November 14, 2012 – Religion: Not Divine But Human

The word of Scripture is infallible;
it is in the interpretation the heart and reason
put upon the Scripture that error has her portion.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 99)

Religion: Not Divine But Human

Religion belongs to the higher mind of humanity. It is the effort of man’s higher mind to approach, as far as it lies in its power, something beyond it, something to which humanity gives the name God or Spirit or Truth or Faith or Knowledge or the Infinite, some kind of Absolute, which the human mind cannot reach and yet tries to reach. Religion may be divine in its ultimate origin; in its actual nature it is not divine but human….

The articles and dogmas of a religion are mind-made things and, if you cling to them and shut yourself up in a code of life made out for you, you do not know the truth of the Spirit that lies beyond all codes and dogmas, wide and large and free. When you stop at a religious creed and tie yourself in it, taking it for the only truth in the world, you stop the advance and widening of your inner soul.

The Mother

The Great Adventure 22