I am going to start this one, with the quote of (KABIR).
and I “Quote”
“THE DROP IN THE OCEAN, EVERY BODY KNOWS, THE OCEAN IN THE DROP, A RARE ONE DOES”. (END QUOTE).
If you look at the human being spiritually, you will find that each and everyone of us, is the one who is an ocean and even space containing vassal. This incredible machine has been undermined not only by the political belonging groups but by the individual him/herself as well. This phenomenon has been able to come up with the mathematically correct scientific facts, like going to the space without having the wings and looking in the future to understand global warming, predicting the path of storms to save lives instead of sacrificing to please God. We came long way and it is only a beginning.
If you as an individual, feel insecure it is not because of who you are, but it is because who you have been made into. If you whole heartedly accept your mortality and believe in God, you lose all the fears and the realated insecurities simultaneously, thus become the spiritual being or an entity whom contain God with in.
It does not matter where on earth you are born or live, if you pass the test of being a human you have to be a first class citizen of the planet. The present day circumstances of humanity inspires me to state the truth according to the best of my knowledge.
Lets start with India, if you are a Hindu, nationalist and or protectionist you may think Kashmir is part of India yet India itself is a place where a whole lot of nationalities and religions live together, thus everyone of them is a first class citizen so if someone is treated as a second class citizen, it is against the equal human rights thus the conflicts is political not spiritual. Same goes to Israel, if Palestinians are second class citizens it is against the equal human rights, If you are Shias or Sunnis, and are fighting and killing each other for more than a thousand year over a political war and you are still going at it, you are prejudice and don’t believe in equal human rights thus need to get with the time. These conflicts have nothing to do with spiritual side of the religions and a matter of fact no killing is spiritual. And yes even if it is called from the religious leaders, it is all about the politics of sense of belonging and love loss.
Love loss is one of the biggest dead dog of the problem, (Read Dead Dog) it is perpetual and constant component of our conflicts, contributing to, or stocking the fire of hatred and killings. It is not going to stop by the political or religious leaders, because they are the cause of our passionate religious wars. It has to come from the individual him/herself, thus from the bottom up. If each and everyone of us start to question the politics of our belonging groups and stop feeding the conflicts with emotional fire, there is a chance to have peace on earth, but before it happens the individual has to become a computer runner, yes not a computer or the data.
Every single one of us is born as a computer runner with a gift of brand new computer. Our families, communities, nations and religions start to install data in us as our education and expect us to take the identity of installed data. For instance if you are born as a Sikh, the elders want you to grow beard don’t cut your hair and become a Sikh, if you are born into a Muslim family you are expected to go to mosque and pray five times a day, believe in God Prophet Mohammad and follow everything what has been said fifteen hundreds years ago. If you are Born Christian you are taught to believe in Jesus as a son of God and whatever he had said two thousands years ago and so on. This is all education and education for an evolving human being is nothing more than a data. The real identity is not even the computer itself, it the person whom gets a name after birth is the computer runner. This human being whom lives in a body which is a computer, accepts the knowledge as data thus him/herself is more than the computer and the data. This spiritual entity whom takes a physical form at birth can be called a human being, but question is, what is that spiritual entity?. Since as an individual with the single body which has limitations and mortality we don’t feel strong and able we tend to gather and feel strength in numbers our logic has been twisted with our politics of sense of belonging to a group yet it is one whole big entity or an organism whom you can call it God or source. Just like our cells die and are being produced in our body, we as an individual go through with the same thing to part of the body of God. Now that is the identity of the entity but when, why and how did the individual lost that identity? If you as an individual can come out of the sense of belonging to your belonging group and join the humanity as a whole you can easily feel the connection and understanding what and who you are.
All human knowledge has been, is and will be, in an evolutionary process until we reach our God given potential, until then we have been, are and will be proven wrong over and over regardless of our love and strong sense of belonging to our belonging groups.
If you have passed a genetic test to be a human being, you are not just a computer but a computer runner meaning you are a spiritual entity and a physical being simultaneously, you are above all the education and the data you have been installed with so if you demote yourself or reduce yourself to just the data you will choose extreme and will be passionate about your existing knowledge yet logically you are an evolving entity, if you don’t believe me just look around and see all the progress human beings have made.
When you fall victim of the politics of sense of belonging or become enraged because of the love loss you let the data become your identity. This is where you become a drop in the ocean, a common knowledge yet you are the computer runner the one who is spiritually aware and carry’s an ocean and even the space within. I wrote a blog a while back titled five bucks, (Read Five bucks) That fiver is the ocean and even the space, yet it had been ignored by the human populations and even the individual him/herself.
I whole heartedly believe, if that fiver disappears, the number turns out to be a zero, so regardless of what God possesses, becomes insignificant, thus human individual is the ocean in a drop. If you feel insignificant it is not because of God it is because of the data you have received. Your feelings of being insignificant have everything to do with your out of control politics of sense of belonging to your belonging group. Every religion nation and ism of human population promotes the weakness of the individual so he/she can be controlled. In Christianity some even preach that you even are a born sinner, what does it do to one’s self-esteem? Contrary to that, try, test and taste belonging to humanity as a whole, live and let live with equal human rights, then and only then you will feel your importance and know deep inside directly connected to the source.
