Prudence — The First Step to Spirituality

28 August 2017, Flashback

"A religion which makes you blind and biased cannot be called a true religion. Because a true religion first gives you the eyes of prudence — which is just the first step to spirituality. It makes you the master of thy mind, whereas pseudo religion makes thee slave of thy senses."

~ Sudhir Singh

I knowingly used the word religion because spirituality can never be understood by all. It is quite deep and sometimes misunderstood by people. That is why Osho is misunderstood. That is why J. Krishnamurti is not known to all laymen.

Why?

It is just because people like cheap material. A material which gives them only thrill. And thrill kills prudence.

In present religion, there is a lot of thrill, a lot of noise, a lot of disturbance. You lose your inner calm. You feel a pseudo confidence which comes from crowd. But here comes the most dangerous part — now you can be easily manipulated, you can be used as a potential weapon. And for this, only one thing is required: a slogan.

True religion gives you eyes.

Pseudo religion gives you a crowd.

One makes you awake.

The other makes you blind.