RELIGIONS KNOT THE MIND

Religions knot the mind

The very foundation of the church itself on Christ's shoulders; to 'believe' that he died for other's sins and those who believe in him would be saved etc. Such inputs knot the human mind and cannot think avoiding that knot thereafter. This is some sort of virus infection to mind. Thoughts get deviated according to the knot within. The mind gets curved, twisted, warped and thoughts get affected because of the heavy weight implant within the flimsy mind. This is not a pardonable act. It is a crime against humanity, freedom and fearlessness. People are not aware of this human right violation yet. When people come to know that such beliefs actually arrest the free flow of natural mind, the priests and religions which hammer blind faith, would be sweating in the courts.

Once a 'belief' is implanted in mind, the victim feels guilty and fearful if the thoughts go beyond the knot ! Spiritual progress is not possible in such a closed or tied up mind. The mind has to swell, break all barriers and limits, fly into the space and fill the infinity which is its correct nature. Human mind is like the air in a balloon. The air is part of the atmosphere. It has to realise that it is indeed a part of the atmosphere. The human mind is similarly a part of the universal mind. It has to be told that it is just a part of the universal whole and not a limited feeble existence within the human body. By tying the mind with beliefs, it becomes a bonsai. That is the crime religions do to unsuspecting people. The religions are saved so far because people are not yet aware of the harm being done into their psyche by planned encroachment into personal space. The religion tells them that it is good for them. No. That it is mandatory for them ! It is actually harmful to them. And they do not know it too.

Why was the religion created on behalf of prophets? To make people reach Godliness like the prophet did ? Religions were created by calculating clever disciples to tap the feeling of people towards the founder for ever through an institution. When the times change, people forget the founder or as per the nature of human psyche, the founder becomes ‘uninteresting’ or even ‘boring’ ! Has anyone reached the status of the founder or do the followers get more egoistic and confused? By teaching one that someone else has carried our sins of deeds, the mind gets hooked to the Jesus or Cross symbol (poor Jesus never would have wanted it to happen to people that way) and from there the mind cannot grow, escape into space and infinity and realise its  true potential and powers.

The 'believing' mind would move like a cow tied to a tether. And people are told by the priests to be happy and grateful for getting tied because they are within the observation field of the experts and hence safe ! It is so boring and monotonous to be tied to the tether ! Ask the cow or the dog ! The aim of God through the prophet was to free the human mind. That is why God expressed its true colours through great people whose minds were freed from everything that could bind normal human minds. Religions do exactly the opposite. Free minds are scary to the religions. Philosophers and thinkers are a headache. Sheep are manageable and milkable ! So tie up their mind at infancy itself before they know how to think freely and grow out of control.

Islam does the same thing. First of all one has to 'believe' in the Prophet as sent by God. The mind is knotted with that 'belief'. The mind cannot move freely now like Beypore Sultan's. It is like a surgery to paralyse the mind. Free thinking is blocked. Those who really innocently believed in what was taught, start seeing other religious followers as stupid and try to make fun of them for being so. When the same fun is reflected back to them, they get confused. Now there is a dilemma. The teachers stand by what they taught. Because they know nothing more.

The follower faces ridicule by other religions with different rituals and customs. To outsmart each other and to be different, religions take the polar opposites. Like Bikini vs Burka. Moustache and no beard. Beard and no moustache. Vegetarians Vs Non vegs. Prostration Vs kneeling down. They cannot agree with the other religion and their methods anyway. Reason? The 'knot' in mind is working! 

Believers think those who behave differently are non believers. To get over the ridicule which cannot be answered back effectively, the teachers may ask the followers to eliminate the opposition as it does not suit their scheme of things and understanding. Hatred, mistrust and animosity results. Terrorists evolve. They are normal people pure at heart like anyone else. Someone had just tied their minds. That is the only problem ! Otherwise a terrorist is as good as a pious temple goer. He is just simply confused. Rather he was made confused by knotting his mind without him knowing it. His God was insulted by someone ! How can he stand it?

