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How is it better or different, if one religion worships stones and the other throws stones at the stones? The idea is the same, if you believe in one you have to believe in the other. If you say I am throwing stones at the Devil, it may be a tradition and customary, but you have to look at the traditions and customs with critical eyes because things are changing rapidly – just look at the cell phone in your pocket. I don’t want to break the stones of faith with my pen, but sure I want to break the ideologies make that individuals so inferior, small, insignificant and brainwashed that he/she is willing to kill even the innocents over the customs and traditions of their faith.
If you violate the rules of spirituality and human rights just because your ancestors said so, you don’t have to carry on following the same injustice. If you are unable or unwilling to change, that means you are not evolving with the times, even if you have been changing in all other areas of your life. From your cars to cell phones to the medicine you take for diabetes or mental health issues are the clear examples of you changing and evolving, but you can’t change or amend anything related to your belonging religions. I personally believe that one fundamental thing has to change in all the faith systems in the name of spirituality. That is the politics of prejudice, which is quite damming for equality and human rights. That our religion is the better and complete way to God. That you can’t go to heaven unless you choose our religion. These statements are one of the fundamental cause of our wars and spiritual crimes. Thus all religions need change even if it is hard to change these constitutions, but it is the responsibility of the religious leaders to come out and speak for the human rights and spirituality instead of the politics. Our religion is better than all the others is a political statement which needs some amendments according to the needs of the time.
Today’s news says that the conservatives are dropping the policy to stand against the gay marriage. Sure it is politics, after all it is a political party so what do you expect. You just can’t stand a chance to stay in the archaic ways of governing and get elected unless you lie. If people don’t change, they are left behind – simple and straightforward. You just can’t have the human rights in the constitution and violate them with your political policies. You would be challenged in the court and as you have seen conservatives tried several times at different issues to stand against the justice system and failed.
I will try to make my case for the need of the individual to evolve in all areas of life simultaneously, because if we stray from the truth as an individual, we are going to face the spiritual dilemma sooner or later. Human rights are directly involved with the truth and spirituality. As soon as a religion steps away from the spirituality they end up in the zone of politics where the human rights are violated.
In Islam its said that if you kill one innocent human being it is equalling to killing the whole humanity. Now just look around the world and see how many innocent people have been killed by the terrorist attacks and bombings. Where do governments and terrorist leaders find the politics to justify that?
There is capital punishment for the innocents just because you belong to certain group we are at war with. No trial is needed. You are guilty by association. If you are a child, too bad – you are collateral damage. How the hell did we fall that low? Here we are all evolved and working against capital punishment for murderers, just because there is a chance of executing an innocent individual, yet indiscriminate bombing from both sides is justified.
Now you look back at the history of religions and see how many people have been killed in the name of God? There is no way any one can even tally that. Our politics has taken all religions hostage and wreaked havoc for the innocent human individuals. As the religious people say God will punish you by putting you in hell, I whole heartedly disagree with that because if God was the one who was punishing, God would have started with the religious people first because of their egoistic extreme.
Now it is up to us as an individual to learn from our evolution and step into the next level. This next level is crucial for our coming generations because we may not exist. By becoming a CEO of our lives as an individual we may have to cross the lines of our sense of belonging, that means as the populations change they are going to go through a lot of discomfort and unrest, which has been happening all over the world. This is the price human individuals have to pay for the growth because it does not come easy.
Did you ever see a cat trying to catch a laser beam? I was playing with my daughter’s cat and that triggered my thought process for this article. As human beings we play and are entertained with it, but a cat lacks the comprehension of it so it tries to chase it without the success. Hypothetically speaking, now imagine there are two cats or three or more and they get into real fight over the laser beam. You on the other hand are amused by the lack of understanding of the cats. Now imagine someone shaking his or her head over us killing each other regardless of our comprehension or understanding of God.
Just picture yourself like the cats running around chasing something you don’t really understand and get into fight and kill each other over the laser beam. For cats the laser beam is a reality to chase and for us God is that laser beam, there is nothing wrong in believing something beyond our understanding. But when you start to kill each other over God or your belief systems, it makes you less evolved than the cat. God is in the vicinity of the laser, thus fighting over it is fighting over the assumptions. As we evolve we will understand more. Just like we know more about lasers than the cats, we may know more about God as well, as we evolve. But until then we should keep our sense of belonging in check.
Logically speaking God, law and order, ethics, and morals are all closely related with the full stomach, if you blame the individual’s Devilish acts, judging and punishing him/her is an easy way out, or it a the politics of black and white. This blame has long tentacles, they reach deep into our past as well as current governing systems.
If we have had a system set up with ethics, morals, religious beliefs and even our justice system of law and order, which allows world’s resources end up in the hands of one percent of the population, there is some thing wrong in the core of the system. There is no one individual to blame but there is a lot to point towards the system which works against the human nature. Naturally we all are aware of our mortality, spiritually speaking we should live this life as a temporary being, which logically should make us humble and nice to each other, yet it has gone totally the opposite way. The more insecure we feel the more we hoard and compile our savings. The charities dry up with the individual’s personal insecurities.
