When you’ve learnt to
really care, the noises and gestures cease to matter. The slogans sound absurd. Rhetoric is out of place. Any god is okay as long as the god supports
the wellbeing of everyone around.
If your god and creed
become a cause for even one person’s sorrow, be assured that the god is false,
the creed is false. If your prayers don’t
envelope the entire world around you, they are mere longings of a selfish
creature even if they are addressed to a god and follow the formulas prescribed
by a creed.
When the tree becomes a
mystery, the shower a revelation, and each person out there a spark of
divinity, you don’t need temples to worship.
Rather the gods will fold their hands before you in respect. And your heart overflows with humility.
Death need not be the
end. Death need not be a transit to hell or heaven or any such place. Death can be a fulfilment, the fulfilment of
your real self without the layers put on it by gods and creeds and their
agents.
PS. Inspired largely by Dag Hammarskjöld
Does it mean that real self want to die out of the burden imposed by the Gods and its people?
ReplyDeleteOr does it mean that death is the symbolism for enlightenment which only Buddha got?
Neither. It means that for a person who has lived a life self-fulfilment, death is not a tragedy but the natural culmination.
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