Ultimate Goal of Religion
When a new baby is born, he will be like a blank paper where there he will fill with the words as time passes. As the journey begins from the womb, there will be millions and millions of possibilities which get on subtracting each moment when there remains one that would lead us to the tomb, journey ended. When a baby is born he borns with an empty vessel which will be filled on every coming second of life and when it gets filled there ends the accumulation and one has to set the journey in another world. This is two ways of seeing the concept of our life, one being filled with possibilities and opportunities and the other being empties. Both ways will lead to a destination. It is just a way of seeing things. This is why we find there are always two ways to see our life. On the other hand, we can see as, when a baby is born he is born with freedom without any boundaries, without any norms and values that need to be followed.
But our society it's norms and values, our schools the way of it's teaching, makes barriers in our mind and we go on inputting constraints on every moment of life. When we see a beautiful girl, if sexual desires arise in our mind we will take aback our feeling but saying it as it is a negative vibe. Isn't it normal to feel sexual feelings with someone? It is but we made it in the wrong direction. This is how we change our life from being normal to some superior ones with bags fulls of norms and values which are taken as good ones in our society.
This all constraints lies within our mind and our mind is built upon the positions of our society. And finally, society stands on the ideology of the dead people, we follow it whether being aware that is it relevant to the present time or not? We live our whole life with being supporter and protector of the wall that we will be carrying in our all sort of activities.
And besides this all, if we see ourselves: the body we get that it is formed from nature. In every second there has been going on the process of interaction of exchange of energies between our body and this whole existence. I side our body we have the energies from that high cliff waterfall, those mountains, those snowy mountains which will shine as the teeth's of Himalayan in the daylight, and also with those distant stars that twinkle at the night to show their presence as being part of the system that we are in.
As in the scripts, our body is made of three things,
Body itself
The mind
Soul
As we have talked about the body has to inherit characters or part of nature. The mind, our awareness is built upon our society with time. Not only society but with the environment that we get in contact with the whole life. And what is about the soul?
The soul is the attributes that we get from the DNA, it is what we get from the linage and some people blame it to be part of the creator, the ultimate one that won't die.
In Bhagwat Geeta, Lord Krishna compares the body with the chariot with horses, the mind as the arjuna, and the souls with himself. The mind gives direction to the chariot and the soul is what makes him feel right and wrong. We feel some hesitation in doing some activities that are from the soul.
As we give importance to society, its positions and gets itself indulge into it we get nearer to the mind. The mind will suppress both soul and our body. The mind is the connector between the body and the soul. When the connector goes feels and deeper into the customs, standings of society we get into a materialistic world. The soul and body lose all their essence thus we become a man without being morals.
What is the message of religion? What is the teaching of religion?
Our religion is to make Adam and eve back to Eden garden, which is to make us as we are born blessed with freedom, being without the wall of constraints. This all means the state of being no mind.
This is what is the ultimate goal of the religion being no mind. But is it going in that way? No, the religion has lost its deeper indication, has to drop down all the metaphors, now it has become the remains of words manipulated by some arrogant people. Now, religion is no more religion it is like some kind of business contract. Don't you see there will be a fight to becomes a priest of some temples, for what? To earn.
In my opinion, now we can't re-engineer the prevailing system of religion but I hope we can build a better one by making effort with a new concept of religion which can suit modern time. It
Thank you,
This much for today
a person who is religious is no longer essentially religious. it is just an existence that is only a formality.