Why Rituals?

 Mind is like a kid running after attractive objects. A kid can focus or concentrate on his or  her school lesson only if the mind is available for that activity. A parent or a teacher cannot teach a kid in a place like a shopping mall where lot of people come and go, because the kid's mind will go outward towards watching the people or events. So the best way to help the kid focus on the lesson is by creating an environment that makes the mind less distracted. Such a place is called school. This is not different from a temple or church of worship.

     All religious and spiritual traditions have the fundamental aim to give this environment to the people who follow that traditions. It is sad to see later these organizations instead of allowing the individual to grow and mature inside, use them ruthlessly for the external growth of the organization. For this external growth in the size of the organization, it is does not hesitate to twist and corrupt the knowledge given by the master. This straying away from the "Truth" taught by the master, then breeds only hatred and leads to all religious wars, when the individuals fail to grow inwards and transcend to awareness state.

Transcendence, the goal of all rituals

   Transcendence  leads the mind towards the state of Awareness. Transcendence is very important in both healing and spiritual traditions. All rituals in spiritual traditions of the world helps the individual to transcend to this state of awareness. This awareness state is the source of healing as well as the launching pad for spiritual aspirants to get into the state of pure Consciousness. This state of awareness is the source of all arts like Music, painting, dancing, sculpturing , scientific discoveries etc.

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