THOUGHTS AS THEY COME BY

THOUGHTS AS THEY COME BY

1. We must be rooted to our heritage in a an enlightened way that allows us freedom to forge ahead. Hyper-conservatism is to be avoided and a fluid growth encouraged. Enlightenment must be the watchword.

2. Holiness is a state of mind but the mind's intimate connection with the body makes it imperative for one to maintain the strictest physical purity as well. Physical energy stored thus is transmuted into higher spiritual energy which helps the aspirant ascend the peaks of realisation leading to ultimate freedom.

3. Ideology is a force but often for evil when it resists change and stagnates. It is here that the scientific method of examination and re-examination of existing theories and assumptions becomes relevant. Religious dogma holds the human spirit to ransom and must be rejected just as much as political dogma is to be rejected. The soul freed of arbitrary assumptions, archaic injunctions and doctrinaire impositions flourishes to usher in higher learning, a brighter understanding of the workings of Nature and a clearer vision of Truth, both material and spiritual.

4. What a terrible thing it is to be weighed own eternally by the idea of 'original sin' that simply has no basis in reason! Christianity is founded on such a fragile concept but with its rigid hold on superstitious man that perpetuates weakness in man and retards civilisation unless men choose to reject such an absurd proposition. Fortunately, Christian nations have through the Enlightenment outgrown such an outdated concept and progressed. 

5. This Christian idea of meeting one's Maker when one dies is utterly false. A single earthly life, incomplete in evolutionary experience, unfulfilled in terms of realisation of the oneness of all existence, cannot be the springboard for heaven or hell or even of redemption otherwise but is rooted in rank material superstition. The philosophical edifice of the Abrahamic religions will in due course collapse under the sledgehammer blows of reason and they will have to befriend Indian spiritual philosophy for sheer survival. The Vedas were the primal body of philosophical articulation and they will be the final body of the same as well.

6. There is but one religion in the world that can be called 'the science of the soul' and that is the Sanatan Dharma, popularly known as Hinduism. This is the eternal religion, the 'Perennial Philosophy', as Aldous Huxley put it, and this is the eventual destination of the spiritual man as he spirals unto his Self through the myriad experiences of evolving life.

7. Do not allow anybody to sell you religion, however great he may be in the eyes of society. He is merely duping you with pompous talk.

8. It is good to pay to learn engineering of the material world but beware if anybody sells you the secrets of 'inner engineering'!

9. Making commerce out of the Sanatan Dharma is not quite upholding its principles. This is no way to regenerate the nation.

10. To affirm the spiritual individual is not to negate God but to affirm God in humanity.

11. God is love. So, love and spread love. That is all there is to life and that is all there is to living.

12. The Lord is with the simple folks, men of apparent ignorance who trust Him in all their innocence but hold on to morality.

13. Try to find God, free of organisation, free of allegiance to church, in your own simple way.

14. Bow not to the tyranny of man or God but raise your head high in the sunshine of freedom.

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo : Maharshi Yajnavalkya recording his realisations.