PRIESTS' TOOLS TO TRAP FOLLOWERS:

PRIESTS' TOOLS TO TRAP FOLLOWERS:

Priests use the following tools to trap gullible followers.

1). Belief

2). Commandments

3). Sin and Guilt

4). Promise and Hope

5). Boosting the Ego.

6). Rituals.

7). Miracle stories

8). Fear

9). Blessings

10). Miseries and Curses

All these may appear innocuous and apparently aimed at making someone ‘god- fearing' and hence a better individual. But these are actually psychological tools that make one crippled for life. Priests use them carefully according to the situation like politicians to keep the follower trapped by his own mind. In fact this is a pre-planned assault on the unsuspecting confused individual by the priests. All religions do this. None spared including Hinduism which is not a religion !

Lets analyse the tools that priests use to tame people.

1). BELIEF:-

The priest (of any religion) would mandatorily require the prospective follower (mostly children who are innocent and straight forward before they attain the maturity to ask questions) to believe in someone. Their parents fell pray to the priests by believing in someone is the only fault the children committed. They are taught to 'believe' that a particular person was born to save others and there would be nobody else like him any more. One has to necessarily 'believe' this first for getting inducted into the religion. Once inducted, the priests use the other tools as required to cripple him completely.

Remedy:

What is required to grow is to 'doubt' and not 'believe' like a stupid. The individual needs to ask questions and is to be encouraged to do so in order to find the answers himself than spoon-feeding him with what others or the priests think. Then he starts thinking like others and not as himself. His intelligence gets blocked. He has no questions. He fails to understand the meaning of existence as he is simply not asking any questions. His growth is curtailed. He becomes a Bonsai irrigated and controlled by the priests. He lives and dies like a dwarf with fear and having no self acquired knowledge. The priests have killed a potential Buddha even before he started asking questions like Siddhartha.

Get the point? Doubt. Do not believe. If someone tells one to believe, simply ask why.

2). COMMANDMENTS:- 

The priests would teach to learn by heart a few dos and don'ts which they themselves may not follow in private. These rules would be difficult to follow for normal people. Like no food or water at night by Jains. Or do not swallow saliva ! This is like telling dogs not to bark to become respectable. The natural tendency is nature's gift. No priest has the right to deny it. If the natural course of a river is blocked, the waters would take another course. This is nature's rule. By trying to follow the commandments, people make mistakes as none can follow all rules completely. Further, by trying to follow the commandments, the mind gets confused and fearful when mistakes happen inadvertently. Those who follow the commandments to the dot end up as psychic patients.

Remedy:

No commandments need to be followed for happy living except what the nature gives us and what common sense allows. Then we live naturally enjoying the natural resources and replenishing them like responsible persons. Live naturally, responsibly and carefully without hurting oneself or others.

3). SIN and GUILT:-

The priests would say certain acts are sins. If you swallow his advice, then you would start feeling guilty for having committed some sin, confess to the priest about it, who will decide the penalty too! How interesting. First of all an elaborate list of sins is made by the priests. These would be those that the priests may not do in public so that he escapes questioning by doubting Thomases. But natural tendencies of people would be included in that list so that some one trips somewhere ! In many religions, Sex is considered as sin. Now all humans need sex by their design. Denying the normal sex drive as a sin is more than enough to complicate the person for life. Thus masturbation becomes a sin, thinking of women is sin, watching pornography is sin. Homosexuality is sin. Natural hetero sex itself is sin. Adultery is sin. People get scared at expressing their natural love. The priests become happy. Now the person is under their thumb.

Remedy:

Understand that no act whatsoever is sin in this world. There can be mistakes. Mistakes can be corrected. But making a mistake is no ground for branding someone as a sinner for life. That is simply not fair. Besides there are no sins at all. If so, the animals would be getting burnt in hellfire everyday ! At worst certain actions can be in the animal level, which is low for human beings. The way out is to understand the mistake and correct them. There is no question of any sin, whatsoever. But there can be mistakes, which can of course be corrected. Relax.

4). PROMISE and HOPE:-

The priests would promise things and create hope among those in need / desire. To the poor, he might say that if they do this and that they would be rich after death. Not in this life, mind you ! So even those who advocate celibacy in this life would be given hope that after they die, there would be virgins awaiting them in paradise. Or to alcoholics, the advice would be that in paradise the rivers are of alcohol ! This is plain cheating. Because there is no paradise and no life after death as made out to be. But this strategy works for the dumb ones who has something to look forward to, if not in this life then after death !

Remedy:

Hope is a futuristic concept. The future is actually a phantom, which does not exist. When future arrives, it will be as today, now. So what cannot be satisfied or realised now is not going to be realised tomorrow either if we postpone it. If something can be done, it is now and here and not later. All such promises are just that. Promises which cannot be fulfilled.

