The problem is everyone has a different perception of God & Religion

 

last edited on 27th march 2022

In my previous blogs I have written that there is no difference between being spiritual and following a religion

 

Most people perceive God as a kind hearted power that has taken care of them and will always be available to attend to their problems; they fail to see the suffering around them to realize that all are bound by their karmas and God does not have any favourites. That is why people like Jiddu krishnamurti said there is no God; what he meant was there is no God as people perceive him to be

Religion laid guidelines to the righteous path, most suited for that particular race

 

 

The problem arises when people start believing that theirs is only the true path and their God only the true one; I rewrite what I have written in my previous blog—“There is wisdom all around; who is the source of this wisdom whereby all plants, animals are so wise; is it the Christian God, Hindu God or the Muslim God……” 

 

Thinking is Difficult, That's Why Most People Judge.

Carl Jung

 

When one has a religion, one gets a God and with the package deal comes the devil (evil) which no one wants to accept as their own faults , vices and short comings and hence the blame on the devil. And some like the Christians & Muslims go a step ahead and declare everyone as evil who does not belong to their religion. Opinions & believes are formed, the mind no longer open but closed   

 

 

I Would Rather Have A Mind Opened By Wonder Than One Closed By Belief.

 

When your religion and culture creates the sense of superiority over other faiths and culture, it means that there is something wrong with its teachings or your perceptions. True religion humbles us in front of others, irrespective of caste, creed and lives on earth. Realizing truth shall humble you and not fill you with pride.

 

Quotes of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

 

"Lovers of God do not belong to any caste."

 

"Never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you."

 

"Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity."

 

“I practised each religion for a time — Hinduism, Islam, Christianity. Furthermore, I followed the paths of the Saktas, Vaishnavas, and Vedantists. I realized that there is only one God toward whom all are travelling; but the paths are different.”

 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa further said religions were specifically created to suit different regions; this is true if you realize that every single action of GOD, including every prophet chosen in the Qurán, Torah, and Bible occurred within the red circle

 

Even if you see the Hindu religion all centre points like jyotirling and Shakti peeths are all located in the Indian sub-continent.

 

Do not confuse the eternal path—Sanatan Dharma with today’s Hinduism which is completely distorted and full of debates. New religions founded as early as the 17^th century have been distorted and divided into various branches, so what can be left of the Vedic religion was is as old as time itself; this has given rise to the various God-men in India who have opened business houses in the name of religion

 

 

Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behaviour does.

 

An example of the above Pope John Paul II, did what the USA & NATO could not, he played a major role in breaking up the USSR, he did that because the communist were atheist and hence did not have a God, but the atrocities committed by the rulers of USA & Europe who had a so called God are unmentionable

 

Please read this blog: click on the link

https://bhoj11.blogspot.com/2017/05/let-there-be-peace-on-earth.html

 

I was amazed to read that one of the English Queens body guard went to Ukraine to fight since he thought that invasion was not good, but did he realize that the Queen and her ill-gotten wealth that he guards was acquired by plunder and mass murder, England invaded so many countries, hence the phase “the sun never sets in the British Empire” I call it the Queen’s guard paradox

   

 

I quote Pope Francis “It is not necessary to believe in God to be a good person. In a way, the traditional. Notion of God is outdated. One can be spiritual but not religious. It is not necessary to go to church and give money — for many, nature can be a church. Some of the best people in history do not believe in God, while some of the worst deeds were done in His name.”

Pope Francis

 

We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us, and wealth classified us

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. John Fowles ·

God has no religion

Gandhi

If you think Christianity was never like radical Islam; you haven’t studied Christian history

He who has the power of turning all negative vibes in his path into positive energy has learned he meaning of life

and i add that such a person does not require a religion

Common sense is not a gift, it’s a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it—hence develop your intellect and think; do not come under the influence of the ones who spread hate, be it religious leaders or political rulers 

 

 

Lastly a joke: Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

 

 

And he was Enlightened..Nirvana Shatakam..Atma shatakam in story form.

