Karl Marx once famously said ......." Religion is the opium of Masses".
And my experience with the religion compels me agree with his view point.
Thousand years ago what started as a mission to civilize the Barbaric human society has become an instrument of converting humans into barbaric beings.At that time there was no civilized society , no constitution , no I P C and no competent rulers. That society was just different from the animal kingdom which we nowadays see in the Animal planet.The vacuum of rule of law was
quickly filled by the pagan religions.It started with human societies worshiping things which they where afraid of. Thus started the worshiping of sun, thunderbolts, rain ,beasts etc.Then came the concept of a higher authority which has control over all our actions and can punish us in the present life or in the after life. All the religions evolved from here. Then came the modern religions which exist today.The new religions where more ordered and brought more stability to the societies. The fusion of politics with these religions which made them a force to reckon with. Soon the whole world was brought down to its knees by them.With these religion the religious fundamentalism which was present earlier too got institutionalized. The world thereafter was dominated by the Politico-religious movements . Only few non political religions like Hinduism and Buddhism could survive this great on onslaught.
But do we need these religions nowadays in this modern world.The debate was first started by the famous statement of Karl Marx. Has the human society advanced beyond the religious limits. Are the religions a stumbling block in our further development.
The basic need for the religion to exist in the society does not exist today. Now our social structure is far more better that the founders of the great religions could have envisioned.
Instead of bringing peace to the society these religions are bringing conflict.
Socially too it has become a mental block. Now its the time to remove this block.But its easier said than done. Because our society is under the influence of the opium. Its is too high under its influence to understand these things. Go to any religious function and u will realize this. The dedication of the men in the prayer will make u laugh.
The rituals there will make even the most barbaric culture seem modern in comparison.
What do people expect from god after participating in those barbaric rituals.
Will god become happy with u if u cry "god is great" or" bhagwan ki jay". If god really exist then I don't think that he will be flattered by this great sycophancy.He will be flattered by ur right action, ur good way of life.
As already stated ,the big question is "whether religion has lost its importance".
This question is dealt with in a right way in the novel Da Vinci Code.
Its true that religion started as a stabilizing force and ended up as a disrupting force, but still world needs a god, a religion and a divine force which can guide them if the need arises.world doesn't need the politico religious movements whose only aim is to glorify some individuals or god.
We need a religion which doesn't attaches politics to itself ,whose only aim is to bring peace to this materialistic world and provide strength to those in need.
In fact a world without spiritualism would be a skeleton without flesh over it.Lets change the religion in a way which suites us.Today all of us follow the religion which suited the society thousands years ago.These religions are totally out of sync with modern world. We need to take the element of politics out of the religions and steer it towards spirituality. We need to have religion which makes a god out of every individuals, not just glorify somebody as god when in reality he too was a common man like us.
In short we need to customize the religions to our need or just see them fading into the oblivion.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The illusive girl ..........
Online chatting is a craze among youngsters. In the computer center of my institute u will find that more than half of the boys are chatting with some Tina , Mina, Priya so on.
Some use their original ID and some fake or proxies.But one thing is common among them, they have a craze for girls.Most of them have come from a back ground where they didn't had an interaction with the girls. Most thought nothing except studies in their school. Some of them where really lucky to reach here and some really... really unlucky enough to land in this institute. But the craze for girls is same in all of them.The matter is aggravated further by the fact that there is no girl in our batch and this make the boys to look outside for some flirting and fun.Net is better than any other place for this purpose.And orkut and messenger are just customized for this purpose.
There are boys who are bold enough to approach the girls and there are boys who just roam around the girls in their friend's friend list like bees around their hives. This has created a short of cold war among those belonging to the first category and the second category. The bold boys do all the kill and the others like vulture wait for the remains.
There has been few success story in this online romance. One nice boy got hooked to a nice girl from distant Maharastra. Every thing went fine, the jan pahchan grew into love and even their where plans for marriage , but only then the girl asked for boys photograph.The demand was met and after that he never heard again from that girl.
Some others where lucky enough that their romance didn't go that further. One of my close friend set a date for himself. She came ,but along with another girl. That was a nice package. Set one and get one free. He never told us that what happened to him during the date.May be he feels that we might grow envious.That girl still calls up the boy to look for another date dinner but he turns down each offer. May be he got his quota full at the first time itself,but it is unlikely and and the reasons are for u to guess.
The world is full of such examples.This makes me to think over the future of relationships in these communities.
Can they be substitute for the interaction in the real world.I think it is highly unlikely.
These online interaction is not the permanent solution. They are just a place for frustrated youngsters to relieve some of their frustration. How can u have real friendship with a person u have never met,never seen and never felt.
After all we aren't even sure that the girl with whom I am chatting is really a girl or not.May be he is a boy in disguise of girl. The search for a friend ( no matter girl or boy) should start from the real world.There u have a higher chance of meeting the right person.
