My Musings about Belief
My MUsiNgs AbOuT BeLIeF
Why do we believe? Two things lead to belief in my opinion.
One is Logic & the other one is faith. Mere faith & dull faith is dangerous. It makes a man reactionary. A child believes his parents but as his brain develops, he realizes not all things his parents do are right then he starts questioning & accepts things when logical explanation is given. Logic is human invention. It gets entrenched in our thinking to the point where we believe if something is not logical, it cannot be true.
Belief of unseen is faith. Faith is acceptance of Gods will over our own will. Faith is like pleasant breeze. We do not see it but we can feel it. When you feel the cool breeze, it soothes you & you are at peace. The same breeze turns into a storm & becomes violent which ultimately disturbs your tranquility. You are in turmoil & you are not able to understand the reason. You try to intervene this with logic & when you have no answer you leave that on the unseen. The logic can only be the unseen & it is beyond our mental capabilities. We accept unseen due to our mental stagnation. This I say is forced logic to arrive at a conclusion to pacify & subdue the storm.
Others opinions drown out your own inner voice. Actually, we are living with the results of other peoples thinking. Belief is security. We believe whatever the holy books tell us to do. However, there is a selfish motive or desire in doing all that. A desire to be rewarded here or hereafter by the unseen for having faith & following his rules. We accept what GOD says for our benefit. Being selfish is a human trait. However, when in your heart you know all things belong to GOD then all things will bring you pleasure.Selflessness is the virtue. Knowledge of Supreme is not gained by argument. It is intuition rather than reason, which could lead you to the path of ultimate truth. We need to come out of worldly desires Power, fame & sex. Truth cannot be borrowed, it should come from within. It has to be experienced to know about it. It happens when your thinking goes beyond the mind.
Anyone who dares to challenge the validity of faith is called a renegade. Everyone considers himself right. Therein lays misfortune. Religions they say replace evil with good. Is this true when we see the things happening in this world? It seems to me that religion is creating a storm of sorts. Most of the hatred is because of religion. We find people ridiculing other religion. We see differences even within the ambit of their own religion. How can this be true? Logic says it is not true. There should be no differences in one religion or any religion in this world because human beings are one species. Something is terribly wrong somewhere.
I wish there is no hatred only peace, peace & more peace.
Ahsan Ghori
Why do we believe? Two things lead to belief in my opinion.
One is Logic & the other one is faith. Mere faith & dull faith is dangerous. It makes a man reactionary. A child believes his parents but as his brain develops, he realizes not all things his parents do are right then he starts questioning & accepts things when logical explanation is given. Logic is human invention. It gets entrenched in our thinking to the point where we believe if something is not logical, it cannot be true.
Belief of unseen is faith. Faith is acceptance of Gods will over our own will. Faith is like pleasant breeze. We do not see it but we can feel it. When you feel the cool breeze, it soothes you & you are at peace. The same breeze turns into a storm & becomes violent which ultimately disturbs your tranquility. You are in turmoil & you are not able to understand the reason. You try to intervene this with logic & when you have no answer you leave that on the unseen. The logic can only be the unseen & it is beyond our mental capabilities. We accept unseen due to our mental stagnation. This I say is forced logic to arrive at a conclusion to pacify & subdue the storm.
Others opinions drown out your own inner voice. Actually, we are living with the results of other peoples thinking. Belief is security. We believe whatever the holy books tell us to do. However, there is a selfish motive or desire in doing all that. A desire to be rewarded here or hereafter by the unseen for having faith & following his rules. We accept what GOD says for our benefit. Being selfish is a human trait. However, when in your heart you know all things belong to GOD then all things will bring you pleasure.Selflessness is the virtue. Knowledge of Supreme is not gained by argument. It is intuition rather than reason, which could lead you to the path of ultimate truth. We need to come out of worldly desires Power, fame & sex. Truth cannot be borrowed, it should come from within. It has to be experienced to know about it. It happens when your thinking goes beyond the mind.
Anyone who dares to challenge the validity of faith is called a renegade. Everyone considers himself right. Therein lays misfortune. Religions they say replace evil with good. Is this true when we see the things happening in this world? It seems to me that religion is creating a storm of sorts. Most of the hatred is because of religion. We find people ridiculing other religion. We see differences even within the ambit of their own religion. How can this be true? Logic says it is not true. There should be no differences in one religion or any religion in this world because human beings are one species. Something is terribly wrong somewhere.
I wish there is no hatred only peace, peace & more peace.
Ahsan Ghori
posted by AHSAN GHORI @ 4:47 PM
4 Comments:
At 3:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
I think you are a bit confused there. Its not religion itself thats causing trouble, its the people abusing religion that cause trouble.
At 12:48 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hey Ghori!
Your writing is very thought provking indeed and deserves a dicussion.
Here's what I have to say to your question "Why is there so much havoc over religion, if religion is meant to do us good?"
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It is not religion creating the havoc but man in the name of religion. Religion lays down a set of guidelines that 'help' us orient towards the ultimate truth. It does not transport us there. Spirituality does. Religion is only the beginning of spiritual evolution in man. What man needs is to cultivate spirituality in self, not mere religious guidelines. What then is the difference between religion and spirituality? It is this - *One man realising the ultimate truth and a thousand men believing his understanding of it and following him is religion. Every man discovering the truth, and thereby the God in him, for himself is spirituality.*
There is only one truth. Only different interpretations of it. That’s what makes one religion different from the other - the understanding not the truth itself. Every religion of the world believes in the supremacy of the almighty and the existence of one and only one supreme God. Every religion prescribes peace, modesty and harmony. Why then is there so much havoc over religion? Why do men fight over calling a fruit the ‘outcome of a flower' and 'product of a tree'? Why don’t we understand that it is but one and the same truth interpreted differently? Because, we don’t try to understand the essence of the absolute truth hidden in the layers of religious texts, but rather stop at blindly accepting the prescribed interpretations of it that each religion offers. Belief without reasoning. Acceptance without understanding. What results is misunderstanding and misinterpreting. That is why there is the havoc we see all around us in the name of ‘religion’. The very people shedding blood in the name of religion know nothing of it! At least not in the way it is supposed to be known.
Look within yourself more than at the books. I say again that mere reading of religious texts will only show you the road not the goal at the end of it.
If but every man spent time to understand his own religion well, he would be humbled not to consider himself higher than another man, or another religion, and educated enough not to consider himself inferior to any other.
As mother Terresa said, “A Christian must be a good Christian, a Hindu a good Hindu and a Muslim a good Muslim.” Nobody needs to convert the other into his belief, and nobody needs to prove his belief superior. It’s a futile effort, trying to fight truth against the same truth!
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