... natures are only the overflowings of an excessive strength, greatness and nobility. They should be purified, not discouraged. I have spoken of morality; it is necessary to speak a word of religious teaching. There is a strange idea prevalent that by merely teaching the dogmas of religion children can be made pious and moral. This is an European error, and its practice either leads to mechanical... practice of anusthana or religious exercise, is a sample of the ignorant confusion which distracts men's minds on this subject. The prohibition is a sop to secularism declared or concealed. No religious teaching is of any value unless it is lived, and the use of various kinds of sadhana, spiritual self-training and exercise is the only effective preparation for religious living. The ritual of prayer... preparation and, if not made an end in itself, is a great help to spiritual progress, if it is withheld, some other form of meditation, devotion or religious duty must be put in its place. Otherwise, religious teaching is of little use and would almost be better ungiven. Page 58 But whether distinct teaching in any form of religion is imparted or not, the essence of religion, to live for God ...
... are only the overflowings of an excessive strength, greatness and nobility. They should be purified, not discouraged. I have spoken of morality; it is necessary to speak a word of religious teaching. There is a strange idea prevalent that by merely teaching the dogmas of religion children can be made pious and moral. This is an European error, and its practice either leads to mechanical... practice of anuṣṭhāna or religious exercises, is a sample of the ignorant confusion which distracts men's minds on this subject. The prohibition is a sop to secularism declared or concealed. No religious teaching is of any value unless it is lived, and the use of various kinds of sādhanā , spiritual self-training and exercise, is the only effective preparation for religious living. The ritual of prayer... preparation and, if not made an end in itself, is a great help to spiritual progress; if it is withheld, some other form of meditation, devotion or religious duty must be put in its place. Otherwise, religious teaching is of little use and would almost be better ungiven. But whether distinct teaching in any form of religion is imparted or not, the essence of religion, to live for God, for humanity, for country ...
... natures are only the overfiowings of an excessive strength, greatness and nobility. They should be purified, not discouraged, I have spoken of morality; it is necessary to speak a word of religious teaching. There is a strange idea prevalent that by merely teaching the dogmas of religion children can be made pious and moral. This is an European error, and its practice either leads to mechanical... practice of anusfhana or religions exercise, is a sample of the ignorant confusion vvhich distracts men's minds on this subject. The prohibition is a sop to secularism declared or concealed. No religious teaching is of any value unless it is lived, and the use of various kinds of sadhana, spiritual self-training and exercise is the only effective preparation for religious living. The ritual of prayer... n and, if not made an end in itself, is a great help to spiritual progress; if it is with held, some other form of meditation, devotion or religious dnty must be put in its place. Otherwise, religious teaching is of little use and would almost be better nngiven. But whether distinct teaching in any form of religion is iinparted or not, the essence of religion, to live for God, for humanity ...
... it is as boring for the teacher as it is for the student.’ 43 And she said that teaching was ‘a priesthood.’ She impressed on the teachers: ‘You must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual one. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future – it illumines the consciousness and prepares it for the future realization. Spiritual ...
... The Spirit of Auroville The Mother describes on 12.7.1972: One must not confuse a religious teaching with spiritual teaching. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future; it enlightens the consciousness and prepares it for future realisation . Spiritual teaching is above religions and ...
... transformation. There is no interest more worthwhile." (Ibid.) (9)Not a religious education but a spiritual education. The Mother elucidates: "You must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual one. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future — it illumines the consciousness and prepares it for the future realisation ...
... many others; and the children of Auroville should replace the exclusiveness of one religion by the wide faith of knowledge. 1972 * One must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual teaching. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future; it enlightens the consciousness and prepares it for future realisation. ...
... 23 August 1967 To develop the spirit of service is part of the training here and it completes the other studies. 13 June 1971 You must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual one. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future it illumines the consciousness and prepares it for the future—it realisation ...
... freely in his own way. But each one ought to know that his discovery is good for him alone and is not to be imposed upon others. 13 May 1970 You must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual one. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future—it illumines the consciousness and prepares it for future realisation. Spiritual ...
... It's difficult. ( silence ) I had some things for you ( Mother feels the objects on the table near her ), it was in an envelope. "One must not confuse a religious teaching and a spiritual teaching. Religious teaching belongs to the past and stops all progress, spiritual teaching is the teaching of the future. It enlightens the consciousness and prepares it for the future realization ...
