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RELIGION AND SCIENCE RELIGION, WHAT IT IS? Religion in Latin is=Re (back, again)+Ligare (bind, to unite), i.e. one which binds one with origin or fountain head that unites you with you. There is only one religion which is the soul of Christianity or Islam, or Buddhism or Hinduism or whatever it be. It is that by which you gain the ultimate experience- the experience into which merge all distinctions of caste, colour and creed, all doctrines and dogmas, your body, mind and intellect, time, space and causation, this world and all other imaginary worlds. Any systematic attempt, which you undertake to reach that infinite state of being, is religious. The self knows itself by itself. Knowledge, love and pleasure are transacted through the equipment of the intellect, mind and body. But you never find satiation in them. Religion means going beyond the periphery of the body, mind and intellect and becoming one with Atman, and Brahman, the illimitable Self. The Atman is infinite and all pervading and manifests through the instrumentality of body, mind and intellect like electricity manifests differently in different instrumentality. Your attention at present is upon the material equipments and their functionings