Religion – an Inner Science

 

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Religion – an Inner Science

India is a multi-religion cauldron with all the world’s major religions having found a home here. There are countless stories of how people of different faiths who were being persecuted and exterminated in their own countries found shelter in India and then later flourished and found a home here like the Jews and Parsis to name two.

The Sanatana Dharma for the Hindus of India denotes the ‘eternal’ truth and teachings of Hinduism. It can also be translated as the natural and eternal way to live. The Sanatana Dharma is based on science which the ancients of India studied and which was then practised through knowledge imparted by sages to their students.

But we are not here to talk about the Sanatana Dharma but the true religion of human beings. Like science, there can be only one true religion. We do have Christian physics, Islamic physics, Jewish physics, Hindu physics and so on – it is just physics, else it would be nonsense. But that’s exactly what the religious leaders have done to their religions – they have made the world a madhouse – the greatest number of people killed and their human rights violated have been in the name of religion!

Our true religion is our inner religion which is based on the science of consciousness. This is still an evolving ‘science’ and only those Enlightened Masters or Satgurus know its true value as they are the ones who have experienced it. These Masters, today, are sharing their knowledge with their followers and helping them turn inwards and learn about their true religion. That religion is nothing but humanity which is aroused on self-realisation and experiencing one’s inner consciousness.

Albert Einstein who was arguably the world’s greatest scientist spoke about the unknowable, that which will never be known. Nothing can be done about it because the ultimate mystery cannot be reduced to knowledge. We are a part of existence – how can we know existence’s ultimate mystery?

We live, we breathe, we exist with existence – we cannot separate ourselves from it. The moment we are separated, we are dead. And without being separate, just being a witness with no involvement, no attachment, we cannot know the ultimate mystery. Even after reaching advanced states of meditation, there is always something which is still unknown, the journey into the infinite continues, you can feel it, maybe even experience it – but you cannot know it, definitely not like knowledge! 

When the mind knows, we call it knowledge; when the heart knows, we call it love; and when the being knows, we call it meditation. But all three speak different languages which are not translatable into each other. And the deeper you go, that much more difficult it is to translate; because at the very centre of your being is silence, nothing but profound silence. How does one translate silence into sound? Because the moment you do so, you destroy the silence!