"...if you spend your time in discussions on religious doctrines and dogmas, it
will take you nowhere toward Truth. It is all rigmarole and will waste your
precious time, which might better be used in thinking of God, meditating and
creating love. Love is the sum and substance of all religions and the only
essential of all creeds. Leave the rigmarole alone.
"For example, this alphabet board which I use may be given to a child to make
him begin to learn the ABCs. But if he merely learns the alphabet without any
efforts at proceeding further, he will learn practically nothing. It is the same
in religion. The shariat, doctrines and dogmas are given as a preliminary
beginning like the alphabet to reach the ultimate aim of the Realization
of the Truth. After one learns to master the fundamentals, one advances; but if
a person merely sticks to religious ceremonies and rituals and believes that
religion is that alone, then he does not advance at all. God and Truth are far,
far above shariat doctrines and dogmas, ceremonies and rituals."
Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
_Lord Meher_, Vol. 3, p. 1020
[_Shariat_ is an Arabic term signifying the religious code of conduct. tjh]
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