... political revolution. Individual members may be Loyalists, Moderates, Nationalists, even Terrorists, but a religious body is not responsible for the political opinions of its individual members. The religious teaching of Swami Dayananda was inspired by national motives, not political; and the aims of the Arya Samaj are national, not political. The Arya Disclaimer The leaders of the Arya Samaj have issued ...
... evolutionary ascent must some day recommence in a new world, reborn from the old, but at a low stage of human development. Out of such or similar considerations, Eastern thought joins Western religious teaching in placing supreme importance upon the NOW. NOW is the hour for decision. Deluded is he who is always thinking 'tomorrow I will do better. Buddha once handled the problem of procrastination ...
... and illimitable spiritual truth with an infinite potentiality of significance. And that is a sign of the profundity, the wide reach, the greatness of spirit of the Gita's teaching. An ordinary religious teaching or philosophical doctrine is well enough satisfied to seize on certain great and vital aspects of truth and turn them into utilisable dogma and instruction, method and practice for the guidance ...
... have gone back most freely to the inner source that is due the perpetual reflooding of the Indian mind with Vedic truth and its immortal permanence and unfailing reappearance in philosophy, in religious teaching and observance and in personal spiritual experience and discipline. Page 93 None of these puissant exterior aids to the permanence of the Veda would have been entirely effective without ...
... point where one sees that one knows nothing.... I spoke to you about the novice who wants to pass on to others what he has learnt—until the day he sees he has not much to pass on. Usually all religious teaching is based on that. A very little knowledge, with precise formulas which are well written (often quite well written) and crystallise in the brain, and assert: "That is indeed the truth." You have ...
... seeking for distinction or mere personal fame. Work for the people will be in the direction of "mass instruction and help to the poor and ignorant" - lectures and demonstrations, night schools, religious teaching, nursing the sick and works of charity. Works for the middle classes will include "various works of public utility". Work with the wealthy classes will be of the nature of converting them to ...
... spiritual fraud with financial double-dealing. Not a single voice was raised in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram when those people dared to declare in front of the Indian courts that Sri Aurobindo's was a "religious" teaching. Page 150 They need it, I see that, I've received more letters which I'm answering.... (Mother looks in vain through some other papers near her) Every day they come in. And ...
... could pass through Pondicherry and see the Asram and establish a contact after which it can be known whether he can take up the Yoga. 7 July 1938 Write that this Asram is not intended for religious teaching, but for the practice of Yoga; its object, like that of all Yoga, is the attainment of a higher consciousness and the spiritual life. But Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is a special path with its own special ...
... isolated. They have not developed into centres of a network of schools affiliated to them and forming one corporate body. They have not in themselves the makings of Universities. So far as they give religious teaching they are a wholesome departure from the barren official form of education, but that is only one part of education on national lines. National education cannot be defined briefly in one or two ...
... against the rigid claim of the law, nation, State. It is a simple cry of the voice of nature and life, yet there breathes behind it a greater thought which is not so far from the truth underlying religious teaching and spiritual experience. The poet, his eyes fixed on life, shows us as if by accident the seed in our normal nature which can grow into the prodigious spiritual truth of universal love. He has ...
... of the Vedic Rishis. Page 31 Dayananda's interpretation of the hymns is governed by the idea that the Vedas are a plenary revelation of religious, ethical and scientific truth. Its religious teaching is monotheistic and the Vedic gods are different descriptive names of the one Deity; they are at the same time indications of His powers as we see them working in Nature and by a true understanding ...
... an influence. The third thing is to place a man in the right place in the world. Page 137 Disciple : She has also provided for "silence" in her teaching. There is no religious teaching. There are people who object to this method saying that the child must be brought in contact with the past. Sri Aurobindo : When the real man – the true individual-is brought out, then ...
... available but sometime in February Disciple : Bijoy Goswami passed the last years of his life in Puri and he came to the conclusion that so long as poverty was there in India spiritual and religious teaching had no chance. One of his disciples writes in the last issue of the 'Kalyan' that in his last years he believed in Dana Yagna – charity. So much so that he ran into big debts and when his health ...
