Truth Path II

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Om Namah Sivaya

 

 

Sri Ramakrishna’s saying: ‘The true religious man is

he who does not commit any sin even when he is alone,

and when no man observes him, because he feels that

God sees him even then. He who can resist the

temptations of a young and seductive woman in a lone

forest, where he is unobserved by human eyes, through

the fear that God sees him and who, through such fear,

will not even cast an immoral glance at her, he is

truly a religious man. He who finds a bag full of gold

in a lonely an uninhabited house, and resists the

temptation of appropriating it, he is truly religious

man. But he who practises religion for the sake of

show, through fear of public opinion, cannot be called

truly religious. The religion of silence and secrecy

is the true religion, but it is all sham mockery when

attended with vaunting and vanity.’

 

Tirumantiram(verse 1533):

God is Beyond All Formal Faiths

 

They founded the formal Faiths,

Yet they found Him not;

What the formal Faiths talk of is not He;

Do you yourself in faith seek Him,

And be resolved of doubts all;

And then sure you shall enter your Father’s Mansion.

 

*(Being materialistic, the formal faiths do not lead

to the final state)

 

Tirumantiram (verse 1538):

Contending Faiths Do Not Help

 

The contending Paths are like the braying asses;

The Pure Siva is all-pervasive;

They seek Him not by the right Path,

And so are not free from IMPURITIES;

They shall grow insane

Entangled in the whirl of birth and death.

 

Tirumantiram (verse 1545):

God is beyond All Religions

 

This is right path, that the right path

Be not tossed in such frail human doubts;

Seek the Being that is beyond wilderness of doubts

His is the Form that is flawless.

 

Sri Ramakrishnaya Namah

Vivekananda Centre London

http://www.vivekananda.co.uk