Religious Drift

To connect with god we dont need religion..Hope people understand this and practice spirituality ...Then world would be really beautiful

 

Father of Nation felt all religion says same truth except path shown to arrive at destination is different from each other. He wished a cosmopolitan culture :
“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any”

Only this fact to be hammered into the heads of all including the present and next and future generations.

• .Alber Eisenstein said to have stated that Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

But youths of today perhaps feel Religion & science are like two sides of the same coin.
Modern science makes young to drift away from religion and sanctimonious monks of religion stands exposed and many found to be hypocrites not knowing themselves the path to the truth.

There is a confusion among young of present gen whether a person can be spiritual without being attached to any religion.

Young ones in this gen being pulled this way that way by existing evil forces among agnostics, atheists & sanctimonious monks and is not that easy to convince them to continue to believe in religious rituals and dogmas.

 

Religion is supposed to be coming from a Latin word that means “to tie or bind together.”..says google. (I still wonder why we need to have a latin root name...if anyone knows pls explain...). Well, as long as an individual becomes an adult he/she is free to choose /accept/question etc., etc anything and everything including religion..

.Since I am aware of only Hindu rituals and about Hindu texts , let me say here that to bring a proper coordination and discipline in everyone's life there were code of conducts. This is how vedas, which were orally transmitted later came to be written.

It allows each individual pursue his/her own way for fulfilling the desires, worldly or spiritual, artha,kama,mokasha, within or rather adhering to dharma. Dharma in a sense means that we should treat the entire world as we would expect it to treat us. Hence for those who desire wealth, progony, you name it...it prescribed certain rituals which had proven to have brought the fruits of that particular ritual..It has lost its meaning in the present day world...is another matter.

Before British occupation the education system in vogue took care to impart this message to all through vedic system of education...Soon as 'power corrupts', priests becoming supreme ..etc., etc., along the foreign rulers (*#@?) changing the education system made even my father's generation ( I am 70) gradually shifted to western influence resulting in not having the right type of material to pass on..

But the desires are always there, so these rituals were followed in the true manner by a few, but largely in twisted ways by many. This is one reason we are helpless when it comes to our next gen. We dont have anything of substance to give or share.

Yes, like Mr.Harilekha, I have also questioned and even my g.ma could not give a proper answer..we were hushed in the context of disrespecting elders by questioning.

But when I started acquainting myself with our scriptures, especially vedanta, the final part of the vedas, I realized that be it dvaita or advaita, they advocate harmony of the whole universe, even all living and non-living beings are included, Hinduism shouts out oneness , then where is the difference? Our sanatana dharma believes in 'Viswakudumbakam'. Jesus Christ as well as other religious figures meant only this in their own ways.

having opp. minded parents,I had been confused and so allowed my children to figure it out for themselves, while following the min. mandatory rituals during their childhood, at least for them to know about these things and then come to a conclusion.

Hence we can say that anyone who follows the principles of dharma, be it from any religion, that person can be attributed to be religious.

 

Sri .Ramakrishna has an analogy, 'It is easier to find water, by digging in one place for a considerable period of time instead of digging in many places for short periods ." Follow one ideal questioning, analysing threadbare with the help of reliable sources, like life long married couple, we will certainly get our answers sooner or later.
Ref#8 above.

The FB is merged in the highlighted portion.
I had copied and quoted above the quote attributed to Sri Ramakrishna.
Thanks and Regards.

 

Thank you Thyagarajan, actually excepting for the bold sentences the rest has been written by me...don't know how the mistake happened..you can delete that post..I have given here exactly as I wanted to..

"Thanks for elucidating the subject in detail. Religion as you said was derived from Latin. From Google only I get that Hinduism is the oldest religion-some 4000 years old. I still hold the belief that in the early days, there was no answers for certain happenings and humans had no option to to attribute them to God's wishes/doings. Thus we had Gods for Indira as rain God, Agni for fire, and so on. With time all this was explained as act of nature.........."

Am sorry sir, no... Indra etc were not gods, but devathas or entities to control/manage each aspect of the universe and its functions. God concept was from the west. Man started worshipping devatas or the nature around (that is another vast subject altogether) to understand, accept and respect it....and later on to fulfill his desires.as in .'every action brings its own reaction' principle.

"I still hold the belief that in the early days, there was no answers for certain happenings "
yes, it was so, and even now it is so....we do at some point of time wonder what this life of ours is about, why ,how it all started etc., etc. As I said earlier, people started to search inside, i.e. in their minds, closing all external stimulants (which we call meditation now ) why we acquire and lose interest in the outside world easily,and nothing gives us permanent happiness, it being the only elusive & impermanent thing throughout our lives.

What we call Tantrik , black magic etc are part of the Atharva vedas. The one thing called differently in different parts in the world...What we call tech advancement is nothing but the influence of science over our lives and the waning of our traditional systems of knowledge.

It is noteworthy here to mention that science is yet to prove the creation ,jumping from one theory to another , a never ending monkey business, to satisfy the intellect, a very tough customer here, presently coming to our own "consciousness' theory. Long back we had resolved this through our great philosophical studies, most importantly learnt how to 'live' in the present. This is one important reason West reaches out to East when it comes to peace of mind, happiness etc.

And for the age old practices, yes, we cannot impose anything on our younger gen, or rather on anyone for that matter...but human behaviour is such parents/g.parents think that some good might come to the young by doing so..More than that some harm might come to them if they dont. Not everyone is open minded also.

Sri .Ramakrishna has an analogy, 'It is easier to find water, by digging in one place for a considerable period of time instead of digging in many places for short periods ." Follow one ideal questioning, analysing threadbare with the help of reliable sources, like life long married couple, we will certainly get our answers sooner or later.