Scriptures

[Guest guest]

Yesterday I had an opportunity to address the Vishva Hindu Parishad meeting

at Leicester. The talk was well received. I wish to share the theme of what

I tried to put across.

 

I argued that even though we belong to a religion in which the message of

spirituality gets refreshed in every age - we lack the strength to take full

advantage of this. We like to get in a rut and stay there. Spiritual giants

come and re-express the message of spirituality in the language more suited

to our times yet we do not recognise the importance of this. We prefer to

stick to the teachings that were given not recently but a few thousand years

ago. We clearly exhibit a greater affinity for antiquity, linguistics,

mythology and such -- than for spirituality.

 

After all what are all scriptures? They are a string of metaphors trying to

express the in-expressible in a language and manner suited to each period.

There is nothing wrong with any of these old scriptures that we inherit. Yet

we have to recognise that we as mankind continue to evolve and require to

re-phrase the teachings using the metaphors more in-step with our times (the

metaphors more suited to this age of science). We see a full flow of these

in the vibrant teachings of Vivekananda.

 

 

jay