The remedy is to remove the knot, which the religions do not allow under any circumstance. If they allow, then the religion itself does not exist ! It is a problem of survival. Of whom? the people? No. Just a small mafia of religious leaders. It suits the priests to control people by sitting pretty on their heads and scaring them as and when required. For this purpose the 'belief' is the chip implanted in the followers mind. Now their minds have become submissive and fearful. They can be controlled by the leaders. Science fiction? This is the reality on the ground now, buddy. It is down right exploitation of the masses by a very few immensely clever and cunning group of religious leaders. Far more destructive than the political parties. Religions destroy the human psyche and make them bio robots and then ride on them. This is like castrating the mind.

If Hindus, for example were told to 'believe' only in Krishna and no one else, they would have ended up in the same boat as Christians and Muslims. Fortunately Hinduism does not ask one to 'believe' in some one or something. Instead it wants one to look within one's own mind. That is the scientific and logical way to reach Godliness. Godliness is within. You me and everyone. Yes, inside the cockroach and mosquito and bed bug and of course within the dirty stinking pig too. Who said Pig is despicable? They have not seen the soul within. It is the same soul that everyone else has.

One does not have to 'believe' in anyone but imagine oneself as part of this universe to feel at peace with the others. There are no strangers here. Simply manifestation of the same core consciousness. Keeping heavyweight prophets inside the mind is a knot, a drag. Gurus may be respected. But do not allow them to occupy the mind. The mind is to be free. The mind is a tool to know. It is not a space to keep prophets. When the mind knows all, the individual becomes another prophet. Now some one may start a religion after him too asking people to keep the new guru within their minds. The guru became a guru in the first place because he wilfully kept all gurus out of his mind and made it free! So that is the requirement to be a guru. Free the mind at any cost.

Now see religions in this perspective. What they do to control and smother human minds. Bold thinker is branded as Themmadi (disobedient). The religions want sheep to follow. Existence of religions is not the people's requirement but of the priests. That is why when the church says "Those who believe in Jesus' are saved" they actually mean that the survival of the church depends on how many can swallow this.

A holistic way of thinking only can take one out of this mess. And that is to accept that several ordinary people on various parts of the world had risen above the normal level of human existence by conditioning their minds, being true to themselves, by reaching a stage of no desires and attachments in mind. Examples are enlightened ones like Prophets, Mohammed, Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira, Sufis, Zen masters, Indian Rishis, seers and visionaries. Were they all different independent entities standing all alone having imported from Mars?

Instead the enlightened ones are like bulbs connected to the same power source. All gave light when it was dark. When people were engulfed with superstitions and blind faith. At various places and times. Such bulbs would keep lighting up as and when necessary. It is childish to swear by some bulb which lit up sometime at some place and try to place it as the brightest ever or the last or better than another ! Like stars form from dust clouds, light would keep coming to earth from within in time, in the right luminosity, in the right place as and when required. Because there is a control station of the universe where all data about the universe reach in real time.

Do not fight over religions, their rituals or their founders. Imagine these greats, prophets and founders of religions as the fingers of the same palm. Their teachings are basically all the same. Be peaceful. Dont hurt anyone else. Love everything. All are siblings etc. The universe and all lives on earth is actually a grand communion emanated from the same source etc. In short at the core everyone feels the same way. The problem starts when those who like a particular finger start hyping it up projecting it as the distinguished one among all other fingers etc and start fighting over it ! Wake up and grow up ! All the prophets and founders of religions are with the people. Lets escape from the religions and their directors.

