By Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda
My religion is to learn.I read my Bible better in the light of your Bible and the dark prophecies of my religion become brighter when compared with those of your prophets. Truth has always been universal. If I alone were to have six fingers on my hand while all of you had only five,you would not think that my hand was the true intent of nature,but rather that it was abnormal and diseased. Just so with religion. If one creed alone were to be true and all the others untrue,you would have a right to say that that religion was diseased; if one religion is true, all the others must be true. Thus the Hindu religion is your property as well as mine. Of the two hundred and ninety millions of people inhabiting India,only two millions are Christians, sixty millions Mohammedans and all the rest are Hindus.
The Hindus found their creed upon the ancient Vedas,a word derived from Vid, "to know". These are a series of books which, to our minds, contain the essence of all religion; but we do not think they alone contain the truths. They teach us the immortality of the soul. In every country and every human breast there is a natural desire to find a stable equilibrium --something that does not change. We cannot find it in nature,for all the universe is nothing but an infinite mass of changes.
But to infer from that that nothing unchanging exists is to fall into the error of the Southern school of Buddhists and the Charvakas,which latter believe that all is matter and nothing mind, that all religion is a cheat,and morality and goodness, useless superstitions. The Vedanta philosophy teaches that man is not bound by his five senses. They only know the present,and neither the future nor the past; but as the present signifies both past and future, and all three are only demarcations of time, the present also would be unknown if it were not for something above the senses,something independent of time, which unifies the past and the future in the present.
To get more information visit : http://www.spiritual-simplicity.com
Lecturer, entrepreneur and Fortune 500 business consultant, Vish Writer is the author of the Amazon No 1 bestseller, "The Joy of Becoming God". Visit him at Spiritual SimplicityThe Real Secret
Source:www.isnare.com |
