| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| VEDIC DHARMA AND THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION | |
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limited human beings we are hardly ready for a perfect spiritual
science anyway and may require lesser truths in order to help lead
us there by stages. For this reason many religious teachings have
only a preliminary value and must be discarded as we evolve, however
useful at some stage they may be. Some
religions are entirely the products of ordinary human beings and
reflect the religious urge as it occurs in the ego-bound
personality, trapped in a bodily identity.
Such religions usually look for bodily immortality in some heaven that is little more than a glorified life on Earth replete with sensory enjoyments. Some religions are the products of half-enlightened human beings. These may reflect various subtle worlds as their goal, abodes of refined perception and angelic grace, but remain trapped in a subtle ego and desire. Only a few religious teachings are the products of enlightened sages, Self-realized yogis beyond all egoistic distortions. These direct us to a goal beyond any bodily or worldly state. Yet fewer teachings reflect the teachings of numerous enlightened sages, containing the full spiritual possibilities for all different creatures, and not imposing any stereotyped path on anyone. Our human nature is so filled with ignorance to such a deep level that becoming free of all illusion is almost impossible, particularly for anyone born in ordinary human circumstances. Therefore all religions, however great, have a shadow of misinterpretation and misapplication. |
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