so um here rama sriram krishna even practiced christianity and islam and said they lead to
the same destination how can this be true as their perception of spiritual living is vastly different
from the hindu pathway yes like heaven and hell in contrast to reincarnation you see one of the
features about sriram krishna is he first of all the reason why i love him is another is why is the
comprehensive vision of hinduism every avatar will promote say vaishnavism or shaivism etc
this individual came first of all to see if there's a reconciliation between
different pathways the hindus hindus have adopted to make spiritual progress so he
tried vaishnava tradition he tried the shaiva tradition the shaktar tradition
he tried every aspect of every different part was making spiritual progress within hinduism
and the wonderful thing is he's such a powerful dynamic personality he was successful in every
pathway tried so he said all these pathways lead to the same destination so far so good only
reconcile the hindu vision he said no he's greedy fellow he said no i want to see if this perception
that i have about ultimate reality can be checked out using other religious traditions and this is
fantastic thing first time an individual not able to verify various hindu movements and reconcile
them he said i want to try various religions and the two religions he tried out is christianity and
islam these are the two major religions he said let me try christianity see if it takes me to that
same destination let me try ismail islam as well when he takes me to the same destination and he
succeeded and he said he said ultimate reality that i experienced is saying whether i'm using
christianity islam or hindu any of the hindu moments now people say miss lakhani but that
is bit weird because you see the the theology of christianity or islam is this true life scenario
this life and the never never you know everlasting life as in heaven or hell so how can this
reincarnation of hindus how can you say the same he never said they are saying he said they lead me
to the same destiny you say but how can you read mr khan how do you reconcile this is our reconcile
if a person is genuinely spiritually oriented he will basically talk about the spiritual experience
he had the doctrines that surround that spiritual experience are kind of produced by theologians not
by the master the theologians get around and say oh this is what he meant so even this idea
of true life scenario you've seen christianity was something that christ didn't promote but the
theologians who are kind of you know the father of christianity said okay this is the best way to
keep our flock in line so they don't jump they don't sit on the fence be careful either have
no help keratin sticks so let's plug it in so the theologians in all these abrahamic traditions have
put in their own version regarding the spiritual experience of their master their masters are right
ram question is tried out and it works but the theology that goes around with this various kind
of religions are seriously flowed and saying it bluntly flowed even within certain hindu moments
some of the theology that goes with it is flawed and yet the the masters who kind of whether it's
destination is the same that is why this wonderful reconciliation we see with sri ramakrishna
gives dignity and acceptability to all world traditions not only hindu traditions
in the genuine manner he said i see the same fine at the final level i see the same destination you
see because when i talk about pluralism in many ways to be ways to be spiritual including many
different religious pathways people say how do you know because maybe this is called relativism means
anything goes you are promoting anything goes we never said that because the destination is same
who says it any textbook no one individual in the history of humanity there's only one individual
who claims not just because you read a book negotiating their theology he's actually
experienced at the final level that he reaches when he uses any of the pathways is the same
because only one kind of challenge they throw in my face is this we could we use this example
in pluralism saying that it's like climbing up the mountain using different pathways so christianity
goes one way up islam goes other way up hinduism goes the other way up so let's say maybe he's
climb using different pathways to go to the top of the mountain but the the the challenge i get i
love this kind of challenges from the atheist and from people who would target me that's mr lakani
how do you know it's the same mountain they're climbing maybe they're climbing
different mountains what's the proof it's very serious challenge the only proof only way to the
same mountain is this one man in the history of humanity saying the same mountain is ramakrishna
sweet in a way gives rubber stem to the idea of pluralism now there no other prophet ancient
or modern come anywhere and he comes anywhere near giving this a wonderful way of reconciling
various religious parties of hindus as well as other pathways used by other prophets
first person in the history of humanity that's why i told you
so how can we be sure that we are all going on the same mountain or different mountains
different world no we can unless you become wrong krishna you can't verify it the only thing
the only person who is given this rubber stamp is the same mountain is
ram krsna because theologically or intellectually you can say no there are different mountains how
do you know they said we're talking a different thing altogether but the only person who can say
no no same mountain i'm telling you even though they say this is the scenario this is the scenario
destination is the same is this ramakrishna once you said that when you go higher and you see
people are going to tradition you feel more affinity with them is that the proof yes that's
the proof wonderful thing is this i said it at one of these christian meetings they said mr khan tell
us about pluralism i said one of the beautiful kind of examples i can use this is not wrong
with me a little tiddler i say one particular example is this suppose you're in a circle
and you're trying to reach the center and you know when you compare our directions so we're reaching
the center all the directions are different it's in plural this means relativism anything goes
all of us will have different direction to follow to reach the center so even though
we're using different compasses different ways to reach the center the the result is going to be
the same center but how can you be sure and one of the beautiful things i just made up for fun
i said if you are sincere about your own tradition and progress to the towards center
promoted by your tradition and somebody next to you is also using his own prescription
different direction to reach the center as we get closer to the center somehow by natural
we feel affinity for each other we don't feel like and no it is using different angle we just feel
comfortable with it we just come closer together as we reach the center well if we move away from
the center we are at logarithm with people sitting next to us this is the proof of in a
very lovely way of saying this is an intellectual gymnastic to suggest the same destination but the
ram krishna is not intellectual gymnastics is experience it's a genuine experience