Nowadays if you ask people- "What's your view about religion?" you will often hear the answer - "Personally! I don't believe in religion and God and for rest of all no comments", some will also say- religion is for superstitious and weak persons, who just blindly follow some stupid practices. People are preferring to be agnostic rather than being in mess of concluding what's right and what's wrong.
Bravest of all start criticizing and questioning the God and religious practices. It has been one of the most common debate topics as everyone wants to defend what he follows and for those who don't it is the easiest wave to sail upon and feel heroic of them as most of the people are religious because they are brought up with having that faith inside from childhood and everyone of them can't answer those attacking questions. They can't answer the questions about existence of the God, justify the wrong practices or can't even prove how they are doing the right thing if they can't answer first two questions.
Let me start with an example, once upon a time there was a poor man whose son was sick for a long time. Even after the best medication possible no positive change in health was seen. Disappointed from all sides, he went to a temple and starts crying. He prayed - "Dear God! my son is all i have in this world" -he put down all his money and possessions and said - "I don't need these materialistic pleasures to live. Save my kid if possible, apart from all what I have is faith in you, my son lives or not I will be standing here in front of you with the same faith".
Miraculously, his son got well. What he saw was the God has answered his prayers and what others saw was if you offer God money he will answer your prayers.
This example doesn't proves the existence of the God but it do gives an idea how the misinterpretation led to a wrong practice. Different people have different perception, but when a practice gets a firm setup rarest of the people have guts to change it. Not because they fear that the God will punish him but because some people have taken all the responsibilities of religion and other people do support him blindly.
People go to temple and try to bribe God - if my son clears IIT-JEE/AIIMS I will visit your place again and present a sum of 5001 bucks or maybe more. It appears sometimes that someone is asking the God to prove himself if he wants that person to visit his place again.
Does the mighty needs money ?
Does he need your approval ?
Had he told you how you must pray ?
Things have gone worse because of the position money has got in our lives. If you have seen Nirmal Baba's television advertisement, it can be observed that people have placed money above God. He told people to do this or that and "kripa aa jayegi" and kripa is nothing but money. Now most of the people don't visit temple to feel the inner peace or be closer to the mighty, some wants a Porsche in their garage, some want their kid to do well in exams and many reasons- the main reason has been lost.
When we have lost the main reason how can we stop or justify those superstitious practices. Maybe that's why many have got their business in it because people are too blind to realize anything.
Coming back to our critics, they usually question the persons they knew can't answer them. If you tell them to ask a Shankaracharya or a person who can answer them, you will be told at once- "As if I don't have any work in this world".
One of the accusation is God doesn't gives food, money does.
Even before our currency notes were formed it was taught to people to wish-
"Sarve bhavantu sukhinah, sarve santu niramayah" meaning everyone be happy and no one suffers from disease. The concept of Maya and Ram was taught so that people don't get blind in shine of money. The concept of Karma was taught to think before doing anything wrong and have higher moral values. For so many years, that same faith has tied people in one thread and taught them brotherhood. Things are so obvious now but deep inside you and me both know if it had not been in the first place things wouldn't have been same today.
And if you think that reaching the God is about worshiping day and night, you surely don't have idea about Raja-Yoga, Karma-Yoga, Jnana-Yoga or Vedanta. Doing your work properly is an approach to the God, Yoga is an approach to God, worshiping and being a Sanaysi is an approach to God and also living in a household is an approach to God.
What we are following today is some set of codes not religion. A religion is made by ideology not some practices or rules. Religion is a framework - a building and we are the interior designers. Its up to us what we make of it whether we make a wonderful ambiance or make a mess out of it.
If we have made a mess - Blame me, blame us-the people not my religion.
God is omnipresent and Omnipotent. Feel his presence in every bit of this universe. You don't need to offer prasad to God, a meal to an hungry guy will please the mighty more.
"Extending one hand to help somebody has more value than joining two hands for prayer".
I am not a preacher and just tried to present my thoughts without offending anyone. And reference of Hindu religion has been taken because of the my limited knowledge. Thanks for reading.