... schools. 3) Religious teachings. 4) Nursing the sick. 5) Conducting works of charity. 6) Whatever other good work their hands may find to do and the Order approves. III. WORKS FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS. 10) They will undertake, according as they may be directed, various works of public utility in the big towns and elsewhere connected especially with the education and religious life and i... of the Order and his one or two assistants in all things connected with the work or with their religious life. 5) They will observe strictly the discipline and rules of achar and purity, bodily and mental, prescribed by the Heads of the Order. 6) They will be given periods for rest or for religious improvement during which they will stop at the math , but the greater part of the year they will... zamindars, landholders and rich men generally, and endeavour— 1) To promote sympathy between the zamindars and the peasants and heal all discords. 2) To create the link of a single and living religious spirit and a common passion for one great ideal between all classes. 3) To turn the minds of rich men to works of public beneficence and charity to those in their neighbourhood independent of the ...
... current of pure intellectual force, and thenceforth no knowledge can be veiled from him. From that moment serenity—mental peace—is his portion. In all beliefs, in all human knowledge, in all religious teachings, which sometimes appear so contradictory, he perceives the deep truth which nothing can now conceal from his eyes. Even errors and ignorance no longer disturb him, for, as an unknown master... criticisms as possible. Or because this was the opinion of your father or mother, the opinion which moulded your childhood. Or else because this opinion is the normal outcome of the education, religious or otherwise, you received in your youth. This thought is not your own thought. For, to be your own thought, it would have to form part of a logical synthesis you had elaborated in the course of ...
... instrument of our perfection. How far shall this renunciation go? what shall be its nature? and in what way shall it be applied? There is an established tradition long favoured by great religious teachings and by men of profound spiritual experience that renunciation must not only be complete as a discipline but definite and final as an end and that it shall fall nothing short of the renunciation... delusion. We may be called upon to assume these things, for that may be the uniform of our service; but equally it may not. The eye of man outside matters nothing; the eye within is all. We see in the teaching of the Gita how subtle a thing is the freedom from egoism which is demanded. Arjuna is driven to Page 331 fight by the egoism of strength, the egoism of the Kshatriya; he is turned from... world and life to which the unawakened mind clings as its natural element; but we must not remain bound in any mental construction of our own or in any intellectual thought-system or arrangement of religious dogmas or logical conclusions; we must not only cut asunder the snare of the mind and the senses, but flee also beyond the snare of the thinker, the snare of the theologian and the church-builder ...
... to the religious diversity of the Pakistani society. While the teaching of Islamiat is compulsory for Muslim students, on average over a quarter of the material in books to teach Urdu as a language is on one religion. The books on English have lessons with religious content. Islamiat is also taught in Social Studies classes. Thus, the entire education is heavily loaded with religious teachings... of virtually every significant religious group in Undivided India, indeed the entire Muslim religious establishment to the Pakistan movement and the Muslim League cannot be reconciled with any idea of religious origins of Pakistan. This is just one of many paradoxes that anyone who thinks that the true reason for the creation of Pakistan was to establish a religious 'Islamic state', must unravel. ... events in our history. • Insensitivity to the actually existing religious diversity of the nation • Incitement to militancy and violence, including encouragement of Jehad and Shahadat • Perspectives that encourage prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination towards fellow citizens, especially women and religious minorities, and other nations. • A glorification of war and ...
... seeing reality as socially constructed – doesn’t mean deciding there is nothing ‘out there’. It means understanding that all our stories about what’s out there – all our scientific facts, our religious teachings, our society’s beliefs, even our personal perceptions – are the products of a highly creative interaction between human minds and the cosmos. The cosmos may be found; but the ideas we form about ...
... endeavour turns always in a circle and leads nowhere; man's life and nature remain always the same, always imperfect, and neither laws nor institutions nor education nor philosophy nor morality nor religious teachings have succeeded in producing the perfect man, still less a perfect humanity,—straighten the tail of the dog as you will, it has been said, it always resumes its natural curve of crookedness. Altruism ...
... 3. Religious teachings. 4. Nursing the sick. 5. Conducting works of charity. 6. Whatever other good work their hands may find to do and the Order approves. III. Works for the Middle Class 10. They will undertake, according as they may be directed, various works of public utility in the big towns and elsewhere connected especially with the education and religious life and... her periods of mightiest and most varied vigour have drawn their vitality from the fountain-heads of some deep religious awakening. Wherever the religious awakening has been complete and grand, the national energy it has created has been gigantic and puissant; wherever the religious movement has been narrow or incomplete; the national movement has been broken, imperfect or temporary. The persistence... the Order and his one or two assistants in all things connected with the work or with their religious life. 5. They will observe strictly the discipline and rules of Achar and purity, bodily and mental, prescribed by the Heads of the Order. 6. They will be given periods for rest or for religious improvement during which they will stop at the Math, but the greater part of the year they will ...
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