The Religion and the Dharma – Part II
“The Religion”
For world peace, something that should be properly understood and practiced is the “Religion”. What is “Religion”? How, and what way is it connected to belief and faith? How it should be practiced? … These are some tricky questions that need serious attentions.
Origin of the word “Religion”: This has it’s root in Latin “Religio” which means:
“To Bind”; Belief in worship of or obedience to a supernatural power, power considered to be divine; To have control of human destiny; Fear of supernatural power….
We can notice the emphasis on “To Bind”. Question is: What is meant by “To Bind”? Bind, here cannot be in the sense of losing freedom or independence. Because, purpose must sure be to evolve further. Binding will certainly be a sign of sticking to a certain stage. Here “To Bind” must be having an instructional meaning: “To Bind” to evolve. Remember: Evolution means to expand, to raise the consciousness level, the light of origin of this cosmos.
The expansion of whole of the cosmic existence consists of (a) the physical or gross level existence i.e. external world, and (b) the finer or spiritual world. If we interpret that “To Bind” is an instruction to reach to external world and internal world for the purpose of evolution, then that way, may be we reach to some genuine meaning of “To Bind”.
Mankind is already under “To Bind” state while living in this physical world. Whole physical activities are connected to this external (physical) world. And every common mortal feels, how miserable this material living is. Almost whole world is struggling to find out some ways to live an enjoyable life with perpetual peace. But that is always proving a futile exercise.
Now look to other part (b) of “To Bind”, which is with internal or spiritual world. This internal world is a mystic world for common human mind. Common man can grasp the idea that one has a physical body to interact with external visible material world. But, to his/her mind it is difficult, first, to think of an internal world and then to think of a finer body, to consume this (Mystic) finer world. If the word “To Bind” (that is Religion) is instructing to bind with internal world, then questions are: Why to bind and how to bind with this mystic world?
Now reflect again on “To Bind” with external world. What does it mean? Is it “Bind and consume”? Or there is some other message? An inner urge for pleasure, peace, happiness like positive desires are clear signs that human beings want to evolve from one’s present state. “To Bind” means to interact with the world to evolve. Evolution is the sole purpose. When the interaction only occurs for physical consumptions, the evolution part is completely absent. A non-evolutionary living brings negative states of being in form of pain, delusions, miseries etc. So “To Bind” means: Constantly keep evolving while interacting with physical world. But sad truth is that the physical body is not the doer. Physical body is a mere tool in the hand of inner finer body (Mind). Whatever mind wants, is manifested at physical body level, in form of actions. So good or bad, real responsibility, in absolute sense, lies with mind. Therefore instruction by “To Bind” is: one should bind (through mind) physically with external world and to the internal world for complete evolution.
That must have been the message in the name of “Religion”.
Based on above concept our ancestors must have worked on it, and got fully evolved and got realization of the whole truth. To benefit whole human kind they tried to present this mystically experienced knowledge in form of philosophies. May be, later on, they found these philosophies too difficult for lower human mind. To propel such lowly placed (low consciousness) humans, they researched and created some symbolic rituals and dogmas, which were capable of such vibrations, that can help in evolution. Their search was total, covering internal and external world. What happened with passing of time, mankind developed faith and belief in these philosophies and carried on with rituals and dogmas without working on the practices needed in the inner world. Thus, with passing of time, this internal aspect of evolution almost vanished and evolution remained unfinished. Without evolving internally, secrets of “Absolute Truth” are not coming. Gradually “Religion” carried the recognition by intellectual belief and faith and external rituals and dogmas.
Unless mankind will give attention to the whole process of evolution, covering internal and external world, actual word “Religion” will remain so called “Religion” or “Pseudo Religion”. Religion has nothing to do with faith, belief, ritual, dogmas etc. They are mere means to the end i.e. evolution. Modern mankind has adopted these means as the goal; this is unfortunate part of present religious concepts. This is the major cause of all “Religious Chaos” in the world. World needs strong guidance from truly “Realized Soul”. Because of distorted practices in modern times, evolutionary practices are recognized into two classes:
(a) Religion: This concerns with belief, faith, rituals, dogmas and some philosophies connected to a particular community. It concerns only physical world.
(b) Spiritualism: The practices of evolution in the inner world.
In absolute sense “Religion” encompasses both (a) & (b) above. So we have to bring back the real meaning, true meaning of “The Religion”.
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