Harmony Of All Religions | |
by Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj | |
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"Harmony Of All Religions" (Sarvadharma Samanvy) -- A | |
Book Exploring Inner Light and Sound Meditation in the | |
Great World Religions: Vedic Tradition -- Hinduism, | |
Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, | |
and the Sant Mat tradition -- Authored by Swami Sant Sevi | |
Ji Maharaj, Translated Into English by Veena Howard, | |
Published by the Santmat Society of North America, also | |
published by Maharshi Mehi Ashram, Kuppaghat, Bhagalpur, | |
Bihar, India, and, Sant Mat Society of North America, | |
and, Santmat Satsang Samiti, Chandrapur, India. | |
"Vedic dharma has its temples, Christianity its churches, | |
and Islam its mosques. But the real temple is the heart. | |
God is attained within: the path to God lies within one s | |
own self, as all the saints have taught this with | |
unanimity. The inner path begins in Sushumana, ajana | |
chakra (the tenth gate between two eyebrows)." | |
Our Path Back to the Source -- The Inward Journey Back to | |
God -- The Essence of Dharma | |
"Sant Mat (the path and teachings as taught and practiced | |
by saints) delineates the path of union of soul with the | |
Divine. The teachings of the saints explain the re- | |
uniting as follows: | |
"The individual soul has descended from the higher worlds | |
[the Realm of the Divine] to this city of illusion, | |
bodily existence. It has descended from the Soundless | |
State to the essence of Sound, from that Sound to Light, | |
and finally from the realm of Light to the realm of | |
Darkness. The qualities (dharmas, natural tendencies) of | |
the sense organs draw us downward and away from our true | |
nature. | |
"The nature of the soul (atman) draws us upwards and | |
inwards and establishes us in our own true nature. | |
Returning to our origins involves turning inward: | |
withdrawal of consciousness from the senses and the sense | |
objects in order to go upward from the darkness to the | |
realms of Light and Sound. [We experience this phenomenon | |
of withdrawal as we pass from waking consciousness to | |
deep sleep.] Another way to express this is to go inward | |
from the external sense organs to the depth of the inner | |
self. (Both of these expressions are the metaphors that | |
signify the same movement). The natural tendencies of the | |
soul (atman) are to move from outward to inward. The | |
current of consciousness which is dispersed in the nine | |
gates of the body and the senses, must be collected at | |
the tenth gate. | |
"The tenth gate is the gathering point of consciousness. | |
Therein lies the path for our return. The tenth gate is | |
also known as the sixth chakra, the third eye, bindu, the | |
center located between the two eyebrows. This is the | |
gateway through which we leave the gates of the sense | |
organs and enter in the divine realms and finally become | |
established in the soul. We travel back from the Realm of | |
Darkness to the Realm of Light, from the Light to the | |
Divine Sound, and from the Realm of Sound to the | |
Soundless State. This is called turning back to the | |
Source. | |
"This is what dharma or religion really intends to teach | |
us. This is the essence of dharma." | |
-- Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj, Harmony Of All Religions | |
Date Published: 2012-09-21 23:58:54 | |
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Language: English | |
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