From: jose prasobh <jose_prasobh@rediffmail.com>
To: lalunatarajan@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, 27 January 2012 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Jallikkattu - Pongal Celebrations (Tamil Nadu - India)

Dear Sir why dont you think in this angle , when we do a action , the action is evaluated based on the social norms and imprinted moral conciousness that has made for the common good . if morality would not have been there in the society , then the strongest or majority actions would be considered right . so assume that morlity is an inevitability of social life to curb the possible social evils that humiliate the essence of being life in a case if a person is done some action against the above moral code and grossily devaited , then the gulity conciousness comes to his mind and start bothering on the same and fall into vicious web of gulityness due to sinful action . to avaoid such a psycological collapse of a person or a community (remeber the person or community is not elevated to a elite level by wisdom or understanding ) the haeling meachnism by way of somebody take away your sin and get relived on the psycological stess that has occurred due to gulity consiousnees . he really comes back to the normal life again . he is deviod of the social exclusion . i hope this way it works the process of confession of catholic church regards

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:30:29 +0530 wrote > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: lalu natarajan >To: "GLOBALDOSTAlumni@yahoogroups.com" >Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:11 PM >Subject: Re: [GLOBALDOSTAlumni] Jallikkattu - Pongal Celebrations (Tamil Nadu - India) >

 It is the individual's choice whether to emulate the wild animal or Jesus. God has shown the path unto itself. So we can't blame God for not taking the correct decision. The problem is the church which invented the idea that Christ died for other's sins, those who believe in Jesus are saved irrespective of what they do and their sins would be pardoned by holy father who is a rubber stamp. Christ was crucified because of the one upmanship / ego of the ruler of that land and his cronies who feared that their control over the oeople would be lost if he continued. Nothing whatsoever to do with people's sin. Each individual would carry the record of actions as memories which would be available to holy father to make judgements. Having consensual sex or wearing bikini at the beach are not sins. But torturing another life is likely to be one. No one can take the burden of any one else/s sin. This is not business or trade off. The problem is we become satisfied if there is another similar 'sinner' around. Then two is company ! Wild animals donot kill for fun or torture the prey for sadistic fun. It is their instinct from which they cannot make different decisions consciously. If a mouse passes by the cat would jump at it and kill if hungry.If not hungry the cat willleave the mouse alone. It will not start thinking whether to kill or not to kill. That is the difference human beings have. They can make discriminattory decisions. This way that way or no way. To live like a human being is not easy ! Following the animal instincts is easy andnatural. But that way one cannot rise to the higher levels of existence or evolve into superhumans. The church is again at fault. They teach that confessing the sin is sufficient for pardon (by whom?) and one can continue to do the same things after paying the penalty ! This way the believer will not get over the cycle of deeds. If the church is sincere it could teach how to become another Jesus by becoming selfless. None really want to become another Jesus (even without the last episode). So the easier path. Pray to him and continue the normal life. Regarding killing the vegetables, there was an extreme saint who used to eat only dry leaves and dead grass as he thought consuming even the live leaf is killing. One can use the intellect or common sense in such highly debatable issues. >

From: Vipin Thomas >To: GLOBALDOSTAlumni@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2012 9:04 PM >Subject: Re: [GLOBALDOSTAlumni] Jallikkattu - Pongal Celebrations (Tamil Nadu - India) > Gud daysir konna papm thinnal pokum ( If u eat after tortue its not a sin) pinne kattile animals bhayangara daya alle kanikkunnathu (wild animals show no mercy to the prey) Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1NGKLyXoGI While you eat vegetables you are torturing them & killing them ....... You wont understand that just becoz its nto making noise Gud by Vipin On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:49 PM, lalu natarajan wrote: Mad people, Still better than the spaniards who spear the helpless dumb bulls and eat them after the fun(?). I wish those who enjoy torturing these animals may get reborn as these animals andexperience the insult and the pain first hand. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. > > From: Vipin Thomas >To: >Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2012 3:11 PM >Subject: [GLOBALDOSTAlumni] Jallikkattu - Pongal Celebrations (Tamil Nadu - India) > Tamilnadu Famous Madurai-alanganallur-jallikattu as a part of Pongal celebrations >

Lets clear the Christians first through a key hole painless laser surgery !

You said "perhaps derogating & talking against someone’s established & trusted beliefs also amounts to torture, perhaps wrong to believe none following Christianity can attain moksha from cycle of deeds as well!!!! "

First of all no derogation is intended. Nothing to gain from doing that except creating hatred and bad blood either of which are not desirable. 

