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Date Posted: 12:09:02 11/23/03 Sun
Author: a kriya yogi - 21 Oct 2003
Subject: Churches

The churches, instead of arguing with one another about the infallibility of their individual dogmas, and spending money in decorating the temples, should get together and find the real meaning of Life, and through psycho-ethical laws try to discover the universal standard of the art of living, which can really daily uplift and help their people.

Above all, church funds, instead of being completely tied up in heavy mortgages and ornamental edifices, could be better employed in inducing the greatest scientists of the East and West to make real investigations for a practical technique of making the body, mind, and Soul of man perfect, harmonious, ever-strong, quickly developing, better, and happier.

Dogmatic church members succumb to the influence of parental religious habits, or to a sense of religious fear, or festive religious entertainments, or to a repetition of the same grand theoretical sermons over and over again. Most intellectual people are straying out of the church fold because they do not find any progressive interest there. Huge sums of money are tied up in some church edifices just to impress people with the grandeur of architecture, but that is all. Architectural appeal or comfortable church pews, or sermons of Spiritual victrolas, or big advertising campaigns for drawing large crowds to church festivities, are not producing permanent results, for people do not get any new knowledge in the church, which can sufficiently awaken their interest and spontaneously bring them there. What is the use of trying to make church members believe in untested dogmas.

Instead of peddling untested dogmas and urging people to believe, the church should convert its premises into universities of experimental psychology. Ancient India built the biggest and most gorgeous temples in the world, but now they have mostly become marts for priests to ply their religious trades and to shear the pilgrims of money for their own diabolical uses. India is now going through a new evolution and getting rid of this false growth. In little secluded hermitages unmarked by any religious trade-mark, real Spiritual teachers, who live the life, are experimenting with the worth-while effect of Spiritual laws on the lives of true seekers and not on floating curiosity seekers.

-Paramahansa Yogananda precepta lessons

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