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Earlier peoples on Earth innately felt their connection with the

Mother Earth, with the Sky, the Stars, with God. They did not feel

He was far away, for they celebrated God in their hearths, their

homes, their fields, in every area of life. An innate spiritual

freedom was taken for granted and celebrated.

 

It was only when spirituality became organized that people became

disconnected from their consciousness of the beauty and presence of

the Creator God in their lives. Nature came to be viewed as separate

from God and as a result people became organically alienated from

God, viewing Him as a Separate Being. Religious and political

indoctrination were instrumental in creating this sad state of

affairs, which had nothing to do with the original Incarnation that

had taught and brought the Pure Knowledge to human beings. Given

their past record, it is no wonder that Shri Mataji has often

stressed that you " just cannot organize the Truth " .

 

Concurrent with society's mechanistic outlook, both religious and

political institutions - in order to gain monetary and social power

over people's lives, taught people what to think and how to think.

Man had never needed to be taught what to think and how to think in

the past millennia. Religious and political indoctrination gained

these institutions even more power over people's lives to the point

of domination. The spiritual birthright that mankind had been born

with became well and truly eroded. It seemed that the more churches

there were, the more people there were who felt alienated from God.

How is it that an institution that purports to bring people to God,

then alienates people from God?

 

The answer is, you cannot bring people to experience the spiritual

liberaton of God and at the same time then make them spiritually

subservient to man, in other words " dominate " them. One contradicts

the other. Something just does not add up in this equation.

Aesthetic spiritual language also does not hide the underlying

deceit of such a dynamic. So... what is the nature and need of

spiritual domination over others as practised by leaders of

religious and political institutions? Diarmuid O'Murchu explains in

his book entitled " Religion in Exile " :-

 

" Brueggemann (1993) claims that domination requires certitude as a

central aspect of the will-to-power. The dominator provides a set of

answers which are open neither to interpretation nor question. There

is no truth other than the truth delivered from on high, all of

which we associate with imperialist government and tyrannical

dictatorships, but in fact it is extensively practised by the

governing bodies operating within our so-called democratic and

ecclesiastical institutions.

 

That the questioner can raise such strong fears, and evoke quite

devious strategies to deflect the questions, vividly indicates the

shaky ground on which so much 'reality' is established. We cannot

afford to let the light of scrutiny penetrate too deeply; the sham

is not far beneath the surface. In many ways, power is the most

fragile of all forces; it is essentially kept in place by the

compulsive crave of the power-seekers themselves.

 

The tendency to absolutise is the religious version of this

compulsion. And questioning of the absolute values is often

countered by the charge of relativism. Domination requires one truth

above and beyond all others, and when validated by religion,

Christians consider theirs to be the primary revelation, and Muslims

consider theirs to be the only true way, while Judaism for the Jews

is the ultimate source of truth. Indeed, all religion nurtures a

form of absolutism born not of God but of the compulsion of the

domination itself.

 

Consequently, relativism, the fruit of open and sincere questioning,

is our surest safeguard against idolatry and that dogmatism that

undermines both the creativity of God and the spiritual versatility

of human beings. It is our capacity to question that safeguards us

from the answers that stifle - and ultimately stultify - the pursuit

of truth and the attainment of that adult growth that belongs to

spiritual maturity. " (Religion in Exile - A Spiritual Homecoming by

Diarmuid O'Murchu p.98-99)

 

Shri Mataji has often said that we are to question everything like a

scientist, otherwise we cannot establish ourselves and become our

own Gurus. Many people today are doing just that as they realize the

Truth can be only found within the Inner Temple of Our Spirit.

 

Violet