Hello again friends. it has been a long time since i found myself writing again , more so because of lack of events which needed elaboration , all through these days of absence. this post is more of a questionare , than a simple read, hope this appeals to your intellect.
Firstly and for mostly i don't mean to hurt the sentiments of my readers - religious, social or personal, these are just mere questions that i often find asking myself and i'm sure many of us do, or maybe don't which makes me a lunatic in that case but whatever, lets begin. shall we ?
q.) is life without a meaning ? doing something good for ourselves or anybody else , does it really matter, when in the end we all live on this tiny little insignificant spec in the universe for a infinitesimally small amount of time on the scale of the cosmos , where birth and death are the only permanent truth in our lives which marks the beginning and the end of our consciousness ? or what importance does life have, if everyone we know or we don't know is going to die anyhow ? sure some would say to live happy lives , to leave behind achievements and memories to make the world a better place .. but lets face it, how many of us are actually doing that ? and no matter what you do for yourself and the world , will it last forever , would everybody remember you and your achievements when you're gone ? if the answer is no or maybe, then whats the whole point of living, if the body is just a vessel drifting towards its inevitable end ? to balance all these irregularities as many as 5 religions preach the institution of rebirth, but lets not go into the religious playground just yet.. i am looking for an answer which is practical and supported by reason a common man can understand and contemplate with...
q.) if we have established an answer for the above question lets begin with the second one . we all have our religions which we follow, ok some of us can be atheists too but lets rise above what we believe in to what we see , hear , touch and learn from our limited existence .. personally i have had my spiritual ups and downs and what i found was that the less i doubt in his power , the more i believe in him , the more satisfied and at peace i find myself in, but thats just me and it could be purely psychological.
so the question is ...what is religion ? is it something that unifies people ? or provides them and the loneliest of all people a sense of belonging ? or is it something that provides explanations to the question of existence ? does it keep us from becoming animals by checking our limits ? prevents the world as we know it from breaking down to a mad max sort of realm ? do we even need a religion, if we all become learned and civilized enough to follow our own rules ? if so then wouldn't that be a religion in itself ? moreover why do we need to establish the notion that our religion or faiths is superior to all others when its just "faith" ? again i am looking for a practical and simple opinion which is generalized taking account of a majority of people not just a single person or sect... !
q.)if we have established the importance or the reason to religion my next question is about acceptance.
how are we supposed to accept ourselves ? is it the process of suppressing the feeling of wanting something bigger for yourselves ? is it to establish an inferiority complex ? or being content with what you have, even if its not enough ? is it about setting lower but more realistic ambitions for yourself ? if so wont it limit your potential and prevent you from pushing yourself over the limit to that point where you are capable of getting what you want and be who you want to be ?
q.) lastly the question that screws the most with my mind.
what is existence ? who made us ? who made the people who made us ? who made the entire universe ? who made the people who made the entire universe , and who made them ? what is life ? why is it so ? why are we here and not there ? what is this whole thing about ? whats the grand design and who made it and why ?
these are some of the basic questions that i have been pondering on for decades , it feels better to let them go , i could have easily gone to yahoo answers and seen the replies but i wanted to write here on my own space, not just to feel important but to ease out my mind with people i really know about . its not that i know every single one of you who is reading this but i know most of the readers and trace their thought process . again i am looking for an answer encouraged by reason not by anger .
i have tried to the best of my efforts not to overrule anybody's sentiments even now if somebody feels hurt or angered , i am sorry friend but i am not sorry !
peace out \v/
- Abhishek