5). BOOSTING THE EGO :- All wise people advised to drop the ego. The priests tell us otherwise ! Because it is the priests' interest that people remain egoistic and strive to outdo others. Then they can be controlled. If people are selfless, the priests lose business. Imagine a world full of selfless people like Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha etc. There would be no competition. All Mahatmas would help the others ! Then the priests would have none to admonish ! Therefore the priests instigate ego within people so that they remain without love to others. Then they can preach love. If people start loving others especially of other religions, then the priests are out of business.

Remedy:

Understand what ego is in the first place. Ego is the identity that one assumes about oneself based on the body, mind, the world and experiences. The ego appears to be the experiencer. But it is not so. The soul is the experiencer. To realise this, one has to drop ego and look within. Ego is like darkness or ignorance which will disappear when the light / knowledge comes. Once we start searching for the ego, it simply disappears ! when we ignore the ego, it appears like a shadow! Ego is ignorance personified. Identify the ego and reach the pure core of conscious-existence. then one feels reassured and blissful.

6). RITUALS:-

All religions have rituals and codes of conduct either started by the founders or modified by the priests following them. Thus prayers, visit to temples, churches, mosques or synagogues, fasting at times, praying in particular postures, dress codes, how to treat women (or how to avoid them in daylight !), baptism by Christians, poonool by Hindus, match making procedures, auspicious timings, wedding ceremonies, after death rituals etc. Rituals if unchecked can grow, engulf and consume the whole life. So people being practical with common sense, keep minimum rituals that cannot be avoided in any case. Rituals are aimed at conditioning the mind and thus life. When people wear similar dresses, they can be identified as a separate group. Same with rituals. All rituals lead the devotee to the destination. The priests' feet. Not to the God's abode as promised by the priests. Because the priests themselves do not know about the God's abode. Even if they know, they may keep quiet so that devotees remain at their feet.

Remedy:-

The remedy is to understand that with all these varied rituals of various religions, people remain as they are with or without rituals ! If some particular way of praying can reach God quicker, then surely that has to be tried out whole heartedly by all other religions. But here is the catch. the rituals are purportedly to reach God. But are by design end up at the priests. This is what the priests want. So the devotees has to decide, if they are capable of deciding, what they do and what is likely to result. Bending over several times is good for health. Knowing God is not through the body but through the mind. Any activity by the body is ultimately un- accruing as the body itself will perish after the prescribed life span. It is the mind that is all important. Not the body.

7). MIRACLE STORIES:-

This is a lethal hidden weapon of the priests to make the suspecting devotee submit. Project a normal incident as unusual and super natural to create awe in the illiterate listeners. Like walking over water, Milk oozing from the snake bite wound of the body of a Mahavira, Ganapati statue drinking milk (as invented by milk merchants to sell buffer stock of milk !), Jesus statue bleeding from the eyes or nail wounds, waters in salty ocean turning sweet near a holy place (during rains !), filling a dry well with water in summer (Shirdi sai baba), a beggar getting a lottery after praying to someone, a critically ill patient suddenly recovering after praying, someone miraculously escaping from an accident where all others die etc. The priests hide details and make the incident appear as if it is not possible by normal people. Thus the belief in someone that the priests want to project (for strengthening their own faith business) will be hammered in to gullible followers. The followers get attracted to miracle stories and hope to get out of their miseries through similar miracles. The priests plan has worked. He knows no miracle is going to happen. Because he himself had manipulated an ordinary incident into a miracle to trap someone. He does not believe in it himself. But this is his business trick.

Remedy:

Everything that happens all around all the time is actually miraculous. We fail to notice the changes because our minds get stuck at things that they are interested in. Far more interesting things may be happening elsewhere but the mind is conditioned not to look at them ! Thus we actually miss miracles showering all around but see only what the mind is taught to see. Thus life gets monotonous and boring as the mind repeatedly lands up in the same sight or scenes. The way out is to free the mind from habits, likes and dislikes. then the mind becomes open and receptive to more happenings around. Then the ordinary incident like the sun rising or a wind blowing or a bird chirping or one taking breath or moving the hands would appear to be quite interesting and miraculous. Everything is actually miraculous. We fail to notice because the minds are conditioned to note only what we like.

8). FEAR:-

Nothing to fear but fear itself is what brave people have advised us.  But the priests do just the opposite. They inculcate fear in the followers' minds. This is with a definite purpose. A fearful mind would need help. The priests get a space here. Fearless minds find their own ways. The priests or any other is not required now. And that is the reason why the priests inject fear. It can be like presenting 'wrath of God' if something not palatable to the priests is done or a punishment awaiting after death. The aim of the priests is to make the follower follow a path that the priests can oversee. If the priests do not interfere, people would take normal paths as allowed by nature and accepted naturally by the others. But then the priests lose space. None needs priests for living naturally as designed by God. So what do the priests do for a living? They scare people and then rule them !