Belief and faith are actually burdens in the mind for normal people. If they do not know it then it is because they carry many other burdens which also they are not aware of. For normal people the mind goes out every morning and makes a list of 'desirable' objects and 'accessible' objects. All the short listed desirable objects are not accessible. So a compromise is made. Desire on the pending objects becomes a stowaway. It never dies. The desiring person carries that desire all his life without even knowing it at times. It is like the 'deleted' items in a hard disc. It simply gets shifted to an inaccessible corner and can be retrieved by experts.

The frozen desires may come alive at appropriate conducive times for fulfilment. Then the individual remembers it. So where was that desire all these years? It was lying dormant in mind like a seed awaiting rains to sprout. That desire is actually a load in mind even though at the normal human level such desires are treated as desirable ! As one climbs spiritually, those which he had thought as desirable may change status to undesirable. This is quite interesting too. Desirabilty is relative. If one is at a lower status, something higher may appear as desirable. Once he reaches or accomplishes that status / desire, it may turn out to be ordinary. The akkarappacha (grass greener on other shore) syndrome.

Take any Guru. They do not 'believe' or have 'faith' in something. Instead their minds are consciously made free sometimes by cutting off the family relationships (Buddha) and meditating for years. Buddha was not meditating on some faith or belief but trying to reach the bottom of his own mind. This is the simple procedure that any Guru or prophet did or does. Because the consciousness is at the bottom of the mind. As long as we are 'living' in the physical world or delving in the mental world, we are away from the consciousness which is our real self. To realise that self is the puzzle of this universe and our lives. Those who solved the puzzle became famous and religions were founded on their behalf sometimes even without their knowledge or consent. For example Christianity was founded after 300 years of Christ. In some cases the enlightened Master told the followers what to do and what not. The followers in their wisdom, convenience and practical logic further modified the teachings and landed up in the present mess.

Now here one has to be very careful. The founder Master had become a master because he conditioned his own mind (for no physically profitable logical reason but because of some internal call to do so sometimes even breaking away from near and dear ones (Shankaracharya) sometimes letting go off wonderful prospective family lives (Vivekananda) etc. They meditated for years to reach the core consciousness because one has to cross one's own mind to reach the bottom. And it is not easy for those who depend for their pleasure on the external world. It is not impossible either. There is nothing called compromise consciousness or stopover for rest at the half way mark ! One goes the entire way leaving the world or come back to the world of attachments and continue to live or drown / get lost in the ocean of mind in between.

Mind is like a pond. (These are just euphemisms to clarify some concept. There is no real pond anywhere in mind !) . Thoughts are like ripples. Desires and attachments are like agitations that makes the pond muddy and opaque. When there are ripples or when the water is muddy, the bottom of the pond cannot be seen from top / outside. With the emotions, ego, desires, attachments, beliefs and faiths one gets stuck in the world of objects or thoughts or memories. Once got hooked to the objective world like wealth, house, spouse, children or even pet animals, realty, status in society, achievements, and memorabilia or to the religious symbols or places of worship or rituals or superstitions or some experiences which cannot be explained. The mind can get stuck at any of these distractions and there the Ramayana (journey to the soul) ends. Now it becomes hovering of the mind around the objects and experiences and memory that mind has 'accepted' to react to. 

That is why the beliefs and faiths in mind are actually against spiritual progress. What is spiritual journey? Reaching the bottom or the other end of the mind. When the mind is cluttered with many things and objects and persons to react with, where is the time or chance to proceed to the bottom? For such people there is no spiritual journey. They spend time enjoying the sensory world. They are called Asuras in Hinduism. Anything wrong with enjoyment? Nothing whatsoever. It is called normal life. Enjoy it. But if possible keep the eyes (intellect) open rather than closing them while enjoying.

What is required is a surgery of the mind to remove its attachments and tumours for making it free to see its own majesty than making it a godown to keep the Guru’s statue (image) or some beliefs and faiths. When one does that knowingly or unknowingly, the mind is loaded. What is required is unloading the mind. That is why the beliefs and faiths are actually a drag for spiritual progress of mind. No derogation intended for the faiths and beliefs. The beliefs and faiths are the torture or burden of the mind. Just throw them out and feel naturally free. If one is afraid after throwing away the clutter in mind, just hug a nearby tree and thank it for making food to feel safe!