What is the state of enlightenment?
I do not know;
I do not wish to understand it; 
I want to experience it.

I know one thing for sure that the path to this state comes from within.

No shri shri guruji or shri shri multiply by 108 or shri shri multiply by 1008 can bring us to this state; it is the journey of the soul, and the soul is the self.

I write this story inspired by Nirvana Shatakam; The eternal words of Adi Shankaracharya. And dedicate this article to all those souls who have little to do with the world and who strive for the progress of the soul.

The journey which begins with the prayer to the universe to lead us from darkness to light; till the day the soul comes out of all dualities to realize that without darkness light would have no meaning.

He grew up hearing stories of one enlightened soul known as the Mahavatar and he had a wish to meet him. He also heard a lot of stories about different baba’s; some known to have walked on water, some known to have travelled in thin air, stories of some giving up their bodies willfully.

In reality nor he nor his fore fathers had come across such people but there were stories and more stories.

He heard some beautiful words “….And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream…” and he decided to follow his dream, even though he did not know what enlightenment was; he desired to be enlightened.

Maybe this was the call of his soul. And he needed to experience it rather than understand it.

The spiritual super market had a lot to offer, because there was a huge demand, there was a huge supply.

He joined cults, and met Guru’s, followed rituals and took part in ceremonies.

After years he realized that the pious agony of the Gurus took him nowhere.

All of religion, all the cults, all the guru’s wanted to bond him, he was entrapped. These person themselves bound in their theories and believes, how they could liberate any one.

Everyone wanted to take charge of him, they wanted him to follow something, and no Guru set him free to experience the world, as they themselves were bound in their fancy dress and their titles.

He left them for good and started studying philosophies, tried to understand quantum physics, read the scriptures till the day he came across two lines of a saint.

पोथी पढी पढी जग मुआ पंडित भया ना कोय
ढाई आखर प्रेम का पढे सो पंडित होय

Pothi padhi padhi jag mua,
pandit bhaya na koi
Dhai aakhar prem ka,
padhe so pandit hoye

meaning:


Reading Books and Scriptures everyone died, No one became wise
whoever understands the small word ‘Love’, he truly becomes wise.

Still he kept on wandering from one temple to other, one river bank to other, he noticed that no one was interested in the onetime great Sindhu—The Indus river but people were attracted to the Ganga in the hope of washing their sins, and one day when the Ganga will dry up people will change their loyalty to some other source of water.

Now he was not well-seasoned in tradition, nor a part of the pomp of ceremonies, nor bound by theories, Nor corrupted by beliefs, not held in the bondage of religions or entrapped by philosophies.

He was finally free.

The mind which had entrapped him once; today that same mind became the cause of his freedom; his big step on the spiritual journey.

He no longer performed the difficult task of becoming someone’s student, nor did he perform the easy task of becoming a Guru himself.

He had neither merit nor demerit, he had neither virtues nor vices, nor was he high or low, neither was he pure or impure. He was neither liberated nor captivated.

He desired no one’s attention. He had no friends or enemies.

Neither was he interested in performing good deeds or bad deeds.

He did not have any chants or a mantra or a holy place not even was he interested in any pilgrimage or Vedic fire ceremonies.

He got up one day where he had no hatred or dislike, no desires.

Not even the desire to have no desires.

And he experienced eternal bliss.

Having opened his higher chakras to the universe and also his lower chakras to accept love, though he had no desire for the same, at the same time he had no reservations nor did he undertake spiritual practices or vows.

Slowly he did not associate his self with his body or the elements that made it or the five senses or the mind, ego or the intellect.

And that final state when the five coverings (pancha-kosha) that covered his soul were of no meaning to him, the big I had vanished, the I, the ego which bound his soul to these five coverings had disappeared and with that everything covering his soul vanished.

Today he was without any attributes and without any form.

He had no wishes for anything because his soul was everything.

