Some say we are born, we live, die in a cyclic order. Some say after death we go to heaven or hell based on our deeds, Some say human life is a test and it is up to us to succeed or perish. While lots of others really don't care, and believe in living to the fullest, who knows what lies ahead.
So what really are we? and why so much claptrap over something that lies beyond death and over something that no one really knows..
The answer to this probably lies in the "Curiosity of the Human Mind", we have evolved from being apes through groups to conquests to barbaric civilizations to colonialism for what?. One crore(10 million) people died in World War-I for what? Two and a Half crore died in World War-II for what?. Uncounted black slaves traded to Europe , America and Middle East. Who did all this? and whom should God really punish for all this? If some one killed or died saving his land 500 years back, how does it even matter today?.
Thus I believe it all boils down to the human tendency to fight back, to tell ourselves that the bad would have to pay for his misdoings, and maybe that's the reason not God but we created Heaven and Hell, we created Ghosts and Angels, we created Evolution and Judgement day. Maybe all we wanted is "Nirvana"- the ability to be free, free from our miseries, free from all the troubles, hardships while having the ability to do whatever we wish to. Maybe that is the reason we envy the rich, powerful or attractive, because we wish to be like them. This Envy is what makes us greedy, angry,egoistic and wrath.
I like to believe even if religion is just a creation of man, i believe it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea that Dawood Ibrahim still lives after 1993 bombings or I feel the juvenile in the case of Nirbhaya shouldn't live . I feel some sort of need for Karma or the concept of Heaven and hell or a Biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some due reward, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. Some one told me this great thing is what has become my philosophy as well.
"I want to believe there's a heaven. And I want to believe there's a hell."
So what really are we? and why so much claptrap over something that lies beyond death and over something that no one really knows..
The answer to this probably lies in the "Curiosity of the Human Mind", we have evolved from being apes through groups to conquests to barbaric civilizations to colonialism for what?. One crore(10 million) people died in World War-I for what? Two and a Half crore died in World War-II for what?. Uncounted black slaves traded to Europe , America and Middle East. Who did all this? and whom should God really punish for all this? If some one killed or died saving his land 500 years back, how does it even matter today?.
Thus I believe it all boils down to the human tendency to fight back, to tell ourselves that the bad would have to pay for his misdoings, and maybe that's the reason not God but we created Heaven and Hell, we created Ghosts and Angels, we created Evolution and Judgement day. Maybe all we wanted is "Nirvana"- the ability to be free, free from our miseries, free from all the troubles, hardships while having the ability to do whatever we wish to. Maybe that is the reason we envy the rich, powerful or attractive, because we wish to be like them. This Envy is what makes us greedy, angry,egoistic and wrath.
I like to believe even if religion is just a creation of man, i believe it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea that Dawood Ibrahim still lives after 1993 bombings or I feel the juvenile in the case of Nirbhaya shouldn't live . I feel some sort of need for Karma or the concept of Heaven and hell or a Biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some due reward, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. Some one told me this great thing is what has become my philosophy as well.
"I want to believe there's a heaven. And I want to believe there's a hell."
