I have come across many people who deduce Religion as fake and misleading and consider it wiser to stay atheists. It leads me to wonder about the grotesqueries of human nature that prompt people of our race to act in this way, to go against the system that designs their wellbeing. It may be inferred that glued to the innermost atom of our subconscious is the inherent desire to disobey any system and consider one to be above all. “Free will”, thats what you call it! It is the supreme emotional energy that bestows us strength to survive simultaneously causes our destruction, making us a rebel to the discipline that keeps us alive.
Before diving to the depth of this issue and understanding the underlying causes let us consider a practical example. If you walk by a place and observe garbage and foul smell, your opinion can come in 2 different proportions; first: “the place is dirty!”, second: “the place has been ‘made’ dirty!”. Both statements imply the same meaning but underlying the statement there is an absolute difference in the narrative. One can sight the difference between a believer and a non-believer through the approach one adopts. A non-believer considers the situation hopeless and disregards the situation in totality reducing chances of any improvisation thereon, whereas a believer takes the onus on himself. This applies to not just religion but on all systems in existence for the benefit of mankind.
Religion is a path, a way of life and each one should have the right to adopt and practice one’s religion. Mostly it is gifted to us by way of our family. Anyone who has not delved deep into his/her religion does not have the right to comment whether the religion is good or bad. Its’ like the example given above, we will attribute the deeds of humans to their religion itself. If a thief wears a stole of a sadhu and commits a crime, it doesn’t imply that Hinduism is criminal. If a Muslim in the name of Allah does wrong, it doesn’t imply that Islam is bad. A criminal is a criminal no matter where and it is a shame they hide behind their religion. A protagonist follower/believer must open his/her mind and try to focus on religion itself rather than criminals and fraudsters hiding behind a religion. Religion is the path to solace for anyone who is forthright in understanding it.
Let us also agree to the inherent fact that fraudsters will always be there hiding in cloths meant for the saints and identifying them has become an almost impossible task. It is the narrowness of our minds that that has multiplied such individuals over time, and unknowingly we can be one of them. It is the teachings fathers and mothers gave to secure own petty interests that multiply the plague in our society. One has to understand the smallest of the deeds done today no matter how miniscule to the universe it may be, will have an impact on the future. Somewhere these energies will accumulate and multiply like a fission reaction.
We all wish to survive and be competitive at the same time and we have become slaves of our own free will. This is the inherent anomaly in our system which makes machines and robots better than humans at all times. We need to program ourselves in the right direction; hence, we need to follow our religion as it is and not as it is interpreted or translated!
