Swamijis, Miracles, Religion
and Spirituality
Initially I felt, being a
not so orthodox person, I should refrain from expressing my views on something
that comes from a person like you whom I respect much. However the very fact
that you have sent me this mail I felt you expect my views. That is why you
marked a copy to me. Hence my opinion here.
Not at the least meant to
hurt any believer of any swamyji.
If someone does a miracle,
can he be a god man? It is a decadent concept.
I beg to disagree with the
miracle making swamijis’ philosophy to cheat gullible people.
Modi Mastans and P C Sarkar
the popular magicians are then the best god men.
There are lot of miracle
men and women in the world. Are they avatars of God?
The very fact if a Swamiji
is venerated for his purported miracles or he suffers from attention deficient disorder
that he wants to veer your attention towards him by doing a particular stunt
which you call as miracle and knowing your vulnerability tries to extract from
you whatever he can.
Hitler
had very many miraculous escapes in his life. Many of them were due to his intuition and premonition.
'Miracle
has no part in religion,' observed Gandhiji.
This
is from Swamy Vivekananda. “If you want to be religious, enter not the
gate of any organized religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good,
because they stop the growth of each one’s individual development… Religion is
only between you and your god, and no third person must come between
you”. (Complete Works, Volume 1)I respect such views.
That
is the reason all great spiritually charged religious societies have multiple
methods of worship and many gods. That is the reason why even in societies
which have been culturally curtailed, religiously restricted and
psychologically hypnotized into believing only in one god, one scripture and
one institution the individual's innate aspirations and blooming of the inner
self are veering towards expressions in some platforms outside their religion
or diverting to different activities or totally derailing in from their
spiritual track and this has lead to NRMs [detailed article in my blog in the
link below] after all life and nature are many faceted splendor
Organized religions and
creating institutions and promoting them for religious purpose are inevitable
aspects of promoting and protecting interests of sects, cults and the
beneficiaries and to have an edge over other competitors and appeal to
beings who cannot and will not go beyond average and mundane intellectual
and emotional perception.
Humankind
basically needs two vital items. Spiritualism and materialism.Battle of the
belly and battle of the soul. Name one god man who talks
about belly problem of poor, though many of them are pot bellied! They don't talk
about materialism as if it is a sin. But maintain huge wealth.
Name a sadhu or swamiji who
fights social evils.
Last but not least.
Religious
wars killed maximum people.
Why
do we need God, religion and the consequently the god brokers?
Having
said this I am not arrogating myself and claiming that I can travel the
journey of life all alone but I need to do the travelling myself and in
the journey every helper is welcome and I definitely need them too as in a
train journey, when you board a train starting from the mechanic who checks all
the screws and joints to the driver to the signal operator to the track
inspector to the level crossing operator to the signal lights to the station
master to the toilet cleaner to the snack vendor to the porter to the fellow
traveler everyone plays a role each significant in its own right but to
deify a fellow traveler who voluntarily carried my suitcase or to deify the
snacks vendor who brought me to my surprise my most favorite home- made Avial
and claiming that without their help I could have never made the journey is not
correct as it is the result of not only lack of comprehensive perception
but distorted perception. Very often it is not even our perception but the
scale of observation and frames of reference which create the phenomenon. The
scale of observation depends on man; it is he who creates it. In nature,
different scales of observation do not exist. There is only one immense, harmonious
phenomenon on a scale which, in general, escapes man. The structure of man's
brain necessitates dividing into arbitrary compartments and cutting up into
isolated pieces. With the aid of several instruments science creates more
phantasmagoria: "on our scale of human observation, as pointed out before,
the edge of a razor-blade is a continuous line. On the microscopic scale, it is
a broken but solid line. On the chemic scale we have atoms of iron and carbon.
On the sub-atomic scale we have electrons in perpetual motion which travel at
the rate of several thousand miles per second. All these phenomena are in
reality the manifestations of the same basic phenomenon, the motions of the
electrons. The only difference which exists between them is the scale of observation"
[Human Destiny, Lecomte du Nuoy- a marvelous book that everyone must read – if
I remember correctly this comes in 34th page I have read that book at least 8
timeshttp://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2010/02/real-perception.html].
Unfortunately
many of the new trends are doing more harm than good to the spiritual
journey.
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