Transcendence, the goal of all rituals

     Transcendence  leads the mind towards the state of Awareness. Transcendence is very important in both healing and spiritual traditions. All rituals in spiritual traditions of the world helps the individual to transcend to this state of awareness. This awareness state is the source of healing as well as the launching pad for spiritual aspirants to get into the state of pure Consciousness. This state of awareness is the source of all arts like music, painting, dancing, sculpturing etc.

      Whenever there is a health or psychological problem, all native cultures do rituals. Rituals of native cultures are often shunned as meaningless superstitious actions. The truth is that these rituals help in transcending to the source of healing, that is Awareness. We do not argue that all the rituals that are done now are 100% correct because some of them have been diluted and mis-interpreted over centuries.

     The purpose of all rituals is to help in transcending to the state of awareness. In some cultural rituals there is no hesitation even in the use of drugs or herbs to transcend. The intention is to again numb the mind and get to the awareness state. However in this case not always success is seen and mostly it later leads to addiction problems.

      Our goal is to naturally transcend without any external aid, but to use one's own intellect. Usually the power of intellect, we transcend to pure awareness state.

      We have mentioned earlier that awareness state is the source of positive thoughts and prayers are done to bring out the positive thoughts to be dominant in the realm of mind. We have to understand how prayer helps in healing. When the intention of prayer is understood and done properly healing successfully occurs.

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