Walking down the road from dadar station on sunday morning, i notice a road or a whole market literally, selling flowers, the kinds that are used as offerings in temples, in darghas...so many people haggling over prices, bargaining, making an occupation out of this flower business...i walk further down the road i notice this lady, very carefully, painstakingly choosing a garland, for her favorite deity perhaps...and it just gets me thinking.....
Religion, it is entwined(or should i say entangled, i'm not sure!) in every fabric of our society..everwhere we go, it is staring right back at us in some form or the other.People take so much time, so much effort, spend so much money to nurture this passion/obsession/weakness, what should i call it? What is this human tendency that makes us so desperately cling on to this belief, that we need this super power, this mighty force behind us, looking over us?Not that i dont believe in this super power.I do.What i dont understand is this constant need to glorify, and enshrine Him in the name of religion. This need,that makes people so blind, that they perform the most ridiculous sounding tasks, from donating large amounts of money to sacrificing fellow human beings even, all in the name of religion..This the one common factor,that binds so many, the most notorious don to a pious priest, from a homeless beggar to a high flying executive, they all believe, or want to anyway.....
Just imagine, the same time, money, effort, and thought, spent in another way...say in helping a cause...saving the planet, finding a miraculous cure, or just in bettering our own lives and of those around us anyway...just imagine..for it is after all, just a thought!
