As much as I try to be a religious guy, be respectful to scriptures, maintain my conversion as a theist, it appears to be a daunting task. There are many hurdles in staying theist. God Himself seems to be one big hurdle. He just doesn’t care about advertisements is what I think. So, His presence is the most secret one after Bin Laden. Nowhere you seem to see Him and all of us to maintain our status as believers, keep blabbering that we can see Him in a child’s smile, a freshly bloomed flower, kind acts by strangers, natural beauties blah blah, we tend to forget that even a atheist gets to see all this. I guess it is high time He did something about these doubts and come clear.
Second hurdle is, reading books like ‘Theory of Everything’ or ‘Kadavul’. No one seems to have a definite answer about God, however intelligent they are. Explanation of the creation of Universe and whatever that can be surmised through laws of physics doesn’t need the help of God. He just becomes Mathematics then. And maybe our deities are mathematicians.
And the scriptures!!! Why isn’t He doing anything about it? Almost every book of religion preaches about how you need to forego your earthly pleasures to recognize God. This is absolutely unfair. Bad rules. There is so much to see and enjoy in this earth and those are also specifically created for that. If He did want us to abstain from sex, become a sanyasi to realize Him, he should have been fair enough and created only men. Or only women!! If He can be realized only if we abstain from all small vices and have no attachments, then physiologically we should have not been created that way.
Appears to me that this is a sadistic game. Akin to giving sight to a visually handicapped person, make him enjoy the beauty of the world and take back the vision again. If he hasn’t realized how good it is have vision, he would have continued his normal life. But to provide eyesight, make him understand what he misses and then to take it back is cruel. This is how it looks to me. This realization business!!!!
And these blood & gore in the name of God. And He doesn’t seem to have a damn about these crusades.
No one provides answers to all the perplexing questions, everyone comfortably gives some gyan about how meditation and a life free of earthly pleasures will make us happy, in some case how what you do now decides your next birth ( even the man made courts do not punish anyone if the crime is committed when the person was in his normal senses, but whatever you do now that you would not remember will determine what you become in your next birth makes God a poor judge ). Some God and some understanding we have.
Looks like being an atheist is more comfortable. But on the other hand, looks like making attempts to find some simple explanation why there is a Supreme power to whom we need to look up to, is more worthwhile. Afterall, there is no denial that He is there.But some helping hand from God himself would be useful in this task
Second hurdle is, reading books like ‘Theory of Everything’ or ‘Kadavul’. No one seems to have a definite answer about God, however intelligent they are. Explanation of the creation of Universe and whatever that can be surmised through laws of physics doesn’t need the help of God. He just becomes Mathematics then. And maybe our deities are mathematicians.
And the scriptures!!! Why isn’t He doing anything about it? Almost every book of religion preaches about how you need to forego your earthly pleasures to recognize God. This is absolutely unfair. Bad rules. There is so much to see and enjoy in this earth and those are also specifically created for that. If He did want us to abstain from sex, become a sanyasi to realize Him, he should have been fair enough and created only men. Or only women!! If He can be realized only if we abstain from all small vices and have no attachments, then physiologically we should have not been created that way.
Appears to me that this is a sadistic game. Akin to giving sight to a visually handicapped person, make him enjoy the beauty of the world and take back the vision again. If he hasn’t realized how good it is have vision, he would have continued his normal life. But to provide eyesight, make him understand what he misses and then to take it back is cruel. This is how it looks to me. This realization business!!!!
And these blood & gore in the name of God. And He doesn’t seem to have a damn about these crusades.
No one provides answers to all the perplexing questions, everyone comfortably gives some gyan about how meditation and a life free of earthly pleasures will make us happy, in some case how what you do now decides your next birth ( even the man made courts do not punish anyone if the crime is committed when the person was in his normal senses, but whatever you do now that you would not remember will determine what you become in your next birth makes God a poor judge ). Some God and some understanding we have.
Looks like being an atheist is more comfortable. But on the other hand, looks like making attempts to find some simple explanation why there is a Supreme power to whom we need to look up to, is more worthwhile. Afterall, there is no denial that He is there.But some helping hand from God himself would be useful in this task
2 comments:
Ignorantia juris non excusat -
//but whatever you do now that you would not remember will determine what you become in your next birth makes God a poor judge// You could have made an accident a year ago by rash driving and lost memoirs of that. But that will not absolve you from getting punished by Our court after 10 years.
If GOD is so easy to comprehend see understand then you will loose interest on him.
By the by Rahul sankrutyayans book "Volga to Ganges" gives a different account of creation of Brahmam by Brahmins to keep the mystery of god
to that it can never be unravelled.
"If you can understand Brahmam than what you have understood is not Brahmam and so on"
Translated in tamil
KaNdavar Vindilar
ViNdavar kaNdilar
Enlightened cant explain
Those who Explain are not enlightened
Tamil version of the book is available at (if the shop still exists)
Tamil Puthakalayam
393, Pycrofts Road
Chennai - 14 , Tamil Nadu.
I have that book Subbu, maybe your first copy stolen :)). Read that too.
But these are more my random thoughts with an element of perennial doubt that is He really there and if so whats the explanation for all these mishaps including Kanimozhi's MP post !
Everytime I read more about Physics I get all these racy thoughts. This time as I said, it was 'Theory of Everything' by Stephen Hawkings and 'Kaduval' by Sujatha.
I will become normal when the hangover is over and maybe pray for a review meeting to go well.
And only yday I was saying that, I would have spent more time thinking about God, despite having been an athiest / agnost for 90% of my life.
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