- Jay Morzaria.
- free_me_jay@yahoo.com
We all believe in God, don’t we?? Yes, even I do. I also
believe that God is everywhere. That he is omnipresent. But I still don’t find him in idols, I don’t
really know his name, I don’t see him in temples, I don’t have prayers to offer
him.
Yeah, you must be thinking “What kind of God is this??” Is
this some new trick?? A new guru?? A new
religion? An atheist group? Well to calm you, I will just say that this is none
of the above. Then what is it?
The answer: It is just a view-point.
Many of us try finding God throughout life. We believe in
various stories about Him, but have never really witnessed. It hence becomes
difficult to believe in the concept of God at times. It becomes difficult to
believe in Him especially during times of distraught and disaster. Why? Because
God is supposed to help us during such times, but still there is not even a
remote sign of any help from his side!
And then we had Paresh Rawal in “Oh My God!” and his
brilliant arguments against God to further deepen our doubts about the concept
of God.
Hence, I went ahead and tried to make my own new God. Waise
bhi, we have 33 million Gods in India. Ekaada aur daal diya to kya farak
padega?? And by God’s grace, if my new God becomes a hit, I will be a baba with
a BMW!!!
I tried experimenting a lot, toying around with the idea of
my own new customized God. I tried to imagine his face, his structure, his
ideology, his background etc. But alas, I failed! I was surprised with myself,
for being from media field, I ought to be creative!!
After failing to imagine a God, I tried to believe in the
existing ones. All of them were great,
with great stories to support them, great devotees and great ideologies! Hence
I was confused, whom should I believe in? What should I believe in? Hinduism?
Islam? Christanity? Or something else?
I couldn’t just casually decide what I was supposed to
believe in…hence I explored most of them, just to find out one brutal fact. The
Fact was that whatever religion it was, whatever sect I explored had been
corrupted by people over time. There were some stupid superstitions, some
impractical hopes, some false ideas that people had for God.
I came back home disappointed, for I had no God to believe
in. I couldn’t find something pure, something incorruptible! Was I an atheist?
No. Not at all! If I were one, why would I try knowing about all these
religions, all these sects, their concept of God, their culture? It was at this
precise moment, that I got my God. My new God. It was knowledge.
It was knowledge for it helped me to know about these
religions, the people and their culture. It was knowledge that helped me to
distinguish between right and wrong. It is when I tried to get knowledge from
various people, books, websites etc. that I progressed in my life. I looked
back at my life, and was not surprised to find out that whenever I had been
open enough to get some knowledge of the mistakes I had made, my life had
improved.
Whenever I got stuck in life, the knowledge of that situation
was something that helped me to move forward. I have enough freedom to get
whatever kind of knowledge I want. I also have the freedom to use it the way I
want. I can always create knowledge by my actions or my words, but simply
cannot destroy it!
And yes, I definitely can’t corrupt it! I cannot ask science
students to feed a glass of milk to their chemistry books everyday to pass in
their chemistry exams, I cannot ask commerce students to light a candle before
their accounts books to clear their accounts, nor can I ask arts students to
decorate their history books with chaddars to make them by-heart world history!
But yes, I can just tell them one thing- “learn learn to learn!”
As I said in the beginning, I still do believe that God is
everywhere. It is because, knowledge is everywhere!
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- The author is the CEO and Founder of Freak and the views mentioned by him are personal.
I see you're tending towards atheism. Good article.
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