Some thoughts

[Guest guest]

Spiritual > consciousness> spiritual liberation

I dont know about ritual .

namasivayam

--- tatwamasi wrote:

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[Guest guest]

Well, as I have stated in our past discussions on this subject, I am a

person who believes in the power of ritual but does not believe in the

power of religion. How is that possible? It is possible and not at all

contradictory, if we are to be practical about spi-rituality.

 

But how do we define spirituality? There are as many answers as there

are people and as many aproaches as we could imagine. There have been

some great souls though that have paved the way, that showed us

methods of reaching spirituality that have prooved successful to them.

 

In India, ritual has been very much condemned in the last century and

there is a certain reason behind that. Many intellectuals and few

gurus have come forth to preach that there is no worth in a ritual.

Rituals, according to them, were created to enslave us by binding our

intellect with a false blind faith. The only truth, they claimed, is

in the soul, anything material is fake.

 

The certain reason behind these condemnations is simple. The concept

of ritual was born in India in the ancient times as a sadhana-tool of

the great mother of yoga, tantra. As time erodes the earth, so does it

erode teachings, truths and ideas until the eventually die. And the

same thing happened with the tantric rituals. They formed the Hindu

religion after many fake rituals were added to them.

 

There is a vast difference between apocalyptic rituals, and man-made

rituals. For some, a puja and a homa with the recitation of a certain

mantra may be only a useless ritual. To others it might be a way to

enter the realm of the spirit.

 

We need not be absolute on anything, because there are many parameters

on a subject such as the ritual that need to be taken into

consideration.

 

Hari Om