Vedism

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What I think, only universalization of a religion can save it in today's

circumstances. In fact there is no room today for narrowmindedness, every

one wants to become broad. And do you know why? Because every body, in fact,

is in his true nature omnipresent, that means I, you and every body else in

this world is present everywhere at the same time. The only problem is that

we, owing to the ignorance, feel ourselves limited to our body, mind or

intellect. We don't think about our true nature and form which is beyond

that and which is above the three gunas.

In fact, all the three Gunas, 1 sattva guna (the quality of light; the

symbol is white color), 2 Rajo Guna (the quality of action, the symbol is

red color) and 3 Tamo Guna (the quality of ignorance, inertia; the symbol is

dark/black color) are a bondage to a person. Bhagavan Shri Krishna makes it

very clear in the 14th chapter of Shri Gita, that even Sattva Guna (the

quality of knowledge/light, please consider that this kind of knowledge

doesn't include the knowledge of the Supreme Self; but indeed it includes

the knowledge of scriptures) is a bondage and thus one has to transcend it

to obtain Liberation from this mundane existence. That means if a person

wants to gain the ability to perceive the Supreme Existence, existing in

everything, in a flower/tree/stream of water/a grain of sand or anything

else, he has to abandon the perceiving of mundane existence. Have you ever

seen a drop of water on a Lotus leaf, how the entire sun is reflected in it.

What a tiny little drop of water, which is nothing before the greatness and

mightiness of the Sun, but still the entire sun is reflected in it. Is it

the greatness of the Sun, that it possesses the ability to give it self

entirely to the smallest particle, or is it the greatness of the Drop, that

it has the ability to take the entire sun in to itself? I think it is very

difficult to figure out anything. It is the same with the Supreme Existence,

which is called God, Lord, the Supreme Truth, the Self or I don't know by

how many names, Brahman, Atman. It is funny enough to record that all the

great grammarians of Sanskrit accept that without any exception all the

words of every language, are His names and in fact can only denote Him, and

nothing else. In the same way, though we might think ourselves to be the

tiniest particle of the universe, and I think one should also realize this,

otherwise he beomes egoistic, still that Transcending Truth/Existence has

given itself thoroughly to each one of us, we just have to understand this

fact, because it has manifested it self in our form. This is what

"Purnamadah Purnamidam" means. And not only in the form of our self, but in

the form of every every thing around us. That is why we ought to adore every

thing, may it be a conscious or an unconscious object. Swami Shivananda Ji

Maharaj used to love spectacles, shoes, etc. he used to touch them with such

a tenderness, just with the feeling that he may not hurt them. The result of

such an experience in one's life is pure love towards the entire universe,

towards everything. Though Krishna tells us to transcend us all the Gunas,

even Sattva Guna (the quality of knowledge), he warns us not to hate even

Tamo Guna (the quality of ignorance/inertia). However, the nature is nothing

else but the visible manifestation of The Supreme. Look at the shining full

moon, you would feel something, think about the sun, you would feel

something special about it. Think about the flowing streams, you would find

something in them, try to feel the blowing wind, you would feel something in

it; what is all this? The Supreme has given itself entirely to each and

everyone of them. Each and everyone of them is perfect in itself. That is

what the Vedic Seers realized and thus they started to adore all these

things, which many people today may not understand. But it has to be

understood, otherwise religion would always remain something about

"something out of this world", and thus something for a handful group of

people, which ought not to be the case with a true religion, it should serve

its purpose to every body. This is what Vedism teaches us.

In the service of the Vedas,

Siddhartha Krishna