Statutory Warning : might be too boring for some.
I am a believer. No this is not a religion, faith or creed I am talking off, nor am I party to a popular cult gaining high ground. Nor am I a maniac or a psycopath like the ones you find in the American movie stereotypes, penchant with their belief, on a murderous spree.
I believe in GOD, just GOD...no strings attached. He’s not Allah or Christ the Son of God or a Hindu idol. Outwardly I might appear as an atheist. I almost never fast, nor am I a regular visitor to any temple, mosque, church or any house of God. Yes I do bow my head with respect when I pass one. But that is about all. I don’t believe the quaint customs and rituals invoke the Almighty, but if a certain sect believes in their sanctity, then so be it, it is their approach. Their path. I do not discredit or desecrate them. But yes, it’s quite true faith and money are THE greatest motivators. It amazes me sometimes what people do in the name of GOD. How easily they claim their “religious sentiments” have been hurt! Not once thinking what they are doing, why they are doing it...that in the process they are hurting GOD himself? Destroy people just in the name of religion, breach the rights of others, carry out massacres, violence… you name it and they’ve done it…and they think it would make “their” GOD happy!. Weird very weird!How can such carnage lead to GOD I wonder.
My view of GOD differs. I view him as my guiding light, my source of inspiration , my survival.For me he's just someone I can always turn to. He’s someone I can relate my troubles to, even for the smallest trifling I am literally 'knockin on heavens doors'. I don’t defy or disrespect any of the religion, as a matter of fact I revere each one of them, cause they are just various channels leading to the inexplicable power behind the churnings of the real world. The supreme. The one who decides the fate of each one of us, undeterred by our faith. Resolute in his decisions, yet soft when helping his child bear the consequences of one, always lending a helping hand, pulling us through all our miseries. The patriarch of the Globe…or may be the universe or may be beyond…I may never know His limits.
I have always accepted rather greedily all his decisions, the bouts of happiness, the moments of victory. Then why should I shy away when he chooses to test me? Why should I curse him, ask him why ME? I never question him while making merry…so why when I am mourning? No. I always prayed, God always be with me, in good or bad, I will follow your will. Then, so be it, if he chooses pain to give me greater happiness or tests my mettle to make me a stronger individual, I will comply. My duty to him is, I do no wrong, try my best to follow the righteous path and take life (more appropriately the course he decides) willingly, sanguine in my approach and I am sure He would be there to cruise me through all my ups and downs.Just always be with me is my only prayer, so that in my grave moments I know that the pair of footprints in sand is you and only you, which would pull me through each one of my struggles. For me the question is not really ‘To be or not to be’…I have to be, life is beautiful and worth living, it’s a precious gift I cherish and always will till my last breath, live each moment to the fullest…but to always to be as He desires me to be is what matters to me.
P.S this is not a rip-off from TOI’s speaking tree :P
5 comments:
It would sound cliched,but it reverbates my thoughts about God.Always belived that God has a plan for all of us,we sometimes dont see it or question His intent,but it remains undisputed that whatever He does,He does it for good.
Through hindsight in life you realize that, in the end evrything will be fine because if its not fine its not the end.God is ,was and always with evrybody.
PS:Why do all good things,like this,come with a statutory warning!!!
Beautifully written..hope the Speaking tree people dont lift it of.
WOW..nice article..!!
VERY WELL WRITTENI Saumya. I believe in GOD, just GOD...no strings attached. He’s not Allah or Christ the Son of God or a Hindu idol. Outwardly I might appear as an atheist.
GOD IS THE RESULT OF SLOWLY DEVELOPED THINKING PROCESS IN MEN. First man worshiped natural powers like lightening and thunder as god. Then man worshiped MANY GODS. Today man worship ONE GOD. In western religions that God’s name is JEHOVAH. Hinduism believes in one God Brahman which express itself in trillions of forms.
God has no name or no form [nama-roopa]. It is NOT manadatory one should worship God. Every one has the right to worship or not to worship God.
"Anyone who searches after truth can be called a Hindu, since Hinduism is the relentless pursuit after truth. Even an atheist can proudly proclaim, he or she is a Hindu. ABSOLUTE FREEDOM OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS - That is the cardinal principle of Hinduism.”
Excellent penmanship.
I deeply appreciate your art of living, however, by design, only pure knowledge can quench a wo/man's thirst of knowledge (inquisitiveness).
There is only one God, and it's name is "LOGIC" (everything else is a fairy tail 'Ye katha kahani hissee hain, Kooch bhi to saar nahi baba..').
We are blessed to be in this age where we are free (from church, tyrants rulers, imposition of some faith etc.) and technology is a real promise. (Some ppl still go to war over religion, and many poor entities are doomed into it, but majority of us has an opportunity to escape.) ..Where we'll be very soon be able to understand consciousness, awareness, emotions, feelings as we'll enter singularity. How they are coded in mind, how a bundle of neural network is able to do create something as real as consciousness.
I liked the spirit of "Ed Viswanathan" in his comments above.
From whatever petty knowledge I have, human's brain has power/capacity to see/analyze/watch itself (though needs training like mindful meditation) and understand the cosmic dance within her/himself, and able to comprehend 'what we are, as we also are an element(/made of) of this queer place called universe.
AKN - I believe in to each his own :)
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