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To be religious is not, what we usually understand. What we usually understand, by being religious, is to follow an organized belief system; visiting religious places; reading scriptures; listening to religious discourses etc. But this is not being religious because, there is nothing of religion in it. Fundamentally, being religious is, to be established in one’s essential nature or in one’s religion ( dharma ) which beholds ( dharan karna ) you because, your nature is intrinsic to your existence, without which you just cannot imagine your existence.   Your essential nature or religion is your chetana or consciousness which is integral to your existence which beholds you all the time. Without chetana or consciousness, your existence is not possible. For example, in your sleep, despite the fact, that all other external props and supports which you consider as me (body and mind); mine (your possessions) and others (world) are not there in your experience and yet, you exist; you ...

In one of my earlier posts, I talked about living in surrender or living in trust of this existence. In that post, I mentioned that, if you exist in surrender to this existence, then the existence will take good care of you. Existence will do all that’s needed for your evolution. When I mentioned this, obviously, there was a question that, how it is possible? Now, let me explain as how does it work. This is possible only by being in communication with this existence. If, you know, how to communicate with this existence, then the existence will do all that is needed for your further evolution because existence or the divine means, the one who knows all and that’s why it is called the existence or the divine. Now, if you have to tell god as what are your needs or you have to order him as, what he should do for you, then he is no god or divine but an impostor. We call something as divine only because that god or divine knows all, because he knows what is needed for your growth and what h...

In the last post, I mentioned that, suffering is because of the mind and is in the mind. In that post, I also mentioned that animals know nothing about suffering because they don’t have mind, which we have. Since, they don’t have mind they never know any suffering. The reason, animals do not have mind is that, animals have no other possibility except existing here, just as physical bodies. They are born as animals and they die as animals. They can’t do more than eating, drinking n reproducing. Animals are, thus, total unconsciousness and hence, the nature has given them instincts and not mind.    I also mentioned in that post that, in our sleep, we too know nothing about suffering because in sleep our mind is not present. In sleep, mind merges temporarily into unconsciousness and hence, you forget your suffering too, for short duration. A logical conclusion, therefore, is that, if you want to forget your mind then, remain asleep as long as you can. Because, so long you coul...

Do you know that other creatures, know nothing about suffering because animals never suffer? They only know physical pain in their bodies but have no experience of any suffering. Why this is so? This is for the simple reason that animal world is total unconsciousness ( behoshi ) and because they exist in unconsciousness, they exist in oneness i.e. one with this existence. Being one with the existence is to exist in one’s reality or to exist here in one’s natural state. Because, other creatures always exist in their natural state i.e. without any sense of separation from this existence and hence they have no experience of suffering.   Like the animal world we, human beings, too, have no experience of suffering in our sleep. We know nothing about suffering in our sleep because all what we know as suffering, fear, misery, anxieties, worries etc do not exist in our sleep. This is because sleep, too, is unconsciousness and in that unconsciousness, we, too, exist in our natural state ...