Bravest of all start criticizing and questioning the God and religious practices. It has been one of the most common debate topics as everyone wants to defend what he follows and for those who don't it is the easiest wave to sail upon and feel heroic of them as most of the people are religious because they are brought up with having that faith inside from childhood and everyone of them can't answer those attacking questions. They can't answer the questions about existence of the God, justify the wrong practices or can't even prove how they are doing the right thing if they can't answer first two questions.
Let me start with an example, once upon a time there was a poor man whose son was sick for a long time. Even after the best medication possible no positive change in health was seen. Disappointed from all sides, he went to a temple and starts crying. He prayed - "Dear God! my son is all i have in this world" -he put down all his money and possessions and said - "I don't need these materialistic pleasures to live. Save my kid if possible, apart from all what I have is faith in you, my son lives or not I will be standing here in front of you with the same faith".
Miraculously, his son got well. What he saw was the God has answered his prayers and what others saw was if you offer God money he will answer your prayers.
This example doesn't proves the existence of the God but it do gives an idea how the misinterpretation led to a wrong practice. Different people have different perception, but when a practice gets a firm setup rarest of the people have guts to change it. Not because they fear that the God will punish him but because some people have taken all the responsibilities of religion and other people do support him blindly.
People go to temple and try to bribe God - if my son clears IIT-JEE/AIIMS I will visit your place again and present a sum of 5001 bucks or maybe more. It appears sometimes that someone is asking the God to prove himself if he wants that person to visit his place again.
Does the mighty needs money ?
Does he need your approval ?
Had he told you how you must pray ?
Things have gone worse because of the position money has got in our lives. If you have seen Nirmal Baba's television advertisement, it can be observed that people have placed money above God. He told people to do this or that and "kripa aa jayegi" and kripa is nothing but money. Now most of the people don't visit temple to feel the inner peace or be closer to the mighty, some wants a Porsche in their garage, some want their kid to do well in exams and many reasons- the main reason has been lost.
When we have lost the main reason how can we stop or justify those superstitious practices. Maybe that's why many have got their business in it because people are too blind to realize anything.
Coming back to our critics, they usually question the persons they knew can't answer them. If you tell them to ask a Shankaracharya or a person who can answer them, you will be told at once- "As if I don't have any work in this world".
One of the accusation is God doesn't gives food, money does.
Even before our currency notes were formed it was taught to people to wish-
"Sarve bhavantu sukhinah, sarve santu niramayah" meaning everyone be happy and no one suffers from disease. The concept of Maya and Ram was taught so that people don't get blind in shine of money. The concept of Karma was taught to think before doing anything wrong and have higher moral values. For so many years, that same faith has tied people in one thread and taught them brotherhood. Things are so obvious now but deep inside you and me both know if it had not been in the first place things wouldn't have been same today.
And if you think that reaching the God is about worshiping day and night, you surely don't have idea about Raja-Yoga, Karma-Yoga, Jnana-Yoga or Vedanta. Doing your work properly is an approach to the God, Yoga is an approach to God, worshiping and being a Sanaysi is an approach to God and also living in a household is an approach to God.
What we are following today is some set of codes not religion. A religion is made by ideology not some practices or rules. Religion is a framework - a building and we are the interior designers. Its up to us what we make of it whether we make a wonderful ambiance or make a mess out of it.
If we have made a mess - Blame me, blame us-the people not my religion.
God is omnipresent and Omnipotent. Feel his presence in every bit of this universe. You don't need to offer prasad to God, a meal to an hungry guy will please the mighty more.
"Extending one hand to help somebody has more value than joining two hands for prayer".
I am not a preacher and just tried to present my thoughts without offending anyone. And reference of Hindu religion has been taken because of the my limited knowledge. Thanks for reading.
I'm an agnostic and it is certainly easy. Who wants to get into the mess of concluding the right and wrong? But nonetheless it is better than blindly following some aspects, the logic of which one does not understand.
ReplyDelete@Tejaswi: I don't have any offence for an Agnostic or an Atheist. Perception about religion differs from person to person, the only point I raised is if u don't understand the Religion, please don't follow it but don't start criticizing it without understanding the reasons behind the flaws and get indulged in blasphemy.
DeleteIt's quite possible that everyone doesn't want to follow your easy path because people do need someone to rely upon(GOD in our case)when things get out of their control.
Thanks for your time :-)