Here is something from my Teacher, Adi Da
<<<TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION
People who irrationally accept various religious beliefs and so adhere exclusively (and often fanatically) to a particular historical cult of belief are engaged in false religion. This is not true merely of the so-called "cults" or non-establishment religious groups, that characterize one aspect of the contemporary scene. Rather, it is true of all conventional religious institutions, and it is especially true of the broadly based "establishment" of religious institutions that proliferate in the entire world.
True religion is not a matter of uninspected belief, or fanatical adherence to an historical system of objective beliefs that excludes all other systems of belief from the right to Truth. True religion is a higher human process. It is a process enacted in the body-mind of the individual and in the communities of all individuals who are conciously involved in that same process. It is a process that can only begin if it is founded on profound self-critical consideration and insight, followed by conversion, or release of the entire body-mind into the Life-Power,the All-Pervading and ultimately Divine Energy that may be directly and bodily experienced and also clearly revealed to the intuitive mind.
True religion is the mechanism in Nature whereby Man evolves and transcends himself, both individually and collectively (as a species and as a cultural and social order). Therefor, true religion transcends the chaos of conventional exoteric cultic beliefs. It transcends even all of the sects and offshoots of the so-called "great religions" such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.>>>
(from: Scientific Proof of the Existence of God will Soon be Announced by the White House!)
which, incidentally contains a discourse same as the title above, but including the word "NOT"
Any comments from anybody?
Namaste!
Jim |
