This weekend , I have reserved my time for learning and experiencing some mysteries, Therefore I am leaving you with some thoughts and advices to brainstorm.
How the religions and beliefs are formed ?
There is only one universal answer to this question i.e. "By someone experiencing some thing extraordinary and sharing with us". (Raj Yog - Swami Vivekananda)
Therefore It seems that any kind of spiritual books , motivational thoughts , my weekend articles, Sri Mad Bhagwat Geeta , Kuran Sharif , Bible etc are going to teach us something that has been experienced by some living being. (So Its basically kind of second layer of knowledge)
Why can't we be those living beings who can create the foundation of our own religion and beliefs?
This is like a transit to some twilight zone , Now I have reached to a point where Its crystal clear that purest form of knowledge on this planet in what we are going to learn from our own experiences aka by connecting to our own core.
GOD(with in us) bless us all :).
and yeah don't worry , Enjoyment part is not out of our life :P , the only thing we are trying to attain a next level of cautiousness about ourselves.
Happy Living !
In material world, everyone has a false ego (Ahankar). It is very essential to understand this false ego , it's intricacies and subtleness.
ReplyDeleteThe ego makes one believe that he / she is always correct , better than others, different than others etc etc without any logic or base.
Forget the spiritual path, even in material life :
Why do you speak a language passed on by your parents / friends / country ? Why dont you make your own language ?
Why do you learn Maths / Science / History / Geography from people who alreday know it ? Why dont you start your own lab at age 5 ? navigate and measure the world your own way. Oh , by the way, do not use anything else made by anyother being. Whether it is food , clothes, things etc. Do your own...
Why do you go to a doctor when you fall sick ? research on your own and find your own solution.
I know the above points sounds carzy. But than it's YOU and NOT me who is proposing it :) ?
Spend some time to reasearch what is authentic and what is not. Just like a student would spend some time to decide what field he needs to pursue and whether the college he is going is authenticate or a quake. Once done, follow it. Life is too small and egos can come in subtle ways...
Sorry, this is not a sweet response but I am just putting a honest answer.
Hey Milan,
DeleteFirst things, I am very happy to hear from you after a long time :).
I completely agree to what you have said in terms of experiences of either spiritual or materialistic life.
Honestly, while reading your comment I felt that we are talking something same.
(Just with some language mistakes of mine.)
For sure, I am not offering or asking people to do any new researches for daily life issues (materialistic) or any kind of new theories or spiritual paths. (No new holy books).
How Can I :)
(I am still a toddler, studying the gifts from my forefathers).
My point is more about the need of “experiencing” the divine within us.
It’s surely not about Ahankar Its more about AtmSakshatKar by the means of experiencing.
Read below line from Vivekananda
“Ramakrishna looked just like an ordinary man, with nothing remarkable about him. He used the most simple language and I thought 'Can this man be a great teacher?'. I crept near to him and asked him the question which I had been asking others all my life: 'Do you believe in God, Sir?' 'Yes', he replied. 'Can you prove it, Sir?' 'Yes'. 'How?' 'Because I see Him just as I see you here, only in a much intenser sense.' That impressed me at once…… I began to go to that man, day after day, and I actually saw that religion could be given. One touch, one glance, can change a whole life.”
This experience, gave him the strength to put the foundation of his belief system, we know as Vedanta today.
My point is same, as you have suggested, “spending some time to research what is authentic”.
And I am asking everyone to do that before coming up with his or her individual belief system.
:)
Once upon a time in a jungle a tigress died soon after giving birth to a cub. The cub was brought up by Sheep.
ReplyDeleteThe cub while growing with a flock of sheep, started to think itself as a sheep. The cub used to eat, walk like a sheep; it even used to run away on listening the roar of a tiger.
Once a Saint felt pity for that cub and made it realize itself through the water of a pond.
Our situation is similar to the situation of the cub. In reality we are Atma (soul) but due lack of proper knowledge we think of ourselves as body and experience happiness and sorrow in this world.
In reality knowing one’s own self is Atma Sakshatkar.
Necessity of Guru for Atma Sakshatkar:
Just like the cub imagined himself to be a sheep and was living a pity life until it received the blessing of the Saint, and upon receiving the Saint’s blessing it recognized it’s original self.
Similarly till a person gets the blessing of Guru, he imagines himself as body and suffers with several instances of happiness and sorrow in this world.
Even to learn a small thing we need teacher, similarly to reach to the destination of Atma Sakshatkar
(Self Realization) we need an Accomplished Guru and is impossible without that.
Therefore it has been said:
“Guru Bin Gyan Na Upjay, Guru Bin Mite Na Bhed!
Gur Bin Sanshay Na Mite, Jay Jay Jay Gurudev!!”