Religion

After spending my entire life thus far searching for truth, I have finally come to find the answer to mankind's most primal question. Which is the true religion? Which sect, organization, group, label is the right one? Which one bears truth in all that it is?

If I only knew years ago how easy it is to find the answer. If I only knew the answer was right under my nose the entire time. This is how I explained to me:

They are all true. Each and every one of them. So long as it is the right one for you. How do you know? Well, if you don't reunite with the supreme self then it isn't the true religion for you. Religion is a vehicle to self-realization. If it does not take you there then abandon ship so to speak. All Humans yearn for reconnection. They long for the ultimate reunion. When this is lacking, worldly vices come forth and in some cases consume one's life. Some will substitute this supreme union with worldly passions and bonds. Fillers like relationships with your physical mother and father, or passions in the form of illusionary life purpose like hobbies, career, drugs, sports, music, etc...

The key here is this. Just because a certain religion doesn't do anything for you that's not to say it isn't right for someone else. We get ourselves into a vicious cycle of losing battles when we attempt to put upon faults in others belief systems. To try and tell anyone 'mine is better than yours', in anyway, is to serve yourself injustice. I have been to many a religious gathering's in a variety of places of worship. All of them have done nothing for me spiritually other than show me that their truth was not mine.

Only a few days after I was born, my parents baptized me Catholic. I was raised Catholic for the first 9 years of my life. Then I was a Jehovah's Witness until I was 15 years old. After that, several sects of Christianity including Judaism. Then onto Buddhism, which by the way, brought me closer to Self than any other.

It wasn't until something inside me, apart from any religious affiliation told me to close my eyes and cross my legs. Day after day I would meditate on myself, with myself. It was here in the center of my being that I was able to find Truth.

This is not to say I will not move on to other manifestations of spirituality to achieve a higher state of consciousness. Siddha Yoga opened my door to self realization and for now that is where I will remain.
For some, Catholicism, Atheism, Christianity will bring them to a similar place of connection.

Albeit, some religions are less "fogged" than others. Like Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism. They all provide a pretty clear map to oneness. I suppose those of us blessed enough to know-study-become, earned the privilege in a previous life. I'm not saying they are better than others, just that they provide a faster path towards the self.

Regardless of the difference in opinion these words may cause, at the very least you can look back on your religious experiences and appreciate for a moment that they brought you to where you are now. Good or bad. Who knows, if we don't experience religion and failed attempts that take us nowhere, we may not be in the place we are now. How else could we know with certainty what does and does not work for us.

I am forever grateful to Jehovah's Witnesses, to the long boring weeks of catechism classes, to the stale churches that echoed Amens and Hallelujahs. Had it not been for them I would have not embarked on my own personal journey for Truth.