If someone came and told you that everything you ever held dear, everything you believed in, everything you thought you knew, all your values, all your hopes and aspirations, all your love for wife, kids, family, friends, and society, in fact, the entire foundation of your life - it is all wrong, it is all an illusion - you'd probably think that that someone was on drugs or belonged in a mental institution.
"All religions claim the same," comes the invariable the response.
Let's examine this typical response of modern man. You see, it is actually quite foolish. First it is asserted, that everyone says so. Then the fact that everyone says so, is used to negate what is being said.
If everyone says the same thing, the logical thing to assume is that there must be something to it. Not that everyone says the same thing, so therefore it must be false. How does that make sense? Where is the logic? In fact, you would expect all religions to say basically the same things, because all religions are different cultural expressions of the same Absolute Truth. Surely, the details may vary, but if all religions are different culturally conditioned expressions of the same truth, you'd expect that they would mention the same basic principles.
And that's what the the Vedic version teaches us - that all religions are derived from the original religion from God Himself. If this is indeed so, it stands to reason that it can be investigated and verified. If it is a fact, it must be discernable. Otherwise it is just some belief. Some speculation. And that is how all religion is judged in modern society - some fancy speculations and beliefs.
Then again, if there IS a supreme entity, that which is known as God - if there is such an entity, it is a perfectly logical to assume, that God has given a proces by which He can be known. But in the climate of the modern Coca-cola culture, that at present rules the world, it is very unpopular to claim that you know the original explanation from the Supreme Himself. "How can you make such an outrageous claim?" comes the response. "Nobody knows the Absolute Truth. It cannot be known."
So where does this strange idea come from? It comes from people, of course. It is something the majority of the population is brought up to believe in. But it makes absolutely no sense. If there is an Absolute Truth, if there is a God, if there is an ultimate purpose to life, of course it can be known for certain. Why? Because God, being the almighty, omnipresent, all-knowing Supreme, surely He can verify Himself beyond doubt.
And if there is no God, if everything is indeed relative and material, then it cannot be verified. By definition, you can't prove a negative. That's the funny thing about life - if God exists, it can be known for sure, but if God does not exist, it will forever remain a mystery. You can never know for sure that God does not exist. That's an irrevocable fact. It is not something that is up for discussion and difference of opinions. It is simply a fact - if God exists, it can be known, because then God can verify His own existence. And if He does not exist, then it cannot be known. It will remain a belief.
Note how the propaganda machine tells us the exact opposite. It calls religious people believers, and atheists are called unbelievers. How misleading is that? As an atheist you are forced to believe in something that can never be verified. But as a theist you believe in something that, at least theoretically, can be verified.
Thus it can be concluded that it is a an intellectually superior position to believe in God, rather than the opposite. The first assumption, that there is a God, has a chance of verification, whereas the second, that there is no God, will forever remain a doubt.
But if you point out these things, even though they are indisputable facts, you are met with a wall of resistance - no, no, nobody knows the truth. God is merely a fairy tale. To believe in God is no more different than believing in, say, tooth fairies and Santa Claus. That's what we are told.
What we can learn from this, is that society is not ruled by benevolent forces. What kind of society will educate it's population in something that is so obviously false?
So if you know the truth and you want to inform people about it, you are up against a massive wall of resistance. Here I intend to kick some walls down...
