Better
to have a Godless world now!!
Let us be clear on this! The concept of God
was a nice production of human thought to give answers to unanswerable happenings,
mishappenings, chance throw of dice and destinies, hard fought struggles and expectedly-unexpectedly
varying outcomes. And then out of this motley mix of fires, misfires; success
and failure; rise and fall; ecstasies and miseries, there arose natural questions--Why??
Why?? The concept of God was offered as a panacea for numerous puzzling symptoms
plaguing distraught humans seeking answers to this 'why'.
You have to believe with a blind faith if at
all you want to get some solace or unproven blessing. If you suffer
unjustifiably, religion tells you that you might be suffering on account of bad
deeds in previous birth. If you are not getting the results of your good deeds,
it tells you that you will get it post death. Both things are not proven,
previous birth and after-death status. God is not proven. All the proofs to
verify His existence are themselves contrived in a way that even these cannot
be proven. So the final nail in confirming His existence is: ‘He cannot be
known! He can just be realized and felt!’ So ultimately it boils down to a
feeling, a realization! So very smartly it has been brought down to a level of feeling, a zone where logic is pushed aside without and rhyme or reason! And this feeling and realization is shaped by unquestionable
belief in His existence.
So where do we land up??!! Like we are the owners
and makers of rest of all the feelings in us, here as well we also possess this
feeling in us. Sum and summary: Aham Brahma Asmi, means ‘I am the God I am
seeking!’ It started in human brain and is realized in human brain as well.
Rituals that are meant to appease Him, are just smart ways of keeping social
order and keep people believe in the thin line dividing good and bad, moral and
immoral, otherwise there will be a chaos.
After a debatable journey, the concept of God
has outlived its utility. Mankind framed the idea of God to create a
psychological field of safety against natural forces that were beyond his
knowledge and comprehension. Those mysteries have been explained quite well
now. So we need not continue to pay lip service to it anymore. Doing so is
proving more harmful to the creator of God, the human brain, the mankind.
Religion is a thriving unquestioned business. Do you remember Asha Ram harami??
Similarly, there are hundreds of Godmen exploiting people for their belief in
the concept of God. Millions are dying in the name of various Gods. Political
parties are pulling votes in the name of religion. High time we abandon this
redundant concept!! At the practical and mass level, it is doing more harm than the
psychological advantage it provides against unknown apprehensions and insecurities
at the individual level. Disadvantages and losses at the collective level are
far more than the individual sips of solace driven by surrendering the self to
the divinity.
Times changed over centuries. Almost everything
changed in its wake. But religious differences are the same. Blood-shedding in
the name of religion is the same. Isn't it high time that the world community starts
dismantling the hold of exclusive religious principles on people and states? It
is the time for an all inclusive world religion, the religion of all humanity,
humanism. It is the time to contrive a better idea than exclusive Gods for
various groups. We can think better to have a more relevant concept. The new
concept can have Allah, Jesus, Buddha, Hindu Gods and other major deities in
its fold. Main issue is how can Islamists be
convinced to see beyond the rigid confines of their unchanging tradition?! All
other religions are melting under the warm sun of internationalism. But icy
blocks of Islam are holding their medieval solidly crystallized layers like
polar snows. Will Islam ever be lenient to non Muslims!? World peace and harmony
depends on the answer to this question. If internationalism succeeds to
liberate humanism buried inside Islamic fanaticism, we can expect to have a
peaceful world following the religion of humanism. In any
case religion has to be systematically dismantled to lay the foundation of a common
world, like it was earlier constructed in ancient times to stamp man's authority on
earth under subservience to natural forces!
We can analyse the factors
that gave birth and then supported the concept of God. God is just an
incalculable sum of infinite series of chance factors.
If at all there
is divinity, it is chance, coincidence! Chance is divinity! If ever there is a
force that shapes things in universe and consequently human life, it is the
chance factor. Random forces shape even the patterns that appear constant and
infallible to us. Suppose you hold ten playing marbles in your hand. You keep
these on your palm and take utmost focus to throw in a way so that you get
maximum pieces in the hole. The chain of event that proceeds is utterly
carried and pulled by the chance factor. Who knows with what balance and from
what height, distance or tilt you decide to go for your throw!? You have
numerous options as per the aforementioned variants! Then by chance you get
carried to think one particular position more suitable than others. Who knows
in what funny ways the marbles float in air? These can float in relatively
favorable and unfavorable arrangement to hit earth in who knows how many ways
to scatter in who knows in which directions and strike each other in who knows
how many ways and how many angles to result in who knows how many moving away
or into the hole?????? It is a long and endless series of independent still
minutely dependent possibilities. One conscious act of taking the marbles in
hand driven by the intention of putting as many as possible in the hole results
in an endless serious of probabilities that work independently in between the
throwing stage with particular intention and the resulting stage emerging as an
independent result. The result is free, so are the numerous bits of independent
realities driven by the free will of the chance factor. From micro to macro
levels this factor works to coincidentally shape destinies and the way universe
functions.
