 139. Religions (True) |
Part- 4
People constantly make grandiose affirmations about "religion" — but, in doing so, they are merely playing power-games and mumming on one another. They make absurd affirmations that something is absolutely so, and they commit their entire lives to it — but it is absolute nonsense.
They are not certain, with the clarity born of real "testing and proving", that what they affirm is true. And if you are not absolutely certain that something is true, absolute affirmation of it is not appropriate. The same is true for any other kind of presumed "knowledge" — not only "religious" beliefs.
"Religion", as an "objective" phenomenon, is a collection of ideas and doctrines that cannot — and should not — be absolutely affirmed. Therefore, what is the point of getting absolutely affirmative about "religious" doctrines, myths, and reports?
Truth Itself Is the Only Absolute — and Reality Itself Is Only Self-Evident. Much can (and must) be made of Truth Itself, or Reality Itself — but there is no point in making much of any mere ideas or any merely conditional appearances, because everything that appears conditionally is (itself) tentative and non-absolute.
There is no harm intended in this Criticism. This Criticism is a Revelation of That Which Is Divine. Therefore, this Criticism Cures the heart, and Cures the life — but by the Means of Truth Itself, or Reality Itself, and not by all of the means concocted by ego-bound humanity in its "world"-mummery of suffering and seeking.
