Tag: Amazing Grace

Content of Faith is more important than form.
Question of practicing and non practicing is more of analysis of of our Faith than actual Faith we have.
Faith is tested belief and as such it does not need reassurance of the same.
Religion as such is meant to enhance the spiritual level of the individual.
When prescribed practices are set in a regular form, human nature rebels and one develops a guilty feeling when they do not conform to what has been prescribed.This is not necessary.
As you have remarked if you have a comfortable feeling with yourself, you are on course.Unalloyed reactions for what we have done or nor done indicates whether we are right or not.Only when we tinker with rationalization we have problems.
All these conflicts arise when you have a standard ,prescribed format of procedures for realizing God.
But if these barriers are removed, it is easy to live the life than practice what we believe in.
Hinduism does not have standard text books to follow.
You can either follow or not.
You deny existence of God, you may not practice , yet you are a Hindu.
In fact the name Hindu denotes geographical identity
You are given the freedom to pursue your course of action.

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Some religions do some very smart things and state things in logical ways.  For example I like a phrase the Catholics use, they are either practicing or non-practicing.  As a young girl, my friend’s mom told me she was a “non-practicing Catholic”.  I had no idea what that meant.  I knew Maria in the Sound of Music was a Catholic, so non-practicing Catholic must be someone who didn’t act like Maria.  Someone who wasn’t good and probably didn’t go to church or spin on a mountain singing about the hills being alive to a big 100+ musician orchestra.

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