The following quote says much about how traditional religion feels about the body: “To identify oneself with the body and yet seek happiness is like attempting to cross a river on the back of an alligator.” (Sri Ramana Maharshi.) No matter how much brilliant rationalization has gone on by religious thinkers and philosophers who sought to salvage at least something of the body for the people, this quote shows the true attitude toward the body, shared by all the mystics of the Revealed Religions.
An alligator no less. This is why the Evolutionary Outward Path is so much needed in religion. The Spirit-Wiil-To-Godhood requires, I repeat, requires, the material and then supermaterial body to evolve to Godhood. If you seek only the Kingdom of God within, then you can follow this blocking-of-the-body, this spiritual blockade, as all the mystics told us to do. But if you want to reach the Godhood that the mystics had this blissful glimpse of through the Involutionary Inward Path, then you require the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.
An alligator no less. This is why the Evolutionary Outward Path is so much needed in religion. The Spirit-Wiil-To-Godhood requires, I repeat, requires, the material and then supermaterial body to evolve to Godhood. If you seek only the Kingdom of God within, then you can follow this blocking-of-the-body, this spiritual blockade, as all the mystics told us to do. But if you want to reach the Godhood that the mystics had this blissful glimpse of through the Involutionary Inward Path, then you require the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.
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