Dr. Pillai’s vision for the Golden Age is all-inclusive.
In a world where Religion has become a bad word, what can be done to correct the mistakes that contribute to society’s mistrust?
In this call-to-action for the global spiritual community, Dr. Pillai boldly describes what’s wrong with Religion, and what can be done to re-introduce God to the mainstream …
“What is a religion and what is a cult?
A religion is what I practice and a cult is what you practice.
That is the difference and people have to understand this in that sense.
It’s not a matter of losing your own following or anything.
It is a matter of bringing together all of the resources we have in order to create The Golden Age. That is the most important thing.
Word Religions’ Bad Rap
Already religion has a bad name because it divides rather than unites people.
That is true. Where ever you go, the problems are created by religion.
It’s not by religion, it is by institutions created by religion, and by people who have created religion.
The followers are the problem, not as much the teachers, but in some cases the teachers are the problems too.
But then the religions in general if you look at it objectively, have created a lot of divisions among people.
People die for the sake of religion.
Look at what’s happening between the Hindus, the Muslims, the Jews, the Christians, and the Arabs, all of the problems are due to religion.
So what we have to do in the Golden Age is we have to come together and our only identity should be: ‘ We are like brothers and sisters.’
Then we have to have the common goal to assert ourselves to know: ‘Who we are and our own strength.’
Our own strength lies in understanding our own Inner Being.
Where We Went Wrong
We are identifying ourselves with the altered ego, or the consciousness that shifted its attention from being to becoming.
We are being.
We are not the becoming which is the altered ego.
The altered ego is the one that creates the problem of limitation of limited identity.
We have to get beyond all of these things.
That is an important teaching that you find everywhere. It is not a teaching that is not particular to one particular religion, it is there everywhere ….
that you are a spark of the Divine.
Maybe there are differences in saying that you cannot become God, but you can become Godly. That’s ok. At least that is acceptable.
Instead we are completely, completely getting God out of our system, and that is really the problem. It has caused too many problems in this world.
Mainstream-izing Spirituality
The main thing we need to do is, what I have coined a term for, is ‘mainstreamizing‘ spirituality.
Spirituality is now looked down upon by scientists.
There is no respect when you talk about God. That’s why God is not in schools and colleges.
A Guru is suspect. They suspect his intentions.
I know that very well because in my early twenties when I decided to follow the Mahesh Yogi, the TM movement, my family was very upset.
Then when I went to Rishikesh and started studying with him, they were very concerned that I was simply lost.
Then when I started teaching TM, I had the same problem.
There are so many scientific experiments available to prove that you can even change your intelligence, your IQ, so what’s the problem?
So I went about teaching people: ’Why can’t you learn these things?’
Listening to Everyone
The stumbling block was the association with a Guru.
If it is science, then the universities and everything will accept it.
If it is associated with a religious leader, then religion really becomes a problem.
That’s why mainstream-izing is a key term that needs to be done collectively by bringing Science and Religion together and to prove that Religion and God are not out of the framework of Science.
Science now, Quantum Physics is making provisions to understand the paranormal.
It’s ok that you go to a Christian Evangelistical meeting, or the Hare Krishna meeting, or Osho dancing.
In fact when I was in India, I was very fond of Osho and his program called Nataraj. I was by myself and one of my enlightening experiences took place when I was dancing to Osho’s ‘The Nataraj’.
So it’s not a matter of one Guru versus another Guru.
There are things you can learn from everyone.
There’s a tremendous amount of fear among these Gurus and we have to get rid of this and then come to a platform.
This platform is just unity … to create unity.
Everyone can benefit from the other people.”
– Dr. Pillai
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