RELIGION IS A MEANS TO AN END. RELIGION IS NEVER THE END IN ITSELF. THOSE COMMUNITIES WHICH EMPHASISE RELIGION AS THE END OF ALL HUMAN PURSUITS, ARE INVARIABLY DESTROYED BEYOND RESURRECTION. THAT IS THE ONLY REASON WHY ISLAM & CHRISTIANITY ARE TODAY STANDING AT CROSS-ROADS, LOADED WITH A PLETHORA OF PROBLEMS PERTAINING TO GRAVE ISSUES OF SURVIVAL AND SUSTENANCE. THE MOMENT RELIGION DEGENERATES INTO OBSCURANTISM, IT TENDS TO BE THE STATUS-QUOIST THEN AN ALLY OF OPPRESSORS. 

IT IS THE SPIRITUALITY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE END OF ALL RELIGIONS. ONCE WE FOCUS ON SPIRITUALITY AS EVERYONE'S ULTIMATE GOAL, QUESTION ARISES AS TO WHICH PATH LEADS TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THAT GOAL IN THE QUICKEST POSSIBLE TIME WITH MINIMUM EFFORTS / HARDSHIPS. IN OTHER WORDS, HOW TO IMPROVE THE INPUT / OUTPUT RATIO OF THIS SPIRITUAL COSMIC JOURNEY.

EIGHT LIMBS OF THE ASHTANGA-YOG, ENUNCIATED BY MAHARSHI PATANJALI IS THE SUREST, SHORTEST AND THE QUICKEST WAY TO BE ATTAINED TO THE SUPREME REALITY. INTERESTINGLY AND QUITE MYSTICALLY, THOSE EIGHT LIMBS ARE INEVITABLE, UNAVOIDABLE AS WELL AS COMPULSORY FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS, WHETHER HINDU, JEW, MUSLIM OR CHRISTIAN IF THEY ARE INTERESTED IN THE BUSINESS OF REAL SALVATION.

THEY ALL FOLLOW ONE OR THE OTHER LIMB, PERFECTLY OR IMPERFECTLY AS NARRATED IN THEIR RELIGIOUS BOOKS. ASHTANGA-YOG OF MAHARSHI PATANJALI IS THE ONLY, I REPEAT THE ONLY TREATISE WHICH IS COMPLETE IN ALL RESPECTS AND DETAILS THE BARE-MINIMUM PURSUITS REQUIRED FOR THE ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBLE TIME FOR THE ONE WHO STRIVES.

IN ALL OTHER PATHS, RATIONALISM IS A FUZZIED BE IT ISLAM OR CHRISTIANITY. HENCE, IT IS A CONFUSION-, DELUSION-GALORE, ACCOMPANIED BY REPEATED DOWN-FALLS AND IN MOST OF THE CASES, UTTER FAILURE THEN ABANDONMENT OF THE GOALS.

QUITE BRILLIANTLY, MAHARSHI PATANJALI LEFT IT TO THE ASCETIC TO MAKE MODIFICATIONS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EIGHT LIMBS AND VISUALISE THE PARAM BRAHMA THE WAY HE / SHE WISHES TO. ALL RELIGIONS VIZ. HINDUISM, ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY ARE FAR FAR INFERIOR TO THIS SPIRITUAL PATH OF ASHTANGA-YOG. NON-HINDUS SHOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO OBJECTIONS OR RELUCTANCE IN ADOPTING THE ASHTANGA-YOG RATHER IT IS PERTINENT TO QUESTION AS TO HOW IT HAS ESCAPED THEIR ATTENTION ALL THESE YEARS !! 

ASHTANGA-YOG IS MOST SCIENTIFIC AND FAITH-NEUTRAL. THIS IS THE MOST ACCURATE AND MOST PRECISE 'RELIGION' IN THE WORLD AS IF IT HAS COME OUT OF THE MOST ADVANCED SPIRITUAL LABORATORY IN THE WORLD ! HINDUS MAY SHUN HINDUISM, MUSLIMS MAY SHUN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANS MAY SHUN CHRISTIANITY TO ADOPT ASHTANGA-YOG AS THE UNIVERSAL PATH LEADING TO THE ULTIMATE.

AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER CHOICE IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT YOUR ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE FROM THE COSMIC CYCLES OF BIRTH AND DEATH !! HOW CAN THE PARAM BRAHMA WITH THE SUPREME CONSCIOUSNESS UNDER HIS AMBIT, ALLOW SO MANY DIRECTIONLESS RELIGIONS TO BE PURSUED TO ATTAIN HIM ??

HINDUISM, ISLAM OR CHRISTIANITY AT BEST, PREPARE YOU TO UNDERTAKE THE REAL HOLY PURSUIT OF ASHTANGA-YOG IN TRUE SPIRIT AND NOTHING MORE THAN THAT. 

VANDE MAATARAM I

RAMAKANT TIWARI