Nobody can see God until he takes off the glasses of religious fanaticism. If you have got to see what the Supreme Being is, climb on the peak of neutral thoughts and examine all that is biased below.
The sense of right and wrong differs from community to community. The law of nature ignores them all.
Love and hatred are not under our control, as we cannot force ourselves to love anything that we do not want to, nor can we make ourselves hate the thing we actually love. So for as God is concerned, He is not one thing or other – he is all, the Infinite Being, the father of all, the mother of all – and we cannot help loving Him.
Today when hypocrisy has given our politics and religion such a bad name, we need to know our ancient form of politics and religion. Leftist and rightist or conservatism and liberalism are not the things that were originated in India. These are the infectious diseases which we received from other countries that either invaded India or came here to trade with us. Basically, the name of our religion is Sanatan. It is a storehouse of rules and laws devised through succeeding generations but never meant to compel anybody to strictly follow them. Yes, our politics or our political science was evolved from these natural laws and rules. Since there was no owner of them, our religion or politics never created any sort of communities and this is because of this that ‘Ram Raj’ was established on this holy land of gods.
Change is the basic law of nature. The universe undergoes this process continuously. The thing that refuses to countenance constant modification is subject to a stage of decomposition. Civilization, social order and culture all are subject to change, so the laws related to customs of a particular time become obsolete as they change. However, there are certain laws that are universal and no time or place can affect them. Such laws are called Sanatan, which has been journeying through different ways of life with developing civilization and the course of evolution without rejecting anything that followed in a newer form.
All living things are flexible whether it is a plant, a man or an animal. Dead is dry and not able to be bent whether it is a dry twig, a corpse or a river. Sanatana is a living religion like a stem on which the flowers of a happy and optimistic life and leaves of all-round development grow. Politics with all its reptilian venom often tries to infect it but it always remains cool and fresh like the sandalwood. It is the day and not the night; it is love and not hatred; it is divine and not earthly; it is pure and not contaminated.
Nobody has ever developed a great idea with his academic ability rather the great ideas that have contributed to the development of the civilization occurred to people naturally. Shakespeare, Socrates, Arcamedees Addison, Kabir, Kalidas etc are a few examples. When God has to bring a change in any part of the world, He selects a man like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or any such and blesses him with a divine talent the land through him.
We are glad to see our Libraries widening, minds sharpening and civilization taking amazing speed, but we do not see that the democracy of the world is turning into the battle field of a war for power and money and humanity that has made us different from the animal has started to take its last breath. In other words, we are moving towards the same state of affairs which caused the end of the most advanced civilization through the great Mahabharat War. Human knowledge is the deadly enemy of humanity.
In olden days people lived pastoral life. Their society was divided into three main groups: priests, warriors and herdsman. Since each group was dependent on the other, there was a perfect harmony between them. Slowly their civilizations developed and there arose one more branch of work, following which, about three thousand years back, the caste system came into being. There was still no concept of any caste being low or high, nor were the classes based on family origin.
The classical Hinduism started from 200 BCE and lasted for 1300 years afterwards, but India did not witness any sort of bitterness between the four main divisions of Hindu society. Islam came to Indian subcontinent in the early 7th century with the advent of Arab traders but no sectarian strife resulted until 1100 CE. It was after Muslim Conquest that the religious communions emerged because non-Muslims were persecuted and converted to Islam by the Muslim rulers and their army generals.
When differences among Indo-Europeans grew they split between Indo-Iranian and Indo-Aryan. Once, the people of other religion hated Jews because Jews were more competent than them. Later, when they were given a piece of separate land to live, they proved themselves. A family splits when brothers stop tolerating each other. Politics on the basis of caste and hate campaign may result in a big threat to the unity and integrity of the country, mind!
It is not the various religions that have the narrow and intolerant fundamentalist view rather it is the politics that makes their followers so. We see different religious show off every year – just think who is behind them. If it is not the political parties, who else then?
Religion consists of the laws that decide how to live in a society. It teaches us certain lessons on a happy and peaceful life: that let us love, tolerate and help each other, be true to each other, make an honest living, be kind to every creature, keep our body, heart, house and everything around us clean, speak the truth and what is comforting, all in the name of God; or if you do so, as the religion promises, you are sure to be granted His love and blessings. A religion offers all that it has to the society and not to the politics but it is a sad fact that it is often usurped by the politics and there has been violence and cruelty done in the name of God or in the name of religions.
