It was that time of the day when the Sun was scorching on the Earth's surface at the industry I was training in. As all hungry stomachs summoned for an afternoon meal to energize for work on other side of noon, labours were all in a hurry to grab their plate of food. That was when I noticed a daily-waged labour spot a 20 rupee note dropped by someone who probably had it to buy his food. For a man who earned Rs 120 a day as wages, it must have meant a lot. To my surprise, though, that wasn't going to his kitty. He had decided to defer his stomach's food demands for a while to find the man who had dropped it.
For a while, I lost myself in thoughts to gauge the reason behind the integrity of the man. To be certain, I called him over, to put forth the same as a question to him. He just had a line in reply, "God wouldn't have kept me happy if I had kept this money for me".
It hit me hard on what 'God' meant to each soul. GOD meant, through religion, to propagate truth and love than to give precedence to selfish motives. This instance had helped me become so sure that 'religion' had achieved what it had set out to, in most cases than not.
"Civilization is a struggle to keep ones' self control" goes a proverb. How would our world look like when none keeps their self control? To put into simple words, it will be like an hell on Earth. When cultures had began to civilize, to help frame the rules of the society, brought in the concept of Religion. Under Religion, they described what is Good and Bad. In other words, what is Godliness and Evilness. They knew in order to control one's self, they needed the seed of either 'Love' or 'Fear'. GOD came into existence.
They preached GOD was a symbol of 'Love' to people who did good and a symbol of 'Fear' to the people who did evil. Needless to say, different civilizations had different places of origin and hence different Religions leading to different forms of God. All was well, until the good and the bad line was distinct and not blurred. Thanks to atheists and the fights among religions on who's God is superior, in the later centuries, which have now blurred it.
Religion is the best gift mankind has. One needs to be religious as much as possible, complying to each of their religion's philosophies to be a 'good' person. I personally define a 'good' person as one who spreads love and tries his best not to hurt any other human's feelings. And I am sure that is exactly what each religion preaches.
All good things bring along their share of negativism. Like technology, Religion was no exception to 'nothing comes without its shares of problems'.
With Religion, it was being a case to money making for some sections of the society.The numbers of the religion based money-makers are ever on the raise with gurus, fortune-tellers and worship-place money seekers in various forms. That has ruined the authenticity of religions. That has made people,youth especially, to turn a blind eye on religion or has lead them to understand religion in the wrong way. That has only led to further blurring the line of what is good and what is not, doing no good to the society's civilized functioning. It sure needs to be addressed in the society. The best way to address it would be to propagate religion in the right way bringing up its true motive which is to preach goodness and divinity, especially to young minds. However, the heartening fact now remains, as I inferred with the little example of my daily-waged labour colleague, Religion has had relative success emphasizing that its positives outnumber the negatives.
I thought I would do my bit to promote 'Goodness in the form of religion' through this blog. If this blog is helpful in propagating to the society that, religion is not just about going to worship places and offering prayers but more about 'DOING GOOD and BEING GOOD', this blog's and my purpose are achieved.
Be Religious; Find the GOD in you and turn Godly,
Regards and cheers!!!
nagappstheblogger
