Beyond all religion

One who seeks answers to his quest and divines ‘ truths’ to live by would become ‘free’ not merely of doubts and vacillations within but also of the binding effects of problems and retarding forces without too. This is that art of living (karmasu koushalamand dukah samyoga viyoga).

Henry Thoreau also elaborates on this, thus, “...living with the licence of a higher order of beings, where new and more liberal laws commence to work within and around you”. One who is receptive and open-minded would also be catholic enough to comprehend that ‘truths’ are beyond all religion, sect, creed or any cult. These are as relevant to the agnostic as to the religious.

One would also comprehend Benjamin Franklin’s observation that particular actions are hurtful not because they are forbidden by any particular religion but forbidden because they would be hurtful. Indeed, prohibitions to passionate and limitless greed for material acquisitions, besides exhortations to righteousness and discipline, have been laid down by all religions. These, like various other injunctions, are ‘truths’ that are applicable to all.

Not limited by just worship, congregations or rituals and guided by ‘truths’ that have survived the test of time, the intelligent seeker reaps the rewards of the bounties, blessings and opportunities that abound all over. He revels in the art of right, good and problem-free living in his own satyaloka, where ‘truth’ alone matters. These are the ‘truths’ that truly set one ‘free’. And these ‘truths’ are truly beyond all religion!