You, Me , God & Religion
There is movie you all know, oh my God!, that movie has a very beautiful message in it. Remember the last scene when Kanji Bhai see the key chain of Lord Krishna in his pocket and it confirms him that God Himself has been with him from so many days. What's the next thing he do. Hold on to it and put it back in his pocket. Then he hears the voice- this feeling is bad when you try to find God in things rather than in good deeds. Keeping the belongings of great men or holy men and worshipping them is the first wrong step toward understanding religion.How many are trying to find God like that.Most of us. Isn't it? Because it seems an easier option. All you have to do is bow in front of a thing which was touched by the holy Self and or a man/woman telling you what to do because they own that holy belonging.
All we are doing is holding on to the belongings and worshipping them. Has anyone try to remember what the Guru himself said. Worshipping Krishna is great but how about trying to understand the message Geeta gives us?
Why not remember the Shabad Guru than having Guru pictures in our houses or Gurudwaras?
Guru from his first sermon onwards told us - Do good deeds, help others, save nature, love nature, love and respect your family.Are we doing that?Not sure about the real message but yes, we have gorgeous gold plated paintings of Guru Ji's and Harmandir sahib. With so much extra added effects of ripples of water and lights. Then we brag how I got this, bought this etc etc.How many kids would have gotten education with that money?How many kids would have gotten clean water and food in their plate?Did the Guru ji any given day told us that make my painting, burn incense sticks on it and pray the way I told you not to?Do we ever stop and think? We are getting indulged in same rituals and wastage the Guru ji told us not to.In today's date we still get into the controversy of how we should prounce or address the Guru ji.
Guru Nanak dev ji or Sri Guru Nanak dev ji or so forth. Why not just call Baba Nanak but do what He taught us.In today's date instead of making our religion heard and seen by all, we still get into controversy of - Khanda has been insulted. Why can't a non Sikh wear a Khanda. Why can't someone get a Shabad tattooed on their body.If body is God's temple then how come getting a tattoo of Khanda or Shabad insults God. Why do we waste our time and energy to prove whose God is better and then waste all the resources as well, which could have helped at least a whole village.Once again.. it all ends at our hypocrisy or starts at our hypocrisy.If someone will be teaching about religion or spirituality first thing people look for is - how does he/she dress up. Is he baptized? Did the Guru said - until you dress up in a certain glamorous way, you can't talk about God?
We are hypocrites. We are doing what our Guru told us not to do and still we are the ones judging others. Seems like the higher the chair in this religious structure, the more corrupt it gets. The more fake it gets. The more politically motivated it gets.Today we are too busy in calling our cities - heritage cities or getting "Sri" or "Sahib" with their names but when you enter the cities- the first thing you see is garbage everywhere. Mess. Poverty.Fights. Foul language. Women getting abused. Kids getting bullied. Thefts. The first motive should be making a city clean city if we consider it holy. Just changing its name isn't enough. Change the people. Teach the people better things. Educate them. Provide them with choices and chances. Just spending the tax money in changing the name and banner isn't enough. Spend that money on the children and their education.There are some political ideologies which compared religion to Opium but even those ideologies failed.Religion is the base of humanity.Why can't religion be our strength rather than be the weakness.
All we are doing is holding on to the belongings and worshipping them. Has anyone try to remember what the Guru himself said. Worshipping Krishna is great but how about trying to understand the message Geeta gives us?
Why not remember the Shabad Guru than having Guru pictures in our houses or Gurudwaras?
Guru from his first sermon onwards told us - Do good deeds, help others, save nature, love nature, love and respect your family.Are we doing that?Not sure about the real message but yes, we have gorgeous gold plated paintings of Guru Ji's and Harmandir sahib. With so much extra added effects of ripples of water and lights. Then we brag how I got this, bought this etc etc.How many kids would have gotten education with that money?How many kids would have gotten clean water and food in their plate?Did the Guru ji any given day told us that make my painting, burn incense sticks on it and pray the way I told you not to?Do we ever stop and think? We are getting indulged in same rituals and wastage the Guru ji told us not to.In today's date we still get into the controversy of how we should prounce or address the Guru ji.
Guru Nanak dev ji or Sri Guru Nanak dev ji or so forth. Why not just call Baba Nanak but do what He taught us.In today's date instead of making our religion heard and seen by all, we still get into controversy of - Khanda has been insulted. Why can't a non Sikh wear a Khanda. Why can't someone get a Shabad tattooed on their body.If body is God's temple then how come getting a tattoo of Khanda or Shabad insults God. Why do we waste our time and energy to prove whose God is better and then waste all the resources as well, which could have helped at least a whole village.Once again.. it all ends at our hypocrisy or starts at our hypocrisy.If someone will be teaching about religion or spirituality first thing people look for is - how does he/she dress up. Is he baptized? Did the Guru said - until you dress up in a certain glamorous way, you can't talk about God?
We are hypocrites. We are doing what our Guru told us not to do and still we are the ones judging others. Seems like the higher the chair in this religious structure, the more corrupt it gets. The more fake it gets. The more politically motivated it gets.Today we are too busy in calling our cities - heritage cities or getting "Sri" or "Sahib" with their names but when you enter the cities- the first thing you see is garbage everywhere. Mess. Poverty.Fights. Foul language. Women getting abused. Kids getting bullied. Thefts. The first motive should be making a city clean city if we consider it holy. Just changing its name isn't enough. Change the people. Teach the people better things. Educate them. Provide them with choices and chances. Just spending the tax money in changing the name and banner isn't enough. Spend that money on the children and their education.There are some political ideologies which compared religion to Opium but even those ideologies failed.Religion is the base of humanity.Why can't religion be our strength rather than be the weakness.