"In the first place, if you analyse all the various religions of the world, you will find that these are divided into two classes, those with a book, and those without a book. Those with a book are the strongest, and have the largest number of followers. Those without books have mostly died out, and the few new ones have very small followings. Yet, in all of them we find one consensus of opinion, that the truths they teach are the results of the experiences of particular persons. The Christian asks you to believe in his religion, to believe in Christ and to believe in him as the incarnation of God, to believe in a God, in a soul, and in a better state of that soul. If I ask him for reason, he says he believes in them. But if you go to the fountainhead of Christianity, you will find that it is based upon experience. Christ said he saw God; the disciples said they felt God; and so forth. Similarly, in Buddhism, it is Buddha's experience. So with the Hindus. In their books, the writers who are called Rishis, or sages, declare they experienced certain truths, and these they preach. Thus it is clear that all the religions of the world have been built upon that one universal and adamantine foundation of all our knowledge - direct experience. The teachers all saw god; they all saw their won souls; they saw their future, they saw their eternity, and what they saw they preached."
RE:Quotes from Raja Yoga
by Red Pascal on Feb 22, 2008 03:02 PM Permalink
Says Shesh who first insults books of other religions and then quotes from a book written by one of his own religion and parades it. Shesh look around, there are multiple and not just one way to god,so take those knickers off and try to let go of dogma and be inclusive. Learn more than just to read Shesh.
RE:RE:Quotes from Raja Yoga
by Red Pascal on Feb 22, 2008 03:09 PM Permalink
Nope- from the message you chose to block though it had no insult- it's getting the better of you Shesh ( Remove the knicker, it would help :-).
RE:Quotes from Raja Yoga
by Red Pascal on Feb 22, 2008 03:04 PM Permalink
Your parent must be very proud about how well they taught you when they see you calling religious books of other religions names here Shesh.
RE:Quotes from Raja Yoga
by Red Pascal on Feb 22, 2008 03:12 PM Permalink
Shesh you must see the others point of view too, there are other ways other points of view, calling others names, other religions names and others books names ( like Vivekananda did too) is not the right way, so if you preach about having an open mind,start with having one yourself, it does not show you well to be abusing others religions Shesh.
RE:Quotes from Raja Yoga
by Nanchil on Feb 22, 2008 03:09 PM Permalink
The sages also say that those who wore cross belts are superior to all others. And these cross-belts should be given concession if they commit crimes. And these sages invented some ugly pracitices like aswameda-yaga,sati, sambandham,etc.
