724 - Swami Tejomayananda

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Thursday, 12 Oct 2023 05:30.

Religion and Spirituality :

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Religion and spirituality are the same if we understand them correctly. Generally, we can say that religion is that which involves various rituals, dogmas, worship and pilgrimages. However, once we begin to inquire about ‘who is God’, ‘what is worship’ and ‘who am I’, spirituality truly begins. Normally people are satisfied doing various rituals, going to the temple, praying and so on. Very few inquire further.

One need not be ritualistic in order to be spiritual. But rituals are not against spirituality. For instance, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, a spiritual giant, used to worship Mother Kali Devi.

Then the question arises whether religion, spirituality and God are three different entities? It all depends upon the way one perceives these three. Unfortunately, most people have limited ideas of them. Religious people tend to think of God as entity distinct from the real world, one who dictates terms, rewarding some and punishing others. Also, religions are identified by their founders, specific scriptures, modes of worship and traditions. Spirituality, on the other hand is considered to be the renunciation of the world by a person who spends the rest of his life meditating in a solitary retreat. In Vedanta and the Upanishads, God is defined as, ‘that which is the Self of all beings’, the essence in everything and the support and substratum of the entire universe and not a person or an individual entity.

If we understand religion to mean a set of rituals, it would be distinct from spirituality. But actually these rituals are only ways of purifying our mind to help us understand these concepts of universality or the oneness of life. God, religion and spirituality are not different or isolated entities. They are one and the same.

When our ideas about God and religion are limited, we believe all religions are different and impose our faith on others, sometimes even by coercion. Vedanta and the Upanishads acknowledge no such division. All rituals and practices purify the mind and are therefore essential to understand the vision of Oneness.

How can we ever know the justice of the Lord? Most of the time, we do not know whether what we do is right or wrong! Also we are totally incapable of knowing what the results of any of our actions will be (though we are free to hope). He alone knows. Fortunately for us He is as compassionate as He is just. If He were merely just, we would have had a much harder time!

The nature and cause of the world and the reality behind it have not changed over the years! Man is almost the same now as he was then in terms of his likes, dislikes, anger, ambitions and frustrations. The scriptures talk only about this universal struggle of mankind. Therefore, they are as relevant today as they were then, and in fact, more so. Today we find that man’s problems have multiplied, while his freedom has decreased.

Countless people in society, being at different levels of spiritual evolution cannot have the same knowledge. Even saints have a past life. They too were not the same. The requirement is that whosoever understands the importance of righteous living should put forth effort to live that way. The whole society cannot get transformed at the same time. That is its uniqueness.

Rishis who have done sadhana are shown in our Puranas to have lost their tempers and also given curses. This is because the rishis were at different levels of evolution. There were some who were only seekers and, as a result of some penance, had acquired some mental powers. They had not acquired complete self control or purity of mind and therefore misused their powers. There were other rishis, who through their tapas, had not only acquired special powers but also purity of mind. They cursed not out of anger but as blessing in disguise for a specific purpose, and that became an act of purification. There were yet others who were totally in oneness with God. The curses of such persons were an expression of the will of God himself.

It is often asked if God is love and happiness. If God is everywhere, then why is there unhappiness in the world? Air is everywhere, yet asthma patients gasp for air. Some are even known to die without air. The trouble is with the person, not with the air. Sunlight is everywhere, yet the blind person does not see it. Even when the heat of the sun is felt, its light cannot be seen. Similarly, even though God is happiness and is everywhere, because of spiritual ignorance, we do not experience that. We are only repeating someone else’s words that He is everywhere. Whatever glimpses of joy we experience are due to His all pervading presence alone. Because of the veil of ignorance, man gets deluded by it and becomes unhappy.

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###OPINION : PEOPLE OF BHARATHAM POSITIVE :

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1. SANATANA DHARMA, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS HINDUISM IS ETERNAL, WHOLE UNIVERSE IS EXISTING IN THIS TRUTH

2. EVER EXISTING

3. THERE IS NO SPACE FOR ADHARMA

4. ALL DEMONIC ELEMENTS DEMOLISHED BY DHARMA

5. SO NO QUESTION EVIL ASURIC DEMONIC FRAGMENT'S BARKING, THEY WILL BE ULTIMATELY BURNED AND DESTROYED BY NATURE.

6. PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS DIVINE AND SUPREME, ALL OTHERS MEANINGLESS

7. NATURE IS ABOVE ALL, EVER EXISTING, ALL OTHERS MEANINGLESS.

8. THE CONTENT OF SO CALLED HOLY BOOK IS NO HOLY AT ALL, AS IT PREACHES HATRED AND DESTRUCTION OF OTHER MANKIND, RELIGIOUS CONVERSIONS AND LIES OF UNCIVILIZED MATERIALS

9. CHRISTIANITY IS EQUALLY DEMONSTRATED CRUELTY, THE SO CALLED HOLY BOOK FULL OF LIES

10. BOTH ARE NOT RELIGIONS BUT SAMPRADAYA (ILLITERATE MAN MADE, NOT BASED ON DHARMA

11. THE CULTURE OF BHARATHAM BASED ON UPANISHADS AND FULL OF REALISATION TEXTS ARE PRODUCED BY GREAT RISHIS OF BHARATHAM

12. IN THIS MATERIALISTIC DESTRUCTIVE MINDED UNIVERSE, NO RELIGIONS COMPARABLE OR ABOVE SANATANA DHARMA OF BHARATHAM.

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Opinion :

1. Congress, a donkey party, its so called day dreaming stupid leader rahul vinci, rahul gandi, frequent visit to foriegn countries, to abuse PM of this Nation, and Sanatana Dharma -exeeded all limits this time, his party and his family to be "condemned" and kicked away from politics, people should awake and realise the danger.

2. Congress & Communists destroyed this holy Nation Sanatana Dharama, The imported stupid secularism degenerated this Nation Ancient Culture and Civilisation

3. Till 2014 nation was ruled by corrupt idiots,and all regions too, Dynasty rule dominated than Nation intrests.

4. Brushing away main stream population sides and muslims and christians become political parties vote banks.

5. Communists openly abused our ancient culture, upanishads,Ramayana, Mahabharatham, Bhagavtham and daites.

6. The communists next donkey group, latest stunt of America visit and the comedy programme namely kerala sabha!? these buggers detroyed Kerala in all and joining with radical islam soon they will be eliminated, people of Kerala get up from donkey thoughts, otherwise kerala shrink to extinct in all way

7. Communists are danger to our civilisation, their lunatic theories disappered through out the world, Time has come crush them, and eliminate them from our nation, they are danger to this holy nation.

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NOTE:

1. POLITICIANS ( THOSE IGNORANT AND DEMONIC NATURED) ARE NOT THE AUTHORITY TO OPEN THEIR UGLY FOUL MOUTH AND UTTER NONSENSE UPON SANATHANA DHARMAM.

2. THE NONSENSE COMMENDY ALLIANCE ARE NOT THE AUTHORITY ON SANATHA DHARAMAM.

3. DK,DMK. AIADMKA AND ALL NONSENSE POLITICIANS BEWARE YOU WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY WASHED OUT SOON.

4. COMMUNISTS AND CONGRESS ARE THE ENEMY TO MANKIND DESTROY THEM.

5.ALL SANATHANA DHARAMAM FOLLOWERS (WHICH EVER YOUR POLITICAL INTEREST BE :YOUR POLITICAL MINDSET) TAKE A OATH THAT YOU STAND AGAINST ALL EVIL MINDSET AGAINST SANATHANA DHARMAM!!!