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=How to Ascend Beyond Religion?==

Imagine someone who, in some way or other, has heard of something like the Divine or has a personal feeling that something of the kind exists, and begins to make all sorts of efforts: efforts of will, of discipline, efforts of concentration, all sorts of efforts to find this Divine, to discover what He is, to become acquainted with Him and unite with Him. Then this person is doing yoga. if If all that is written down, organised, arranged into fixed laws and ceremonies, it becomes a religion.

For me religions Religions are forms, much too human, of spiritual life. Each one expresses one aspect of the single and eternal Truth, but in expressing it exclusive of the other aspects, it deforms and diminishes it. None has the right to call itself the only true one, any more than it has the right to deny the truth contained in the others. And all of them together would not suffice to express the Supreme Truth which is beyond all expression, even whilst being present in each one.

=How to Embrace God?== Karmamarga, the Way of Works, one of the three ways '''Curated by which the spirit of man may see, embrace & become God.  Give up the natural desire for the fruits of our works and surrender all we do, think, feel and are into the keeping of the Eternal, To identify ourself with all creatures in the Universe both individually and collectively, realising our larger Self in others. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/an-incomplete-work-of-vedantic-exegesis#p7</ref> In every religion there are some who have evolved a high spiritual life. But it is not the religion that gave them their spirituality; it is they who have put their spirituality into the religion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/9-june-1929#p5</ref> The time of religions is over. We have entered the age of universal spirituality, of spiritual experience in its initial purity.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/religion#p29,p30,p31,p32</ref> The children of Auroville should replace the exclusiveness of one religion by the wide faith of knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p412</ref> Religion and philosophy seek to rescue man from his ego; then the kingdom of heaven within will be spontaneously reflected in an external divine city.If one has faith in the god of a religion, how can one have faith in the incarnate Divine? <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/1-june-1934#p2</ref> ==Why Religion Failed?== Religion too by putting God far above in distant heavens made man too much of a worm of the earth little and vile before his Creator and admitted only by a caprice of his favour to a doubtful salvation in superhuman worlds.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/taittiriya-upanishad#p92</ref> False socialisation of religion has been always the chief cause of its failure to regenerate mankind.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-spiritual-aim-and-life#p5,p6</ref> People follow religion by social habit, in order not to get into the bad books of others. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/23-may-1956#p12</ref>One of the greatest comforts of religion is that you can get hold of God sometimes and give him a satisfactory beating. People mock at the folly of savages who beat their gods when their prayers are not answered; but it is the mockers who are the fools and the savages.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-59#p1</ref> ==The Way Forward== A revolutionary reconstruction of religion, philosophy, science, art and society is the last inevitable outcome. It proceeds at first by the light of the individual mind and reason, by its demand on life and its experience of life; but it must go from the individual to the universal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-coming-of-the-subjective-age#p3</ref> What is farther needed is the awakening of a certain vision, an insight and an intuitive response in the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-suprarational-beauty#p7</ref>Mohan'''