Human beings receive salvation and achieve enlightenment

Thus, enlightenment is not something that you have to strive for; it is something felt and realized naturally. This is why your enlightenment and my enlightenment, your truth and my truth are not different from one another. Because truth is unchanging, it can be communicated and transmitted to others and expressed in actions. If enlightenment cannot be communicated and truth cannot be shared among all, then such things are merely personal illusions of grandeur.

Until now, we have had the wrong idea about the role of religion. We thought that religion would help human beings receive salvation and achieve enlightenment. Under this premise, religions have exercised great influence over every aspect of our lives, with absolute authority, controlling our souls and imprisoning our awareness. Let us look at religion again. We have to look at the basic premise of religion. As Ilchi Lee writes in his book that particular religion always claims to be the best one, the only one, and the unique way to reach God and receive salvation of the soul. Applying our sense of fair play, how right can this be? That you can only go to heaven if you are a Christian? That you will only reach nirvana if you only pray to Buddha?

Religion should be understood as being just a tool with which to reach an awakening of the soul, not as something with absolute authority and ultimate value. Instead of faith practice aimed at guaranteeing that individuals will reach heaven, people should search for the kernel of truth in the teachings of the different faith traditions of the world. You don’t have to belong to a particular religion to be a spiritual person.