Written Voice

What I have found in interacting with a few friends here and other forums - its difficult for most of us to act without any reference to thought - thought which is a product of past. I sincerely agree - and one thing I want to tell all of you that this words which I write here are not words to be taken as a theory or as an analysis or as a preaching - never - coz whenever you accept authority - be it mine or anyone else’s you will simply close the doors of true awareness and get attached to a fixed path. I want to discuss these observations and also request you to truly ask your own self or try to be aware from where all our action comes.

Its difficult to imagine a blank canvas but not un-attainable. We simple have to get inside everything to truly be aware of the phenomenon. If we are to observe our own actions - we meaning the product of our immoral and evil past - we, meaning the living example of mankind - we need to look at our actions without getting influenced by knowledge. Else - if we just think that this act of ours is violent or that act is an act of hatred then we will be creating a difference between the observer and the action. We are the violent - we are greedy - we are envious - and all these comes from the self which is a product of time and knowledge - where we are conditioned to response hate with hate, violence with violence and be on a continious chase under the influence of the immoral society which we have build so far.

Religion is an institution in this primitive world which stands on the foundations of human insecurity

Religion should have been the arm which dissipates scientific knowledge for the betterment of living but it never happened in that direction. From the day we started living in a clan, marked our territories, our flock of cattle our women … the illusion of security was developed in our mind… human beings have a tendency of following.. follow the leader, the religious guru, the philosophies, the beliefs…. and this nature of following breeds from the sense of security. In the early days … the two men who had the strongest power were the ones who had the muscle… and the other one was the aged … with wisdom..who knew when the seasons will change, when to plant the seeds, which herbs comes to cure, which stones can be used for arms…. and he enjoyed some privileges… and the foundation of priesthood was formed… for quite some time they enjoyed almost equal and in some cases greater power than the ruler…( we even find coronations happening now with a religious leader…) …

Anyways..down the ages as we accumulated knowledge man has started inquiring…. if there is something beyond this daily life… the daily pain, the conflict , the sorrow, the daily routine … if there is something meta physical beyond our known realm… and the entire domain of religion got institutionalized but like the earliest times even now they survive and flourish on the same basis of insecurity…. and fear.

And also the fear of death …which has played an important role in strengthening the foundation of religion… let me explain.. the feeling of security is there when you live in constancy… the end of constancy is insecurity… and death means the end of all attachment and the fear of leaving everything behind you….and so we went towards religion as it provided the assurance of heaven of resurrection and even of reincarnation ….

Our brain is conditioned over a million years by accumulation of knowledge, experience and our pain and sorrow and fear..and since the earliest time we are always seeking security - as security of mind and our physical existence as it will bring our mind to a totally different level - a different state…. but the sense of security still remains an illusion… in both the physical and mental world…and that’s where the thought creates gods, saviors, new philosophies, and the priests, the psychoanalysts, the religious gurus who make merry of the situation to catch you in their net… the mind also plays it part in building an illusion of security in the form of many a things like vastu , numerology, crystals, yin & yang, zen, yoga.

We all universally agree that knowledge is incomplete .. yesterday the earth was flat.. the sun went around the earth… and it remained so until someone questioned it with a free mind. Knowledge being incomplete - any thought coming out of knowledge will always remain incomplete - and actions, theories, rules, laws, anything will remain grossly incomplete and will always create a complete and never usher in clear light to mankind…

There can be no good from religions which give strictures, which binds people, encages the mind from questioning, which makes one group of people hate the other, which divides people - the only religion can be living with a true sense of morality and integrity where the mind does not follow thoughts and actions flow out of only love and compassion.