Religious journey….

‘Challa ki labhda firre…’

God is one!! How many times we read in life that all the religions in the world preach the way of god. They teach us how we can attain salvation and make our lives successful. Every believer, be it either Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian, firmly trusts that he will be able to attain his God through the teachings and path shown as per scriptures. But, the point is, have we really understood the teachings in the real sense. We blindly listen to what we are taught without logical thinking, and this is where superstitions and myths develop. All the scriptures, their teachings, and the lessons taught to us always had some logical reasons behind it. Nothing was developed without a thought process. Bhagwat was not recited without any reason. Jesus did not come back without any reason. Every task done by God had reasons behind it. Nature, which is developed through God’s blessing also have deep logic behind every act. Water cycle, replenishment of resources, saltiness of seawater, ozone, temperature, climate and the living world each concept have deep meaning hidden behind their working. We need to understand the concept instead of mugging up just the facts. The scriptures, all around the world, strongly emphasise on inner contentment instead of materialism. We are strongly advised by our religion to seek the path of God through our own happiness. We are part of God himself. We are the drop of that great ocean. ‘Aatma’ came from ‘Paramatma,' that is why it craves for its origins. But we forget the fact that human being is in itself a nomad searching the path to enlightenment. We believe that we know everything because anyone has taught us the way it was. We forget that God has given us conscious to analyze and judge what is right and what is wrong for us. We wander aimlessly here and there without direction, and that is why fail to learn the fact that God is not moving away from us, we are woven in the vicious circle of materiality that do not let us find God. People in earlier ages used to live simpler lives, and that helped them in concentrating themselves towards the inner enlightenment. We are always indulged in the outer world; we never look deep inside our own being. The earthen lamp lights the whole room but is unable to light up the area under its own self. Similarly, we try to master the mother nature through the virtue of our mind, we boast of our knowledge, we feel ourselves the most advanced of all the species but in reality we are also clad with an eternal darkness because our large knowledge never discover the fact that the happiness and contentment that we find through advancement in the areas of science and technology will not land us anywhere. It will, actually grip us harder in materialistic pleasures that will make us further away from Holy Spirit. God is one. . . God is within, the far we move from our own being, the far we get from happiness. The holy door to enlightenment lies within. The greatness of one’s being is not to aimlessly wander listening to all that is being taught, wisdom is in finding a path for own self through one’s own being…