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The reason for religion decline is that the weak have started entering into religion.
Those who cant save themsekves, how can they save religion? How can they protect it?
Walk on the path of religion, only when you have courage.
A person who enters religion due to fear is wrong. All people of religions produce fear of hell, sins etc in people so that people can come to god. But be well known that the love that comes out of fear has a hidden hatred inside. The love is fake, an illusion. God fearing people cannot be religious.
Fear all but god.
Dont believe in god too. A belief closes the door for inquiry.
This doesnt mean no to believe in god as well, as both belief and no belief are the two sides of same coin. In both, the consciousness has stopped. The natural state of consciousness is inquiry.
The consciousness should follow not others light, but find the inner light on their own.
No matter how large the crowd is, all you have is yourself.
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Truth can not be taken from anybody else. The buddhas, christ, mahavir, krishna have all been enlightened, but their enlightenment will do nothing for you. That which can be given and taken is a part of the world and that which cannot be is a part of Truth. Truth can not be found outside.
There are so many temples but where is God? We make god from our own imagination. Its a proof of ignorance and ego of human that the one human create, we labell them as highest supreme god.
In reality, God is the one who can not be made. God exist before any existence.
It is not a matter of faith/belief, but that of understanding. Blind can have faith in light, but never experience it. If by merely knowing god would be enough, then everybody would be enlightened.
True religion does not oppose intelligence. It is through intelligence that you experience religion. But history has it that those with blind faith have discarded intelligence and chose religion. Intellectual went to science and science has been developing since then. Intelligence should be a part of religion, then only it can be the highest science.
Not surrender but inquiry of the self is needed. No taking from someone else, not one must relate to themselves.
All lazy, and tamasik people have surrendered to religion owing to lack of courage inside them.
One must therefore, learn how to awaken intelligence within himself. There are few rules to it:
1. All people are born into religion, unfortunately. People are taught religion. But religion does not have an exam to prepare for, hence being taught religion is absurd. People project that if people are not taught religion, people will go ashtray. But looking at history, so many sadhus, saints, preachers have been spreading religion, yet has the world been more loveable than before?
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if people accept there is god bydefault, then they will loose their curiosity, the inquiry. we are taught where lies soul, without ever seeking by ourself. all we know is learned.
For intelligence to awaken, renounce all the external learnings. throw it away like a garbage. its not that tradition is bad, it is that religion is so big that no tradition can contain it. self and free inquiry is needed. for it, courage is needed. great courage is needed to leave all the tradition and habits. they can not contain truth. whatever is taught in the name of god/religion, one should leave it.
its like, a group of people rowing away a boat that is tied to the shore in a dark night. they will row their whole night, but see that in the morning, nothing has been moving. smae way, to reach the truth, once should leave themselves. society will find it difficult, if u are not bonded. the societys management is based on ur bondage. for its administration, it sacrifices ur intelligence. so that no revolution can happen against it. society eants human to behave like a machine, whatever it wants, human does it. it doesnt care about truth. but at one point, truth is human being needed. and hence one has to renounce. it doesnt mean revolt, it means u will not limit/bonded with the concepts. accept the ignorance and so on. now u will go into inquiry. the experience will be ur own light.
but it doesnt mean he is flying, now he is ready to fly it means. consciousness now becomes light so as to take a flight now.
next is antar dristi: self awareness.
2. whatever is seen, dont take it as it is. like budhhda was born, it wa predicted, that he will be great chakravarti or a great sanyasin. to prevent that he was suggested not to give him chances to generate self awareness. for it never present to him, withering people, old people, if they acan be old, he will be old too. withering leaves, yellow flowers, dead people. his father made great measure not to see these things. despite great measure, buddha saw them. but we have seen it all, yet we havent become a sanyasin. no self inner awareness lies in them. he saw old people, he questioned, will he become old like them? the chariot leader said, he will be.