The Gospel According to Acharya S
Praising the Lord
"Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!" Traditional "religion" teaches us that there is a God person somewhere "out there" who
demands that we constantly praise "him" and give thanks to "him." We must, in order to be worthy inhabitants of "his kingdom," exalt this God
fellow in all "his" glory, which we must consistently mention. In order to be deemed "religious" under the terms of these so-called religions, we
must never praise ourselves or bask in our own glory but we must defer all such compliments and ego-stroking to "the Almighty," who will reward
us for our groveling by giving us lodging in Heaven. The "Lord" needs to be stroked all the time in order for us to secure such a room with a
view.
Is Kissing Ass a Religious Experience?
It is a very strange concept indeed that such an entity as the monotheistic God dude - who, as an enlightened being, one would
suppose is beyond ego and the need to be honored - requires our fawning and adulation. Yet, this is precisely what our "authorities" dictate is a
"religious" experience. If we were to apply such obsequious behavior to a human "king of kings" or "lord of lords," we in any self-respecting
society would consider this to be scaredy-cat brown-nosing and ass-kissing. But when this same behavior is done in terms of pacifying an
invisible and imaginary deity in the sky, then this is considered excellence.
It is truly a topsy-turvy world when we have to unceasingly praise the being who, according to these belief systems, shoved us
- against our will - into an existence on a planet that these same "religious" fanatics frequently regard as "purgatory" if not outright hell.
How many times have we been told by the same idiotic "authorities" - priests, preachers, etc. - that we are "born in sin" and must spend our
entire lives making up for it, principally by slobbering at the feet of the one who created us in the first place? Should we not, in a sane
society, be chastising and rebuking "him" who forced us to be "born in sin" against our will, rather than glorifying "him" all day long? And
there are some cults that smooch "his" butt several times a day.
Is God a Megalomaniac?
The idea that the Creator of the Universe and Ruler of the World needs to hear us praising "him" all the time is positively
foolish and childish. Even an awakened human being, so paltry and minuscule when compared to the Great One that these priests have made up, does
not need his or her ego continually stroked in this manner. In fact, it is a sign of an enlightened person that he or she does not require this
kind of praising and worship. Only gigantic egotists suffering from deep feelings of insecurity crave this sort of
praise, and yet we are told that our presumably self-sufficient "Lord" needs it all the time or "he" will throw us into Hell! How preposterous!
God is a Murderous Tyrant
Any entity that would punish another being because he or she failed to praise that entity is not a god at all but a sadistic
tyrant who could be easily compared to the most evil of despots, Satan. This supposedly good God likes to pass "his" days
squeezing humanity for praise - or else "he'll" toss us into eternal hell. This fascist egoist we call "God" is a bully, coward and insecure
sadist who demands constant approval. It is foul. Then we are told to put our responsibility on this fictitious monster, who flattens cities,
murders millions and tortures women.
This concept of a male deity who needs to be exalted, thanked, honored, praised, worshipped, adored, venerated, adulated,
extolled, complimented, admired, glorified and idolized is completely out of date and belongs to the Stone Age, when so-called savages were
afraid of their own shadows and attributed everything that happened to them to a deranged god creature somewhere in outer space. This kind of
thinking does not belong to this age, when humanity must stop putting responsibility for its own messy creation on such an imaginary creature as
the white male god who sits on a throne in a nebulous heaven.
God is a Deranged Crackpot
Any being that demands constant praise or else it will hurl its creatures into an eternal inferno is not divine or godly;
indeed, it is sick and demented. Anyone who would portray divinity in such a way is also not mentally sound. Clearly, if there were a god with
the kind of power that such silly preachers attribute to "him," and "he" needed and/or desired the whinings and
grovelings of such mealy creatures as human beings to feel worthy and good, we should say that "he" is an egoist of the highest order - yet, this
is precisely how our "religious" ministers are presenting "him." In fact, if there were such a creature as this God person, it would be highly
insulting to "him" to suggest that "he" has such beggarly needs as this.
Enlightened Behavior
Let's get off this warped interpretation of God. God, which is simply Great Spirit, the Tao, the Cosmic Yin/Yang, the Creative
Life Force, the Schwartz, or the Big Nothing, has no need for praise of any kind, because it is an entity complete unto itself. It is not a
sickly human being who feels as if nobody loves it if other petty and puny human beings don't suck up to it and tell it is loved. No intelligent
person is buying this rubbish anymore. No thinking person with any self-esteem is falling upon his or her knees to lick the boots of a giant old
man with a white beard who has the power to bestow accommodations in Heaven. The game is up.
Enlightened people do not see themselves as separate from their own creator. They are the creators of their own dramas. Thus,
they do not go around praising any "Lord" person who they believe is governing their lives. Awakened ones know conclusively that they are running
their own lives. Illuminated beings are not separate from the authority that dictates how they live. They are their own authority; they have
their autonomy to decide what they will do with their lives. And they praise nothing and everything.
The Gospel According to Acharya S
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