RE: [Sri Ramakrishna] Declaration On the Basis of the Common Reli gion

[Guest guest]

Thanks

As a matter of fact 'Ramakrishna Order' itself is a common religion. YOu

may not be aware but Ramakrishna sought and obtained God realisation not

only by the Hindu way but also by the Christian and Islamic way to proclaim

that as many faiths so many paths to God Realisation. If all religious

heads leave their ego and separate identity and accept Ramakrishna as the

central religion, all ills of the world could vanish in moments. But would

they like to do this? That may bring down their fiefdoms and power and who

wants to give away power whether religious or political?

Milind Sathye

 

 

Ushakov Dima [dim]

Friday, 26 October 2001 12:01 AM

Ramakrishna

[sri Ramakrishna] Declaration On the Basis of the Common

Religion

 

 

Please, give this document to all people to read

 

 

Declaration On the Basis of the Common Religion

 

 

1. General statements

 

1:1. During the existence of the embodied people on the Earth God many times

gave them His Teaching through His Messengers (Messiahs, Avataras) and

prophets. Each time the information was given in the form that was adequate

for concrete people - taking into account the levels of their

philosophic-religious awareness, and the conditions of life in that concrete

historical period (for example, in conditions of war - or peace; during the

first stages of religion formation - or at the time of stable existence of

the religion in the given region).

 

But in each of such religious knowledge grounds established by God people

distorted His Teaching with time. For example:

 

- All religious duties of people got reduced to only participating in

" saving " rituals; bodily movements and standard prayers became the main

religious occupation of believers, instead of making real efforts on

self-development on the path of personal spiritual evolution,

 

- So-called religious " fundamentalism " appeared, where the religious life is

considered not as getting knowledge about God, about the meaning of our

life, not as mastering of methods of spiritual self-development and helping

others to do it, but is reduced only to crude, violent forcing of people to

keep certain " rules of behavior " that have no religious value...

 

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For more information:

 

http://nabljudatel.narod.ru/declar.htm

 

http://www.swami-center.org/