The problem is our data we collect right from the get go, just look at the education systems of our nations, every school in the world gives first education as religion and nationalism and each group promotes that their way of living, whether its traditions, customs, way of governing or worshiping is better than everyone else in the world. This is the foundational cause of the prejudice thus an out dated political propaganda. Even religions are connected to the politics of belonging groups, yet they should be the path to spirituality, God and humanity as a whole.
I blame and believe our group politics is causing chaos for God, humanity and spirituality, picture your self as being a cell in the functioning human body, where the brain says I am the one who is keeping the body alive and functioning, it appears that way but not quite. Heart jumps in and says but I supply you the life giving blood so I am the most important one, then lungs get in and say but I give you the oxygen so without me you can’t survive, liver and kidneys jump in and say at the same time we clean you up so without that you can’t function, by then colon had enough and says you are all full of shit, I am the one supplying you the nutrition, so the arms and legs complain that they don’t like to live in this bickering and chaos. This has been, is and will be the status of humanity for a long time unless we put our shit together and learn we need each other to create a functioning body. Whether you believe in God or not, male or female, gay, straight, black, white, brown, yellow, or belong to any nation or religion is not as important being a human being is more important.
Sure God exists, but how the existence carry’s on and becomes useful to the humanity? To find the answer to this question, is an individual’s personal responsibility, rather than what we have been taught, told.
If an individual is playing a role in God’s work, then why don’t we want to accept and understand that? The answer to this is not in the religions but is in spirituality, because as a group we use our politics to use God. Since the individual is blinded by the political strength of the sense of belonging, he/she can’t see clearly, so the problem is in the individual’s personal belief system.
When you stray from the spirituality and become a follower of the political arm of the religions you don’t want to question any knowledge, because you have been told that these words are God’s words. Yet human being is an evolving entity, and the proof is in the pudding just look around, where we were, where we are today and where we are going?. Nothing is same except the religious extreme.
If you believe in God without a doubt, you accept and continue believing in God’s will or God forbid you stop punishing people and not to listen to the Mullahs or the Priests. If you believe in evolution equally in all departments of life, the existing knowledge is the stepping stone for our future and yes it has been that way from the beginning yet the politics of religions is still able to get us to kill each other over it. It is because we start to believe in our religious knowledge egotistically and we separate ourselves from God and humanity as an individual.
As a mortal being you just can’t afford to sacrifice happiness over something you are going to leave behind. When you make a mole into a mountain for yourself and fall victim to being self destructive, you have a duty to take charge and become a CEO of your life so you can rule all the departments including the sense of belonging to your nations or even religions, because half knowledge is a dangerous thing for a human being. It does, not only ruin you mentally and spiritually, it has the potential to rob you of happiness and health as well. Without the health and happiness nothing is successful, and yes even if it is your religious belief.
Since the spirituality is a reality of God, whom exists regardless of the political boundaries of the religions. I believe human being is the cause an effect of every thing good and bad is done in nature of living, but he/she can’t even move a finger or even breath without the help of the nature either. For instance oxygen is not in anyone’s control and nothing gets done by the human being, if he/she is dead, so God’s work is done by the living human beings and that is why people have different paths some on the bad to make people realize what good is and the good to realize what bad is, does this mean human chooses to be good and bad? yes it is ingrained with in all of us with the ability to choose. If you go in the core you will have a divided triangle, spiritual being and the physical being, since we are encased with three kind of love, passionate love, instinctive love and universal love, we fall victim when we are robbed of any kind of love so whatever is dominating within the individual would come out.
Some time we want to stay on the same path while the changes are coming from God, so the discussion of how much say do we really have begins. It is too simple to say that God does not exist, so some don’t want to strain their brains yet as a mortal individual its our duty to figure out the way to live this temporary life with some happiness and contentment, and that can’t be done without having a belief system. A belief system helps us to know the balance and responsibility to reciprocate during our visit. You can disregard the existence of God but how would you disregard your personal decency related to the spiritual side which helps you to help others while you exist.
This, how much can be confusing, so don’t make a mole into a mountain, because it will suck the life out of you regardless of your belief system. For instance cultural traditions, trends, customs, and even religious duties have the potential to rob you, of happiness and contentment, so in the end of the day, the responsibilities of the mortal life is on the shoulders of the beholder.
Adding happiness and contentment is fundamentally crucial and is a personal responsibility of the individual because of the mortality, so value yourself because you are the one who carries God with in or I should say the ocean, space and everything in-between. You are not a born sinner, nor you are insignificant, so don’t become a sacrificial lamb for any tradition custom or politically charged religious wars.
You have a direct connection to the source, that is why you are alive and if you help others in any way, even if you get paid you are keeping God’s physical world running. If you are a Mullah or a Priest sure you are helping others but preaching prejudice can lead some one to commit spiritual crimes so be the man or woman of God whom is for all mankind or humanity equally not for the chosen few. This selection has nothing to do with spirituality it is pure and simple political, so preach all the spirituality you can and strain out the politics out of your belief systems and yes even if it says in Qur’an or Bible because we all have to evolve with our changing times. Plain and simple we just can’t kill each other over a belief system because we are an evolving entity thus our knowledge should evolve with time to keep God’s world working instead of destroying it. Collectively and individually we all have the duty to wipe off the black marks of spiritual crimes committed by our ancestors. We need to clean the face of humanity from the politics of sense of belonging to particular groups, and join hands to join the humanity as a whole so we individually and collectively reach our spiritual potential.