May be u can take the help of latest technology in ur great endeavor.
The right place to look for one is in ur surrounding.
But my Insti friends should be forgiven for taking the direct short cut. The reason being ....u need to have one in ur surrounding to up look to. Unlucky boys..............
Some use their original ID and some fake or proxies.But one thing is common among them, they have a craze for girls.Most of them have come from a back ground where they didn't had an interaction with the girls. Most thought nothing except studies in their school. Some of them where really lucky to reach here and some really... really unlucky enough to land in this institute. But the craze for girls is same in all of them.The matter is aggravated further by the fact that there is no girl in our batch and this make the boys to look outside for some flirting and fun.Net is better than any other place for this purpose.And orkut and messenger are just customized for this purpose.
There are boys who are bold enough to approach the girls and there are boys who just roam around the girls in their friend's friend list like bees around their hives. This has created a short of cold war among those belonging to the first category and the second category. The bold boys do all the kill and the others like vulture wait for the remains.
There has been few success story in this online romance. One nice boy got hooked to a nice girl from distant Maharastra. Every thing went fine, the jan pahchan grew into love and even their where plans for marriage , but only then the girl asked for boys photograph.The demand was met and after that he never heard again from that girl.
Some others where lucky enough that their romance didn't go that further. One of my close friend set a date for himself. She came ,but along with another girl. That was a nice package. Set one and get one free. He never told us that what happened to him during the date.May be he feels that we might grow envious.That girl still calls up the boy to look for another date dinner but he turns down each offer. May be he got his quota full at the first time itself,but it is unlikely and and the reasons are for u to guess.
The world is full of such examples.This makes me to think over the future of relationships in these communities.
Can they be substitute for the interaction in the real world.I think it is highly unlikely.
These online interaction is not the permanent solution. They are just a place for frustrated youngsters to relieve some of their frustration. How can u have real friendship with a person u have never met,never seen and never felt.
After all we aren't even sure that the girl with whom I am chatting is really a girl or not.May be he is a boy in disguise of girl. The search for a friend ( no matter girl or boy) should start from the real world.There u have a higher chance of meeting the right person.
May be u can take the help of latest technology in ur great endeavor.
The right place to look for one is in ur surrounding.
But my Insti friends should be forgiven for taking the direct short cut. The reason being ....u need to have one in ur surrounding to up look to. Unlucky boys..............
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Why Muslims should themself dismantle the mosques at Mathura and Kashi.
This winter vacation I went on a trip to Agra and Mathura.
The two places which are completely distinct from one other or I would say diametrically opposite to each other. One was the center of Islamic power for over three hundred years and The other one of the major cultural center for Hindus since the begining of the Hindu culture. The difference was clearly visible.
While Agra stood in its magnificent glory , Mathura stood defaced and humiliated.
What a stark contrast.
The Moti masjid adjacent to the place of the birth of Lord Krishna tells the whole story.
Mathura is one of the holiest place for the Hindus and destruction of the temple their amounted to the humiliation of the whole Hindu community.Though I will never advocate the forcible removal of the mosque from there ,but I strongly feel that it would be good if the Masjid is removed from that place by Muslims themselves. By now u must be thinking that I share the views of like of Praveen Togadia and company. But the fact is that my views are not guided by some religious jeleosity or madness. I am advocating what is right for India's future ,our future.
From the time when Mahmud Ghazni started plundering of Hindu temples( for whatever reasons) till the death of the great tyrant Aurangzeb, Hindu temples have been razed to ground . Throughout this Islamic rule over a Hindu India ,the rulers made it a point to suppress the Hindus( again for whatever reasons).This treatment of Hindus has created a rift between the Hindu and the Muslim community.The communal tension which we see nowadays is not a result of the actions of some Narendra Modi or RSS but is a direct result of the bad blood which has always existed between the two religions in India. The Muslim rulers had scant regard for the religious sentiments of others.Now I don't want to discuss the crimes perpetrated by the rulers.If u are ignorant about history then please refer to some good history book( but not those written by some communist).The names of Babur and Aurangzeb should find a special place in this discussion.Their acts have made a scar on the Hindu mindset which will not go easily. The destruction of the Ram temple by Babur and the cruel rule of the great Aurangzeb altered the mindset of the Indian society for ever. Somnath temple was destroyed and rebuilt six times in a span of 700 hundred years.No community however peaceful can tolerate such deliberate humiliation of their Gods. Ayodhya and Mathura are to Hindus what Mecca and Medina are to Muslims. Can a Muslim( no matter how tolerant he is) sit quite if same treatment is meted out to their religious places by say...United States of America. They are making such a hue and cry over the hanging of Saddam Hussein.The protest is not because Saddam Hussein was innocent but because he has been hanged by an aggressor of some other religion. The whole Islamic umah was up in arms when one newspaper printed a photograph of The Prophet .And when it comes to respecting others sentiments they destroy the Bamiyan , The Somnath ,The Ram Mandir and kill innocent people in Sudan and single out non Muslims for ill treatment in Afghanistan and so on.
