Namaste Indialover Ji,
I agree that so many traditions and practices today are influenced by anthropomorphic ( man made religious laws ) and Hinduism and other Dharma traditions are not free from this influence. The Realized or Awakened are beyond this and act more out of compassion and offer guidelines and techniques to transcend the conditions that bind one into dukkha, mental stress and rebirth of these patterns There is a moral construct to realisation but not in the way that the Christian way promotes it mainly out of fear and to control the persons actions by an outside agent and not develop introspect / self awareness which naturally brings more elevated states of mind and natural detachment.
This is extremely important to understand both for sadhakas and natives, many are unaware of the subtle and gross influences of Christian purity morality and fear based rules which only suppress the problem and distort the meaning of dharma and the teachings of the Awakened.Hindu scriptures are full of false Christian impressions – esp. sin. Papa is not sin, but always translated so. This is because Christians translated the scriptures respectively Indians learned English from the Christians and carelessly falsified their scriptures and their heritage.
We need rules and we need guidelines and constant reminder's of higher ways to live but its how its administered and taught, the difference between religion and dharma is that Dharma ultimately directs one to Self rule and religion is to be controlled by an outside force God or the power of deliverance is in the hand of the priest and his word in some Book. ISKCON is a prime example of to much forced purity ie 4 regulative principles has caused as many problems as it has solved. Although ISKCON is probably a good via medium to real truth for converted Christians to slowly recondition their false ideas of religion, lets hope that process speeds up a bit but in the newer generations of devotees those ideas and practices are not as present as they are with original members who mostly came from Christian Backgrounds, and they have caused massive damage along the way. But these things was not my main reason to post, it was that mind expanding substances taken in the right way was neither illegal or a sin in ancient cultures and due to Christian rule they outlawed this and gave the power of universal laws to man alone. This is causing and will continue to cause problems and bring an adverse reaction in society and by outlawing them only pushes them more underground attracting criminal activity and negativity around them.
As humans beings we are always searching for the higher taste, for bliss and happiness, a person may even kill another because they are somehow disturbing their level of happiness and way of life, and by getting rid of that person the happiness will be restored. You will never stop people looking for the higher taste, to seek out pleasure happiness and fulfilment. Plus the majority of Christians do not put the same constraint of intoxicating substances on Alcohol and killing and eating animals, which in general causes far more damage than recreational drugs. While there are problems with drugs its mainly because of social exclusion of being made illegal and due to that modern society does not have the right environment to support the awakening that happens with such things as Ganja, DMT and ayahuasca. I am not promoting recreational activity with these substances but there are so many positive awakenings that people have had but it then gets suppressed by this moral human policing by false religious ideas and man made repressive laws.
The good news is that Christianity is on the decline, and hopefully in a few generations it will be extinct.
Hare Krsna
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