, Temple & Gurdwara Cleaned A River

Days, sometimes months go by without getting to know one good example of communal harmony in India. 

With inter-community violence erupting in many parts of the country, the society is polarised along the lines of religion and caste. In the midst of all of this, a small town in Uttar Pradesh is setting an extraordinary example of communal harmony. Here, a temple, a mosque, and a gurudwara have joined hands to clean a polluted river while bringing their communities together.

About 100 km from the state capital Lucknow is the town named Maholi in district Sitapur. In this town dwells an old Shiva and a Radha-Krishna temple along with Pragyana Satsang Ashram and a mosque, all at a stone’s throw of each other.

Along the periphery of this amalgamated religious campus, passes a polluted river called Kathina, that merges into the highly polluted Gomti River, a tributary of the mighty but polluted Ganga.

Often used as dumping site by dozens of villages and devotees, the stink from Kathina was increasing day by day. The solution — Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb (a term used for a fusion of Hindu and Muslim elements) – of Awadh.

Swami Vigyananad Saraswati, head of the Pragyana Satsang Ashram then began calling out to people to help them clean the river and sought volunteers. He was surprised to see that once folks from ashram joined in, people from the temple, mosque and gurdwara came too. 

The number of these volunteers only multiplied over the period of time and the initiative has now become an environmental-movement. Even though they first started on March 14, the actual cleaning of the river began from March 17, when about 400 volunteers got into the waters, while about 700 of them cleaned the shores.

As a reader, you'd be astounded to know that this isn't the only example of their communal harmony. The people here have lived in harmony for years. During ‘namaaz’, the ashram switches off its loudspeakers and on Hindu festivals and special occasions, the mosque committee helps the temple with arrangements.  

However, be it the river or communal fervour, the challenge, as residents of Maholi find, is the consistency of the good.

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CHHAVI RANA RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

Every place in India should consider this as an ideal.

A SANJAY Sree Narayana Vidya Bhavan

Not only a worshipping places every place in India required for us

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