One World Religion
Note: The following is a partial transcript from a weekly group meeting where Ramsingh occasionally spoke (via Jeanette) on various subjects.
Q: Will we have a world religion with the Second Coming of Jesus? Will it be called religion again and be practiced as one religion by everyone?
R: To a certain extent there will be one religion. Not to the exclusion of difference of preference. Let me use style as an example. Some people like very tailored kinds of clothes, others like casual, others like very feminine, frilly, fluffy. They are all clothed and it is fine and it is right and they do not all have to wear the same style. So it will be with the observation of religion. There will be a wiping out of the dogmatic.
Q: Thank God!
R: Right! He-She (God) says so too. But there will still be room for differences in the way in which we observe. If one person really does not want music, they don’t have to have it. While others can have a great deal of music in their observation. There will be various amounts of ritual. Now, there will be more ritual than many Protestant churches today observe and more than they understand the need for. This is one of the places where they threw out too much. There will be more ritual. It will be in somewhat different form than the rituals which you are accustomed to today because many of those have become dogma and have lost their meaning. But there will be an education in the meaning of ritual and the use of it and the way in which it can be used and there will be the forms that help one to move along. Also there will be differences because of the level of advancement of the different individuals and their abilities therefore to make use of the ritual for instance.
So, yes, in one sense there will be one religion. In another sense, no, there will not be only one way of observing.
It will be called religion in its broader sense, but more than that it will be called a way of life. Religion will come to be understood as that which permeates the entire life; which enables you to do and be the things that you are, which is the life force, the spirit, within you.
It will not be a Saturday or Sunday only kind of thing. This is one of the big helps that the growing use of prayer and meditation as a daily kind of exercise provides because it is breaking just a little bit that hold of the Sabbath that has been so revered on one day of the week and so ignored on six, in many instances.
It will become much more a way of life which, of course, is the important part. Religion as it is lived, not as it is believed or thought about, is the important thing. Oh, yes, the thoughts and beliefs are important, but only if they become a part of the individual’s life.
Q: They become a part of the personality.
Q: I like that idea very much too. It seems more realistic. A friend of mine was speaking of the Bible, the Old Testament and the New, and she had a nice way of looking at that. She said she believed in the Living Bible -- the one that was being written every moment.
R: Yes. Very good!