Your second question:

"perhaps wrong to believe none following Christianity can attain moksha from cycle of deeds as well!!!! "

Who believes? Following Christianity or any other religion will only make the individual confused, fearful and guilty. It is like this. First of all we allow the mind to accept some morals and rituals from the religion. Then we try to follow them with all sincerity. Will the devotee reach anywhere? He would be going in circles carrying the morals and rituals on his head.

Religions make people slave minded; to pray and beg to some super entity for every need. Because religions are not trying to create another founder from the mass of devotees. But they want the people to live in a manageable way so that they do not grow bigger than the priests themselves. There is actually no spirituality in religions. It is propped up and maintained by vested interests for their own personal agenda. Religions are socio-political organisations. Spirituality is not the purpose. The priests do not know what spirituality is.

What is spirituality then? Something that is not known to the priests who swear by God every other moment?!

There is no rocket science in spirituality. Human body has three distinct elements. The body, the mind and the soul. Now we all know the body and are chasing better bodies of opposite sex or fighting better bodies of same sex in the name of life. Then we have the mind which is actually a tool to think and visualise. That also most of us know. The quality of an individual is because of his mind. So conditioning the mind and controlling the movements of mind changes the personality of an individual. No objection so far? Now there is a soul at the bottom of the mind which most of us are not familiar with.

"Someone said I also have a soul. I do not know what the hell is that" is our attitude !

It is not that the soul is hiding itself from us. It is always there. Only thing is that we do not see it because we always look at the outside world through the mind. What we see in mind are fractions of the world outside. Soul is the eye of the eye that makes one 'view' the thoughts in his own mind. Or which makes one 'see' dreams. The physical eyes in our faces actually do not see anything. The impression created by these eyes in our minds is seen by the soul. We miss or forget to notice this soul as the mind has interesting subjects to be busy with. Why bother about the soul of all things?

Every day we spend 8 hours with God without knowing it ! Can you guess?

When we sleep the mind actually rests with the soul. That is why we feel so comfortable after a long sleep. We do not want to get out of bed because the mind is reluctant to leave the soul! Hence the experienced quality of the soul is comfort, peace, timelessness and space less ness. We forget time when we sleep. Where we sleep. Now the soul gets exposed in mind when the mind is free from time and space. For example a sexual orgasm or a drug injection. Then the mind and body are frozen / forgotten. Time is immaterial. Place is not an issue. At that state of mind the soul emerges and is felt as great pleasure or bliss. This is as close as we can get to the soul in everyday life.

Bliss is just one quality of the soul. The other major qualities are Sat (true at all times) and Chit (exists at all times). It has infinite qualities to be precise, not infinity minus one! Qualities get exposed / created as and when required. To be fair if we ask the soul what all qualities and powers it has, it might say it does not remember ! There are no limitations to this mind boggling entity.

Time does not affect it. Space cannot affect it. In fact time and space are dependent creations of the soul through a magic material called Maya by Hindus a part of which is our mind itself ! It creates the universe by a mere wish in its slumber !

What is this mysterious magical soul? How did it happen? Who created it? Why does it exist? No answers ! It always existed. Now exists. Will exist. Thus the universe is actually an illusory world in the sense it does not exist the same way for ever in time. It keeps changing every moment even though we fail to notice. Only the soul is real, unchanged and it is our own self. There is only one self for all the people put together! No white soul and black soul and a brown soul in between for different coloured people ! Or an animal soul and a tree soul followed by fish soul and amoeba soul ! It is like the palm of the different looking fingers. But we fail to understand this simple truth about our self.

And that precisely is the problem !

Now how to reach this soul is the question for those who get the idea. Repeated sex and use of drug would give flashing emergence of the soul in mind experienced as unexplainable pleasure. But such ecstasies are momentary and will not last. Because the ignorance (that the pleasure is due to sex or drug and not due to the state of mind) and the desires and attachments in mind would quickly smother the soul and deny any further bliss to the mind and body.

