Signs&Science
The last few times i went to church i kinda had a feeling that i was going through the motions.I questioned myself as to why i went to church . the answer was obvious i was just being plain selfish . i wanted myself and my family to happy.so i went to church from the time i was knee high lest i might incur god's wrath.
Closer introspection of a few things said in the bible and application of my scant grey cells helped me find for myself my own truth.Jesus was no god ,he was just a normal human being.Just like Einstein and Newton were scientists who had the ability to see and think at a far higher level ,jesus was a social scientist or simply put a saint like buddha or mahavira.In the times he lived, when human beings were in a process of being cicvilsed , he saw the lack of a moral code that would serve as a yardstick for human behavior. A yardstick that would change man from the primitive barbarian(literally and figuratively) to today's human being.
It was physiaclly impossible for him to travel to all lands and preach and hence his words"spread my word".Just as mothers say to their crying children that gabbar aa jayegaa ,people need to be threatened with some dire consequences to forbid from doing the wrong things.hence Heaven ,Hell , Purgatory ,Judgement Day..et al.
But what worries me is that religion which had played an important part (despite the crusades)has failed to change and adapt to the times.More saddeningly people ,educated young people still continue to follow the same mores as the the neanderthal man.A week back i was engaged in a rather serious conversation on the existence of a god with a young woman from a b-school.She was what one would call a believer .She believed in the existence of a god or a force that guided her or as she said gave her directions. I am an agnostic and hence a discussion ensued for hours with both of us holding to own turfs.She said that i had to invest some faith. Well i said i cant repose faith in the abstract .
Later i tried to understand the young woman's mindset.When we are in love we are not in it for logical reasons. Its just this feeling of correctness , purity and sanctity that we have in the realionship . We have total faith in the other person but we cant give any logical reasons for it.i guess the believers are in love with god.Everyone has needs :the need to be loved , need for protection from some superior almighty source.......some have the latter ,some the former and some both.
I belive that whatever happens to us is mostly a function of our own actions and our the actions of others. While things lke accidents or other mishaps are just uncontrolled variables that do not have an explanation.
To find solutions to our problems we need to look witihn us and have confidence in our abilites. When we pray may its just this confidence that we get . What do elders say anyways"DO UR BEST AND LEAVE THE REST TO GOD". The key phrase according to me is doing your best.The greatest power that a human being has is the one between his ears . If we can progrees from the wheel to dolly the sheep then all of us have enough in us to sort out our problems.
All religions give us teachings which would help us lead a good life differentiaite between good and bad. I believe we have look towards these teachings rather than the supernatural element in religons that was introduced for our barbarous ancestors.
Im sorry if i sounded like i was sermonising. For a long time these things have been in my mind.I end by saying that all that is needed is for one to find find the purpose of his/her life ;be it thru religon or introspection whichever suits them fine.Do comment coz im open to conversion!!!
The last few times i went to church i kinda had a feeling that i was going through the motions.I questioned myself as to why i went to church . the answer was obvious i was just being plain selfish . i wanted myself and my family to happy.so i went to church from the time i was knee high lest i might incur god's wrath.
Closer introspection of a few things said in the bible and application of my scant grey cells helped me find for myself my own truth.Jesus was no god ,he was just a normal human being.Just like Einstein and Newton were scientists who had the ability to see and think at a far higher level ,jesus was a social scientist or simply put a saint like buddha or mahavira.In the times he lived, when human beings were in a process of being cicvilsed , he saw the lack of a moral code that would serve as a yardstick for human behavior. A yardstick that would change man from the primitive barbarian(literally and figuratively) to today's human being.
It was physiaclly impossible for him to travel to all lands and preach and hence his words"spread my word".Just as mothers say to their crying children that gabbar aa jayegaa ,people need to be threatened with some dire consequences to forbid from doing the wrong things.hence Heaven ,Hell , Purgatory ,Judgement Day..et al.
But what worries me is that religion which had played an important part (despite the crusades)has failed to change and adapt to the times.More saddeningly people ,educated young people still continue to follow the same mores as the the neanderthal man.A week back i was engaged in a rather serious conversation on the existence of a god with a young woman from a b-school.She was what one would call a believer .She believed in the existence of a god or a force that guided her or as she said gave her directions. I am an agnostic and hence a discussion ensued for hours with both of us holding to own turfs.She said that i had to invest some faith. Well i said i cant repose faith in the abstract .
Later i tried to understand the young woman's mindset.When we are in love we are not in it for logical reasons. Its just this feeling of correctness , purity and sanctity that we have in the realionship . We have total faith in the other person but we cant give any logical reasons for it.i guess the believers are in love with god.Everyone has needs :the need to be loved , need for protection from some superior almighty source.......some have the latter ,some the former and some both.
I belive that whatever happens to us is mostly a function of our own actions and our the actions of others. While things lke accidents or other mishaps are just uncontrolled variables that do not have an explanation.
To find solutions to our problems we need to look witihn us and have confidence in our abilites. When we pray may its just this confidence that we get . What do elders say anyways"DO UR BEST AND LEAVE THE REST TO GOD". The key phrase according to me is doing your best.The greatest power that a human being has is the one between his ears . If we can progrees from the wheel to dolly the sheep then all of us have enough in us to sort out our problems.
All religions give us teachings which would help us lead a good life differentiaite between good and bad. I believe we have look towards these teachings rather than the supernatural element in religons that was introduced for our barbarous ancestors.
Im sorry if i sounded like i was sermonising. For a long time these things have been in my mind.I end by saying that all that is needed is for one to find find the purpose of his/her life ;be it thru religon or introspection whichever suits them fine.Do comment coz im open to conversion!!!
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