Religion means the path of efforts to please the God

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Religion means the path of efforts to please the God

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Religion means the path of efforts to please the God having a specific name and form particularly concerned to a specific religion. The philosophy of any religion is the analysis of the details of its specific path and details of its specific form of God. There are several religions like Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc. If you take Islam religion, the specific representation of God is Allah and its philosophy is about the formless aspect of God, opposes the concept of human incarnation etc. Its language is called Urdu and Muslim habits about dress, food etc., are called as Islam culture. Religion is concerned to the spiritual aspect whereas culture is concerned about external aspect. The cultures can’t be one, but the religions are always one because God in all the forms is one only and the essence of the paths of the religions is only the effort to please God. We mistake culture for religion and get divided within us.

All religions appear to be different due to their externally observed cultures. But, God and path to please God (both these together are called as religion) are one and the same in all religions. The different paths ending in the same centre are taken as the simile for different religions. Here, this simile is applied since religion is mistaken as external culture. If the religion is taken as the path and goal together, there can’t be any difference between religions since goals or paths of all religions are one and the same.


Union of religions can be brought only by deep analysis coming from the faculty of intelligence in brain and not by emotion of mind coming from heart. Now, only brains exist and hearts have disappeared long back! If the logic of intelligence, the highest faculty in human body, gets convinced, no need to convince anyone more in this world! Union of all religions (Sarvamata Samanvaya) is achieved by the following logical argument projected by the following argument

India, the place of Hindu religion, was invented in 1700 AD and till then there was no connection between India and other countries. Till then, neither preaching of Krishna went out nor preaching of Jesus entered in. Each religion says that the disbeliever of their specific God (Krishna or Jesus) will go to hell! Our ancestors before 1700 AD went to hell as per Christianity and ancestors of outer countries before 1700 AD went to hell as per Hinduism! Each religion says that their God is the creator of this one earth and this one entire humanity. This becomes impossible if Gods and religions are different. Essentially one God or essentially one religion exists. That one God alone created this one earth and this one humanity. If one specific God of one specific religion alone exists, such God gave gospel in a specific region without spreading it immediately all over the world, some generations of outer country missed the opportunity of gospel and went to hell for their no fault! This is extreme partiality of God! This blame will not appear in our concept of oneness of all religions.

Our concept is: From the beginning of this creation, the one God, who created this one earth and this one humanity on this one earth, came in different forms with different names till now and gave the same subject of one gospel in different languages. Since subject of all gospels is one and the same, there is no danger of any generation of any region missing this gospel of other region on this earth. One, who follows the subject of gospel of his religion in his region, he/she followed all gospels of all religions in all regions. The follower, anywhere, at any time, goes to God and the disbeliever goes to hell. There is no possibility of partiality of God to any religion of any region.

The route of terrorism lies in the difference between the religions existing in this world. This is the main focus of terrorism since terrorism also appears for some political issues also which cannot be covered in this message dealing with the main focus of it. You can end terrorism by removing the differences between religions.

Religion is like the external language and spiritual knowledge is like the internal subject. Physics is taught in different states (of India) in different languages. For a standard, the prescribed syllabus of a subject is one and the same. The subject quantum mechanics is one and the same taught in different languages in different states (of India). A Telugu (a language in one of the states in India) student cannot say that the quantum mechanics taught to him in Telugu language alone is the real knowledge and the same subject taught in Tamil language (another language in one of the states in India) in other state is not at all the knowledge. The Telugu student further asks the Tamil student to leave the school in his state and recommends to him to come to Andhra Pradesh (where Telugu is spoken as language), learn Telugu language and here the quantum mechanics taught in Telugu. Is this not the foolish conservatism? Both the Telugu and Tamil students should be advised that the subject ‘quantum mechanics’ is one and the same taught in both the languages. You should make both to realize this common spiritual knowledge existing in the scriptures of all religions.

