Better to Light a Lamp than to Curse the Darkness

Spirituality unites and Religions divide people.

We must go back to the Spiritual aspects of Religion and abolish all aspects of religious following that don't align with the original message.
All faiths started as a spiritual messages for personal and social transformation and then deteriorated into dogma, blind belief systems, outdated practices, traditions that were never renewed as per time and place. Followers deviate from and sometimes do the opposite of what their religion teaches, yet use religion to justify their actions. So thick is the ignorance and so deep is their slumber.
Still there are many who are not blind, who find the real meaning of scriptures through study, reflection, and direct experience of divinity. A few spiritual leaders come along to reform the followers and renew traditions as per time and place. They become role models because they practice the values, and imbibe the wisdom.

We must ask ourselves what is Religion. Traditions, Rituals, Values and Wisdom.

We must ask ourselves what is Spirituality. We must ask ourselves what is Truth.

We must ask ourselves what is the pursuit of man. We must ask ourselves what is humanity.

We must ask ourselves what is conscience. What is and what isn't common sense. 

I wish we can abolish Religion but we can't. We must return to spirituality.

What do we do with those who call themselves staunch followers of their religion, who create divide, who are angry, who demean other religions, who hate, who kill, who behave like demons in the name of God?

Sri Krishn says in the Gita, that evil increases in the world when the noble and wise withdraw, don't do or say anything and this causes imbalance because the ignorant and evil forces create havoc in the world.
It's Better to Light a Lamp than to Curse the Darkness. The darkness of ignorance in these so called followers. Let those who are spiritual, evolved, who are good humans, who are wise and loving, reform their religion. Let them raise their voices of love and drown the voices of hatred, let them light the lamp of spirituality, self-evolution, spiritual growth, awareness, love, compassion, wisdom, and the oneness of all humanity. May dark demonic shadows be cut asunder by the sword of light, by the warrior who has become a luminous being of love, whose tongue flashes flames of truth, whose white horse moves with great strides, and in this awakened soul seven candles burn pure, therefore she wears a crown of seven stars.

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