How to Practice one’s Faith?
Q: What relation is there between the Art of Transcendental Living and religion? Isn’t it a sort of new religion?
A: The Art of Transcendental Living is not a religion but a way of practicing one’s faith and it shows how to walk in the path of religion and spirituality – to get closer to the Lord and to [witness] His manifestation. It is a way and a method to take a maximum advantage of principles of religions in order to reconcile man with the Lord. Suppose you want to go from a city to another; you have many choices. You can either walk, or ride on a donkey or a horse; or you can drive to that city or fly to there by super modern jet plane.
To get closer to the Lord and to realize their divine nature, people travel along the spiritual path using comparable means. To profit from various levels of the Art of Transcendental Living is like having the choice from a horse to a jet plane.
If a person chooses to travel along the path of religiosity and move towards the truth by feet, there is a good chance he would perish from hunger, thirst, exhaustion and dangers. He might even be short of time and never reach his destination at the right time…
The Art of Transcendental Living is not a religion but it tries to awaken and to activate the spirit and the essence of God-worship and spirituality in man; for the living essence of religion lies in awareness and attention and its spirit is love. The Art of Transcendental Living is a means to set off this attention and awareness; it is the manifestation of love in one’s religious practices and it makes one move towards the Lord…
The Art of Transcendental Living does not recommend new orders and laws but it teaches absolute obedience from divine commandments and removes obstacles to one’s submission and obedience to the Providence.
It shows the ways of how to control one’s ego and mind for their deviation is the main factor of one’s deviation, indeed.