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with human mind or body. Person may follow any religion basic realities are same. Spiritual progress should be natural like growing tree & not forced like frenetic struggle of minor actor to achieve fame. Spiritual path serves purpose of uplifting human consciousness. We hope for rest, joy, relax & for comfort we acquire habit of struggle for more things & we lose capacity to rest at all. You never really enjoy life but move stress. Relate to life & your environment from who you are not from others view. Make best of who you are. Religion teaches not to envy & to be non-possessive Don't draw comparison between you & others. Encourage yourself in your effort to attain highest potential.
Religious experiences can be explained with use of figure, symbols, seals, figurine stone, images. At Mohenjo Daro, Harrappa is testimony of religious belief & Practices. The belief in tantra, Mantra is supposed to be Dravidian culture, worship & legacy of demon Aryans believed in transmigration of soul. Hall mark of Dravidian culture is worship of images, symbols, offering flowers, fruits water to goddess like Bull, Banyan tree, mountain like fuji, river like Ganga. Dravidian devoted to wind, rain fire, earth water, ether.
There are paradoxes & contradiction in notion of religion. Mans ignorance led him to illusionary beliefs of God to meet his needs. To safeguard man's life & happiness requires specialization cobbler can't treat typhoid, Surgeon can do surgery but cant stop floods or stitch shoes. Religion claims to do all services to man is a cheat. It is illusionary fact that God can't give eyes to blind, rain without suitable weather. God cant cure incurable diseases or can't give child to barren women or can stop natural disaster created by nature. No science can claim to do everything. E.g. physical calamities like flood, lighting, or curing incurable Religion can do nothing about such dangers to life.
Karl Marx treated religion as tool of economic exploitation man makes religion, religion does not make man “Religion is sigh of oppressed”. Intellect desire, passions, will emotions are inseparable from man as metaphysics, ethics & religion consciousness of sin, old age, death are incentives to make man God ward & moral virtuous life creature, the heart of heartless world just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is opium of the people.” 1) People remember religion when they don't have any work to do 2) their heart breaks. 3) They are in pain depression, disheartened grief. 4) Unsuccess or failure of any ambition or desire of getting material things. 5) When they are oppressed by someone. 6) For relief or achievement for success & prosperity they knock the door of religion.7) People worship nature because they need something from nature rain fertility etc. 8) Human wants & desire have given birth to
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