Religion does not depend on our intellectual assent or dissent. You say there is a soul. Have you seen the soul? If any religion is true, it must be able to show us the soul and show us God and the truth in ourselves.
If you and I fight for all eternity about one of these doctrines or documents, we shall never come to any conclusion.
People have been fighting for ages, and what is the outcome? Intellect cannot reach there at all. We have to go beyond the intellect, for, the proof of religion is in direct perception.
To be religious, first throw your books overboard. Otherwise, all sorts of unassimilated ideas run riot in the brain and form chaos without ever obtaining a chance to settle down and crystallise into a definite shape. In many cases, it becomes a sort of disease, but this is not religion.
Religion does not consist in talk, doctrine or books, but in realisation. It is not learning, but being.
Everybody knows, ‘Do not steal.’ What of it? That man has really known who has not stolen. Everybody knows, ‘Do not injure others.’ What value is there in it? Those who have not done so have realised it, they know it and have built their character on it. It is the power of realisation that makes religion. No amount of doctrines or philosophies or ethical books that you may have stuffed into your brain, will matter much, only what you are and what you have realised. So we have to realise religion, and this realisation of religion is a long process.
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The views expressed in the Article above are Author’s personal views and kashmiribhatta.in is not responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article
Courtesy:Times Of India,S.T ,May 24 ,2019
Religion does not depend on our intellectual assent or dissent. You say there is a soul. Have you seen the soul? If any religion is true, it must be able to show us the soul and show us God and the truth in ourselves.
If you and I fight for all eternity about one of these doctrines or documents, we shall never come to any conclusion.
People have been fighting for ages, and what is the outcome? Intellect cannot reach there at all. We have to go beyond the intellect, for, the proof of religion is in direct perception.
To be religious, first throw your books overboard. Otherwise, all sorts of unassimilated ideas run riot in the brain and form chaos without ever obtaining a chance to settle down and crystallise into a definite shape. In many cases, it becomes a sort of disease, but this is not religion.
Religion does not consist in talk, doctrine or books, but in realisation. It is not learning, but being.
Everybody knows, ‘Do not steal.’ What of it? That man has really known who has not stolen. Everybody knows, ‘Do not injure others.’ What value is there in it? Those who have not done so have realised it, they know it and have built their character on it. It is the power of realisation that makes religion. No amount of doctrines or philosophies or ethical books that you may have stuffed into your brain, will matter much, only what you are and what you have realised. So we have to realise religion, and this realisation of religion is a long process.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Author’s personal views and kashmiribhatta.in is not responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article
Courtesy:Times Of India,S.T ,May 24 ,2019