| Culture of New Civilization: Interrelation of faith and science | 2 comments |
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24 Dec 2006 @ 07:32, by Shreepal Singh
You worship a deity. You prostrate at the feet of the idol. What do you do in this case? You simply condition your mind. One does not do anything by praying to the idol. By such an act, one only affects his mind.
You worship your God. You prostrate before Him and offer your submission and subordination to Him. You do not do anything affecting anybody but your mind. It is not your mind alone that is affected by this very intimate and personal process. Your desires, your inmost wishes, even body feelings, in addition to your thoughts, are affected in a subtle manner. They all are conditioned. Thereby you bring a change in you.
You imagine there is God and that He is in the idol, or that He is all pervading and not in th idol alone, which is the same thing in its effect on your mind. You bow before Him and offer your complete self to Him. You do so unconditionally. What do you do by such an act on your part? You do not do anything but condition your mind, desires and body feelings. It is an act that affects nothing but you. You are completely changed by this process. Your inmost personality – subconscious and unconscious parts of the personality – becomes a totally changed new structure.
You read a holy book and bear faith on its sayings. What do you do to yourself by such an act? You change yourself. You bestow your inmost respect to this holy book and do not forbear a single thought of disbelief of the sayings, or the book’s desecration by anyone. Such a thought does not find a welcome place in your consciousness. By such an actone does not do anything to the holy book. He simply conditions his mind, urgings and feelings.
Or, you do not believe in the existence of a God or any holy book and believe that it is your conduct – your actions – alone that matters in realizing the ultimate wisdom, truth or enlightenment. You give a particular direction to your conduct in your life. What do you do to your personality? By this process you simply change yourself, that is, your thoughts, cravings and feelings.
In their substance and impact on human consciousness, what is the difference between one and another of these seemingly contradictory modes of religious faiths? None at all. Essentially, they all bring a psychological change in a particular direction in one’s total personality. One may follow a path that suits his nature and the path would bring a change in his personality, which is the sole means to progress on the evolutionary path of consciousness.
We all know the manipulation of semi conducting materials that science and its derivative branch – technology – are pursuing today. What is this manipulation? It is re-arranging the molecular structure of the material concerned to make atoms’ electrons flow in the designed fashion possible. Prescriptions of all faiths are akin to this manipulation of one’s consciousness whereby the flow of energy of supreme consciousness – and such energy is not a fiction invented by philosophers but a hard reality – is enabled in a desirable fashion. By resorting to these prescriptions you change yourself and then the miraculous consequences – bizarre, as termed by non-believers - follow that are there for all of us to see, observe and scientific study. You get something. You receive something – something that is as real as hard rock, that is incomparably enlightening and empowering, and that was not there before. Faith and prayer, in fact, help the one who is sincere in his resolve and call. It does miracles. It is a tool. It is a lever in the hands of human being – a being that is ordinarily ignorant, egoistic and unwilling to desire or even welcome a change for his betterment.
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25 Dec 2006 @ 15:28 by freo7 : Here's what I did Shreepal
HEY OH guess what I'm learning?! finally... 6:55 AM
I am learning that if I fill the all that is with my imaginings, interpretations and judgments, I never get to enter the UNKNOWN. Adventure was my great escape.. Then one day I created TRUST - well maybe only the idea of it... LOL And it was a serious concept! I stuck with it just to have the courage to behold reality as it is - in my own mirror of course.
Then after TRUST became a viable option - knowing that I would not hurt myself any more - the surrender idea began to creep in. A Warrior like me does not surrender but.... what if we aren't really in duality and what if duality really is 'just all of our OWN creations' - well hell... I got curious what the GOD ME would be like and all, I the warrior, had to do was stop all self create adventures and JUST BE.
BE WHO? Just BE and dare to experience whatever the UNKNOWN is. and... then...
Last night I felt the one heart beating all that is including me. Last night I felt the goings in and goings out in undulating sure-enity. IT was as if all atoms multiplied at once in great yet sensual joy. I EVEN SAW the most beautiful andro-genius male femalish being I have ever seen who said to me:
"YOU ARE JUST BEGINNING TO SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL WE ARE," As we he she I twirled in the GOD BODY of all celebrating life in utter and complete BLINKING BLISS at the moment of creation ITSELF, smiling.
I remember having only 2 thoughts:
1) OH so this is surrender?
and
2) Oh yea, everyone I know in the whole world is doing an orgasim for peace tonight...
*This morning I would have to say that being able to TRUST, LET GO, and BE may be the greatest Gift I've ever let myself have.
FINALLY,
Still Brenda in Idaho USA Earth & THE BLISSFUL Beyond which seems to be based in deep abiding SAFE WARM SUPPORTED & PROTECTED. And ignited as it were, by TRUST and DARING to just BE WHO WHAT HOW & WHY we really are here and now without ANY VERSION put upon it.
28 Dec 2006 @ 15:26 by shreepal : comment
Beautiful, freo 7. It is only heroes who can surrender, because to be able to surrender to the Supreme being one has to wage heroic unending wars against one's thoughts, desires and body-inclinations, which rebel against such surrender. Mind does not reconcile with the slighest suggestion of surrender to anything, because Mind is not only ignorant but arrogant too.
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