3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

RELIGION AND RITUALReligion and RitualTHE OBSERVANCE of religious practices, rites and rituals,keeping fasts and vigils, going on pilgrimages,etc., and doing breathing exercises are the elementarysteps only which go to create in you a desire for turningto or meeting God. You have made the best use of themwhen you are put on the way back to God, which is thescience of the Word or the Sound Current and is one foral humanity. A devotee of this science need not indulgein the elenrcntary steps. In short, all acts involving phvsicallabor belong to the realm of the physical world, whilewe have to rise above the body and bodily consciousnessto get contact with the primal manifestations of the Godhead:Light and Sound. You cannot prav God withhands. "God is Spirit and can only be worshiped inI have no rituals, no forms, nothing of the sort here.No temple, no church, no mosque. Why? Because whatI am telling you is the highest thing. Remain where youare; you are not to leave your religions but to make thebest use of them and see how far you have proceeded,advanced, progressed on the FVay. So that is one of thereasons why I have got no church, temple, or anything.I take them as elementary steps. People are stuck fastto them. They don't bear the fruits of performing therituals or methods of outward performances. Here wehave got no forms; we do not care what label you arewearing or what school of thought you have belongedto. We never care for it; we want just to enjoy that you