What Is The Sole Purpose Of Rituals, Images, Stories Or Religions – Why They Exist?

There cannot be smoke without fire. Through the smoke, you can reach the fire. But when you see fog and understand it as smoke and try to find the fire, you cannot get it, and you declare the absence of fire.

Puranas and stories and images and rituals are the smokes of the fire of spirituality. Through which you can reach the fire of spirituality which is continuously burning inside you. When you reach that fire, there would be light and warmth everywhere. In that light, you can see everything as it. Everything would be very clear to you. Nothing can delude or fear you. The delusion and fear exist in the realm of the darkness only.  In the presence of fire, the darkness cannot exist. That is why fire is considered very auspicious. Reaching that fire is the state of enlightenment.

But when you entangle yourselves in the smoke of Purana, stories, rituals and images, you deceive yourself. The illusion and darkness will not go away from your life. That smoke will make the darkness of ignorance and illusion denser. The presence of the religious smoke in the form of Purana, stories, rituals, images, customs, tradition, festivals and various religious congregations is to confirm of the existence of the fire of the spirituality, its direction and method to reach there.

But the method, path and direction must be right and authentic. It should be the smoke of fire of the spirituality, not the fog which appears like smoke, but it is not. That would take you nowhere but in the whirl of darkness. We must be very sure what we follow and believe in.

The fire of spirituality can be reached by anyone by following the right method and path. That person can be religious or irreligious. The only condition is the method, path and direction must be appropriate and authentic. There can be various method and path to reach that fire of spirituality. That is why, various religions, rituals, images and stories are available as a symbol, methods and motivation to reach that fire of spirituality and attain the state of enlightenment where all the differences of the world vanish and oneness appears.