Date Sent: September 11, 2013
Why? Because
1) 911 = Religious Intolerance = Hate
2) Vivekananda = God without Religion = Divine Love
The role of religion is extremely limited in human quest for the Divine (the origin). Ladder of religion has only 10 rungs (Steps) while one has to go up Trillions of steps if one has to attain the Divinity (absolute purity). Religion is useless for those who are serious about seeking the Origin – The Bliss or Self Realization.
On a lighter note: The Religious leaders are nothing more than ticketing agents. They will either send you to Heaven (if you are under their flag) or send you to Hell (if you are not under their flag) irrespective of your Karma while on the Earth. Poor 1.11 billion Hindus have a double booking in the Hell because Islam and Christianity both have booked their eternal space in the Hell. Hell is already overcrowded and the real-estate prices are going straight-high-up in the burning Hell :)
On a serious note: There is ONLY one divine principal (super-conscious state) that runs the universe and there is ONLY one principal that will take you to that origin or super-conscious state – It is called “Sanatana Dharma” which is “Universal Righteousness” (absolute purity) independent of borders, nationality or religion. (Please ignore the definition of Sanatana Dharma given on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is created by those who rely on books to define God. None of them has seen it. Wikipedia is the blind-leading-blind story.)
Swami Vivekananda wrote: "If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religion. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.... Religion is only between you and your God, and no third person must come between you. Think what these organised religions have done! What Nepoleon was more terrible than those religious persecutions? If you and I organise, we begin to hate every person. It is better not to love, if loving only means hating others. That is no love. That is hell! If loving your own people means hating everybody else, it is the quintessence of selfishness and brutality, and the effect is that it will make you brutes." -The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume I, Topic 'The Gita III']
Swami Vivekananda's 120-Year-Old 9/11 Speech & Religious Intolerance
Remembering the THREE 9/11s
“Incidentally, in December 2012, Martin Luther King’s son, Reverend Martin Luther King III, was the keynote speaker who inaugurated the World Congress of Religions in Washington, DC, which was organised to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. The subject of his address was ‘Vedanta and Interfaith Teachings’. He said, “Swami Vivekananda, like my father, Martin Luther King Jr, did not live to see his 40th birthday....
[For me personally only Swami Vivekananda matters in the following article because he was symbol of Divinity while Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr were both human beings - "slaves-of-mind" (sorry I have no other definition). There is either a Jivanmukta or a Slave. Jivanmukta is a liberated soul while Slave is the soul on the hamster-wheel of cycle-of-birth-and-death]
http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-swami-vivekanand-to-osama-remembering-the-three-911s/20130911.htm |