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Posted by
akramnirala in
Precious Thoughts
on
March 19, 2008 3:15:00 PM
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Religion is not in the tradition, nor in rituals. Religion has no adjective to describle it. Religion is simply religion, as love is love. Can we call love Muslim, Chirstian, Jewish or Hindu ? If love is neither Muslim nor Christian nor Jewish nor Hindu, then why should God be Muslim, Christian, Jewish or Hindu ? Has not Jesus said " GOD IS LOVE " ? The enlightened ones reminded : No one can be born into a religion; rather, religion has to be born into you. One has to open one's soul & receive religion. In the mosque it is not, in the church or synagogues it is not, in the temple it is not.One master points out. " Science depends on tradition. Without a Newton, without an Edison , there is no possibility for Albert Einstein to have existed at all. He needs a certain tradition; only on that tradition, on the shoulders of the past giants in the world of scienc, he can stand. Of course, when you stand on the shoulders of somebody you can look a little further than the person on whose shoulders you are standing, but that person is needed there. " Sciense is a tradition, but religion is not a tradition. It is an individual experience, utterly individual. Once something is known in the world of science it need not be discovered again. It will be foolish to discover it again. You need not discover the theory of gravitation - Newton has done it. You need not go & sit in a garden & watch an apple fall & then conclude that there must be some force in the earth that pulls it downwards; it will be simply foolish . Newton has done it; now it is part of human tradition- "But in religion you have to discover again & again. No discovery becomes a heritage in religion "A master teaches us that God's way of being present in the world is His absence. He is not present by being present. God is present by being absent. That is His way of being present in the world. You can not pinpoint here is God. If you pinpoint, it will be someting else, not God - a statue, a scripture, a tradition, a morality, but not religion, not God. God is everywhere ! His way of presence is to be absent, & this is what a master teaches you. *********************** |
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