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 the 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 any rhyme or reason! And this feeling and realization is shaped
by the 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 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 heart and
actualised by the human hand in practice. Rituals that are meant to appease
Him, are just smart ways of keeping social order and keep the 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? 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 have changed across 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 exclusivist 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 the man's authority
on earth under subservience to natural forces.
We can analyse the
factors that gave birth and then propagation of the concept of God. Mathematically,
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 the human lives, 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 favourable
and unfavourable arrangement to hit earth in who knows how many ways to scatter
in who knows in what 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 the micro to the macro
levels this factor works to coincidentally shape destinies and the
way universe functions.
In
the fathomless domains of this chancy super-quotient, we have independent units
that recur in patterns with regularity to substantiate our scientific theories.
These are but particular outcomes carried by the swift forces of chance.
Universe is an outcome of some chancy explosion. Life on earth is pleasant
coincidence, divine chance. See the dance of prince chance in all its charm
around you and in your life and you will feel its superweight! And if chance is
the God, we should take no chance with the chancy quirkiness and rather shape
our destinies more practically, more logically and less blindly.
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