Request..SRK and other religions

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Hi Suresh,

 

Even though, i am not providing a correct answer to your question, i

request you to not to write in shorts about our Saints(for e.g. SRK, SV

etc).

 

regards

Srinivas

 

 

 

 

 

Suresh Shenoy

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[sri Ramakrishna] SRK

and other religions

06/05/2004 09:20

PM

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to Ramakrishna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SRK's Experiences of all religions

 

 

 

In the SRK The Great Master, it is written that SRK practiced all major

religions and attained the goals of those religions and thus proved that

all religions lead to the same goal, that is God. Among the religions he

practiced, Islam is also there. He practiced it with the help of a Muslim

devotee. After some weeks or so, he saw the vision of Prophet Mohammed and

saw him entering his body (SRK's).

 

 

 

This seems quite straight-forward, but there are problems. When I read this

several years ago, I had little idea of the Muslim religion. Now I have

learnt about major aspects of that religion and I am reading the Quran. I

find that there are no spiritual practices that Islam approves / preaches.

It is mainly a way of life with " 5 pillars " like prayers 5 times a day,

Zakat, Hajj, etc. There is no concept of meditation, etc. God is not

knowable and Prophet is just a human being who received messages from the

angel Gabriel represented by God Allah. There is no question of

God-realization or vision of Mohammed. So it is really puzzling how it can

be proved from SRK's experience that Islam leads to god realization. Islam

says you cannot see or hear God and you can know Him only after death in a

place called heaven where the life is fully material with heavenly maidens

called " hourries " . As per the authentic majority religion called (Sunni)

Wahabi, one cannot become Muslim unless one

whole-heartedly accepts that Allah alone is the true God and Mohammed is

His only prophet. Without this, Muslim life doesn't even start. Hence the

experience of SRK seeing Prophet cannot be accepted as per Islamic

teaching. In that case, how this can be accepted as a proof of that

religion leading to God realization, when that religion itself denies

'God-realization' as false?

 

 

 

Secondly, in Raja Yoga, (Read in Vol 1 of Complete Works of SV, page 184)

SV says that Mohammed practiced Raja Yoga incorrectly, and as a result he

was a mentally deranged man. The result was misunderstood vision and a

religion which opened to superstition and bloodshed. Now, my question is:

how the above view that SRK's experience of Islam as a religion leading to

God and this SV's view of Mohammed match? If we take the view expressed by

SV, we can wonder if the religion founded by a mentally deranged man can

flourish and after 1350 years command 1 billion people in 57 countries? It

is officially a major religion and is said to be " the fastest growing

religion in the world " .

 

 

 

I keep this question for a open discussion. This is not aimed to insult

Islam or Hinduism, but to seek an answer to a genuine question. I am

constantly studying the works of SV and SRK literature and have found some

discrepancies which needs answers. I will write more about such problems

slowly.

 

 

 

sincerely,

 

 

 

Suresh

 

 

 

 

 

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