Parth Trivedi

22 April 2010

God. A Blunder.
God, the reason why the first letter in the word that initiates this article is capital, is
merely that its a convention to start a sentence with a capital letter. This was to tell you what
this article is exactly headed to. I rather like it as god, simple, sober, un-glorified and away for
whatever poses a threat to overdo the image of an ambiance so pure in its nature. The
heading itself must have suggested what this humble author of yours is trying to convey and
for many I may appear to be an atheist. Let me put this in the very beginning that I am a
human as normal as anyone reading this in any corner of this self occupied un-heavenly
earth. All I condemn is ideologies, all I refute from is blindness, not helpless blindness but
blindness we all have forced ourselves into. A blindness that has cost us a lot and now seems to
be poised to do the same to our children. I talk of not religion but ideologies; I talk not of the
epics that state but the mindsets that awake a sense that needs to stay asleep, a sense of
achievement of something that, to us has been posed as the reliever of all pain. This sense of
achievement do I call todays GOD and this very sense do I call a blunder. All of us have been
brought up in an environment that makes us addicted towards seeking refuge to a deity that
according to us is a solution to every single situation that seems unsolvable. This is one of the
most pathetic arguments that a tactful escapist can make and the most un-fundamental of all
the reasoning that forms the foundations of our society. All these years we have not just
carried forward, but forged this blunder, more and more. Denser every time it is recalled,
recalled in terms of festivals, events, traditions, or, maybe daily prayers. It has become the
very part and parcel of our living a normal life. The biggest irony of the situation being that,
people refrain from being non-believers just by the fear of the entity that they do not believe.
Today to exist and more importantly to, in true sense, develop and evolve we must give up
sheer faith and resort to pure logic. The aim behind such an audacious statement is just that
the world order at present will not let such beliefs prevail. By saying world order I mean not
the economies or international institutions but the intellect of the people.
One more point that I am drawn to talk about is the human behaviour and attitude and
of how exactly it affects the topic we are focused on. Man has a tendency to form
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speculations, regarding all that happens around him. It is his normal tendency to formulate
reasons to all that occurs or affects his surroundings. This very tendency is what has led to the
formation of what we call rationalism. This very tendency has led to formation of modern
science and reasoning. But the story doesnt end here. We then tried explaining all that is
around us without realising that we were still not equipped enough to do that. This then led
to a frustration amongst us, the frustration that arises within any little kid unable to solve his
puzzles. The attempt to prove mankind above any other organism was ceased when it saw the
incompetence of reasoning for a lot that that was occurring in nature. This very sense of
incompetence led to the formulation of random theories to support the happenings and the
most appropriate theory that cropped up was what we today call GOD. My statements may
seem as another atheist blinded by rationalism trying to devastate all around him that is not
supported by science but think once again. What good have we done to ourselves by
believing? Just created plethora of limitations for thinking beyond the common perception?
All we have created is a dome, a dome of a common mindset. All out of which has been
stated as unearthly, unreal, ominous or any other such adjective created by one of my rival
mates. It is quite evident that we live in a world of presumptions, a world that has always tried
to explain rather than perceive. I agree that there do exist phenomena, and people that our
rational thinking has not been able to explain but that holds not ground valid enough to plot
supernatural powers as a reason. All that we can do is search for a reason.
All my words may seem hard to follow and to be believed in, to you, I may seem like a
person so raw at reason that soaks away all the joy of faith but perhaps a language of words is
something that is pushing me back from telling what I want to convey. God himself is not a
misconception but the idea of his presence in things that people state is what the blunder is.
God is not an omnipresent entity, he is no supernatural power who can come into your life
and mend all that you want to be, your way. That is the blunder we are making. In fact
looking again from a very rational point of view, we have been given this life in order to be
enjoyed to the fullest. To be taken as a mystic journey to the ultimate truth. But rather what
we do is something which is not even just a mistake. As the ever inquisitive man, we try to
analyse our life. The problems we face and the situations that we fall in. Analysis leads to
complication and this very complication leads to confusion, this confusion then increments
the frustration of the analyser and ultimately leads to stress and mental disorders that cause
all the problems that arise evidently due to a restless mind.

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I wont go too long but all that we need to realise is that we are not supposed scrutinise
our happenings but rather understand their importance in making us who we are and who we
actually should be. This world is full of happiness, joy, rhythm, compassion and a never
ending mystery of events. May be one day I will wake up, have an epiphany and tell you
where we are from, but till then just stick to your cerebrum, keep thinking, dont let your
pituitary and hippocampus play games with you. Because it has been long that we have been
creating these blunders, long since we have realised that someday we will have to face the man
in the mirror, someday we will have to face the reality of being alone or rather self contained.
We will have to understand the need of realising ones own self rather than running after this
fallacy called god and this blunder called religion.
We are humans, the most evolved animals on this planet and it is a sheer pity to see
ourselves still stuck in such notions of what a person like me may call a very bogus approach.
As I end it, I would not like to be called repetitive in my sentences for all those saying it still
need to read this once again.

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