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11/29/06
Anonymous
what is religion
Is it actually as dependent as it appears to us??

Aug 31
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Venu
Tat Aham Asi.
Religion, generally defined, is both the teaching as well as the pursuit of the highest truth, call it God, Self, Consciousness, Advaita or whatever. The key point is, it is a movement from a restless mind to a restful mind. Therefore it is quite different from the pursuit of knowledge or information. It is a pursuit that begins with disillusionment. After finding all pursuits unsatisfactory, the seeker discovers the dissatisfaction was because the pursuits were towards the 'outside'. Now he attempts the religious path, the path within. It is however not to be construed that disillusionment alone makes the religious man. If we take into consideration the phenomena of births and rebirths, it would be no surprise that some are born spiritual, like Adi Shankaracharya. He went through the phases in his previous janmas.The journey within culminates in the realisation that the journey itself was an illusion - we have always been the restful nature we sought and it was 'maya' that diverted our awareness of this the ultimate truth. We are ever in the Advaitic or non-dual truth. We thus attain moksha from maya. We are the God we sought. Satchitananda.