Religion and Philosophy

Religion and Philosophy are words of repute that man resorts to for answers on God and life. Their authenticity is by no means questioned nor their genuine which means understood. Man requires it for granted that they present answers for what they stand for. However a gentle glance would recommend that answers have not been identified as but mainly because men, additional than something else, are nevertheless angry with every other and with themselves too. Religion tends to make man think he is a saint when philosophy fills him with pride. The question he desires to answer is whether or not religion and philosophy have brought him peace or drafted him into war. The provide state of the globe would recommend the latter is real.

Each and every kid and adult is offered a religion to adhere to and follow so that he or she might lead a content life - a specific investment to attain heaven. Its value is emphasized to philosophical proportions. Religion and, thereby, God, if followed to the letter, is thought to ward off evil and defend man from harm. However is he absolutely free from hate or anger when he prays or while he is in a spot of worship? Is he cost-free of all that is unholy though he does not pray or is not in a location of worship? If God is the creator of the globe, who may well possibly be making evil or incorrect in addition to God? It is unthinkable that God would be the creator of great and poor, correct and incorrect as a truth. It has to be illusory for God is compassionate and loving. So, has religion and philosophy failed to give its promises and will it ever succeed? Who can inform?

However what do these words truly mean and what is man's expertise of them? To most, religion indicates subtle or profound understanding around God and His messages, which are beliefs or a program of faith and worship. The word religion is derived from the Latin word 'religio', which means obligation or reverence to life under monastic vows. Philosophy, however, suggests a enjoy of wisdom. However, on close observation, man is neither godly nor smart, and religion and philosophy were about for very some time. Religion and philosophy are each ancient and historical. Man came to know religion 1st and later, as his thoughts sophisticated, philosophy appeared. Primitive man was alive and lived with out the require of religion or philosophy.

The thoughts became active inside man gradually and steadily and sophisticated to form religion and philosophy. Expertise around God occurred to him and he did not bring it around. Pondering occurred to man and he did not create it take place. If he had, he would have created it come about all at when and not progressively, as is the case, and, offered the likelihood, he would see to it that every person believed the very same way, yet they do not. If he did develop Pondering occur, he would have merely one religion and philosophy and not numerous, as is the case.

Nature was religion to primitive man. The lightning in the skies and the thunder that followed was man's expertise around a energy above him. Light and sound had been God to primitive man. The moment he looked up into the skies in worry was the moment of birth of God or a energy a lot good to him in his thoughts. As vocabulary elevated inside man's thoughts and ideas started to form, so did religion and understanding around God as the almighty.

If religion had been true, there may possibly only be one and that would be the initial one that appeared inside man's thoughts. Genuine suggests that which does not alter and is eternal. This suggests that even the very first religion can not be actual. How may well it be genuine for not only has the initial religion changed, yet there are 5 much more significant religions alongside it? This modify contradicts the which means of genuine. This can only mean that the initially religion and the rest that have followed will have to be illusory and not actual.

Religion is illusory for it exists only in the waking state, however it does not exist through the sleeping state, and man is alive through sleep as significantly as he is throughout the waking state. If religion had been actual, primitive man need to have religion with no the presence of mind. This only implies that religion is nothing at all yet mind in the thoughts, as is all the things else.

If God has produced the planet, each and every religion need to be His creation too. If they are, they can not be separate from Him. The planet is power and absolutely nothing can be separate inside power, and so, if they had been separate from him or from each and every other, they would not exist. If God has made the globe, He will be power too simply because the supply of power has to and will be power only. In this case, God can not be a He or a She however basically power, as is every single man and lady. If God is power, it can only mean that something and almost everything is a reflection of power, like man. If power is God, it can only mean that each speck of this manifestation has to be God, and it is so and can not be otherwise.

If God have been the creator, would not each and every religion be His creation too, like the 1st? They undoubtedly would be, and definitely He would not create any religion that is incorrect. The very same applies to philosophy too. The presence of assortment in every single portion of life, such as religion and philosophy, tends to make it not possible for man to make a decision which may perhaps be real. This is the intelligence of life that tends to make something and all the things in life relative and not absolute. It is major to understand that every single recognizable believed takes a further of its form for it to exist. Hence, each and every religion exists due to the fact of the presence of the other. This is why God or life has manifested numerous religions and philosophies so that a idea of religion and philosophy may possibly exist. They exist in such a manner that man might understand that their existence is illusory and not genuine. They only appear genuine.

