Taking an inward step towards religion

Religion for You and me
For many, religion is a way of life. There are many who consider the fact that it is religion that binds most people around the world. And then there are others who believe that religion seems to be the reason why people are at each other’s wits end. It’s also a strange observation that as one goes nearer to his time (or at least that’s what people claim that they are heading for), they suddenly begin getting religious. Towards the end of time they require some solace to get claim that it is because they are so close to the end of their time that they have this splurge on being religious! The same people who are together today may at times also be influenced by the others who preach that instead of going gung ho about the benefits of religion. They can actually create rifts between those who were once together in the name of religion!

Identifying religions is subjective. Each person identifies it in his or her own manner! It’s tough to make each person pin point factors that everyone needs to understand the moment they identify with their religions. There have been many massacres in the name of religion. Houses burnt down, atrocities down to people in many parts of the world, all in the name of religion and its beliefs. My question to all those staunch believers is how in the world do they manage to make people believe that the Almighty had enough time on his hands to crave out ridiculous methods of liberation. For instance, in some ethnic cultures, it is believed that pregnant women should not wash their hair until the first seven months. They believe that doing so can damage the child’s eye sight. How in the world can you allow unkempt hair to be the cause of bright eye sight!

Beliefs and Religion
There are still others who fast endlessly allowing others to achieve their goal through utter starvation. Fasting is good only if it taken in the right manner, not in a way that damages your health. Health experts do believe that a day of fast allows your body to cool down and it’s an detoxification of your body’s enzymes. But to make it a religious belief to achieve your means is something really blasphemous. How are we to explain our children that god is this all caring and generous entity, if we induce pictures of horror and torture in front of them. To take the acid test, we all believe in His existence not in the false notion that you need to pierce yourself and torture your being to such a limit that you have no doubt but to bore all that your forefathers have until date.

Religion, any religion for that matter was created because there was a desire for good karma to be brought down to earth. Beliefs and notion turn into superstitions if you were to use logic to question them. The religious or scarcely religious people in this world have made this their profitable venture. Because we have been so used to doing all that was expected of us in the name of religion, a fresh approach that these saintly people have under the garb of deep-rooted philosophy gels well with the masses. When you hear something that’s not a part of your daily ritual, you are bound to feel elated.

Understanding Religion
Superstitions arise out of nothing. They simply have this mass appeal which either through science or through mere faith of the people is always on the increase. No religion has teaches man not to be a good Samaritan, a good human being. All of them irrespective of their appeal have this central focus to unite mankind. In fact if you read through the fine lines of the scriptures, all of them make you do something that we generally don’t do in the rigmarole called life! It makes one think! We are so used to our mechanical life style that we seldom get the time to get down into reading what the truth behind those innumerable parables was that Jesus had put forth.

Religion like music binds the souls together. It teaches one to be at peace with himself and understand the variety of difference that God has created in this world. That appreciating the tiniest object and understanding its importance is as simple as breathing, and yet it may even become as difficult as rocket science. Religion takes you to a plane no man can ever teach or experience, even if it comes from the highest rung possible. It also teaches you something that you realize with time.

That God has this master computer with scenarios of the world, he just knows how to press the right key at the right time. And that the most important thing in life for any one of us is to listen; because God does not speak, he whispers! It is the noise that one creates around him that does not understand his language. He speaks the same language as you and I; in fact he is versatile to listen and understand any and all languages put together. It may then be a baby’s babble, or a woman’s cry in pain.

We, as individuals need to understand that like the Almighty there’s much to be learnt and understood. There a lot that one can appreciate and understand through the comprehension of some of the simplistic things in life. We only require the least part of our brain to allow this fact to sink in!