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s.ramachandran • March 17, 2003 


Respected Sir:

Your concerns are valid and the same for every sane man on this earth.

To understand the why? why  not etc. you must first come to grips with
certain facts which are :

1. religion is a vast, wide term.  It is concieved by man
2. God is also vast, wide term, concieved by man
3. By its very inherent nature, the mind of man is never quiet and is the
main mischief maker.
4. There seems to be something beyond the mind

The quest of the mind is to find what is in (4) through (1 2 3 ). This is
precisely the crises.

If the mind is silenced then perhaps (1 2 3 ) may cease and when something
ceases, something else becomes visible. It is like smoke clouding the
flame. Once the breeze blows away the smoke, then one can see the flame
clearly.

The word is not the thing. GOD is just a mixture of three alphabets. GOD,
the word is not God. By the same reasoning Culture, philosophy, reasoning,
prayer, caste etc.are all within the ken of the limited mind and cannot
concieve that which is beyond.

The crises starts when the mind tries to identify itself with the objects
the sense (five in number) organs. This sets in motion an action or speech
or inaction or verbalisation. This in turn excites the electrical impulses
in the nerve centers and finally a pattern gets etched in the brain. This
pattern forms the basis of our behaviour. Another word for this pattern is
"experience". Individual experiences cumulated form the base called
"memory".

Therefore, man functions out of this bundle of highly volatile
'experience-memory' nexus.  The mind is never free from this nexus, which
is very tight and binding.  With each usage of this nexus, one more set of
experience gets etched and over a lifetime this process is called Samskara
- please do not mix this with the other 'samskara'. Here is the meaning is
confined from the Yogic point.  This Samskara if not broken, winds its way
into our genetic set-up and what we and our progeny reap is the 'Karma'.

Anything the mind wants to convince, anything it desires it can achieve.
But still it will be within the circle of the known i.e. experience-memory
because of the fact of 'recognition' by the 5 senses.

Now in Yoga, the emphatic declaration is : Understanding this fundamental
basis, one can with sincere efforts of long duration come to a state
whereby the clouds of Samskaras and the experience-memory nexus is move
away and clarity reigns.  What is this clarity? This is not defined. It is
simply called "clarity".  Something beyond, something invisible, something
apparently different and more importantly something eternal.  Some of our
Rishis, Gurus and Sages have got a taste of this elusive principle.  All of
us also trying our best to grasp this, but we lack the focus of the
Rishis/Gurus and Sages and hence the seemingly never ending delay.

The writer does not know whether he has tried to give you some insight into
your enquiry.The writer is also in the same boat as you are and the
discovery process is actively on.

Finally, to answer one part of your query as to why there are differences
etc. these are just differences in perception dictated by the ego drive of
each man and hence clouded and coloured. Every perception is false. In a
perceptionless state that which IS may perhaps show itself briefly.  Can
you capture the fragrance of a jasmine? It is there for a flash of a
moment and then its lost

Om Tat Sat


Dear Members,

..............
My question is why we fight internally  that my
religion is great and why cant we listen to others
also. Of course in our religion there are sub
divisions like sudra, brahmin,vaishya etc.  and we are
having lots of gods to pray and treating my rama is
great my shiva is great. Why are these diferences
among ourselves.

I give lot of respect to Hinduism but why are making
differences among ourselves on caste and crede basis.
Why cant we love people by not seeing the religions
caste etc.

Sincerely
Navilpakam Raman,





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