Religion & Spirituality

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One businessman had a safe which opened only after tapping 2/3 times

on the lock, after the key has been rotated. There seemed to be

some fault with the safe, but as the man was miser enough not to

waste money on unnecessary repairs, this tapping continued. Thanks

to his stars, his hard work and his misery, he became very rich man

and left billions for his children.

 

His children, who had seen father tapping 3 times at the safe,

considered safe to be lucky and did not bother to change it and

continued tapping the lock 3 times to open it. years passed, his

sons died and business empire taken over by grandchildren. The safe

was discarded and a new one purchased. But his grandchildren still

tap three times on the safe. They dont know the reason why, they

only know their father did it, grandfather did it and thus they

became rich. The next generation will do the same thing.

 

That is a religious person who believes in rituals. There

might have been some truth in the rituals performed thousands of

years ago. A Spiritual person is the one who does not tap the lock

of the safe because his grandfathers did that.

 

A religious person is a fearful person. He performs rituals to

please god or for the fear of him. He is a cunning person. He does

all type of cheatings in the day to day life and in the evening, by

offering a few coins to some god, he thinks he has been forgiven.

Confessing before a priest, is also same type of ritual. A

religious person is a shrewd businessman, who keeps gods happy with

donations and prayers and do all type of dishonesty,and cheating in

his life.

 

What those prophets said in those times, may be true then. But

following those commandments now in the era of computers, is nothing

but a folly.

 

On the other hand a spiritual person is the one who has awakened

to the truth. Who starts thinking in terms of totality and not for

his foolish mortal gains. A spiritual person may not be religious,

he may not go to a temple or may not prayer daily. But he is always

in union with the supreme. He does not take fellow human beings or

even animals, insects, and trees etc...as different entities. He

takes the whole universe as a Tantra of the Universal eternal

energies playing their game with the help of 3 gunas.

 

Spirituality does not come overnight. By seeing a few visions,

or seeing some bright light during meditation (or through guru-

kripa), or being in a state of blissfullness for some moments, one

should not think he has become perfect. These are only sign boards

on the path of Truth. Yes they are indicatives of a little progress

but not of reaching the ultimate.

 

To become a real spiritual person means, we have to become like

God ...hence we have to start thinking like God...taking whole

universe as ourselves. This is not easy. Mere thinking will not

do. We have to put our thoughts to practical karma. In this matrix

of mixed energies where reactionary energies are always ready to

oppose us, on the wrong path...as well as on the right path, it

seems impossible to think like God. The very system of Universal

Energies will fiercely oppose us, sometimes in fatal terms.

 

The Universal system of Energies, does not like any type of

energy to concentrate at one place. It opposes concentration of

energies, be it bad energies or good energy. That is the reason,

that when Hitler is born...whole world became one to destroy him.

When Mahatama Gandhi was born...Nathuram Godse was not far behind.

Mother Nature even sends fatal diseases to destroys those who have

very powerful concentration of positive energies. Paramhansa died

of throat cancer

 

We are under pressure from three sources. One our inert lower

prakriti, which is interested in status-quo...and does not want any

change. Two our Higher nature which forces us to come out of old

and live in renewed and higher energy fields.Third the call of the

divine. The pure potentiality has a continuous pressure on the

living beings to reach to him. And today's human beings are a

confused lot...confused by these three entirely different types of

energies.

 

A spiritual person, understands these pressures and instead of

fighting with them and making them his opponents, tries to

understand their ways and finally uses them positively to gain his

freedom

 

(will continue if it was not boring )