Churnings
Friday, August 20, 2004
Defamation of Religion
The defamation of religion that is mentioned in the Gita is a remarkable event. The original eternal deity religion (the culture of life in paradise/heaven/golden age/satyuga) goes through the entropy process and reaches a level when it forgets its stage...
Role consciousness and later body consciousness become the norm. Negativity and waste develop, sorrow arrives and prayer begins...
The defamation aspect comes because in the name of the same religion, utter irreligiousness (meaning distance from the original qualities and nature of the religion or way of life) prevails.
God is prayed to and praised and yet insulted in the same breath. The activities that are meant to take souls towards God now become the ones that take them further away...
