Reflective people realize how human beings fall prey to a promised security through belonging to a religious system or similar institutions. They also see that while religions can help, emotional attachment to a system makes for self-created cocoons. Once settled in such a cocoon, people have a false sense of security – false because they are afraid to step out of the cocoon where insecurity awaits them! The resulting defensive attitude ends up in violence when their false security is threatened. Inner freedom cannot come through belonging to any cocoon, no matter how satisfying it may be to the ego.Merely being against religions and moving over to the opposite grounds, such as atheism, agnosticism, rationalism etc, can only transport people to alternative prisons because emotional attachment to conclusions continues in a different form. That is how they fall prey to the same syndrome as the religious people do. So, that brings us to the question: What place has religions or the other ‘ism’s have in one’s life? Earnest application to that question throws some light on natural spirituality and inner freedom.
One proceeds with patient awareness and lets the intuition prevail in due course. They are neither for nor against any religion and so they can have a pure relationship with them unsullied by any emotional attachment. They can read all scriptures without prejudice because their aim is to find out what lies beyond the apparent. It is this eagerness to discover the non-verbal truth that prevents them from falling into any psychological prison. Consequently, they can develop a candid relationship with Divinity untouched by attachments to concepts and ego-satisfying thoughts about God.
The approach of quiet self-awareness brings up the native intelligence in one and so he or she does not get influenced by any religious propaganda that goes around them. The ability to stand alone has a purity about it that helps one move towards the truth. The purity of aloneness is the very nature of a truly spiritual state, as such a sate cannot be produced by conditioned responses and self-centered activities, even in the name of religion.
Such people as above effervesce and transcend the conventional state of mind to one of inner freedom. Simultaneously, the unconditional love in them flows towards all beings and sustains the zest for life per se. Emotional identification with a nation, religion etc do not play a role in their lives. Their relationship with the near and dear ones is permeated with true love and not governed by emotional attachment. There is a tendency to turn more towards the messages of Enlightened Masters rather than listen to a preacher governed by his vested interest. Ideas of personal salvation and the associated self-centered activities will no longer be part of one’s life. In this connection, Anita Moorjani’s messages from her NDE can be quite powerful for those who are willing to listen. In her book ‘Dying To Be Me’, she explains many things related to inner freedom.
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