People who know me make no bones about the fact that my mind is never at rest. I like to know everything in detail. You remember Steve Job’s quote ‘stay-hungry, stay foolish’... well I think sometimes I take it a little more seriously than others do. Of late I’ve been little perplexed at the way people behave and their attitude towards different fragments in life. One person yet so many faces.
The other day I was asked by somebody why I don’t go to temples. I asked them why you do. To which I got the obvious and most expected reply- all about God and peace of mind and tradition and religion and customs and blah. (Frankly I am not against visiting the temples. They are beautiful and archeologically-amazingly placed and built.)
But what I don’t understand is why do people- the most knowledgeable people – the wiser-who-know-it-all – pray to lord and return to their corny and deceitful worldly life. What is the point?
We all complaint and cry over the corruption, crimes, inhumane acts, tragedies. But nobody wants to change their ways. People know it real well when and what they are doing might be morally incorrect but they continue and pray to lord everyday. I don’t understand their religion. I don’t know of any religion which would preach and accept its disciples to be hypocrite, cheat, inhumane and cruel. Then why do these god fearing people still do it?
I feel the problem is how we have propagated the whole idea of religion. What we think religion really is. How we are still a victim of superstitions and fancy hokum. If heaven and hell really do exist or were made to believe to have existed, why are people not scared of it anymore? And the irony is, people are super-religious. They are firm believers of their religion, worshipers of their holy books and most of them detest science (like it’s a religion created by Satan himself).
People – the blind believers who like to call themselves ‘true believers’ have a problem understanding the difference in fact and the faith! They believe everything their holy books mention of. ‘World in the palm’, ‘Earth on head of a serpent’, ‘resurrection’, ‘walking on water’, and etc. Books in all religions talk about the miracles of ‘holy man’ generously. But how much do people really know about what they are reading? How many of these true followers know who really wrote the Qur'an or the Bible?
There are over a billion people in this world, worshiping these writings, accepting every word as god’s own wisdom, slaughtering each other over them, all without having the faintest idea of where these texts really came from. And what answer do you have? ‘Oh it’s the holy book... it has been long enough here…’ Please! So it’s been long here so it ‘by default’ has to be true??? Now this is (blind) faith. There are religions in this world which in their present state are completely made up and far from what they were suppose to be when they originally started.
But I am not writing because I want to force people into finding flaws in their religions.( Frankly I don't think I can). The problem is we are living in a world of fantasy. Following the herd where somebody is following another, clueless of what is on the other-side. Ready to fight and kill over these texts and books which are based on some legends and myths going back some hundreds or thousand years!
Yes religion has been one powerful force to hold and bind many people together. No man or king could do that. But the truth is it has also been holding back people from accepting the better things, facts which comes with evolution, time and knowledge, and most importantly, it stops us from being accountable for our own actions.
A thousand years ago people while they were still in their basic stage of evolution feared the nature. They did not understand what was causing the lightening or the storm. They were confused about the concept of life and death and were scared of everything they did not understand. They needed some explanation. So the solution; God is angry – hence the lightening, God is upset – hence the storm in sea and etc. But today we are so evolved. We know God is not angry; it’s the winds and currents which are causing the rain.
And now that it is a proven thing, a fact, would you still believe if I said ‘it’s raining because God is upset’? No, now you won’t. With all the technology and knowledge you can swear people in the 1st century would have called ‘us’ the ‘Gods’.
We need to get a grip on what we are capable of. God did not create computers or find the vaccines for deadliest of diseases. We did it ourselves. Now again, it’s not about your faith in god, it’s about Faith in your Own Self. If you have not seen God with your own eyes but still believe he is there somewhere, then why won’t you do his work? I am sure your God doesn’t need all the flowers and money you spend on him. He will not ask you to kill for him. He will not be happy if people did every stupid thing in his name. A merciful god will only ask humans to be merciful to each other.
Religion today is what men have made it. And it’s all too ridiculous.
To be a true follower of god, become a true human. Respect other humans as they are your god’s creation. Respect the lives of animals, they are god’s creatures. Respect the nature, god has given you too much and you are ruining it.
Mandir mein jaa ke ghante bajane se asli bhakt nai bante.. asli bhakt vo hota hy jo bhagwaan ka kaam kare.
If every God's believer starts considering himself as God’s man, the World will be a better place!
