God
has created us. He has given us the knowledge and wisdom to decide good and the
bad. We grow,influenced by our parents and surroundings. We follow the rituals
and prayers as directed to us. But when we get into independent thinking, some
questions do arise and answering them becomes difficult.
All
the religions are good and have the common purpose within it. None can claim the superiority over another. Because, none of
the religion cannot prove 100% that a) what exactly is life/soul becomes after death.b) the real form
of god. The religious books give us
the guidelines. At the end, all the
scriptures come to one point- We have to live a truthful life.Love each other
and help each other.Think good for another. When we follow this, I believe that
the gods expectation on the human being will be fulfilled.
God
does not ask us to pray in a particular fashion. God does not say if you do not
go to Church on a Sunday, it is a sin.God does not ask you to follow certain
sets of rituals as per our religion. We need not attend big prayer ceremonies
to get more blessings. We need not give
1/10th to the gods/gods worshiping places.
What god needs is the our good heart to help
each other and live a truthful, honest life.
It
is our ancestors created these guidelines to pray and follow certain sets of
rituals.This reflected the lifestyle. Religion emerged from this. Temples,
churches and Mosques came in. Mankind
started praying to god and tried to live a good life as per the directions…
Time
changed.Over a period of time, the people started forgetting the true purpose
of their religious existence. The popularity in following “ my god” initiated.
Human being was ready to die for the sake of religion. Which means, instead of
providing broad visioned mind to live with god as per his expectations, mankind
s mind became narrow and narrow in justifying his religion. Offlate, some of
the business minded organizations/people are trying to take the advantage of
peoples mind and making money out of it. It is slowly becoming a business opportunity.
People are forgetting the fact that, the god is the same and he wishes us to be
good always. God will listen our prayers and shower his blessings if you sit on
the compound wall and also pray. God does not have any hard and fast rules to
pray to him. It is not actually praying.It is requesting god to enlighten us to
take right decision in our life. Afterall,god expects us to do the same as he
has already given the wisdom to decide our life. I always pray to god asking for good health
and pray to take good decision in my life. And it is I who take the decision.
Off
late, I understood that there are 38,000 forms of Christian groups existing in
this world. One bible and 38,000 different views on the same book.. Is not this
telling us the severity at which peoples mind got restricted.
I
feel, the religious border need to be removed slowly. I know this is a
difficult process.. But if this happens at least 10 generations down the line, I
will be a happy person as this will give only one great thing to the
world- PEACE.