Truth and religion

Man to feed his ego about his god creates religions. Religions are diverse, unique but fundamentally the goal is the same. If just the importance of god emphasized more than religion, every human being should be enlightened by now. However the reverse is true. Religion is far more important than the truth itself. Some are born, live for 100 years and die one day without knowing anything about truth but mastered the religion. Why mastering the religion not equivalent to mastering the truth? It is just a shift of angle required to realize the difference of religion and truth. It’s just a shift of perception needed to see the truth rather than being masked by religion. You can master all the religions yet truth is still far away. You can read the whole Holy Bible, Bhagawad Gita or any other religious scriptures, yet you now nothing about the truth. Reading the books and scriptures makes you more knowledgeable but does that makes you realize god?

            No doubt religion is needed to know about the truth. But religion itself is not the truth. Religion is just a guide for man to search the truth. One needs to understand the concept of religion to read about the truth, to understand and comprehend the truth but not for realizing the truth. The religion is needed in initial stage but there will be one stage where man has to let go to realize the truth. Too much emphasis has been placed on religion rather than the truth itself in modern days. Each devotee prefers to identify themselves with the religion rather than the truth. They rather sacrifice themselves in the name of religion for defending the so-called self professes truth. But do we know what is actually the truth?

            Ask any man about his opinion of god, and he quickly tells you what religion he is and how firmly he believes in his god. But why you should believe in god at the first place? You only believe something that you are not sure of rather than you are really sure. You believe there is ghost as you think there might be ghost living somewhere. You have heard of ghost but you have never seen it, thus you believe there is ghost.  But just imagine if you have seen ghost with your own eyes, do you still believe in ghost or you are hundred percent sure that ghost exist. So what is the difference about ghost and god if you believe that ghost exists and god also exist. Can you prove their existence?  Or is it your gut feeling tells you that god exist as well as ghost.

If you are hundred percent sure of Him, the question of believe will never arises. The moment you realized Him, you stop in believing Him but your whole core being will be convinced of his presence. So let us analyze ourselves where we belong? Do we belong to the group that believes there is god or do we belong to the group that we are convinced one hundred percent the existence of god. Perhaps the word ‘convince’ is not convincing enough to us to describe His presence. The problem with the words ‘convince’ is, it is created to say agree, understand or realize the truth but all these words are not enough to describe Him. He is more than the feeling of convince, He is more than the feeling itself, He is more than any other words that created by humans. He is indescribable. He is unimaginable. The five senses given to us are not sufficient to tell about Him. The eyes alone are not enough to describe Him. The ears alone are not enough to hear of Him. The nose itself is not enough of smelling Him. The tongue itself is not enough of tasting Him. The hands alone are not enough to touch Him. He is more than these five senses, which we mortals equipped.

            The moment He is realized, there is a joy sweeps our heart. The heart dances with bliss. The mind stops thinking. The brain stops ‘functioning’. The whole body shivers with ecstasy. The breathing ‘harmonizes’ with the nature. The legs start to dance. The hands start to dance. Oh what a joy! What a joy to be gifted to realize Him. What a joy to be gifted to smell His presence. What a joy to be gifted to hear of Him. What a joy to be gifted to touch Him. What a joy to be gifted to taste and to see Him. Ah, so many years have wasted not knowing Him earlier.  But here ‘I’ am today in his presence or there is no ‘I’ after meeting Him. The ‘I’ has melted away. The ego has run away.  It is just He and only He.