The point is that why should Muslims themselves dismantle the mosques in Mathura and Kashi.I am not a religious person but still I strongly feel that those two places rightly belong to the Hindus. The whole foundation of religion is based on belief and my Muslim brothers too would agree with me on this point.Hence if Hindus have the strong belief over these place then it makes those places important for them.As I said earlier those places are the most holy sites in the Hindu religion.But whats the importance of those two mosques for the Muslims. They are like any other place of worship for them. Mecca is special for Muslims because they believe that Prophet was born there.But like Hindus they too believe that god is every where.Hence even if the mosques at those two places are shifted to some nearby places then it would not make much difference for them. But for Hindus it would mean finally getting a place where they can worship their god in the place of his birth.
Politically it will have far reaching change on our society. The Hindu hardliners will be left powerless without an issue .
But the most important thing would be undoing the some misdeeds of our past rulers like Babur and Aurangzeb. It could begin the process of heeling of the wound of Hindu psychology. A wound which has there since past many century and threatens to create problems for our future and India stability.
The two places which are completely distinct from one other or I would say diametrically opposite to each other. One was the center of Islamic power for over three hundred years and The other one of the major cultural center for Hindus since the begining of the Hindu culture. The difference was clearly visible.
While Agra stood in its magnificent glory , Mathura stood defaced and humiliated.
What a stark contrast.
The Moti masjid adjacent to the place of the birth of Lord Krishna tells the whole story.
Mathura is one of the holiest place for the Hindus and destruction of the temple their amounted to the humiliation of the whole Hindu community.Though I will never advocate the forcible removal of the mosque from there ,but I strongly feel that it would be good if the Masjid is removed from that place by Muslims themselves. By now u must be thinking that I share the views of like of Praveen Togadia and company. But the fact is that my views are not guided by some religious jeleosity or madness. I am advocating what is right for India's future ,our future.
From the time when Mahmud Ghazni started plundering of Hindu temples( for whatever reasons) till the death of the great tyrant Aurangzeb, Hindu temples have been razed to ground . Throughout this Islamic rule over a Hindu India ,the rulers made it a point to suppress the Hindus( again for whatever reasons).This treatment of Hindus has created a rift between the Hindu and the Muslim community.The communal tension which we see nowadays is not a result of the actions of some Narendra Modi or RSS but is a direct result of the bad blood which has always existed between the two religions in India. The Muslim rulers had scant regard for the religious sentiments of others.Now I don't want to discuss the crimes perpetrated by the rulers.If u are ignorant about history then please refer to some good history book( but not those written by some communist).The names of Babur and Aurangzeb should find a special place in this discussion.Their acts have made a scar on the Hindu mindset which will not go easily. The destruction of the Ram temple by Babur and the cruel rule of the great Aurangzeb altered the mindset of the Indian society for ever. Somnath temple was destroyed and rebuilt six times in a span of 700 hundred years.No community however peaceful can tolerate such deliberate humiliation of their Gods. Ayodhya and Mathura are to Hindus what Mecca and Medina are to Muslims. Can a Muslim( no matter how tolerant he is) sit quite if same treatment is meted out to their religious places by say...United States of America. They are making such a hue and cry over the hanging of Saddam Hussein.The protest is not because Saddam Hussein was innocent but because he has been hanged by an aggressor of some other religion. The whole Islamic umah was up in arms when one newspaper printed a photograph of The Prophet .And when it comes to respecting others sentiments they destroy the Bamiyan , The Somnath ,The Ram Mandir and kill innocent people in Sudan and single out non Muslims for ill treatment in Afghanistan and so on.
The point is that why should Muslims themselves dismantle the mosques in Mathura and Kashi.I am not a religious person but still I strongly feel that those two places rightly belong to the Hindus. The whole foundation of religion is based on belief and my Muslim brothers too would agree with me on this point.Hence if Hindus have the strong belief over these place then it makes those places important for them.As I said earlier those places are the most holy sites in the Hindu religion.But whats the importance of those two mosques for the Muslims. They are like any other place of worship for them. Mecca is special for Muslims because they believe that Prophet was born there.But like Hindus they too believe that god is every where.Hence even if the mosques at those two places are shifted to some nearby places then it would not make much difference for them. But for Hindus it would mean finally getting a place where they can worship their god in the place of his birth.
Politically it will have far reaching change on our society. The Hindu hardliners will be left powerless without an issue .
But the most important thing would be undoing the some misdeeds of our past rulers like Babur and Aurangzeb. It could begin the process of heeling of the wound of Hindu psychology. A wound which has there since past many century and threatens to create problems for our future and India stability.
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