Remedy:-

Fear is the worst enemy of human minds. A fearful mind gets shrunk and if sustained for long, may cripple the person for ever. Further negative energies and thoughts emanate in mind, which if not released or rectified would settle at the body as toxins which can cause ulcers or cancer. Diseases happen in mind first and get transferred to the body in due course, if the mind remains in that state for long. There is nothing whatsoever in this world to be afraid of. When the mind gets fearful, instead of praying to save, start introspecting why the mind is fearful at that situation or location. Then address the fear directly and deal with it. If one cannot deal with it all by himself seek help from professionals. And not from priests in any case. They would simply glee and continue to inject the fear in order to keep him under control !

9). BLESSINGS:-

The priests would say that God will bless if one does this, this and that. He may cite examples and present witnesses. This is a tactic to lure weak minds who have toiled hard, prayed and donated as advised by the priests without any appreciable improvement in their lives. Blessing is like a lottery to the poor. It is not an object but a 'mysterious upliftment' in human status and fortunes. Like someone getting cured or passing the exam or getting a job or whatever. The priests may say that they prayed to the founder prophet and the prophet in turn recommended our case to the God who is sitting on the left of the prophet in heaven ! So the prophet after seeing the misery of those who believe in him whispers case by case to the God      "This is our man. He believes in the prophet. Please help him my lord so that others also would start believing in the prophet !". And God after listening the recommendation of the prophet, grants a blessing !  Remember, only those who believe in the prophet will get any blessing whatsoever, because the God will listen only to that prophet sitting on his right ! What a pair !

Goosebumps !

Some followers really believe the preacher and pray to the prophet as prompted by the preacher to hear their problems (carefully) and recommend to God to grant a blessing ! As if God is a stupid unable to understand the problems of people all by himself. God listens to a particular prophet only and blesses only those who believe in that prophet ! Wonderful ! What an idea priestji !

Remedy:

Blessings from the existence happens all the time. Everything is actually blessings. Sunshine, wind, food, clothes, house, jobs, entertainments, roads, trees, plays, sports, songs, dances, jokes, laughter, love, You name it. We have all that. We have the intelligence to decide. We have the mind to know. The senses to feel. The body to experience pleasures. What else is required? God has given us everything. We need more  blessings? What for?  This is pure greed. Or ignorance. Learn how to enjoy the available blessings rather than envying others who have different blessings.

10). MISERIES and CURSES:-

The priests may hint at the miseries of someone as the curse from God for not listening to the priests ! Hindu priests used to scare followers that the contagious diseases like small pox was curse from the deity for not doing the poojas as prescribed by the priests. That such diseases did not have medicines in those times was the real issue. The priests would hide the fact and project what they wanted, the offerings from devotees. They link it to curse from God and the illiterate are taken for a ride. The real cause may be sanitation and hygiene or not burying dead bodies.

Sometimes a misery may be glorified if that serves the purpose of the priests ! And declare the suffering person as a saint ! While he suffered no one cares for him. When he is dead, he is declared as a saint with mystical powers sent by God to test the people ! The misery is not the issue. What the priests want make out of an incident is the issue ! He can make a misery a curse from God or a blessing from God ! If someone dies at a tender age, the priests may interpret the incident as a curse because he or his parents did not listen to the priests ! Or as a blessing from God as he loves that child more than anyone else and hence he was called back sooner, if the priest cannot find any make believe reason to charge the family !

Remedy:

God is the abundant live existence consciousness that resides within all live beings. By its nature, it is love and knowledge and the universe is its manifestation. If we look closely at the universe, we can see the smile of the creator in the flowers and the mischief in the insects. Without insects, there would be no trouble and people might have become lazy ! So mosquitoes are there to sting a lazy bone sleeping without any efforts or a bed bug to suck blood from the unhygienic or the cock roaches to swarm unkempt kitchens ! When the premises are clean and routinely attended to, the insects will be reduced. But God may not curse someone for not listening to someone else especially the priests! Miseries need to be addressed scientifically. There will be no miseries if one keeps healthy. This the human beings can handle. God is not required to address miseries. God has already given the remedies to possible miseries. We only have to make use of them.

Whew !

These funny priests ! Don't they have any useful work to do, like addressing over population and providing all people resources and facilities to live like kings ? There lies the problem. If all are healthy and wealthy, what is left for the priests to capitalise on for sweat free living ?