With this unconstrained approach,
True love will not be bargained.
They will understand the discourses delivered in Satsangs better, and the importance of the true Master to guide them in this path and see why they must adopt the new way of life proposed to them.
Thus, they will know that the liberation of their souls is their own responsibilities, but that the Good Shepherd will guide them along the way.
The answers to the following question:
Where can the Lord be found, will find satisfactory answers, as follows:
Taken from the book:
Liberation of the Soul” by Stanley J. White
After studying and understanding the process of human evolution, from a sensual creature to acquiring his thirst for God, we are now logically confronted with the question of where to find the object of our research. When we look around, we see that there are literally hundreds of religions and philosophies.
Everyone seems to have their own idea of how to achieve God’s realization. Some similarities, however, appear in most of these philosophies. They testify:
- Rituals and ceremonies
- Holy Pilgrimage Places
- Temples and places of worship
- Festivities and festivities
- Fasting and Penance
- Formal Prayers or recitations
- Clothing or identification symbols
- A class of priests or ministers.
Most religious philosophies incorporate almost all of these characteristics. Of course, there are thousands of different approaches to God resulting from the interaction of these characteristics.
The problem we face, when we are faced with all these philosophies, is to determine which one contains the essence of truth.
For example, Muslims believe that we must make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca during our lifetime, while Sikhs place great importance on Amritsar, a necessary visiting venue. Should we believe that the gracious Lord prefers Mecca to Amritsar or vice versa? Or, in his clothing, does he prefer those who cover his head or those who go head naked?
Every custom claims its origin out of respect for the Lord.
Christians would think that it is sacrilegious to enter the church barefoot, while Hindus and Muslims regard it as a necessity. Some religions say that Friday is a sacred day for the Lord, while others claim that working on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, is a sin. It seems that we are constantly sinning against a particular religion when we adopt a given custom. . How to choose a philosophy to follow in such a situation?
To make things more complicated, we would not be able to investigate all the religions of the world in our lifetime. There are simply too many religions, each with a number of subdivisions, and we could easily spend our entire lives searching for the types and types of religions. How many thousands of sincere researchers have suffered unspeakable privations, such as fasting, sitting in hot or cold water, standing in the same place for hours, allowing the disease to ravage their bodies, etc., thinking that it Closer to God? These austerities, penances, pilgrimages, rituals, etc., may have somewhat purified their thoughts or brought them into a sense of accomplishment, but where is the desired fusion with God? The prophet Isaiah warns: What good is the multitude of your sacrifices towards me? Saith the Lord… I do not rejoice in the blood of oxen, lambs or goats. When you come before me, who asked you to run my course? ‘Bring more vain oblates; Incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the convening of assemblies with which I cannot distance myself; it is iniquity, even solemn meetings. Your new moons and your named Feast my soul Hates: they are a problem for me; I’m tired of supporting them. And when you spread your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; yes, when you do a lot of prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. In his search for enlightenment, the Buddha tried all the traditional Hindu and yogic austerities and rituals and concluded that they were worthless. He beat even the best.
After acquiring some supernatural powers, he did not attain the realization of God and thus denounced traditional Hinduism and yoga, and later, after his death, the Hindus regarded him as a reformer and claimed him as a Hindu of Heart. Buddha said to His disciples: the Tathagata (the perfect) does not seek salvation in austerities, but he does not allow himself for this reason to indulge in worldly pleasures, nor does he live in abundance. The complacent man is a slave to his passions. Seeking pleasure is degrading and vulgar. But satisfying the necessities of life is not an evil. Keeping the body healthy is a duty, otherwise we will not be able to cut the lamp of wisdom and keep our mind strong and clear. “And Guru Nanak said: ” I have endeavored to meet the Lord in many ways: I read the scriptures and studied the Vedas; Yogic practices (including the Kundalini or the power of the Serpent), which I also executed, but the five enemies I could not hunt. “* On the contrary, vanity has increased in leaps and bounds with the intellect.
No, it is not the roads, my dear friend, that lead to God; believe me, countless paths of this kind have been traversed in vain. “Why should the Lord demand the degradation or destruction of the human body in which he resides himself? This is a mystical secret, for all the Saints and masters have universally proclaimed that the Lord, who is the supreme object of our quest, must be found outside: it must be done in the human frame.