Well after a break of what felt like ages, am back to blogging. It feels great to realize that you are alive and blogging. This is not just a block-breaker but something that has been doing rounds in my brain for years now.I was never sure of my spiritual inclinations, neither am I now. Being in such a position could be pretty dicey, esp. when you are from a place where people kill and get killed for the love of God, well, not exactly God but their own renditions and names of him. Being a Hindu by birth, I was exposed to a million and half gods by the time I had reached my early teens, let alone the number of daemons and the negative forces that could possibly harm you.
Children world over are taught to get up in the mornings, remember the name of God, almighty as many times in a day as possible and pray before you go back to bed. Sounds pretty harmless but what we are actually doing is forcefully insinuating our thoughts and ideas into their heads. Worse yet, we teach the philosophy of God in schools. This has become so inherent of our cultures that we seldom see anyone question anything. Any person who dare raise his voice against this is termed an infidel and the idea or proposal is rubbished as blasphemy. No matter how forward we go or however civilized we say we are, we never were or are open to a debate on this. For us this has always been something that has to be blindly believed in and worshipped.
These remind me of an episode from Boston Legal where Alan Shore asks Denny Crane, "Denny, why do you believe in God". To which Denny replies, "If there is no God, then am safe, for we lose nothing by believing in Him. But if God happens to exist then we are all screwed!" Our stand on this is no different; just that most of us would never say such a thing, even though deep down somewhere inside many of the believers would choose to worship and be safe.
By now you would have started frowning at my post, but believe me; I have nothing against any of the existing religions and absolutely nothing against God. But, I believe that believing in some unnamed super power above and choosing to worship that should be a personal choice and not rubbed upon people, unlike what we do today. Instead what we can do is give children a holistic view of things and leave the choice to them, just like you would do for a career option.
I personally have nothing against the 'God created the universe’,’ offer him some form of sacrifice'[intangible, that is],'pray daily' concepts. Do those if you feel you reach some psychological or spiritual high ground by doing so, but again having said that I can never understand why kilos of ghee, milk, musk and honey are poured on an idol while millions go starving? I can never understand why you would shoo off a person begging for alms but drop a gold chain in the hundi or get a 3Cr rupees crown made for an idol. I better not discuss why you would kill or beat a person up for not worshipping 'your' GOD!
You needn’t visit some distant temple or go far off places or flog yourself or trek mountains to find God. Do that only if it is your way of worship not because others do so. But first love the person beside you, you would find God.
Children world over are taught to get up in the mornings, remember the name of God, almighty as many times in a day as possible and pray before you go back to bed. Sounds pretty harmless but what we are actually doing is forcefully insinuating our thoughts and ideas into their heads. Worse yet, we teach the philosophy of God in schools. This has become so inherent of our cultures that we seldom see anyone question anything. Any person who dare raise his voice against this is termed an infidel and the idea or proposal is rubbished as blasphemy. No matter how forward we go or however civilized we say we are, we never were or are open to a debate on this. For us this has always been something that has to be blindly believed in and worshipped.
These remind me of an episode from Boston Legal where Alan Shore asks Denny Crane, "Denny, why do you believe in God". To which Denny replies, "If there is no God, then am safe, for we lose nothing by believing in Him. But if God happens to exist then we are all screwed!" Our stand on this is no different; just that most of us would never say such a thing, even though deep down somewhere inside many of the believers would choose to worship and be safe.
By now you would have started frowning at my post, but believe me; I have nothing against any of the existing religions and absolutely nothing against God. But, I believe that believing in some unnamed super power above and choosing to worship that should be a personal choice and not rubbed upon people, unlike what we do today. Instead what we can do is give children a holistic view of things and leave the choice to them, just like you would do for a career option.
I personally have nothing against the 'God created the universe’,’ offer him some form of sacrifice'[intangible, that is],'pray daily' concepts. Do those if you feel you reach some psychological or spiritual high ground by doing so, but again having said that I can never understand why kilos of ghee, milk, musk and honey are poured on an idol while millions go starving? I can never understand why you would shoo off a person begging for alms but drop a gold chain in the hundi or get a 3Cr rupees crown made for an idol. I better not discuss why you would kill or beat a person up for not worshipping 'your' GOD!
You needn’t visit some distant temple or go far off places or flog yourself or trek mountains to find God. Do that only if it is your way of worship not because others do so. But first love the person beside you, you would find God.
