Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Transaction
Inappropriate. It's as if all people went into such meditation, everything would not exist
This. But it is also an illusion in the sense that sin has happened, evil
is, the fall is complete, Christ is crucified. And you can't do all this
Just remove it by the fact that you yourself will go into the depths where it does not concern you.
Nevertheless, as far as Ramakrishna is concerned, Vivekananda and in general the non-Christian
mysticism, it is very difficult to generalize. But whomever a person prays to, in fact, he
prays to the only God who exists. You can put in front of
but if you pray to God, He hears you beyond the idol,
Which is, and not the one that does not exist. God is non-confessional. He did not
belongs to a certain religion, a certain group. He shines equally with light,
He sends His rain on the good and on the evil. He doesn't discriminate, He looks into
the heart of man. A person may err mentally, but pray truly; This is
different things. Here is an example from another field, not Hindu. In the Jewish
literature there is a story about how two Israeli teachers argued on the
some theological topic and differed very violently. And one of them, Shammai,
exclaimed: "Lord, if I have found favor with Thee, let them fall upon us
the walls of this house!" — and the walls began to fall. His interlocutor, Hillel,
says: "If I have found favor with You, O Lord, let the walls
will stop!" And the walls stopped. And then Hillel said to Shammay:
"You see, a miracle proves nothing".166
For God did not perform a miracle to prove that someone's theology is correct