He was himself Bliss and eternal consciousness.

He had no desire to fly or walk on water he had learned to walk on earth without that I which had held so many coverings on his soul; and whatever he had learned, he unlearned.

Then the Enlightened one whom he sought from ages to ages was in front of him----face to face-----When he saw his own shadow in the waters of the river.

And the Shiva in him danced the Ananda Tandava;

The dance of eternal joy.

The ex-dacoit wrote the Ramayana-We too can rise from the ashes of our life.

A part of infinity is also infinite.

When infinite is taken out of the infinite; what remains is also infinite.

When that infinite merges back to infinite; the resultant is again infinite.

Simple logic; isn’t it.

The Upanishads tell us this; not to explain mathematics but the philosophy of our existence, our soul.

Our soul has evolved from the infinite; after creating our soul that infinite remained as infinite, nothing changed.

Our soul being a part of the infinite is also infinite. {Having the same attributes}.

When it will merge back with the infinite; the infinite will remain infinite.

"Om purna madah purna midam
Purnat purna mudachyate
Purnasya purna madaya
Purna meva vasishyate
Om shanti shanti shantih"

this can also be explained as:

From Fullness comes that Fullness....

From the Whole, the Whole arises...

From completeness, completeness comes forth....

A perfect born out of the perfect....

Then why do we limit ourselves?

I have written this article because most people think that the path to light and enlightenment is a different path which can only be practiced by staying away from the world.

The term meditating in a cave in the Himalayas is often used.

More important than abandoning the world is to abandon what holds us to the material world.

One does not have to go to the Himalayas to realize that love is more profound than lust.

The Himalayas are 50 million years old and as far as I know the soul in us is ageless.

The person who seeks wealth; gets rich.

The one who desires love; that soul is one day capable of giving and receiving love.

The soul which seeks the light; will experience the light.

The light that enlightens, the light of God.

The only thing is that; that light will be the light of our own soul, that what we sought outside will emerge from inside and the world will experience one more enlightened soul.

If the ex-dacoit wrote the Ramayana and became the great Sage Valmiki; we too can rise from the ashes of our life; like the phoenix; the mythical sacred fire bird which has the ability to be reborn from its own ashes.

Break Free.

Do read my article on Einstein.

http://bhoj11.blogspot.com/2012/08/einstein-went-against-system-overthrew.html

There were many who dared to think and act against the fixed norms of society.

Adi Shankaracharya  challenged the society and stood up against the brahim's; breaking all customs, he is known as the biggest reformer and Jagadguru, literally meaning the Guru of the world. 

When Columbus insisted that their lay a continent on the other side no one believed him.

When the Beatles created an entirely different sort of music and dressed differently; no one accepted them, then one day they rocked the world with their look and sound.

Paulo Coelho when he was a teen wanted to follow his dreams; he was admitted to a mental hospital as he did not go with the traditional ways.

He grew up to write “The alchemist” the story of a youth who believes and follows his dream; this book has been translated into 71 languages and 65 million copies have been sold worldwide.

JK Rowling wrote “Harry Potter” an unusual children book, at first no one wanted to print it; ultimately she became richer than the queen.

All these people lived in their own world.

It was said that the dark ages will be the age of the machines.

This is so true; humans have become like machines, fixed ideas, fixed lifestyle.

People expect you to have a steady job, no matter you have to work like a machine throughout the day; people keep on asking you why have you not married after marriage they keep on asking you why you do not have children {to add to the burden of overpopulation}

People have become slaves; slaves to their fixed way of life.

Today how many school students are happy with the valueless education system?

If an adult wants to take a day off for from office, can he do it easily? Either he has to think of the loss of pay or his work load.

Can anyone dare to dress a little differently from the rest?

How many of us have danced when we felt like dancing?

How many of us cried openly in front of everyone?

How many times we had to check our emotions?

Humans can only claim to be free.

BREAK FREE

My next article will be on spiritual freedom.