Thursday, April 22, 2010

God A Blunder

God, the reason why the first letter in the word that initiates this article is capital, is merely that it’s a convention to start a sentence with a capital letter. This was to tell you what this article is exactly headed to. I rather like it as god, simple, sober, unglorified and away for whatever poses a threat to overdo the image of an ambiance so pure in its nature. The heading itself must have suggested what this humble author of yours is trying to convey and for many I may appear to be an atheist. Let me put this in the very beginning that I am a human as normal as anyone reading this in any corner of this self occupied unheavnly earth. All I condemn is ideologies, all I refute from is blindness, not helpless blindness but blindness we all have forced ourselves into. A blindness that has cost us a lot now seems to be poised to do the same to our children. I talk of not religion but ideologies; I talk of not the epics that state but the mindsets that awake a sense that needs to stay asleep, a sense of achievement of something that, to us has been posed as the reliever of all pain. This sense of achievement do I call today’s GOD and this very sense do I call a blunder. All of us have been brought up in an environment that makes us addicted towards seeking refuge to a deity that according to us is a solution to every single situation that to us seems unsolvable. This according to me is one of the most pathetic arguments that a tactful escapist can make and the most unfundamental of all the reasoning that forms the foundations of this so explainable universe. All these years we have not just carried forward, but forged this blunder, more and more. Denser every time it is recalled, recalled in terms of festivals events traditions or maybe daily prayers. It has become the very part and parcel of our living a normal life. The biggest irony of the situation being that, people refrain from being non-believers just by the fear of the entity that they do not believe. Today to exist and more importantly to, in true sense, develop and evolve we must give up sheer faith and resort to pure logic. The aim behind such an audacious statement is just that the world order at present will not let such beliefs prevail. By saying world order I mean not the economies or international institutions but the intellect of the people.
One more point that I am drawn to talk about is the human behavior and attitude and of how exactly it affects the topic we are focused on. Man has a tendency to form speculations, regarding all that happens around him. It is his normal tendency to formulate reasons to all that occurs or affects his surroundings. This very tendency is what has led to the formation of what we call rationalism. This very tendency has led to formation of modern science and reasoning. But the story doesn’t end here. We then tried explaining all that is around us without realizing that we were still not equipped enough to do that. This then led to a frustration amongst us, the frustration that arises within any little kid unable to solve his puzzles. The attempt to prove mankind above any other organism was ceased when it saw the incompetence of reasoning for a lot that that was occurring in nature. This very sense of incompetence led to the formulation of random theories to support the happenings and the most appropriate theory that cropped up was what we today call GOD. My statements may seem as another atheist blinded by rationalism trying to devastate all around him that is not supported by science but think once again. What good have we done to ourselves by believing? Just created plethora of limitations for thinking beyond the common perception? All we have created is a dome, a dome of a common mindset. All out of which has been stated as unearthly, unreal, ominous or any other such adjective created by one of my rival mates. It is quite evident that we live in a world of presumptions, a world that has always tried to explain rather than perceive. I agree that there do exist phenomena, and people that our rational thinking has not been able to explain but that holds not ground valid enough to plot supernatural powers as a reason. All that we can do is search for a reason.
All my words may seem hard to follow and to be believed in, to you, I may seem like a person so raw at reason that soaks away all the joy of faith but perhaps a language of words is something that is pushing me back from telling what I want to convey. God himself is not a misconception but the idea of his presence in things that people state is what the blunder is. God is not an omnipresent entity, he is no supernatural power who can come into your life and mend all that you want to be, your way. That is the blunder we are making. In fact looking again from a very rational point of view, we have been given this life in order to be enjoyed to the fullest. To be taken as a mystic journey to the ultimate truth. But rather what we do is something which is not even just a mistake. As the ever inquisitive man, we try to analyze our life. The problems we face and the situations that we fall in. Analysis leads to complication and this very complication leads to confusion, this confusion then increments the frustration of the analyzer and ultimately leads to stress and mental disorders that cause all the problems that arise evidently due to a restless mind.
I won’t go too long but all that we need to realize is that we are not supposed scrutinize our happenings but rather understand their importance in making us who we are and who we actually should be. This world is full of happiness, joy, rhythm, compassion and a never ending mystery of events. May be one day I will wake up, have an epiphany and tell you where we are from, but till then just stick to your cerebrum, keep thinking, don’t let your pituitary and hippocampus play games with you. Because it has been long that we have been creating these blunders, long since we have realized that someday we will have to face the man in the mirror, someday we will have to face the reality of being alone or rather self contained. We will have to understand the need of realizing one’s own self rather than running after this fallacy called god and this blunder called religion.
We are humans, one of the most evolved animals on this planet and it is a sheer pity to see ourselves still stuck in such notions of what a person like me may call a very bogus approach. As I end it, I would not like to be called repetitive in my sentences for all those saying it still need to read this once again.

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