All aggression happening in the world around us, based on any religious belief systems clearly show that the difference between ‘religion' and ‘belief' is not well-understood. We all look out for a spiritual awe or expereince in our lives. Inorder to express and convert any expereinces we have into certain ideas we confide or believe in, we need a system. A belief system. Religion in my opinion, is an attempt to codify and formalize a spiritual experience. But that...

A strong human Will is what makes the ego a competent servant, but the ego cannot serve two masters. Either our Will is employed to follow the call of spirit for the expansion of the soul, or it serves the concept of individual self by repeating existing patterns of mind in recreating what is already known.

As a conduit for spirit, the ego is in a constant state of bliss because it is consolidated with the infinite Self.  But...

On Monday we celebrate Memorial Day. This holiday started off as a somber day of remembrance, a day where we in America went to cemeteries and placed flags or flowers on the graves of those who died in battle or in some way during the course of war. We remembered our ancestors, family members, loved ones, and even unknown soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us. They died for our freedom. Possibly they died to help give freedom to someone else as well.

Today, many people...

Trimbakeshwar Temple in Nasik

Shri Trimbakeshwar Temple is located at a distance of about 30-km from Nasik in Maharashtra near the mountain named Brahmagiri from which the river Godavari flows. Trimbakeshwar Temple is revered as one of the 12 Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva and as the source of the river Godavari. Just as Ganga is known as Bhagirathi and is one of the most important river in North India, in the same way, Godavari is also known as Gautami Ganga and is the most sacred...

All aggression happening in the world around us, based on any religious belief systems clearly show that the difference between ‘religion' and ‘belief' is not well-understood. We all look out for a spiritual awe or expereince in our lives. Inorder to express any experiences we confide or believe in, we need a system. A belief system. Religion in my opinion, is an attempt to codify and formalize a spiritual experience. But that formalization distorts and destroys what it was...

Up to the age of forty, Muhammad was not known as a statesman, a parson a spokesman or a lecturer.  He was never seen discussing the principles of metaphysics, beliefs, moral principles, ethics, law, politics, economics or sociology.

His Pagan people knew that he possessed an excellent personality, pleasant manners and He was well known as an honest and a trustworthy man.  His people used to call him the trustworthy honest man.

Nevertheless, there was nothing in...

In the Bible, there are many prophecies that never happened.

This article discusses the Biblical prophecies about Edom.

Jehovah, the Lord God, prophesized that Edom will be so and so but all of theses prophecies never happened.

The announcement of God's prophecies:

Jehovah, the Lord God made the announcement of his prophecies; He said:

1. Come near, O nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the...

Whether you call it opium, or a narcotic by any other name, the results are the same.  Karl Marx said that religion was an opium of the people. A Narcotic is defined as a drug as opium or morphine that in moderate doses relieves pain and induces deep sleep. Excessive use can cause tremors and seizures. Much of Christianity (as well as other religions) have been SEIZED UP for 2,000 years due to the "Sinner Narcotic".

After twenty centuries of telling people what low...

I remember the teenage moment even today, when I went before the congregation and SURRENDERED my life to God. What I don't remember,  are ALL of those myriad of things that I was told that I needed to give up or SURRENDER to God that I might fully enter into heaven. Heaven?  I'm way too young to be thinking about heaven- or hell!

The real question is what specifically are we being asked to SURRENDER to be kids of the king?

We are not to surrender our brains, logic,...

The English equivalents of ‘Puja' are homage, reverence, worship, respect, etc. The system of Puja relates to religions, deities and God. In some religions there is an elaborate system of rituals for Puja while in some religions there is a simple method of prayer.

All the major religions of the world originated in Asia. South Asia is the birth place of four major religions- Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. All these religions originated in India. Christianity...