For many this is a touchy topic. There are views that religion is the basis where one learns to do Bhakti or find a path to God. There are also views that religion divides and the number of deaths due to propaganda of religion is much much more than the numbers that have attained Godhood.
We think religion has come into being due to fear of death like a bad harvest, floods, lightening or whatever. Then came in Godmen, trying to preach that he represented the God and is able to bring peace and prosperity to human race, as if he had more powers than a lay man. He has learnt some spiritual texts that make him little powerful person in the field of religion or spirituality. Knowledge is power and he is just using that.
The very purpose of religion was to turn inward as the seat of Life or God and see how we are not separate from the rest of the creation. However, more religions were started only to fit humans to some frame like Hindus and Muslims for use of racial force, by the so called religious heads, there by giving them a sense of security in life. To implement the scheme, the leaders made use of common place to brain wash the sections of human race, calling them temples and churches and mosques. Even though majority of these structures, purely perform certain rites to maintain an unity in the religion, they basically, have an effect of generating separation in religion as if other sect is another race in competition with the one for survival. We all play out this common game in greed and greed is the basis for play of creation as multiplicity.
Having religion with no religion at all, is already, a safe place to start. But having one religion in place, to feel separate and feel secure in separation is a dangerous place to be. Security in separation is insecurity by itself. Its like nations waging war to make peace. It is just there to defend ones separation and have the peace disturbed. In compels humans to live in a continuous state of separate as if an individual to the body is the basic state. This is the extend to separate families, places, cult and so on. it is an endless dive into seeking an end to separation.
The very purpose of religion was to turn inward as the seat of Life or God and see how we are not separate from the rest of the creation. However, more religions were started only to fit humans to some frame like Hindus and Muslims for use of racial force, by the so called religious heads, there by giving them a sense of security in life. To implement the scheme, the leaders made use of common place to brain wash the sections of human race, calling them temples and churches and mosques. Even though majority of these structures, purely perform certain rites to maintain an unity in the religion, they basically, have an effect of generating separation in religion as if other sect is another race in competition with the one for survival. We all play out this common game in greed and greed is the basis for play of creation as multiplicity.
Having religion with no religion at all, is already, a safe place to start. But having one religion in place, to feel separate and feel secure in separation is a dangerous place to be. Security in separation is insecurity by itself. Its like nations waging war to make peace. It is just there to defend ones separation and have the peace disturbed. In compels humans to live in a continuous state of separate as if an individual to the body is the basic state. This is the extend to separate families, places, cult and so on. it is an endless dive into seeking an end to separation.
Seeking peace or wholeness is ignorantly started with people who can teach us the art of living peacefully. Life is the teacher and is always teaching you that nature must be respected as a whole and not in separation. Having teachers with a gift of gab, can make minds swing to accept separation as space of peace and can spoil their future. generally, life loves to have fun in separation and so, more and more in fights and restlessness occur as and when more and more separation is enabled. There are enough Godmen out there,that are taking innocent people for a ride by promising them a good future, in this life or many more to come, and they should be taken to task. They may even take undue advantage of people for their personal gratification in money and sex, confusing the person that service to the teacher is service to God.
Somewhere along the line, one learns about nondual teachings and teachers. the essence of Advaita teaches us that there is only life energy there that operates all beings, humans or other forms. Also that life is a dream and each moment is unfolding itself, for no-one to see, or oneness itself to feel and enjoy its own creation. Having said this, we need to understand that this intelligence operating the Godman or Fraudmen, is the same intelligence that is also operating this body, judging the behaviour of the other. The same intelligence is flocking hundreds and thousands to special tetreats, temples or other religious gathering. All entities is one entity, the intelligence, called life, that operates all that -there is.
When this conviction is firm, there is nothing required to be done about anything in these issues. Let each one do what he feels best, because each one is none other than that intelligence itself, behaving each one to behave so. If something needs to be done by this body, life will operate this body to do so. There is neither attachment for a particular Godman or religion nor the hatred. Let life, operate this body, to be in harmony within, where in a sense of judgement, is not at odds with the beliefs set in.
There are no Godmen or Fraudmen. There are no men to start with. All there is –is life, this intelligence of simple ‘nothing’, being all forms and their lives, keeping the game of creation and judgements happening all the time.
Any judgement happening within either for or against, is the signal for more understanding with the essence of nondual teaching.
Not that there is anything, one can do about all this, being no-one there to correct a wrong, but a thought may set in, a correction may happen, all in the direction to be in harmony with what is happening or creation itself.
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