Religion is short-term mainly because it adjustments and takes time to exist, exactly where there is none. It exists only as mind mainly because it disappears in the sleeping state. These are the hallmarks of an illusion. An illusion does not mean it is absent; it is supply, however not in the manner the thoughts says it is. There are several scriptures connected to every single religion. While the religion is illusory, will not the scriptures be illusory too? In that case every single scripture is no improved than the other. Reality can not be identified for the recognized is often dual, and fact can't be dual for duality is relative and never ever absolute. If a particular belief of a religion is not discovered inside the confines of an additional religious scripture, the belief can not be concluded to be invalid or false.

Each belief does not need to be identified in each religious scripture; there is no point in repeating the exact same belief in each religion. God is very intelligent for, if beliefs have been the identical in each and every religion, then distinct religions would not exist: diversity is necessary for religion to exist. If all religions contained the very same beliefs, then there would only be one religion. Ahead of the scriptures had been written, they existed in the thoughts as mind. This indicates that reality, no matter how illusory, can not be basically what is written, and that which is not written can too be the reality, for the written after existed as mind in the thoughts. Consequently, man may possibly speak the fact and it can not be brushed aside as untruth simply since it can not be identified inside scriptures. All religions put collectively are one religion.

Duality is the spice of mental life. Diversity is maintained by duality. Diversity tends to make life not only magnanimous yet too projects the illusory as the actual. Diversified religion exists so that God may perhaps exist. If only one religion existed it would be actual and God would not be remembered at all. God would not be remembered simply because, for God to exist and to be remembered too, a different God would be expected, and the distinct religions do simply that: they offer a lot of Gods. It is fascinating to see that every single religion is not pleased with itself, and it ought to be if it is actual. The continuous arguments among religions recommend that every single man doubts the religion he belongs to. Understanding around religion only means the capacity of the thoughts to shop knowledge and reproduce it, akin to a personal computer or a library. A scholar does not signify something other than this.

Man is born devoid of a religion and he obtains the religion that exists in the household. Religion is, Thus, far more familial than genuine. Life is power and power alone. Power has no religion, however man has a religion: how genuine may possibly it be? Words and meanings are an auditory illusion of sound and so each religion is illusory really than genuine. Religion has driven man away from God quite than bringing him to God, and this is precisely what it is meant to do so that religion and philosophy may possibly exist. If men had been created to have an understanding of that only God exists and not man, religion would collapse.

Religion is simply know-how around God in a certain language. Know-how is dead for the reason that it is in the thoughts as memory. Because the thoughts is in the previous, religion too is in the previous. The thoughts is not in life, which is the timeless 'now', and this implies that religion is not in life however in the thoughts. The thoughts takes time to exist and science has proved that time does not exist as a physical entity in life. The smallest unit of time measured is 'atto second', which is one billionth of a billionth of a second. Life's occurrences, yet, take place in units of time considerably smaller sized than an atto second, which is the timeless 'now'. Religion seriously implies to be united with self. It has not truly accomplished this however, in truth, has produced disunity among humans. This is life's intelligence to maintain its illusory nature so that man may well understand the true which means of religion.

Every single religious man defends vigorously that his God is the only one. Now, God is not a matter of yours or mine. God is basically God. Scientifically, God is synonymous with power, light or simply intelligence. God is a philosophical word, however very intelligent still. The planet is varied and so are religion, philosophy and even God. Life just demonstrates that if something and almost everything is varied, even God is varied, and this is why God is who He is imagined to be. As a result, it is inevitable that God will appear differently in some religions and as a lot of in other people. Life as well demonstrates that God is no one or nothing at all, yet as well something and every thing. This is evident in some religions in which He is revered as becoming formless, which is real, and in other folks as getting types produced of any form of matter: meals to indicate taste, incenses to indicate smell, bells to indicate sound and fire to indicate light, which are as well real.