Personally I would suggest a poverty and health tax on all sales in all over the world, I know I am thinking as an idealist but spiritually speaking if we are honest and want the planet and its residence to be healthy with the full stomachs and the same purpose of life we can have less crimes and disease of all kind. The problem is the sense of belonging, it has been with our belonging groups, nations and religions, if we shift it and belong to the humanity as a whole, we can change the whole picture even the predictions of our holy books.
There use to be the a time, religious people whom thrown innocent virgins as an offerings to God, and the sati a tradition in India, where the widow had to be burnt alive with the dead body of her husband. We came long way but we still throw stones at the stones and even worship the stones. We have to fix our personal problems by taking individual responsibilities, hiding behind religious tradition and customs to blame the Devil outside is pure politics of you, you do the deed and blame the devil or even God. When we start to take our responsibilities as a CEO we know deep inside whom to blame.
It is all about the education, education and education of spirituality, not about the business or the political side of the religion. It is all about the individual whom takes charge of his/her own actions, puts everything as a department of life. Yes even sense of belonging, God, Devil, religions, society and family they all are departments of a CEO’s life. He/she has to juggle through all the departments of life to run the show, you are not the least important you are the most important figure in your life.
If you feel you are not up to the task, you undermine the CEO in side of you. Your potential has been tainted by the education you have received, your feelings of inferiority stem from the sense of belonging to a group. When you join spirituality instead of one particular religion you start to look at yourself directly connected to the entity above and beyond all the human groups. Your present comprehension has been, is and will be kept down unless you start to seek your own melody, it will not only be good for you individually but it will be good for the humanity around you as well.
If you seek for something what’s missing in your life and you end up in any one particular religion, you actually are seeking spirituality but you may end up buy into the politics of sense of belonging. Every religion promises heaven to suck you into their political business. There is a clear and present danger of you losing your identity. If you are seeking that already means you need guidance, but the guidance of what?
Your goal is and should be spirituality, if you are trying to secure your self physically, you may end up losing your spirituality. I don’t claim that religions can’t provide you with the spirituality but depending on the level of your vulnerabilities and personal emotional insecurities, you could end up being used politically, so its your responsibility to be a CEO who understands the politics of the sense of belonging.
If you can remove the politics of sense of belonging, you automatically will find what you have been looking for. For instance if you are born into a Muslim family, you are Muslim by birth, same goes for all other religions. If you think that your religion is better than all the others without the understanding or any research, you made that judgement because of the sense of belonging. If you are able to remove that judgement you already are in the spiritual zone. Number one you are assessing the right and wrong, two you are able to respect others as human beings as well.
I believe if you are born into any religion you don’t have to change and no one should be able to force you to change your religion because it is not about the sense of belonging to a group it is all about the spirituality, God and humanity. Spirituality is like an internet, and religions are like computers plugged into the internet. Internet and spirituality have no boundaries and they carry infinite potential.
If you feel too insignificant, its not the vastness of the boundary less internet or spirituality its what you feel inside. If you feel weak and vulnerable inside it is because you have bought into the education you have been provided and exposed to. It is like you only know the one computer without the connection to the internet or a pond with the boundaries.
You may feel little bigger and important in small settings like religions and nations but in reality you carry a space and even God with in you. Just start to look at yourself a little deeper, and see how do you function and who do you think you really are? how you have progressed to figure out the paths of the storms and how you can fly into the space without the wings, swim in the depth of the oceans without the gills and dig deeper into the earth further than any creature without the claws. If you still don’t get it, look at your ability to see the space out side of you and baby inside of you without ripping yourself open, you understand the infections, live twice as long as you did in the past and communicate with each other like magic.
If you can understand yourself to the point that you know the reasons behind your free will and the triangle of God Devil and you, you will find yourself in a different world. Where you respect yourself as part of the God whom can’t be bribed, promised or manipulated by the fear of hell.
Join and stick to only spiritual part of your religions understand the politics of the sense of belonging then and only then you will be able to find the inner and outer peace. If you buy into the politics, you will end up in the philosophy of the carrot and stick which works for the physical beings only. We are spiritual as well, thus that philosophy is wrong for the evolved individuals. You pray to God not because of the fear of hell, you simply reciprocate which is practical prayers, useful to God, you and the humanity simultaneously. If you pray or fast for the greed of heaven, first of all you are taking away from the reciprocation which is your duty, second you are spiritually unaware of the whole picture and the purpose of your life.
There is a difference in worshiping, praying and reciprocating at the equal footings. It is up to you to know where do you stand. You are insignificant and born sinner or you are the third equation choose your education. Feel what is right for you and know who you really are a physical body or part of the God’s body the answer is within you, so seek within you. Your education may not be taking you to the right direction so choose and use your free will and the status of a CEO, which you have been granted but you have sold it, in the name of personal security and control which you have non because of your mortality.