Now see the irony! We wanted to experience bliss. The bliss is at the soul. To reach the soul, the mind is to be free of attachments. Otherwise even if one reaches the soul through the mind, the experience will not last. After a glimpse the mind comes back to the world. Some start discourses and pretend as Gurus after such brief encounters with the soul. The mind and its attachments would bring him back to the surface of life from the depth of the soul namely back into the world or society outside.

So how to reach this soul at least once or possibly for ever is the question. This is the so called Kingdom of God. Or paradise. The path is through the mind. There is no other way. To look inside, the mind is to be trained so. Currently it looks only at the outside. We only taught the mind to look outside and search for desirable objects ! So it does not know how to look inside ! What a pitiable handicap !

Thus to go to the soul inside, the mind is to be cut off from the world outside. This means whatever we have accumulated in life will have to be left alone for any spiritual progress ! Pulivalanallo changayee. If we leave all that is earned then we become a non entity. How many can stand that?

After retirement, this may be more possible ! Some may still continue to work. Not blaming anyone. The gravity of attachments and pending duties would drag the individual back into the world. So the basic requirement for spiritual journey is freeing the mind. Once totally free, the mind ceases to exist which is an unbelievable state for normal people. We experience only Jagrat (live), Swapna (dream) and Sushupti (sleep) states of the mind. There is a fourth state exclusively reserved for billionnaires ! Jokes apart it is the fourth state of mind named 'Thuriya'. In thuriya state, the mind having got rid off all attachments finds itself no where, no more ! No-mind state of the mind ! Confused? Never mind !

What is that again?

The mind is actually a non entity. It appears to be there only as long as the individual wishes. For example one has told his mind that Aiswarya Rai is a desirable woman ! From then on the mind would start searching all Aiswarya look alike and bring to your attention. You may finally choose one that is a practical compromise. The point is that you only gave the mind the idea about a desirable object to look for. Or the mind proposed from its instinct and you accepted it  and looking forward to it! The mind followed suit. You may or may not get the girl. That is not the issue. That is inconsequential !

On the contrary imagine Aiswaraya's mind itself. She does not tell the mind to find out another Aiswarya. Instead she may be asking the mind to find out her love Abhishek Bachhan. So desire / search input is not the inherent quality of the mind itself but of the instructing  individual.

Further suppose a man having no desires. His mind is simply coming awake every morning. No fresh instructions are forthcoming from that individual. What would such a mind do? Mind does not start searching for beautiful girls or handsome boys on its own without any instruction ! Depending on whether the mind belongs to a male or female the instructions would be different. Here we have a peculiar mind which is not being instructed anything whatsoever. Let’s say Buddha's mind. He was the young prince, had all the riches, beautiful wife and family. What can his mind desire? His mind desired to know the truth within and no material outside.

Let’s watch Buddha's mind closely. There is no desire to any object or person in that mind. So it is not attached to anything as well as desire free. Now such minds have nothing to do than loitering like a tramp with no interest. Sleep with the soul at night and wake up and casually watch the life outside without getting involved. Such minded people will have a Tejas in their face which is the soul coming out though the now transparent mind. Infants have this state of mind by birth. Watch them and the divine smile. It is the soul itself smiling. The soul is visible from its location through the mind and comes out of the face of the baby ! The infant loses this divinity soon afterwards once the parents and society tell that mind to believe in something.

Thereafter we see these divine infants growing into brats.

Watch that mind which is no longer attached to the world. That mind would keep getting more and more attached to the soul within and start losing all contact with the world and people around, not in an unconscious state but while having complete consciousness. Such minds occasionally get non existent as it completely merges with the soul. This no-mind ness is the state of Samadhi or Moksha or salvation.

Now tell me how this state of Moksha can be reached through believing in something as taught by the religions. Believing is accommodating something in mind ! What is required to reach moksha (salvation) is to keep the mind free rather than loading it with faiths and beliefs.