All religions have one source of light

If I continued like this, I'd never be able to go to Christianity, and then Islam and Ramakrishna, so I'll put off going through my journey step by step and first summarize my own faith.

I started out with Buddhism, but I think I wrote that at a certain point, no matter where I read Buddhist scriptures, all I could read was, "I will save you," i.e., "Buddha will save all living beings." It was then that I saw a light of compassion, and this wasn't a visual one; it was a spiritual light. A white light.

Then, the exact same thing happened when I read the Bible, the holy scripture of Christianity (the Old Testament is also the holy scripture of Judaism). At a certain point, no matter where I read the Bible, all I could read was, "I will save you," i.e., "God will save all people." It was then that I saw the light of love. A white light. A spiritual light. And that light was the same light I saw in the Buddhist scriptures. There was only one source of light.

The exact same thing happened when I read the Quran and Hadith, the holy scriptures of Islam. At a certain point, no matter where I read the Quran or hadith, all I could read was, "I will save you," i.e., "Allah saves all people." It was then that I saw the light of God's great mercy. A white light. Spiritual. And that light was the same light I had seen in Buddhist scriptures and the Bible. There was only one source of light.

And finally, I went to Ramakrishna (Hinduism?). The story behind this is that I had previously posted the above process online, saying that I believed in Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. A reader, unable to bear to see my confusion, suggested, "In that case, why not try Ramakrishna?" So, when I read the Gospel of Ramakrishna, the exact same thing happened again. No matter where I read the Gospel of Ramakrishna, all I could read was, "I will save you," i.e., "God saves all people." It was then that I saw the light of love again. A white light. Spiritual. And that light was coming from the same place.

Now I think it's like this: God's light of salvation has one source, but when it passes through the prism of humanity, through the prism of language, the light of salvation for humanity splits into seven colors, and then into an infinite number of colors. Looking at each of these lights, we call them Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, etc., and even within the same religion, we call them Jodo, Jodo Shinshu, Nichiren, Zen, Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, etc. This is what the Quran means when it says, "God sent a prophet to every nation." Surely there are as many colors of salvation and religions as there are languages. And if you trace this split light back, it will return to one and the same light. When the three primary colors of light overlap, they become white light. In the same way, when all light overlaps, it becomes one white light. So what I saw was white light.

When I say I'm a Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, or Hindu, people ask me, "Which one are you exactly?" But to me, they're all one. I'm not confused at all. In fact, I've seen that the source of the various colored light of salvation is one, the same white light. I say things like, "I saw the light of mercy" or "I saw the light of love." So now my mind is at peace. I've experientially been liberated from the confusion of which one to choose.

The only way to describe it is that you'll understand when you see the light of compassion. I'm sure Ramakrishna and Gandhi could see it too. They're the ones who say all religions are one.

I'll leave it at that for today.

Follow the guidance of love and compassion