Sunday 10 December 2017

Finding God

One of the most subtle yet conspicuous concept in this world is of “God.” Nobody knows who created the God, nobody knows whether God was ever created or not and nobody, in actuality, knows what is GOD. Albeit some have the proclivity to deem themselves as “atheists”, some consider themselves “theists” while some other live in agnosticism, yet there is not a single being who has been able to remain unpartisan and unfazed by the notion of God. For the nonce, let us forget your predilections towards the respective topic and become disinterested in dealing with the veracity of the context. There is not a single human being who doesn’t desiderate to meet God, some want to have a ‘dekko’ of him to achieve utter bliss, some want to ascertain whether he is actually extant, and some want to curse him for all the adversities that they have faced throughout their lives. Throughout our lives we are in the pursuit of God. Knowingly or unknowingly, we base our propositions on him. In fact, Science talks about nothing but the ultimate unification of how the nature works and nature is indeed an even more subtle term for God, so Science is looking for God also. While some are pursuing their dreams of reaching God through science, some adopt austere lifestyle of ascetics and those who can’t go either way end up erecting their own realms about God. In fact the biggest question that the world has ever faced or will continue to face is “WHAT IS GOD?”
We all have our own proclivities regarding God. Some envisage him standing in the ground of Kurukshetra with a handsome countenance and the enigmatic azure colour, while some may imagine him sacrificing himself on the crucifix to redeem the mankind of its maladies; but unlike our naïve minds which have presented God as an individual belonging to only one section of the mankind, a great poet envisioned his truth:
Nida Fazli once said:
Ghar se masjid hai bahut duur chalo yuun kar len,
Kisi rote hue bachche ko hansaya jae
The mosque is too far, so for a while
Let us make a weeping child smile
So much ingenuity is hidden in this couplet that the one who can unravel the real meaning and induce it into one’s life won’t need any further exposition germane to God. The most pitiable thing about our life is that we are not living at all, we are just surviving the daily affairs. We have crowded our lives with so many complications and superstitions that we have impelled ourselves to forget the cardinal meaning of life. Isn’t human life a big wonder in itself? Have your ever extolled yourself for your body is not a mere piece of flesh, so much internal work is going in inside you that science may not replicate it in the coming five hundred years, yet we take our lives for granted. Have your ever felt yourself? Have you ever given time to look into yourself rather than onto others? Nida Fazli hints that living life is God and I believe that the paramount reason why we fail to achieve bliss is because we shun the real God and look for the immaterial questions and answers. We all have been given this life just once, yet we waste it peering outside and floundering ourselves with things that don’t matter. Our life is nothing less than a miracle. You look at it from any dimension, scientifically, spiritually or psychologically, our body, our cells and our mind are such wonders that can never be created by any artificial means. We often fail to adulate that great gift that we have been bestowed with, we often fail to belaud the God that has been embedded into us and try to look for some charismatic personality that indeed doesn’t exist outside of us. Human beings have got unlimited potential. If you peruse Liao Fan’s lessons, one obvious takeaway that you can get is the kindness is fate and fate is God and God is you. The biggest happiness that you can ever derive can only be extracted by helping others. The day you resort to helping the needy, caring for those who can’t care for themselves and eschewing fallacious beliefs and inspired notions about the myths, all manacles will be broken; fetters will be annihilated and you will find the God. You have been endowed with this life through an excessively remarkable combination and permutation by the nature and each and every person must be proud over this fact. All our life, we make goals for ourselves, when we reach those goals, we make new goals and we continue doing it till one day death strikes our door and we understand that indeed we did nothing. A life that has not been dedicated to helping the impoverished is life wasted. So many people are going to walk this earth but only a few will be remembered, only a few will be the source of inspiration to many and the thing that differentiates them from others is that they dedicated themselves to their God and their God was their kindness.
Buddha preached agnosticism because he knew that everybody possess God but nobody would ever realize that and hence it is better to say that you can never ascertain whether there is God or not. Rather than digging deep into the questions that are of no utility to the mankind, he asked people to look within themselves and find their God. “Looking within oneself” has become a cliché yet this “self-mirroring” process eludes almost whole of the humanity.  Looking within oneself means being thankful and appreciative of this colossal universe and of being given the chance to make a change come true in the lives of those who can’t effect changes themselves. Looking with oneself means feeling your body and gasping the difference between your spirit and your flesh and understanding the egoism won’t last long, that superciliousness will be battered down and only the inner kindness in you will leave an indelible mark on this world.
Try to “look into yourself” rather than “looking onto others.” Till the last moment of your life, strive to do things that can make a crying child smile and let me tell you it is not that easy.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI