Monday, December 26, 2011

Is enlightenment a true reflection of religions?

You don’t need religion to know know who are - our ultimate motive is to achieve our goal! Do we actually know what our goal is? Our sense of purpose - our reason for existence , all profound quests and words, but nevertheless empty rhetoric with which at the end of the day we are all left with a feeling of deprivation.

The concept of a benevolent bearded old man up above the clouds so high, who grants wishes as a reward for sub-servience is downright absurd. It seems like a leaf taken from the Harry Potter book. Does it sound logical? And then God in turn appoints, Guru’s, Bishop’s, Mullah’s and Lama’s to teach enlightenment to humanity And all the great teachers, preachers, true healers, can only point the way, they themselves have not attained Nirvana or Satori! Everybody becomes a healer, the moment he forgets himself.

Do prayers get answered, the answer is “not all the time” or mebbe sometimes a prayer is answered. What is salvation - escape from divine retribution; can we identify this as our reason for existence? To sum up succinctly was it not, that all this suffering is due to the pre-conceived notion of a so called supernatural power, the idea of a creator? And we carry the heavy burden of guilt for not believing and praying for this creator - who is the outcome of undefined incidents of some one’s bizarre imagination. Despite all the religions available and the material wealth around us, there is a lack of fulfillment in everyone’s lives.

I am deeply sad and touched at the fate of these believers. For me this resonates with my own struggles with the forces of traditionalism - and the stiff resistance of new ideas by these obdurate priests, Lama, Rabbis, Mullahs and theologians and other deluded beings. None of them are willing to understand the simple austerity of life, nor the majesty of the intelligent independent thinker. Like an albatross around their necks they will carry their religious swans also into their dark abyss.

If you believe in me, I am the holy Ganges (river), otherwise I am just a flowing dirty river.-Vinay-

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