The quarrel between religions comes only to the people, who are unable to practice the spiritual knowledge and find all the time to spend in inter religion quarrels. Hinduism is a religion but can be taken as a micro model representing the macro model of universal religions. In Hinduism there are several sub religions like Shaivism, Vaishnavism etc., and the intra-religion quarrels in Hinduism went even up to the level of terrorism resulting in killing each other. You can explain the concept taking Hinduism as model and explain the efforts of Shankara, who brought unity in the philosophies’ of all these sub-religions.

Shirdi Sai Baba tried to bring unity between Hinduism and Islam. Satya Sai Baba and Swami Vivekananda tried to bring unity in universal religions. Lot of knowledge is also expressed by Me in this direction and several powerful arguments were given by Me. All these can be used to bring unity of religions. My knowledge is mainly based on logic and logic alone can convince the brains of anybody today. Now the brains of human beings are only functioning and not their hearts. Appeals will not be fruitful. Only arguments can bring results as in the courts. Youth is also easily convinced by arguments than appeals. The fate of the people involved in terrorism is the hell only in which very sophisticated and efficient equipments exist to give serious punishments. Punishment is inevitable if arguments fail.

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It's absolutely true what you say: religion is a prescribed way to please god. In Christianity, it is also the prescription on how to behave if one wants god to please the person after his death. In Christianity it is a two-way street. I don't know Indian religions at all; I can't say if the pleasing and pleasure-generating goes only from man to god, or also from god to man.

The reason that is absolutely a proof how right you are, is that according to religious reason, by the brain, there ought to be no difficulties unifying religions. If what you say is true -- not just in theory, but in reality as well -- because in theory you are absolutely right, but reality belies your theory -- how come we used to fight wars if the religious ways are indistinguishable from each other in their most important point?

There is a discrepancy here. We see that we ought to have no quibbles between the religious of different religions, yet there are quibbles, fights, even wars.

In science, a theory is judged to be falsified, if even a single instance of event occurs that denies the truth of the theory. If a stone you dropped fell upwards, it would put an end to the theory of gravitation as we know it.

In your description, you present a TRUE by logic state, in the state of religion. Yet the reality shows many, not just one, but many, examples, which proves that the theory is not solid.

This is very serious. The theory sounds true; infallible. Yet reality denies it's infallible.

So the theory is wrong. You need to revise it or use a different theory.

My theory, the one I would replace your theory with, to shine a more truthful light on reality, that is, to use a model that does not have the faults of your model, thus being truer knowledge, would be to say that wars are started over limited resources that two or more parties (parties being either individuals, or groups, or communities, or nations, etc.) badly want, so badly, that they are willing to kill each other for it. Religion plays a multiple role in wars, one being an ideology of made-up reason why you should kill your enemy.

This theory, which I hadn't created, but other, much smarter people than I, is the prevailing theory that is taught in schools in the western world...let's say in the world north of the Himalaya and west of the Euphrates. It is somewhat truer than the theory you presented. It may or may not be the absolute truth, but it certainly does not have the apparent failure of your theory.
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Please God for what?

A believer will surrender totally and go the extreme of pleasing God to gain favor for one's own salvation.
Why salvation?
Because of this.
"Fear of Death" a Primary Motivator of Religions?
http://onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums/ ... =4&t=14794

Note Abraham, he was willing [unconditionally] even to kill his own son to please God.
Why?? because he was driven by "Fear of Death" at the subliminal level.

Note suicide bombers who are willing to be martyred to please God.
Why?? because they was driven to by "Fear of Death" at the subliminal level to please God as commanded, so that they can have eternal life as promised [bargained] and 72 virgins in Paradise.

I don't deny there are many who perform positive acts to please God but the cons arising from the above outweigh the pros for humanity.

The view of the OP is not deep enough in understanding the proximate root of why religions emerged in the first place.

Humanity must focus on 'spirituality' [fool proof] without the side effects of religions.
Not-a-theist. Religion is a critical necessity for humanity now, but not the FUTURE.
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