The appearance of religion in our lives.

All of us reading these words have been born free, and in Truth are free, from the constraints of a particular form of religion. However, as we grow and learn the language and traditions of the culture into which we have been born, as our vAsanAs (tendencies) emerge, we may take on some form of religion. These forms are like safety nets to protect but they also may entangle us if the practitioners lose contact with the changeless, vibrating source; their everlasting spring of being. It is through direct experience of that source that our practices or rituals remain enlivened and fulfilling.
As the river flows inevitably to the sea it wends its way between mountains; these mountains are the formalised religions, giving wonderful views but they are inevitably static and are being eroded. The river of Spirit flows between and beneath them to the unity in the sea.

Does religion veil or reveal?

In the West the dominant habit has been to separate religion from philosophy while in ...