silence shared in words
presents
Meditation a Dancing Silence
Excerpt from Hari Om Tat Sat #13
Why is it,
that apart from sitting with you
twice a day,
I only find myself meditating
when I am down or confused?
Why is it that I rarely meditate out of my joyousness?
Deva Anupo,
your question
touches very deeply
the human heart and its workings.
In the old way
people used to pray only
when they were in misery, suffering, some trouble.
When they were happy,
joyous,
successful
they never bothered God.
It can make you aware
of an intense involvement of all the religions with suffering,
because only those who are suffering
become victims in the hands of the priests.
Otherwise, who cares about priests,
who cares about
holy books?
When you are happy,
contented,
joyful,
you want to enjoy your life.
You don't want to waste your time
praying in a church or a temple.
This must have been discovered by the priest
long, long ago.
All religions are based on the exploitation of this
discovery.
Bertrand Russell
is right when he says,
"If we can
destroy poverty,
sickness,
old age,
inequality
and make people happy and joyous, religions will die on their own accord."
He is perfectly right in his analysis,
because the joyous man has never been
in any way concerned with so-called religions.