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Date Posted: 12:05:31 11/25/03 Tue
Author: a kriya yogi - 21 Oct 2003
Subject: Religion

Religion should not try to compete with ordinary recreational activities–it should rather offer a distinct, individual and characteristic form of social service by giving peace, enlightenment and spiritual strength, and not merely offer temporary pleasure or outward stimulation, for these can be better afforded by the theaters and other pleasure agencies.

Churches and temples and all religious organizations must give more. They must be united in their efforts to find their goal instead of being torn by mutual jealousies and party feelings. “Ah, we are the best church because Rockefeller belongs to it!” some say. This is delusion. God makes the most powerful monarch as well as the “unknown soldier” to return to the same dust, bereft of all their material possessions, though still possessing their spiritual qualities.

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
East-West, Sept.–Oct. 1927

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