Religion

The one great idea that to me seems to be clear and comes out through masses of Superstition in every country and in every religion, is the one luminous idea that man is divine, that divinity is our nature - By Swami Vivekananda.

Religion is a very sensitive matter to explain. But we have to explain about Religion to become a complete person . To my experience all the religions and Gurus and babas of those religion are all preaching the same thing in different ways.

Religion does not consist in doctrines or dogmas. It is not what you read, or what dogmas you believe that is of importance, but what you realize. " Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," yea, in this life. And that is salvation. There are those who teach that this can be gained by mumbling of words. But no great Master ever taught that external forms were necessary for salvation. The power of attaining it is within ourselves. We live and move in god. Creeds and sects have their parts to play, but they are for children, they last but temporarily. Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but god inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul. We must never forget that. The end of all religions is the realizing of God in the soul.That is the one universal religion.IF there is one universal truth in all religions, I place it here - in realizing God. Ideals and methods may differ, but that is the central point.

Religion is a path to attain divine, but you have to follow the same path truly and completely to attain our goal of freedom. I don't care about which path you following but you must follow it fully to the means and to the attain the goal.

But all the aspects of the path is always difficult to follow, following partially is easy but for the fullest level of following it is very difficult it needs strength or bhakti(with bhakti you can attain and do what ever; it is infinity I am not going to explain it is very much difficult to explain ti must be experienced) but I can explain about the strength to attain the goal. You are born with all the strength to attain the ultimate goal, but you have to practice how to use it in a proper way, using strength in uncontrolled manner is wasted and destroying like thunder blasts it have thousands of volts but is no use but in case of electricity it is useful in a controlled manner. To get the strength you have to train you mind, subconscious mind, body to perform all the aspects of your religious path. Yoga is helpful to strengthen you. the ultimate religion is self religion. The whole universe is one. There is one self in the universe only one.Existence and that one existence when it passes through the forms of time, space and causation , is called by different name, buddhi, fine matter, gross matter, all mental and physical forms. Everything in the universe is that one appearing in various forms, when a little part of it comes, as it were, into this network of time ,space and causation it takes forms. take off the network and it is all in one. Therefore in the advaita philosophy, the is called Brahman. That self when it appears behind the universe is called God.The same self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same self when it appears behind this little universe, the body is soul,. This very soul, therefore is the self in man.The highest heaven therefore is in our own souls. The greatest temple of worship is the human soul ,pure body mind is the greatest religion .We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world because it is the best. The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure. The kingdom of heaven is with in us, but only the pure heart can see the kingdom while we think at the world ; it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is god and we shall have God.

"Doing good to other is the one great ,universal religion".