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Religions and rituals

 

To remain in one's own religion is necessary, otherwise corruption will spread; but while in that religion one should seek out a Gurmukh – an awakened soul – one who has come into full realization already. Without such right company, right understanding cannot be gained.
"Meeting one through whom all durmat (wrong understanding) goes, He is our true friend." If you search the whole world, such a friend you will rarely find.                

                    Kirpal Singh

 

 

The Gurmukh refuses to pin down himself to any ritual, dogma or creed, since he knows the true significance of each doing. Though he pays outward respect to all such dogmas and creed, he does not accept them as a faith. With his continuous and whole-hearted efforts he emanates the fragrance of Divine love, and his lifelong desire is to keep it ever emanating. It is difficult to recognize a Gurmukh. His vision is beyond the limited perception. The so-called people look contemptuously on him. The Gurmukh has the right understanding to scan the real from the apparent. To reveal the secret of life unto others is the regular display in his life.

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He respects and obeys all rules and norms in accordance with the Divine will of God. He feels shy and remains shun and always bears the words of the Master and does lovably without any contradiction even by thoughts. He obeys the worldly rules as well as certain rituals and rites of the religion he belongs to. Further a stage comes in his life when he enters into the plane of love and intoxication; then he sacrifices all rules and norms of the world and that of the religion he belongs to unto the ever vibrating love of the radiating form of his Master. He does not care as what the people would say about him. His vision is then distinct and discriminatory and upholds the prestige of the Master Power.

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He respects all religions, rituals and rites of different religions. Once those religions and outer rituals and rites were made for a good cause. People forgot the real concept and are merely attached to the shackles. He would tell the underlying cause of all that came into formation.

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He makes the parallel study of Holy Scriptures and finds no reason to condemn the universal teaching of all competent Masters. He respects all such Masters, as his Master has blessed him to see them working all together on the higher planes. Here all the disciples of various Masters are mixed up, who were initiated by those Masters at different times. The Gurmukh teaches the unity so as to serve the common cause and to liberate them from their shortcomings of their previous life.

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The outer ritual and rites have no effect on him, rather he can glorify the ritual and rites by telling the basic root-cause of those rituals and rites. Whatever he tells, he tells out of his practical life which is the same as the experiences of competent Masters, and the same is being mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by the competent Masters. He is never interested in useless talks, which at the end are of no avail.

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The words spoken through the Holy Scriptures and the same words spoken through the Gurmukh differ a lot. The latter bears and provides the essence of the words, and the former may tell only the significance of the words. The Gurmukh is the practical media to dispense the seed of humanity by the holy words of his Master.

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Acting, posing, outward performance of different prayers have taken the place of Truth. This gives a momentary feeling or emotion to the affected ones. But when such people come in contact and listen to a Gurmukh, his words leave eternal imprints in them. No one can deny these facts which the Gurmukh reveals to others by the Grace of his Master.

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People get together on the various parties and ceremonies, make amusement and laugh and make each other feel happy by the self-designed actions, but do not touch the basic purpose of the ceremony. By doing so the man has changed the entire essence and good values and necessities of such purposes. If the Gurmukh visits such places – as he is already equipped with the knowledge of each belief and ceremony – he will tell the positive views of their gatherings and the necessity of their ceremonies. The purpose of each ceremony was to bring the man more close to the reality, but due to non-living it is entirely changed and they become shackles. The purpose of the Gurmukh is to bring an over-all change by hook or crook in the life of man.

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Practically the non-believer in God has a certain reason to be a non-believer. Mostly the outer rituals and rites, the very hard and fast rules, and outer shackles existing in certain societies have compelled them to fix their own views. Such people, when tackled by the Gurmukh through the teaching leading to the very art of life, are helped to believe the Power in them. Such people sometimes become very effective instruments in the Mission of the Master. They have certain contradictory views which can be weeded out by practical living.

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So-called followers of the faith stress the disbelief as a belief upon others, and many people become non-believers in God. To remain in the company of such 'saint' is to become a non-believer in the eternal faith. Faith in so-called can never be the faith in God. When such people, who may have heard several times about the higher values of life but did never live with it, meet the Gurmukh, they feel a marvellous change through the potent and positive words of the Gurmukh. His words remind them of the Word they need for their practical life.
The Gurmukh does not believe in acting and posing for self-realization nor does he tell others to perform such things as these will make the man lose the faith of God in him and makes him wander in the field of illusion. He tells to believe in the natural way of life and the simplest possible method to overcome the ever difficult traditions of the so-called followers of the faith.

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Guru Nanak says, "Peace be unto the whole world, oh Lord." Sant Kirpal Singh expressed His views, that the purpose of politics and religion or spirituality is one and the same, that is man-making and man-service. If it is not done, many wranglings and differences do appear and give rise to divisions under the influence of the negative power. The Conscious Co-worker of the Divine Plan is the living example in this world, bearing all good wishes for all human beings of the world.