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.
