Rock of Ages and Religion at War

Religion versus God

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Religion has become so prominent that God has vanished in the background. 

As religion comprises of the beliefs, values, and practices in an organizational way; god is lost somewhere in worldly adherence to one’s religion.

According to sociology; a group of people having similar beliefs, values and practices form an organization. All the human organizations are controlled by human beings only. In most of the cases the whims and wishes of the heads of organizations are imposed on the masses and considered to be religious practices. ˂https://www.meriam-webster.com˃   

The whims and wishes of the religious heads get translated into the Canons of the organization. Years of practice establishes them as religious practices and most importantly makes the heads more powerful. The biggest drawback of such practices is corruption of mind, body and spirit.  People start thinking that the man-induced beliefs, values and practices, that they are following, are the only paths of righteousness. Devotees think that God can be appeased only by following the ways established by the organization (No one wants to consider what god wants). This makes people shortsighted and they get segregated into different groups. Each group thinks their set of beliefs, values and practices are good and true but those outside the group are not following a true religion. This further leads to group rivalries and conflicts. Sometimes the group rivalry becomes physical and results into religion based atrocities. This all happens in the name of religion. ˂ https://www.intouch.org˃      ˂https://en.m.wikipedia.org˃     ˂ https://www.bbc.co.uk˃  

No religion can separate itself from the human bias. As long as there are religions there will be wars in the name of religion (Middle East for example, and Tribal wars in Africa). There will be civil unrests in various countries. There will be Hindu Muslim issues. There will be issues of high cast and low cast. There will be mob lynching. There will be demolitions of church buildings, Temples and Mosques. In short, no part of the world is free from internal to external affairs, which are free from religion based issues.

Why is it so?   

The answer is crystal clear. Back in the history religion started as a quest for God. Saints and sages focused their mental and physical meditative energies to learn about God from God Almighty Himself. And God blessed them with his revelations in the form of Holy words. As a result most of the ancient religions have their holy scriptures which give a clear idea of a living God and His expectations. The saints and sages have simply written the words they received from God the creator. Any one who reads the holy scriptures can learn the path laid by God and be blessed by His holy presence. All would have been well if the holy words of god directly came to common man. Somewhere along the path monetization and commercialization crept in and a whole lot of middlemen came between man and god. The quest turned into a mockery of offerings for the sake of absolution. The holy words became silent, the words of avarice became more prominent. In some cases the self imposed keepers of religion tabooed the personal handling of the scriptures by the people for whom it was meant by God almighty. In other cases, religious heads   became supreme and corrupted the freewill of the masses. (https://britannca.com Rigveda, https://overviewbible.com , Hebrew Torah, https://quran.com)

Today people think doing what others are doing, following what others are following is religion. No body is concerned what God has already said in his eternal words. No one wants to follow god or no one knows God’s will and follows it. The years of practicing ‘religion’ has created a great gulf between man and God. Religion has blocked the free, rational mind created by God as used by saints and sages.

 

Making Religion Compatible with God the Creator

Knowing God is making religion compatible with God. 

It is very difficult to match religion with God because we do not know about god. There are few steps to know god.

1.       Consider God as the only one who always accompanies you.

2.       Consider God as the one who can listen, understand your words of praise or complaints.

3.       Learn to talk to Him at the level of your conscience.

4.       Consider god as a pure heart who can’t be approached with vested interests.

In short, simply start talking to God and he will guide you himself.  talking to God may mean meditation or Prayer . In reality God knows each and every thing that goes on in our heart and mind. God follows our stream of consciousness, God knows our every instinct. This means whether we are talking to Him or not he is in constant touch with us. This means our thoughts should always be appealing to God. God the creator may have many names according to our religion but is the king or the ‘prajapati’ who has given us free choice to follow or not to follow him. Dual nature is unacceptable to God. It takes human will to follow god.

5.       Reading of scriptures is very important for seekers of God. It helps to understand His nature and moulds us accordingly.

When a person establishes a relation with God by listening to Him and starts thinking and performing as His ambassador, his religion becomes compatible with God.

I think now it must be clear to the reader that it is easy to follow a religion but very difficult to follow God. God works individually with each person without a mediator. His voice can be heard through our conscience. Each one of us is a living temple of God. When we hear His voice and open the doors of the temple wide God enters and takes place in the throne of our heart. 

If a person has not experienced God personally, he will keep on following the worldly ways taught by his religion without having any everlasting peace and happiness. When God takes hold of person he makes him a true seeker, a true follower, a true servant of fellow human beings.