Kapil’s Khichadi
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I hope you don’t expect me to give you the answer!
This question I sense must have at some stage been on everyone’s mind. What conclusion they reach if course a construct of their own life experiences, knowledge of spiritual text and ultimately, their own personal belief.
It does get me thinking anyway. For example, if there was a God, would he rule the cosmos with fear? And I hear many voices shouting at me, ‘it could be a woman’. Yes of course that is possible, assuming God indeed has a gender!
Would such a God create a faith that dedicates it time and resources to convert the masses through violence, threat of rape and even death?
Can a true God reward the killing and mass genocide of people and grant the evil doers’ access to the gates of heaven? Some even believe they will get their 72 virgins.
How can any God accept the prayers of those who subscribe to any faith that is built on lies, murder, rape, cultural destruction, land grab and much much more – all done in his name?
Can a just God turn his attention away from the mass systemic abuse of children by the very clergy meant to represent him?
How can a true God say on one hand, that he created everything and then reject the non-believers as kaffirs? Surely that’s his failure!
Some believe that everything came into existence only a few thousand years ago, and to believe anything else is blasphemy. Others thought (and some still do) just a few hundred years ago that Earth was flat – yes, they really did! Can such nonsense be accepted in the 21st C?
The powerful elite heading some religions have created the greatest mass illusion of all time, by using the power of fear. One faith calls it the original sin, i.e. that all of us are born with sin because Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Really, is God such a coward that he needs to ‘put the fear of God’ into everyone? And they call it a religion of love or the religion of peace, on what basis?
Humans have discredited God (remember, it’s up to you to conclude if God exists or not) by creating the institution of mass control called religion. In his name they created systems and structures to enslave the masses. If anything goes wrong, it is always your fault. It can never be God or the faith.
Of course, the construct of God means different things to different people. Especially if you are from the East and from an Indic background. Whilst the middle east and the west was full of barbarians, the heritage of India had already shown thousands of years ago how the cosmos was created, that Earth is round, that gravity exists, the notion of air travel and interplanetary travel, the notion of small and large numbers, planetary cycles and the list goes on. In India (Bharat Varsh) the concept of religion does not work. We have a concept that is far superior and interlinked with the very laws of nature and cosmos itself. Sanatan Dharma is for all. No exceptions. The Law of Karma does not discriminate, we are all bound by it.
The land of Namaste will rejoice in righting a historical wrong when the building of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir commences on 5th August 2020. Lord Rama came to establish dharma, and Karma ensures the Mandir is built. I am a Hindu and blessed to be born in this dharmic heritage.
