Often throughout my life I have encountered people who strongly espouse their religious beliefs with what appears to be utmost faith. I respect this. Religion is a great life foundation which I strongly applaud. Yet why is it that I so frequently notice many of these devoutly religious people living their lives in stress and fear when they are away from their religious practices?
My thoughts are that religious beliefs shape the manner in which a person constantly conducts his or her life whereby they would consequently live a harmonious peaceful life. However I regularly observe numerous people who claim to be peaceful religious beings transform into fear-filled cautious expressions of life when faced with day to day living! The faith and trust they claim live by seem to instantly vanish as they step from their practices of religious safety to the open streets of life!
I believe in God’s ‘eyes’ there is no separation or judgment
This behavior has been glaringly evident to me since I was a child. I believe it was this observation together with other clear separating factors connected to religion which made me question its value in my life. Never once though have I ever questioned the presence or value of God in my life. God is the ever present energy that fuels and lights my life. I am a sentient being therefore it stands to reason that I should sense the presence of God in my life in everything I do. I have never once felt separated from God but I have frequently been made to feel separated from other humans because of religion.
Thus I consider the idea of separation together with the labelled and judged differences directed from religion to religion to be a strange phenomena bearing in mind that religion is supposedly based on a common connection point to God! God is the creator of all life. I believe in God’s ‘eyes’ there is no separation or judgment; for why would God judge his own creation which man readily accepts as perfect? I trust that religion in its pure form is totally unifying because of its unified goal to the one source of life. Moreover I believe that it has only become a separating vehicle by the intervention of the illusionary needs of the human ego, such as the need to be right or to be the best or to be the most powerful!
It matters not if we find our God connection in a Mosque, a Church, on a mountain top like Moses or in the spirit of dance, or in the presence of our fellowman, or even finally in Death. The pathways to God are many and varied. We individuals have the right to follow our own paths and so too must we allow others the same right!
The important thing to remember is that there is a pathway for us all. None of us are separate from life or God for All is One!
For a long time I have been extremely cautious about writing on this topic because it is probably going to upset and anger some people. I never write anything with the intention of upsetting others or with the thought that I am right or that others are wrong. I merely write what I observe with the hope of bringing more awareness of life around us to others without any intentional bias or judgment. Everything I write is based on the premise of opening people’s minds to greater thoughts of possibility.
Why are we all born looking different, in different places and into different cultures and religions if God intended us all to be the same?
Humanity is gifted free will at birth and each of us should respect our individual God given gift. We should also respect our fellowman’s right to his gift. Perhaps it is lack of respect directed toward this gift that has brought about much of the stress and fear which I repeatedly observe among people. And why do people continually try to convince others to have thoughts and beliefs exactly the same as theirs? Why do they need so desperately to feel their thoughts are right? And why do they feel the need to express to others that there is no option to rightness apart from their own? Why are we all born looking different, in different places and into different cultures and religions if God intended us all to be the same?
God’s plan of creation is perfect, and to date I’ve never heard one believing person dispute this! Nevertheless I often hear a person say that they accept and respect other religions while in the next breath they try to convert them to theirs!!!! And why do people regularly classify people as a good Jew or a good Christian or good Muslim or good Buddhist rather than see them as a Good Person? We are people first, so why aren’t we seen as such? And I further consider good as being the road to God. Good, if you look at its spelling is the extension of God. Doesn’t this in itself say something? I frequently interchange the two words when I am writing but I never view this as a mistake for I see the two as one for God is Good and I know that all God created is Good therefore I accept that Good is God and God is Good.
COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE
making sense of the world and religion
I hope this adds to your understanding:
At some point, making sense of the world, and your place in it, becomes the focus of all of your activities. Seeking Understanding in this or any world builds a momentum. Is there or has there ever been anything like Utopia on Earth?
You know you’re not happy, not really; you see the world condition; and at some point, even unconsciously, your own mortality begins to become part of the felt dilemma.
And then you try some things:
You become politically involved.
You become environmentally involved.
You try all sorts of therapeutic approaches.
You find like minded friends.
You meditate.
You investigate Eastern Philosophy or re-approach your born-with religious tradition.
You read books on Death and Dieing, or on After Life experiences.
Basically, you go inward or you move outward into the world with more intention. And sometimes you do both. You can spend your whole lifetime doing all of this and if you believe in it, you can re-incarnate into another life and start again.
Do any of these approaches to life, fundamentally change anything?
Or you tire of the whole thing and give the whole thing up to a life of conventional or extraordinary pleasure seeking.
How do you get beyond it all? How do you understand? Can you relax enough to feel the dilemma that mortality and your orientation to it represents?
You feel the mortal dilemma, but there is something else you are sensitive to also. Something simple and prior to all dilemma. You’ve Known that all your life. Right Spiritual practice seems to require sensitivity to both. This dual sensitivity has been described simply as the closed fist and the open hand.
Gu and Ru. Light and darkness. Occasionally mankind has seen the appearance of Men or Women who have know something about this. Some have lived alone and taught quietly by Being Who They Are. Others have been Master Teachers, Realizers, or Gurus, whose function is to embody and teach the Way to Perfect Freedom.
In the west, the tradition of Realizers, of Gurus, is mostly either unknown or discounted, or even spit upon. And in the later part of the 20th century people have appeared, who called themselves Gurus and clearly were not.
What if such a one appeared now? How would you recognize him/it?
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"My Divine Avataric Revelation-Teaching takes into account the limitations of all of the first six stages of life, the limitations of all "religious", Spiritual, and Transcendental traditions—East and West, Alpha and Omega. The Divine Truth That Is Reality Itself Is Prior to all of that—and, yet, the Divine Reality-Truth does not exclude any stage of life, any "one", or any "thing"…. My Divine Avataric Incarnation here Is Prior to all—and My Divine Avataric Incarnation here Is For all."
Adi Da Samraj
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