Religion, without dogmas, the right of the soul to be freeOde to Sri Ramakrishna: The Prophets have revealed parts of a single essential truth whose source is the one GodConclusions (Ode to Sri Ramakrishna)Ramakrishna taught us that all paths lead to the one and only God and that it is possible to see Him. Vivekananda said that he wished the day would come when there would be as many religions as there are people and also that being free was the whole religion. All the messengers and prophets have arisen on earth in times of violence and loss of the meaning of life. All of them, have revealed parts of a single essential truth whose source can be none other than the one God, whether you call it Allah, Brahman or Sat-Chit-Ananda True Knowledge, the self-knowledge of the true self and of the Absolute Reality, which in Sanskrit is called Apara-Vidya or spiritual science, is immutable in time. Any other knowledge (Para-Vidya), such as the Western sciences, is finite. Since Black Eve times, finite knowledge has not stopped growing all over the world, so people from different times and places have achieved finite knowledge that is, at least in theory, ever higher. A scientific theory like quantum mechanics could hardly be understood in the time of Jesus or Confucius, although many centuries before, in Vedanta, this concept of continuity of everything, based on the All is One, was already used. And so, all this wealth of knowledge, created by billions of people during more than 6,000 years of civilization, has allowed, for better or for worse, for humanity to be what it is today. This finite knowledge should be used for the common good of humanity and lay the foundation for assimilating higher knowledge or Apara-Vidya. Swami Vivekananda expressed it perfectly: “Western science plus Hindu spirituality” and I believe that this is the approach with which we should live spirituality, and do so without dogmas, without chains that restrict our freedom, and always remember the divine right of the soul to be free.
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