Place – the Divine Theater (the Universe)
The show – Life on Earth
The category – Mostly Drama but includes some Comedy and Musical
Show time – continuous
Starring – every human being and every nation
Ticket prices – FREE
Country’s government flooded with individuals without any moral principles, their actions dictated not by the goodness for their people but by the profit they can make for their pockets and their power grab increase. Court system, for anybody who got across it, leaves a smell of stench as if the system lost any patterns of common sense (due to the service of the corruption) long ago … Each of these social diseases (and many more not mentioned here) can be recognized in the daily news and can be topics for a detail analysis in their own right. But this article will focus on the relation between these phenomena and the spiritual status of humanity today.
Just as God is One – the Truth is One. It shines through all revelations, through all the cultures and all languages although it is covered by the diversity of the traditions. All the ancient religions established and accumulated traditions over many centuries. All the living revelations of the world prophets became buried under many traditions of rituals and commentaries of the “guardians” of their respective religions. The danger of losing the true meaning, the Divinely inspired message, which was at the core of the given tradition, became apparent to some individual brightest minds.
Here we provide two quotes from two great masters of spirituality. One is Jewish Rabbi Bahya Yoseph Ibn Paguda who lived in 11th century Spain. Another quote from Buddha as referred to by Buddhist Monk Walpola Sri Rahula who lives in our days in Buddhist Monastery in Ceylon.
You must be Holy since I am God your Lord and I am Holy. (Leviticus, 19:2)
What does it mean? Is it for individual or for the nation as a whole?
There is similar guidance here towards the Divine that can be found in every religious scripture in the world – the intended qualities of men to be able to evolve towards the holiness. But then we encounter the exclusive phenomenon, Divinely decreed, which makes Jewish theology different from other religions.
Before I proceed I have to highlight my appreciation for the most important heritage which is preserved by Jewish tradition over all the millenniums – that is the importance of Torah and other books of Tanach. Even though in practical terms these pearls of Divine wisdom were overshadowed by imposing of Talmud, it was this reverence of Torah which allows us to discover the Truth where it was planted by God.