Guest guest Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 >From our previous post... “Thou art That which will shine as the pure ‘I AM’ when, by the renunciation of the original sin — which is just the notion of selfhood in these — and by the Quest of the real Self, the mind is utterly extinguished in the Heart and the world ceases to be seen....." [To continue...} "Incidentally it may be noted that the ego itself is the cause of all that vehemence of belief which engenders fanaticism and intolerance, and a taste for vain and even rancorous controversies. The religious man is ego-ridden, just like his more agreeable brother the sceptic. "The latter [in other words the sceptic] is indifferent and therefore not disagreeable. "But the religious man is rarely at ease, because he sees so many people believing differently from himself. He ardently looks forward to a time when all men shall be of one religion; but he cannot bear to think that that religion shall be in the least different from his own; he would rather that other people should be without any religion, than that they should cherish a religion not his own. "Hence it happens that the more intensely religious a man is, the more unpleasant he is likely to be to those who differ from him in religion. If he obtains political power, he will persecute all that profess other religions. That is because religious belief is not inimical to egoism.." ....from Chapter Six, called "The Soul" in the book Maha Yoga: the entire book can be downloaded free-of-charge from the website of Sri Ramanasramam.http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/anbudan John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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