Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Prayers and sacrifices belong to a premature stage of development




Prayers and sacrifices belong to a premature stage of development. As time passes, When however no answers come to prayers, when they questions the God men or swami  he  tells them that the answers come in the next world. As time passes and struggle for existence presses man, and doubt arises again about the existence of god.  Faith in religion weakens as man pays more attention to facts of practical life and practical world,which is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint. 

All the prayers are just begging to the belief of God to fulfil his individual desire. One do not know what exactly the slokas being recited by the priest meant in Sanskrit, but going by the translation one becomes aware the prayers are nothing but list of specific demands. For health, wealth, education, success in business ventures, political power. Under the grab of holiness and piety, what was being transacted is a shoddy deal between man and belief of God with one‘s belief in the divine being bartered for some material goodies.  


Leading orthodox life in strict accordance with moral and ethical conduct may be helpful to lead a life within the practical world. But practical life within the practical world is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint. Orthodoxy is not a qualification for realization of truth. All these religious and yogic conducts like faith, belief, devotion, service, and yogic-Samadhi will make the seeker of truth lull into spiritual inactivity.

  • ·         The basic requirement is an intense urge to know and realize the truth. 
  • ·         Courage to reject the untruth when it is discovered. 
  • ·         Accepting the truth by dropping the untruth.
  • ·         Full-pledged inquiry and reasoning and analysis and intensity of mental effort of constant reflection on the true nature of the mind or universe.
Ultimate reality is not individualized God but the formless Soul or Consciousness or Spirit which the formless substance and witness of the illusion or universe or mind. 


The religion is built on the imaginary divine entity called god for creating faith to inspire and promote the belief.  It introduced its code of conduct and rituals to help people who are not fit enough to think beyond. Thus religion creates its own pedigree to help people to live in harmony and build a cultured society within the practical world. But religion, scriptures and its beliefs are nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.  


Seeker of truth should not be carried away by some gurus the act of assuming nor by the attitude of authority which they adopt in speaking to everyone. It has no value from ultimate standpoint.

Many illustrate the ‘I know’ attitude adopted because their guru has told them so, both of them not knowing really.

Many gurus are certainly brilliant intellectually in their other spheres, such as religion they follow and yoga and other subject of the practical world but most of these gurus are unaware of the ultimate truth or Brahman, which is beyond form, time and space.

 They apply reason admirably to their holy business and talk about love and compassion and play with the feeling and emotion of the people. They have mastered the art of manipulating the ignorant mass.  People magnify every minor coincidence or every petty fact where god men and some gurus were concerned, and they see miraculous or esoteric significance therein.

Paradise or heaven exist according to the imagination of religious believers.  But when people start verifying through deeper thinking they begin to disbelieve through the contradictions of various contending orthodox claims and descriptions.

The craving for religion, the fear that not to follow its rites and dogmas will bring punishment, the inability to give up the notion of its truth even when one’s  reason demonstrates its fallacies and absurdities are merely forms of mild obsessions, i.e. a thought constantly repeating itself automatically; hence it is mental disease.

Unless one up the ideas of heaven and hell, it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Ultimate Truth or Brahman must be proved here and now not in the next life and next world.  Without realizing the ultimate truth it is impossible to realize the experience of birth, life, death and the world as illusion.


The truth of religion can only be proved by your physical strength or by one’s imagination, or his power of the sword or his political power, never by reason.  If a yogi or orthodox is honest, after the course of practice over many years, he would admit to himself “Nothing has come of all this." And they would give up their egocentric practice and take the path of truth or wisdom. 

Whatever is thought of within the waking experience makes Him something other than what He is. When the waking experience ends, what happens? It is consciousness alone prevails without the three states.

Awakening is nothing but a complete, perfect understanding and assimilation of what is what. A clear cut understanding of a ‘what is what’ is awakening. Reality is not to be achieved; it is there as it is. After this perfect understanding assimilation and realization, nothing is required.

And we expect "awakening" to be some great, mysterious happening! "Reality is not to be achieved; it is there” as it is,  as unchangeable existence within the changeable illusion. 

Kabir views humanity as being caught up in illusion, searching for Ultimate Reality in all the wrong places, always seeking It outside of ourselves in various rituals, temples, forests and mountaintops, not realizing That for which we seek is already hidden within us. 

The ultimate truth or Brahman dwells within the three states like fragrance in the flower; Musk lies within the Musk-deer yet seeks it afar." Until one trace the truth within the three states the illusion of birth, life, death and the world(duality) is experienced as reality.