Religiously Spiritual

I strictly don’t want this blog to become an yet another travel blog, just because I travel a lot. So I am not going into the details of the pilgrimage trip, I just made. On the contrary, I would like to throw some light into myself about the complicated state of my religious views. 

As children, most of us all were raised to believe in a non-existent “God”. Sometimes by our parents, sometimes by our grand-parents. That’s how our brain gets programmed at an early age. We were trained to hold our hands together and ask for our wishes with closed eyes, because we can’t see the God; We can only feel him! (we were told so and so we believed). Some knelt down on their knees and looked up with open arms. Others knelt down with closed arms and lighted a candle. 

And as years passed, this formed a new neuronal circuit in our brains, such that whenever we enter a temple, our hands assumed their position without any regulation, like an automated machinery. It became a routine and we became the amazing Pavlov’s dogs. 

So how did we come to believe in this miracle called prayer? Because sometimes, they were answered and our faith in “the God” multiplied and sometimes, they weren’t and our doubts in ourselves multiplied in return. The faith in “the God” remained untouched, either way. Its a win-win situation for the religious. 

Ever since I reached this state of “nirvana”, I started defining prayer as an communication to our inner selves (which I paradoxically named it as GOD). So basically, prayer is reinforcing our wishes on a deeper level and getting it done by our power of positive thoughts. This is my philosophy. This doesn’t need a pre-requisite posture or a holy place or embedded scriptures from a holy book. 

Because a well learnt mind cannot accommodate these myths and prophecies in their’s and coexist peacefully. Although, at times of misery and grief, there arises a vacancy in everyone’s mind, which can be easily captured by whatever stupid beliefs comes first to rescue you, on a first come first serve basis.

To conclude, I would like to reflect on an incident during my recent trip to Thirupathy. After almost an hour of waiting in huge halls and passing through numerous security checks(even airports had lesser security checks and allowed mobile phones inside!), we finally entered the inner sanctum of Lord Balaji. A child carried by her mother cheerfully was shown the mesmerizingly decorated stone as God and seek his blessings. The child inquisitively questioned her mother, “but, you said God is present everywhere!”. And the mother had to adjust her reply so that the child’s “belief in God” program doesn't get corrupted. That was a defining moment for a deeper understanding of the human nature. 

Religion helped people in unifying people on a large scale, in the past, undoubtedly. And it still helps in many ways. You cannot imagine the amount of income, the Thirumala Thirupathy Devasthanam generates daily and the employment opportunities it provides for the local people. The same thing can be applied to every religious place across the globe.

Now. I wonder what would happen to all these developments, when everyone suddenly turn spiritual or atheist! Although, such things cannot happen, the possibility  might just throw everything out of balance. The whole system would collapse. Nobody wants that. Hence they keep it delicately hidden and maintain the ecosystem, as the mother who adjusted her child’s belief in God.

I think, I am religiously SPIRITUAL..

What are You?

Share your views in the comment section :)

P.S. Hurting the religious sentiments can gift you a summon, nowadays. But still, Whatever may be, these are my views! I don't intend to trade honesty for any commodity. And there's something called Freedom of expression.