Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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means he confirms that mere house and money would not bring him real peace of mind. It is only by resorting to the power beyond these worldly materials that a man gets a good gain of mental peace. Thus, he comes to Religion which alone assures him with good quantity and quality of tranquility.
In the pretty olden days the definition of Religion was totally handed over to the members of Roman Catholic Church in the western countries. The oxford dictionary defines it that "Religion is a state of life bound by monastic vows the condition of one who is a member of a religious order specially in the Roman Catholic Church.
In the passage of time, the same definition was refined thus, "Recognition of the part of man of some higher unseen power having control of his destiny and as being controlled to obedience, reverance and wordship the general mental and moral attitude resulting from this belief with reference to the effect upon individual or community person or general acceptance of this feeling as thousand of spiritual and practical life."
The Sufi saints put the same with a different angle. "No body can liberate himself without self-realization. We are rotating regularly where soul is the central point like water in a whirl-pool. The underlaying current of love alone is taking us to the pathway to morality. Nothing emerges without the good will of God, as such one has to seek the inner most part of our heart which is a throne of God. For that control over sense is a must. We hope we may see Him there."
गैहरे जुज खुदशिनासी नीस्त दर बहरे बुजूद । मा वर्गिदे ख्वेश भी गदेभ चू गिर्दाबहा । रहे इश्क जुज पेच दर पेच नीस्त । वरे 'आरिकां' जुज खुदा हे च नीस्त । चश्म बंदो मोश वन्दो लब वि बन्द । गर न बीनी रुयि हकवर मा दिखंद ।।
This is technically called "the vision of God or in Sufism it is styled as "ga frast 547 " In Hinduism it is self-realization or Brahmajnana.
A man in a street of the world knows something about values of life, laws and orders of the state and code of ethics. But when he enters the threshold of Religion he finds a synthetic amulgamation of all these fair points and as such nourishes good thoughts towards this Religion. He will be convinced that the values and laws go hand in hand in the code of ethics and that, not only refines our life but also reshape
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