The Gospel According to Acharya S
On Being Religious
"An ignorant people is generally a religious
people, and a religious people nearly always an immoral
people."
John Remsburg
People who claim to be religious usually aren't.
They believe that following some doctrine, dogma or egotistical
self-appointed "agent of God" makes them
religious, when in fact following anything, like a brainless sheep,
is the antithesis of true religion. Not being able to think for
yourself is not a mark of great religious piety but a sign of being
cut off from creativity, which is the realm of the Creator Itself.
No person blindly following the uncreative life prescribed by a
religious doctrine is close to the Creator but is in reality
deadened to the Creative Life Force, which is " God"; hence, he or she is unreligious.
Do Pompous Pride and Religiosity Go
Together?
Those who profess to be religious usually do so
with great pride and feeling of being good. They think that they
are getting brownie points with some deity in the sky or some
society creature. Others who hear their declarations of "I am a
very religious person" nod their heads in tremendous approval,
approval that the sheepish "religious" child desperately wants.
Oddly enough, the pride and ego-boosting that
come along with such declarations are signs of irreligiousness, of
insecurity and a definite separation from "God." By saying that you
are religious, you are in effect implying that there is something
about yourself that is superior to the person who does not make
such a claim. You are arrogantly setting yourself apart from other
human beings simply because you can shamelessly obey the doctrine
of institutions that have mindlessly and violently wreaked havoc
upon this planet.
Being a Zombie is Not a Religious
Experience
Believing in a male father-figure in the sky,
and ignorantly and uncreatively following rules set forth hundreds
and thousands of years ago by a man or men, are anything but
religious experiences. The agents of such dead experiences
thoroughly love that so many other people in the world think this
is the definition of religion. They
benefit greatly by keeping people enslaved to dead dogma and in a
state of perpetual childhood. Obey! Don't question authority! Marry
and reproduce! Don't think for yourselves! Family is good! Father
knows best! Follow the Christian ethic! Baa! Baa! Baa!
A person in such a state never really knows what
he or she is doing, unless it is the most basic of acts, like
sleeping or going to the can. But when real, hard decisions come
flying down the pike, these people cannot think for themselves and
must go running to one of their authority figures, such as a
priest or even a psychiatrist - who is
the priest of his own religion - for the answers to their lives'
dilemmas. This is to suppose that other people know who you are
more than you do and can determine your life better than you can.
Not knowing yourself and putting your life in the hands of others,
whether a terrestrial father or the Great Daddy in the Sky, is most
definitely not a religious experience by
any enlightened definition.
In fact, not knowing yourself is
unenlightenment, which is considered the opposite of a religious
experience in many cultures and religious traditions. Even the
mythical writer of the biblical Galatians informs and exhorts his
followers: "My little children, with whom I am again in travail
until the Christ be formed in you."
(Emphasis added.) What this correctly means is that until you
become Christ - Christ is a spiritual state of union with divinity,
not a Jewish man - you are just a child, you are not fully formed.
The whole point of real religion is to create enlightened,
awakened, fully formed adults who take responsibility for
themselves and do not pass it off on any savior, messiah or father
god. A so-called religion that causes one to become crippled,
self-mortifying and self-deprecating is
not a religion but a social system of
controlling the masses through psychological deformation and
retardation.
Surrendering your existence to a fictitious
daddy in heaven or his savior son is not a religious experience.
For those who know what a religious experience is - that is, an
epiphany whereby the entire universe becomes a blessing - followers
of organized religion who proudly proclaim they are religious are
irritating and idiotic. Get a clue about the nature of God other
than what some ridiculous, outdated, biased, sexist, racist and
spurious Book and its cheerleaders
dictate. Meditate and feel your inner silence. Then you will truly
be able to claim you are religious, but not while you are
unthinkingly following someone or something simply because you
think that will earn you marks in the Maker's "Book of Life." Many
serial killers and mass murderers have also claimed to be very
religious people. Obviously, this claim does not mark a good
character. It is not an impressive thing to those who know true
religion, which has no dogma, no doctrine, no anthropomorphic god,
no saviors and no priests, but simply benevolence, divine love and
cosmic consciousness.
The Gospel According to
Acharya S
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