Election is a goddess that is happy when she is offered human sacrifices. This goddess eats thousands of people before she gives her blessing to a party. To come to light, one group of politicians deliberately courts controversy, particularly over a holy religion, and the other group at the same time comes forward to stir up feeling against it. Finally, faiths weep and the innocents who have faith are sacrificed.
The British invaded India by a divide-and-conquer strategy. They promoted religious, ethnic and cultural divisions among Indians. Slowly their policies entered into the intellectual realm and Hindus came to believe these divisive ideas. Thus the society of India underwent the divide between high and low castes and between different religious and cultural groups for a long period of 900 years.
In the olden days, the king, businessmen, farmers, workers and all supported a common cause and participated to make their country rich and powerful. There was seldom anyone who ever tried to betray their brothers. It was in this atmosphere that India was a powerful empire and was called the golden bird. All were rich and healthy. The persons who rule and control the country today consider the people as their crops and therefore they do not want to educate them or to let them grow rich. The poor are God because when they become pleased with someone, they make them kings; the rich are devils because they suck the blood of the poor. Just watch how the devil woos the poor and calls them in such a way as though they were his property. Religion is politically as harmful as it is socially beneficial. Unfortunately, religion has become a tool in the hands of politics and hypocrisy in the hands of society. India, you are no more a country of patriots.
Only parents or some kindred spirit can nourish children. However, school masters cannot because they do not have the same interest in the children as their parents have. Moreover, milk is twenty times more likely to be adulterated than any other food. I wonder why the government has launched a scheme for the schools to give milk to the young students. Worship, prayer, religious services are the parts of one’s private life and those who have faith in Him have every means to worship him. It would not be an exaggeration to say a poor person worships Him better than a king. I wonder what makes the government to join in a religious feast in Ayodhya or an Iftar party on a political platform. Religion is a divine boon for humanity – socially, it is a shield against every harm but politically, it is a fatal sword. The so called government, you are meant to provide the country with law and order, public services, social security, internal and national security etc. rather than to win people’s support by appealing to their emotion. The people are not so ignorant today that they do not understand your malicious intentions behind your hypocrisy of getting their fundamental rights to sell back to them. Thrones suit servants best and not masters – take care, you are going too far!
The world of politics has descended steeply into the valleys of various religions, thereby provoking people to invent the cruellest ways of killing one another instead of promoting their teachings of universal duties like honesty, non-violence, purity, goodwill, mercy, patience, forbearance, self-restraint, generosity and asceticism. The campaign of violence and intimidation seems to be the chemical reaction of democracy. Now the world community is required to find some peaceful ways to stop it, or else it would polarize the world into two groups and obliterate the whole humanity. There was a juggler who used to play with fire came to grief one day and by the time spectators had succeeded extinguishing the fire it was too late. People used to hate blood, now the same blood is the thing of greatest entertainment. Anyway, it seems as though the Providence does not like the world to go as it is going and therefore it has decided to rub the infected humanity off the blackboard of the earth for the new civilization.
Hindus say that RSS is no more an organisation of Hindu ideology because they do not count the rain frogs to be good to the community. Now they are looking for some lion that does not talk the talk but walks the walk. They make noises like the rain frogs but they never seem to do anything that could strengthen, unite or expand the community. It has always been very easy for some other community to convert Hindus to theirs. They cannot retain the existing members, how can you believe that they would be able to retain their larger generation. If they say that they are an the organisation meant to protect Hinduism, they are expected to propagate how Hinduism is better than other religions and inspire Hindus to follow its rituals and laws regularly, to read religious books and to making a habit of visiting temples regularly. Today most Ashrams have been occupied by mafias, kicking true priests off them. Why do not they protect ashrams form such malevolent people.
