Is
our religion bundle
of lies and silly stories?
By
P.R.Ramachander
(I
read a
write up about this in Malayalam and I had to struggle
to make a meaning of it .Here is
what I learnt.”
A group
of young lads decided
to ask their doubts
to a Guru ,
Their leader approached a great Guru
and told him,
“I
think our religion is mountain
of lies and nonsense,
It
seems there was a ocean of milk , It seems it was churned,
It
seems they took a mountain to churn
that ocean,
Tied
it with a snake, asuras pulled
on one side ,
And
Devas pulled on the other side , but
suddenly mountain slipped,
And
Vishnu became a tortoise to lift up that mountain,
Then when they
continued churning , several
things came up,
Jyeshta, Lakshmi
Horse , cow and so on and on,
And finally nectar
came up, can you believe any of these,
Why does our so called
religion cheat us like this?”
Guru broke in to a smile
and told them , “True it is a story ,
Please do not
believe in it fully , the
way itr has been told to you.”
One of the
lads Told:-
“I think to
tell such a sill story
to an intelligent persons like us
is wrong!”
The Guru told, “ I would tell you what
I have understood,
When the poet said an ocean of milk, he was referring to your mind,
Churning it
would mean , churning your mind by analysis meditation.”
If you do it , I
am sure you would get the nectar of divine
knowledge ,
The children laughed
and asked , “ Sounds silly, but what is the mountain used to churn?’
Guru said “The mountain is the greatest possible
knowledge that you have acquired,”
One student
asked “Why need a snake to churn
knowledge?”
Guru said “ The snake
is the passion , avarice , pride
, anger and bias in you,
And with
these , you churn the mind , tying
them to your wisdom,.”
One boy asked ,” Possibly
your wisdom get reduced?”
Guru said “ Yes,
and naturally your wisdom would
go down in your mind,”
Another boy asked “If wisdom slipped down , why God Tortoise there?”
Guru said “ In this case
, God who is your consciousness lifts
up your wisdom.”
Yet another boy
asked,” your Consciousness is a
tortoise?”
Guru said “Please
understand consciousness and wisdom are two entirely different things,
For us decide
to do any thing , we use our wisdom ,
and if we slip and fail ,
Our consciousness warns us
and corrects our action and
puts wisdom back on the rails?”
.The first
boy asked “ You have not answered our question”
Guru said “Consciousness is a
tortoise , because only tortoise
can pull all its sense organs ,
Within itself and only when senses are pulled , wisdom can rise up again “
The leader of the
boys asked,
“We seem to understand a little but why so
many good and bad things arise from
the mind?
Guru said , “ When
we continue meditation Bad aspects
of you like Jyeshta
devi comes out and if you again continue Good
aspects like Goddess Lakshmi arises, Your mind pushes out bad aspects as well
as the tempting good aspects and
we continue our
churning of mind further
One boy asked “What are those
tree , elephant and horse?
Guru said , “That
would mean , if he continues his meditation , we would get several
great powers, but we should
ignore all of them and not stop the meditation
Then we would get
The nectar of
pure divine knowledge called nectar.”
Another boy who
had not asked any question asked”If you drink
that knowledge, Will we not age,
will we not die?”
Guru said , “When a person has perfect knowledge , we realize that aging and death are meaningless events and we should not bother about them.”
The Guru asked “Are
you convinced that churning
of ocean of milk , is a useless story?”
When all the lads
nodded yes, Guru told them.
“ All the stories of our religion are like this, You can easily find fault
with them but it would be
extremely difficult to find the true meaning and at that
time you have to approach
a greatly learned Guru like me.”
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