It is tough to make a decision whose God is genuine and is the very first and only one. Every single religion defends that their God fits that bill. If any one of the Gods that appeared when the very first was genuine, He would were the one who would have made the initial religion and maintained it till the give day. If the initially religion was false, He would have destroyed it, and the cause it can't be destroyed is simply because life is power and power can not be destroyed or made. This is proof that God too is power and something and almost everything is basically a reflection of this power, which appears in the morning and disappears in the evening, like religion and philosophy.

The planet is a manifestation of God or power and not a creation. No man might have noticed the creation to vouch for it, yet certainly he can understand that the planet is and has be a reflection, due to the fact it is power. Hence, the planet and God incorporated has to be peaceful and harmonious. The thoughts of man is not peaceful, and this restlessness is an auditory illusion of sound, as only light and sound exists in life and not words and meanings. Man basically tends to make sounds, which appear as language in the thoughts. Words and meanings can not exist in life, as time is absent in life.

Man or messenger of God, who has a thoughts, will constantly be restless for the reason that of duality, which is the hallmark of the thoughts, and to want him peace will only be wishful Considering. A genuine messenger of God, if at all there is one, is an enlightened getting, for he lives and realizes that the thoughts is illusory, so too each religion and philosophy. An enlightened becoming is normally at peace with himself and the planet, without having recognizing that he is. Peace is his nature for it is the nature of nature, and an enlightened becoming realizes that man is part and parcel of nature and not separated from it. There would be no need to have to want him or her peace, for he is peace itself.

Peace is the nature of the globe, and it has to be if it is power, no matter in what state it is. So there would no point in fearing it or God. Worry, if seen, is non-existent in the timeless 'now'. It is normally in the thoughts and, For that reason, has to be illusory as is any word. In worry man can by no means attain God; he would be rotating in his thoughts hoping to attain God. Worry has been employed by the religious to bring man to God - how ironical. It is ironical that it is the religious who sustain man away from God with a promise of bringing him to God. Only God is and man is simply a reflection of God.

Philosophy came considerably later than religion. It was the solution of a sophisticated thoughts. It produced its look as soon as life expressed logic and reasoning. Philosophy is identical to religion in that there are as lots of philosophies as there are languages, either rudimentary or sophisticated. If wisdom was actual, and it desires to be actual if it is wisdom, there would be simply one method of philosophy and not such divergence as there is located to be.

Numerous philosophies are essential so that a notion of philosophy may well exist. The situation is the identical as with religion. Man would not remember philosophy if there have been merely one. A contrast given by a specific philosophy is expected for the existence of yet another. For that reason, philosophy suggests the adore of Considering and not the really like of wisdom, as is believed. Every single man is a philosopher for Pondering occurs to him. A genuine philosopher is he who realises that Considering takes place to him and man does not believe. He realizes that an action or an practical experience can exist only in time, and time does not exist in life. He realizes that the thoughts would be necessary to have an understanding of an action or an encounter in life, and thoughts, love time, does not exist in life.

A real philosopher is he who realizes that the globe, man and thoughts are a constant and spontaneous transformation-course of action of power which is uncontrollable and unpredictable. He realizes that life is timeless and thoughtless and a manifestation of light and sound, and the knowledgeable planet and the expertise itself is a globe of mind - religion and philosophy integrated. A really religious man is he who realizes that almost everything is an expression of God the almighty - religion and philosophy incorporated.

© Copyright V.S. Shankar 2008

Dr Vijai S. Shankar, an Indian sage, was born in the late 1940's. He has amassed an impressive list of educational, investigation, health-related, writing and teaching credentials in his lifetime. He is most notably recognized for his teachings on Non-dualism, Advaita Vedanta, and Jnana yoga. These teachings are accessible to the public during his books, CDs and DVDs, his satsangs and on the web-site of the Academy of Absolute Know-how, which Dr. Shankar founded in 2009. Dr. Shankar's most current book, Evolution of Thoughts, published in January 2010, presents man the most penetrating and insightful expertise of thoughts to date, a thoughts which for generations, has been conditioned by its beliefs and restricted to the planet of relativity and fiction.