Those who do not value time or do not envisage their future role are common people. Such people always run after a comfortable position and end without leaving a simple dot on the history. A plant that has got to yield fruit sacrifices everything it has for the produce. Lord Krishna never enjoyed power and wealth; Acharya Kautilya is remembered because he did nothing for himself; Samrat Ashok rose out of the deadly net of conspiracy and in response knew not what mercy was, but, at last, dedicated all his life to his subjects; great scientists never knew if they lived a life; Chadra Shekhar Azad sacrificed himself for his country.
A man hates somebody and be as cruel to them as cruelty itself. The same man, however, is affectionate towards someone else and has the warmest heart for them. Ah, a person can be so good and at the same time so bad! It is simply a case of mind over matter.
When we think of the modern science, we are puffed up with pride. Sometimes, we think that we can tame nature. Sometimes, we are so ambitious that we think to rule the world and develop our colonies on some other planet. But the Nepal Earthquake showed how helpless are we in the hands of nature. No house was left undamaged. Walls and roofs were cracked. One could not feel safe to stay in any of them. No shop opened- nothing was there to eat. Torrential rain and strong winds combine to make condition terrible for the people sitting helplessly in the open air. Kedarnath turned into a ghost valley on 16 & 17 June 2013. Flash floods resulting from extremely intense rainfall swept away mountainsides, villages and towns, thousands of people, animals, agricultural fields, irrigation canals, domestic water sources, dams, roads, bridges, and buildings — anything that stood in the way. Water gushed into the town from the summit behind the shrine carrying rocks and boulders, destroying everything on its path. People perished in torrents of water or get crushed under rolling boulders. Man, be man and not God. Man, love man and do not forget the Father who keeps all. Man, bow down to Him and beg a safe life.
However, there is nothing as complex as the human nature. If all the people on the earth were saints or they all were decadents, the world would not be what it looks like. There is a bewildering variety of things on the earth and this is the reason that the world looks so beautiful. Anyway, sometimes when God wants to trim the haphazardly grown world, he divides the people by raising massive egos in them. But before that He gives them the skill to develop fatal armaments. The mind in the world is the device that receives the instructions of God.
A clash is a creator. ‘If winter comes can spring be far behind’ P.B. Shelley. When a mass of air with a low pressure over the seas gradually moves, it causes a great disturbance in the waters thereby giving rise to the clouds. These clouds rain on the plains and hills and a new life sprouts, the earth appears like a bride in her new and green, green dresses. Similarly, when politics turns to be inhuman, differences grow between different religious communities, sectarian violence spreads and mass killings take place, a new society emerges with a sweet smile on its face. Everything that happens in the world happens because God wants it to, or rather nothing can take place against the will of God.
Each one of us is different from the rest in respect of our physical appearance, nature and language and this difference makes people bring different results which constitutes the beauty of the world, the twinkling earth in varied lights. What is more interesting is that everyone is always in mistaken belief that his is the best work so all the other people should do that. Just go to where some spiritual programme is held and try to explore the minds of the participants. You will certainly see them thinking that they are doing some great job and those who ignore such occasions are unfortunate lots. A fraud, a thief, a businessman, a politician, an educationist - all are lost in their work, considering others to be inferior. This is how the world moves with al its grandeur.
Almost every religion asks its followers to recite a holy poem or a prayer or to repeat the ritualistic acts of worship. In fact, these practices lead a man to be fixed with an accepted set of beliefs which control his behaviour and thus they make him have strong opinions about the religion. Slowly such religious people get so used of worshiping a mythical God that they never try to realize the real of Him who is with us all the time and everywhere.
Religion or caste is a belief, a conviction or an opinion and not a variety of mankind. The politics, not only in India but in all of the democratic countries, has been treating each community to be a different variety of people.
The literature created for a particular purpose cannot be based on facts. The author is sure to hide from the truth and to emphasise all those points that he thinks suitable for reaching his target. Generally such literature is used by politicians and religious gurus.
All that has grown too large has ultimately got to reduce;
Something which is ablaze is sure to be extinguished.
Anything that God detest most are the excesses.
I’m the dog at the door of Mahaprabhu Hanumanji. I will do all that might please HIM. I will wag my tails, lie down in the dust under His feet and also growl at malevolent persons. If he throws a piece of bread, I will run to eat that. I bear no grudges if He does not give anything to eat. If he thinks it fit to kill me, I would love to be killed.
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