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02 novembre What is Religion and What is Spirituality?Religion and spirituality are the most misunderstood subjects today. When religion is set awash with logic, then much of what it retains will be washed away, and what remains will be pure spirituality.
Religion minus superstition is spirituality! Religion is nothing but a tool; spirituality is nothing but "Life Engineering".
Spirituality enables you to focus, not on material things, but on the sweetness of life, the miracles of existence. You are part of a macrocosmic orchestra that is being conducted by Existential Energy. This focus keeps you liberated within, enabling you to perform - in the outer world - intelligently and effortlessly. It also keeps you in tune with the Existential Energy.
Man has always been curious about creation and this beautiful universe surrounding him. He has asked questions about the creator. He concluded that there was a Life Force or Energy that made all this happen. He began to establish a connection with that Energy.
The first people to do this were the Rishis (sages). They found techniques for future generations to realize this Energy. These different techniques snowballed into different religions. What has to be understood is that even though the formula for each Rishi was different, they were all talking about the same experience of Existential Energy. But today we tend to cling to the formula and eventually forget the purpose. As a result, we never get a glimpse of the real experience!
Those who fight in the name of religion have never had any spiritual experience. They have never become "spiritual fruit". They have not understood the purpose of religion and tend to miss the point.
When religion takes you to spirituality, you will understand that spirituality is nothing but Life itself. Religion is quantity, spirituality is quality. Because religion is quantity, we turn towards spirituality towards the end of life. But religion is a stepping stone to understanding one's spiritual nature and living in peace.
The Five Elements of the Cosmos
Existence or Cosmos is made up of the five elements which are - Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ehter. All these elements are different forms of the same Existential Energy, which we call God or Jesus Christ or Krishna or Allah and so on.
The basic thirst of man is to find a connection with this Existential Energy. All religions have been born with the idea of finding a connection with Existence through the five elements. Let me explain how this is achieved.
Take the first element - the Earth element. Idol worship is nothing but trying to find a connection with the Existential Energy through the Earth element. Idols are made up of earth or clay. Through the worship of idols, we are actually trying to find a connection through the Earth element.
This has to be clearly understood here: we are not worshipping the idols; we are worshipping through the idols. If this point is understood, there will not be so much of fight and fanaticism over forms and idols. The Energy that everyone is worshipping is one and the same. This has to be very clearly understood.
Next, we come to the water element. It is a spiritual practice to take bath in sacred rivers. This is actually a technique to try to realize the Existential Energy through the water element.
Next, we perform so many fire rituals at our homes and temples. This practice is to realize the Existential Energy through the fire element. The next element is the air element. Chanting mantras is nothing but trying to connect to the Cosmic Energy through the air element. When we chant, we are playing with our breath, which is nothing but the air element.
Finally, we come to the element which is the subtlest form of the Existential Energy - the Ether element. Meditation is nothing but trying to connect to Existence through the Ether element.
The earth element is the first plane of tuning ourselves to the Energy and ether is the final plane of tuning. We can start with the earth element - idol worship, but we tend to get stuck there and therein starts the problem. You can start your education at kindergarten, but you cannot complete it there. In the same way, you can start with idol worship so that you have something tangible when you try to connect to the Cosmic Energy, but you have to ultimately graduate from it and start meditation to fine tune yourself with Existence.
Once you start doing this and experience the joys of meditation, you will find yourself expanding and exploding in 360 degrees. Ritualistic worship always draws tight boundaries around you. It keeps you in a closed circle. But once you have had a taste of meditation, you will start becoming an expanse. Then, when you go back to rituals, you will look at them from a different dimension and enjoy them even more! When this happens, growth has happened in you.
If you understand the underlying concept of the five elements, you will be able to enjoy Existence continuously instead of getting stuck in different forms of worship.
So, just try to understand this and start resonating with Existence!
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