I think I am very stubborn (and I know you will agree with me!) I refuse to accept things when they are first told and have to disprove myself to believe in them wholly. Fortunately, this also means, that the few times when I cannot disprove myself, I stumble across some very good things.
This relates between me and God...me and my faith.
When you have a lotta time on your hands and are unemployed, you are forced to think about God. Everyone I meet, tells me to keep the faith, that there is a bigger plan for me...That God works in silent ways and eventually it boils down to advice that says I should go to a certain temple and pay my respects there...and that got me thinking.
My search for God or any trace of Him (I will not say Her...it doesn't friggin matter. It's a way you refer to God, grammatically. Nothing sexist about it. I know it rubs the wrong way with the women but deal with it.) My search, has always been circled in the search of a lack of reason to believe in the existence of God. I'd like to make it clear that I am a firm believer in His existence but to me, God must be infallible, omni-present, unbiased, untouched, unseen, unheard. I do not agree with the philosophy of worshiping a single deity. Over a period of time, I think I have come to believe, we humans look up to immortal deeds and actions of mere mortals. Over time, their works are glorified and revered to the extent of being worshiped! History seems to smudge any distinction between fact and fiction over a period of time. I do sincerely feel, worship is an over-exemplified glorification of humans no different from you and me. The definition of God, to the best of this human's understanding, is unbiased, infallible, omni-present, unheard, unspoken, unseen, untouched and yet acknowledged, revered and maybe even feared...to me, the only known entity that fits the definition is TIME. No one though, seems to worship time.
Then again, maybe it's just a form of tangent thought that I wanna play with since no one else seems to share it!
5 comments:
as idols are created and worshipped to refer to the almighty(assuming one exists), so is time created. Time gives a window in this endless, everflowing proceedings of natural phenomena, helping one to gauge something. Pondering over this endless, never-ending phenomenon is amusing as well as a bit scary.
So Time is like idols in natural phenomenon parlance.
PS: I really like pondering over this TIME-GOD discussions ...Though at the end it feels like an intangible thought. :)
everyone on in life must really come across this question.. does god exists.. n i m glad u came across this.. but u know wht.. i m a grt n firm believer in god.. i think god is a positive energy.. that surrounds us... he does not need to be worshiped in a temple.. just keep him in ur heart.. i think that by believeing in god we incorporate a positive feeling.. an aura that guides us to diffrentiate between the right n wrong.. i believe god is in everyone.. whts wrong in believeing in all this if it does all gud to us..
i m not a complete believer in god.. but i aint an atheist too.. i just think there is no harm in beleeving in god.. everyday a single prayer.. does only gud to us.. no harm.. on other part i hate the way some poepl do stupid things on the name of god.. like spending too much money on rituals.. n all illlogical things...
@Anirudh:> Yup...I thought of the same too...that's why I didnt say time was GOD. Long ago had I given up ascribing form to God. There isn't a need...it's a matter of belief. Whether or not we accept his existence is a matter of our own personal struggles with ourself.
It isn't an intangible thought. It's a little too heavy for us to comprehend with our limited understanding and our very limited intelligence. TIME and GOD...I like being overwhelmed by the thought, makes me realise the incredible nature of life as we know it.
@Riya:> Does God exist? Hmmm...I've never quite questioned his existence. It's a line of thought that is beyond my levels of intelligence to argue. I can neither prove nor disprove his existence. I like believing in the fact that for the inexplicable reasons that I have been given this life, I must live it to the fullest. I am grateful to everything that precedes me which has built up to bring me here and now.
The illogical methods of others, neither do I approve or disprove. To each their own...I'm happy as long as what they believe in, is not forced upon the others and does not harm the others. Live and let live...
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