andrey wrote:Baba via Veerendra Dev Dixit says that in every religion there is truth.
There is also a great deal more objective truth in 'no religion' and to a degree I see religion as another form of oligarchy (where the investment of power rests with, and is defended by, a small, elite segment of society). Whereas the financial and military elite rules with violence and exploitation; the religious elites have come rather than to free or protect to control through social and mental programming. "Heart and Minds Campaigns" as the military would call it. The two have generally always worked together.
Looking back over history the two hands of the ruling elites have been inseperable and it has always been profitable for both. The revolutionary or the enlightened seem always to have been persecuted and supressed. It appears to me that after a fluid, enlightening first class that generally breaks apart the existing status quo, a second class infest all religions and turns it back some more fixed and concrete like it was before. Its just part of the social entropy leading to an ultimate anomie.
This application of the Second Law of Thermodynamic which is widely accepted in science, seems to parallel Virendra Dev Dixit's theory that the BK family has to decline and finally decay far better than the BKWSU theory that everything is wonderful for them and getting better all the time. My short answer is we need a religion without a religion and especially self-elected religious leaders and hierarchies.
It is interesting but even Karl Marx, who is perhaps blamed for what became "Communism" or "atheism" within BK Lore, showed how humanity, by valuing objects only to their monetary value, reduced even mothers and wives to a monetary transaction thought of in terms of gains and losses.
Kaliyugi Shudra atheist Marx wrote almost a hundred years before Gyan, and Lekhraj Kirpalani marrying his daughters off to the most powerful family in his community or a 50 year old man respectively, "Even the relations between the sexes, between man and woman, becomes an object of commerce. The woman is auctioned off." Religious were and still are happy to play their part in this transaction for a fee or commission.
Part of the humanist argument is that humanity is alienated from itself by virtue of it imposed dependence on God. And it is utter dependency to the Shiva spirit and the religious leadership is promoted by the BKWSU religion.
I am wondering if BK followers as a whole are, and need to, evolve beyond that dependency to an interdependency with the "Shiva Soul", and then independence. So "Bhakti", within the BK framework, would be the stage of dependency or even aspiring dependency. When we speak negatively of Bhakti, what we really mean are the abuses of the social and mental tools of religion and the slavish adoption or submission to them; whereas, in general, devotion, veneration and many other "religious" activities are highly valuable and virtuous.
andrey wrote:It is said it speaks from the forehead.
Where on eath ... EVER ... is it said that? Usually it is, "from the heart".