Creation

Continuing my thought process of unconvinced. All these days I have been searching for something. Frantically, eagerly. Do you call it pursuit of truth, or of ultimate reality? Or search for meaning - of life, of existence? Or it is just a way to fill the long hours of dull days. 

I looked into Upanishads, into Bhagavadgita. Tried to make sense of them, by understanding them - their language and their tone and hidden meanings. Unsuccessfully. 

Now here it is. Something I can understand and to a large extent agree with. From one of the greatest thinkers of our country - Jiddu Krishnmurthy. 

Here is the search for egotistic security, certainty, through what we call religion. You like fondly to believe that divine beings have created these organized forms of belief which we call religions. You yourself have created them for your own convenience; through ages they have become santified, and you have now become enslaved by them. There can never be deal religions...
 

In your search for that security, fear is born, and so you submit yourself to another who promises you that immortality. Through fear you create a spiritual authority, and to administer that authority there are priests who exploit you through belief, dogma, and creed, through show, pomp, and pageantry, which throughout the world is called religion. It is essentially based on fear, though you may call it the love of God or truth. It is, if you examine it intelligently, nothing but the result of fear, and therefore it must become one of the means of exploiting man. Through your own desire for immortality, for selfish continuance, you have built this illusion which you call religion.

 

We all know this truth - it is evident. That man created Gods and religions. But we convince ourselves that God created man and this universe. Because the latter belief is more promising. It gives us an idea to hold onto, and a solace. 

How many Gods 

We all agree on some basic facts. Like there is one sun. And there are many stars. But do we agree on number of God/s? Is there one God, 3 Gods or three thousand of them. 

Here is what Krishnamurthy writes.

 In Buddhism there is no God; in Hinduism somebody calculated that there are about three
hundred thousand gods—that’s rather fun, you can choose whichever God you like. In
Christianity and Islam there is only one God, based on two books, the Bible and the Koran. So
religions have divided man. Just as nationalism has divided man, so has religious ardor. 

Thou shalt not kill 

And the worst part is - though all religions say it is sin to kill, people kill one another in the name of religion. The religion which was supposed to protect is becoming the cause of deaths - hundreds and thousands of deaths. And this has been going on for thousands of years.