THE THREE PARTS OF RELIGION
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PHILOSOPHY, MYTHOLOGY AND RITUAL
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BEFORE CONSIDERING FURTHER DEVOTION TO DUTY HELPS US IN OUR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS, LET ME PLACE BEFORE YOU IN A BRIEF COMPASS ANOTHER ASPECT OF WHAT WE IN INDIA MEAN BY KARMA. IN EVERY RELIGION THERE ARE THREE PARTS. PHILOSOPHY, MYTHOLOGY, AND RITUAL. PHILOSOPHY OF COURSE IS THE ESSENCE OF EVERY RELIGION, MYTHOLOGY EXPLAINS AND ILLUSTRATES IT BY MEANS OF THE MORE OR LESS LEGENDARY LIVES OF GREAT MEN, STORIES AND FABLES OF WONDERFUL THINGS, AND SO ON, RITUAL GIVES TO THAT PHILOSOPHY A STILL MORE CONCRETE FORM, SO THAT EVERY ONE MAY GRASP IT - RITUAL IS IN FACT CONCRETISED PHILOSOPHY . THIS RITUAL IS KARMA.
THERE ARE MANY OTHER ASPECTS OF THIS SCIENCE OF WORK. ONE AMONG THEM IS TO KNOW THE RELATION BETWEEN THOUGHT AND WORD AND WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED BY THE POWER OF THE WORD. IN EVERY RELIGION THE POWER OF THE WORD IS RECOGNISED, SO MUCH SO THAT IN SOME OFTHEM CREATION ITSELF IS SAID TO HAVE COME OUT OF THE WORD. THE EXTERNAL ASPECT OF THE THOUGHT OF GOD IS THE WORD, AND AS GOD THOUGHT AND WILLED BEFORE HE CREATED, CREATION CAME OUT OF THE WORD. IN THIS STRESS AND HURRY O OUR MATERIALISTIC LIFE, OUR NERVES LOSE SENSIBILITY AND BECOME HARDENED. THE OLDER WE GROW, THE LONGER WE ARE KNOCKED ABOUT IN THE WORLD, THE MORE CALLOUS WE BECOME, AND WE ARE APT TO NEGLECT THINGS THAT EVEN HAPPEN PERSISTENTLY AND PROMINENTLY AROUND US.
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HUMAN NATURE, HOWEVER, ASSERTS ITSELF SOMETIMES, AND WE ARE LED TO INQUIRE INTO AND WONDER AT SOME OF THESE COMMON OCCURENCES, WONDERINGS THUS IS THE FIRST STEP IN THE ACQUISITION OF LIGHT. APART FROM THE HIGHER PHILOSOPHIC AND RELIGIOUS VALUE OF THE WORD, WE MAY SEE THAT SOUND SYMBOLS PLAY A PROMINENT PART IN THE DRAMA OF HUMAN LIFE. I AM TALKING TO YOU. IAM NOT TOUCHING YOU, THE PULSATIONS OF THE AIR CAUSED BY MY SPEAKING GO INTO YOUR EAR, THEY TOUCH YOUR NERVES AND PRODUCE EFFECTS IN YOUR MINDS. YOU CANNOT RESIST THIS. WHAT CAN BE MORE WONDERFUL THAN THIS? ONE MAN CALLS ANOTHER A FOOL, AND AT THIS THE OTHER STANDS UP AND CLENCHES HIS FIST AND LANDS A BLOW ON HIS NOSE. LOOK AT THE POWER OF THE WORLD! THERE IS A WOMAN WEEPING AND MISERABLE, ANOTHER WOMAN COMES ALONG AND SPEAKS TO HER A FEW GENTLE WORDS, THE DOUBLED UP FRAME OF THE WEEPING WOMAN BECOMES STRAIGHTENED AT ONCE, H SORROW IS GONE AND SHE ALREADY BEGINS TO SMILE. THINK OF THE POWER OF WORDS! THEY ARE A GREAT FORCE IN HIGHER PHILOSOPHY AS WELL AS IN COMMON LIFE. DAY AND NIGHT WE MANIPULATE THIS FORCES WITHOUT THOUGHT AND WITHOUT INQUIRY. TO KNOW THE NATURE OF THIS FORCE AND TO USE IT WELL IS ALSO A PART OF KARMA-YOGA.
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JUST AS EVERY ACTION THAT EMANATES FROM US COMES BACK TO US AS REACTION, EVEN SO OUR ACTIONS MAY ACT ON OTHER PEOPLE AND THEIR ON US. PERHAPS ALL OF YOU HAVE OBSERVED IT AS A FACT THAT WHEN PERSONS DO EVIL ACTIONS , THEY BECOME MORE AND MORE EVIL. AND WHEN THEY BEGIN TO DO GOOD, THEY BECOME STRONGER AND STRONGER AND LEARN TO DO GOOD AT ALL TIMES. THIS INTENSIFICATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF ACTION CANNOT BE EXPLAINED ON ANY OTHER GROUND THAN THAT WE CAN ACT AND REACT UPON EACH OTHER. TO TAKE AN ILLUSTRATION FROM PHYSICAL SCIENCE, WHEN I AM DOING A CERTAIN ACTION, MY MIND MAY BE SAID TO BE IN A CERTAIN STATE OF VIBRATION, ALL MINDS WHICH ARE IN SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES WILL HAVE THE TENDENCY TO BE AFFECTED BY MY MIND. IF THERE ARE DIFFERENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TUNED ALIKE IN ONE ROOM, ALL OF YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT WHEN ON IS STRUCK, THE OTHERS HAVE THE TENDENCY TO VIBRATE SO AS TO GIVE THE SAME NOTE. SO ALL MINDS THAT HAVE THE SAME TENSION, SO TO SAY, WIL BE EQUALLY AFFECTED BY THE SAME THOUGHT. OF COURSE, THIS INFLUENCE OF THOUGHT ON MIND WILL VARY ACCORDING TO DISTANCE AND OTHER CAUSES, BUT THE MIND IS ALWAYS OPEN TO AFFECTION.
SUPPOSE I AM DOING AN EVIL ACT, MY MIND IS IN A CERTAIN STATE OF VIBRATION, AND ALL MINDS IN THE UNIVERSE, WHICH ARE IN A SIMILAR STATE, HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING AFFECTED BY MY MIND, AND THIS POWER OF MIND UPON MIND IS MORE OR LESS ACCORDING AS THE FORCE OF THE TENSION IS GREATER OR LESS.
