Transcending religions spiritually

Religions often demand fidelity. If you pray to another god you are typically ostracized or in the very least someone is emotionally hurt. But every religion has so much to offer and every religion has plenty of flaws. The spiritual traveler should travel all religions because traveling is the best teacher. The aim of any religion, we must not forget, is to attain spirituality.

The pertinent question

The fundamental purpose of religion is to answer the question of death. Human beings being irrationally rational needs to find the answer to what happens to you after death. Religion having conveniently invented a god can answer all questions without having to prove anything. The only mantra required is faith. Strangely enough a lot of dogmas of religion is related to your life on earth. If you do not obey the ten commandments for instance you will burn in hell. What I think they mean is you will burn in hell on earth and not after death. No one really knows what happens after death. It makes me laugh to think that if we begin to question the purpose of our existence there will be no real answers. "Why", my friends, is a stupid question.

Ayurveda - the science of well being

It is only natural that after you detoxify your soul, you will pay attention to the body. Yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda will naturally form part of any spiritual quest. The body is the temple of your soul, so we need to keep it clean. Once we literally understand this. A lot of cliches are thrown out there and some of them are quite deep. Cheers.

About material hapiness

To borrow from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, material happiness is limited. You bore of it quickly. If you have plenty of money, especially money you have not made yourself, you are still not happy. You can be creative about spending money up to a point. I find honesty and creativity makes one happy in the long run.

About Gurus

India has plenty of Gurus. India is famous and also notorious about Gurus. As soon some Guru becomes prominent, he/she is marked. People start digging for information about the Guru and try to slander him. Now even with all the gossips that come with a Guru, people follow him in crazy numbers. And I had always wondered why. They look so silly paying respects to someone with a shady reputation and who does fake magic tricks. But now I have come to an understanding that a Guru is not about being a perfect human himself but he helps you live your life better. Its kind of like teaching any other subject. Moreover, the paths to spirituality follows no rules. That is why Valmiki who was a robber became a saint who wrote the Ramayan. But as saint, did he rob? And do we care? If he robbed from you, yes you will. Because your Guru is supposed to make your life better not worse.

Why a philosophical blog?

I and some others began realizing around this time that I am getting wiser. I have been meditating a bit lately and hey, wisdom hit me. And some good friends suggested I should write about it. But I am not verbose enough for typical publishing media. Being a mathematician, I know profound ideas can be expressed in a few words. So writing for regular media does not give me the freedom I want to express as I would like to. Blogging works for me. Now my precious ideas may get lost in the muck of internet freedom writing but there is no other alternative I know that allows me this freedom. This sounds a bit egotistical but humility that hides wisdom serves no purpose for me these days. Remember I did become wiser lately.
The first idea we will look at today is about Negativity.
All my life I have been told to avoid negative people. Recently, I decided to focus my attention on negativity. I found positive people are the ones who speak and act positively. They do not seem jealous, angry, trivial, egotistical, etc. But deep down in their minds there are all these feeling too. But they learn how to control their negativity and output positively. So there are no positive people really except that there are people who have better self control. Knowing this has helped me have more empathy towards negative people. The universe holds a lot of emotions that is within all of us and our control is processing of these universal emotions within us.
Another thing people advise a lot about is about "Success and failure". People generally say do not take to heart your failures and be sporting etc. But I say every failure changes you in a bad way. You believe a little less in yourself. The only way to avoid this is if you fail, set your sights on a future win way more grander than today's failure. And goddamn it, Win! Then you will survive and thrive too.
Signing off until later ...........
Philosophically yours,
Maya