Religion.

Religion is, to me, experiencing what I cannot express as an experience, to others. I have not initiated myself into reflecting on religion. I always took the existence of God for a fact. My parents told me about the existence of God, when I was a young boy. I remember praying as a young boy, and I do remember that no one told me to pray. I watched my mother pray, and I started praying on my own. I prayed to God, sincerely, so sincerely, that it was as if I was speaking to myself. I used to ask for the well being of my family, and my pet dogs, without a hint of emotion, as if God was sitting in front of me. My mother to me, was the most profound experience, that I had as a child. But the person who introduced me to God, as an entity, who could be communicated to, as one communicates to a living entity, was Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa.I have not experienced God, but through Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa.What is religion? Belief in God, any belief in God, is religion. Perhaps, I had experienced God, earlier, before I had introduced myself to Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa. But I did not know, of my introduction to God. I was told, that there is a God, and he listens to our prayers, but I did not experience God as "God", because I had no concept of God. As a child I believed totally in God, whom I had not seen, heard, felt, listened to, etc. When I prayed to him, he existed, without existing. If someone had asked me, on whom I was praying to, I would have answered. If I were asked where God was, I would not have answered. When I read Sri Ramakrishna's words on God, it was as if I could not have dreamed to have uttered those words, but I had uttered those words nonetheless. How could a mere man have even dreamed to have said the words, which he said? If a mere man could have uttered those words, then I would have. But how did the words have such a profound impact on me, as if I was the person, who was saying the words? Even his words of chastisement are agreeable, because I see the truth in what he says. If he had uttered them to me, I would have agreed wholeheartedly. If previously, I had experienced religion on my own accord, now I experience religion, as it should be experienced. I have still not seen God, nor communicated with God.