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the forest glades of the pagan faith that the new religion supplanted
for example, British churches were often built upon the same sites
and with the same rock used in pagan stone circles - so Vedism tried
to speak in terms that the people it was converting could understand.
The outer conflict of sun and clouds was a parable for the constant
battle between our own higher nature and our lower one. The great
gayathri mantra, most sacred of all the Vedic chants, can be translated
simply as
Lead me from darkness to light.
Lead me from ignorance to knowledge.
Lead me from death to immortality.
All religions perform an inner or spiritual function and an outer or
societal purpose. The laws of the Torah lay the foundation for a just
and harmonious society, and they also indicate a way of aligning the
inner being to great eternal laws, the perfect harmony of the Universal,
of God. Jesus' teaching of love adds to Moses' Decalogue, a
commandment to love that really summarises the Law, yet also enables
its followers to attain oneness with the eternal. Pythagoras' number
mysticism described the mathematical harmony of the universe, and
showed how the structure of music related to the great order of the
heavens. Confucius defined a just and harmonious society as one
that obeyed natural laws. The Buddha said the path to enlightenment
began with recognising natural truths and merging the individual
self with them, aligning it to universal law in order to achieve oneness
with reality. The Vedas go much further in outlining the nature of
reality than any other religious texts still in use.
Like the Creator, human beings create, but humankind's creations
are separate from humans themselves. The Vedic God is an architect
whose structures all exist within him. Nothing can exist outside the
Supreme Reality, and it in turn is within all:
It is always moving, yet it never moves.
It is infinitely far away, yet it is so close,
It is within all of this creation,
And yet it is beyond everything.
- Yajur Veda (22.5)
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