The known and the unkown ....

Do I really believe in god? What is religion after all? Am I god-loving or god-fearing ? These are a few questions which reckon our attention every now and then. These are as fundamental as are the questions – who am I? or why am I here ? and deserve our utmost attention. I am only writing this post to encourage anyone reading it to make a sincere effort to get in touch with your inner-self on this issue, unless of-course they you have already done it. There are two sides –

First is - you believe in a super-natural power, who is, in some way, responsible for life as we know it. Now, the origin of this belief can be two way. Either you really, truly, from the bottom of your heart believe it or it can be your mind and the societal conditioning and the pressure of being “good” (societal definition) playing tricks on you. There is an easy way to distinguish. You just need to ask yourself the question that how much time do you devote to love, understand or connect to your super-power. The time spent can be in various forms. The only condition to be satisfied here is the activity should be self-less. It should be the result of your urge to know and understand the master and not a bribe for a better future or a settlement for good things happened in the past. It can be through prayer, meditation, reading literature, time spent on self-improvement with is done with the thought that the super-power wants you to improve etc. etc. You can trust your judgment on this because you know yourself the best. By mere probing into this question, you will get the answer.

Second is - you are a non-believer. “Life is there by chance”. You enjoy every moment as it is, and don’t feel the urge to understand any deeper meaning as it doesn’t exist. If you make a map or chart of things occupying your mind at any point in time, almost all the things would be related to something you have already encountered or something you expect to encounter in your life-time. Not much of it is about the “unknown”.

If you fall into one of the categories you are fine. But if you stand stranded you need more clarity. For ex. If you talk about believing in the super-natural and at the same time the share of your time, mind and heart devoted to the same is negligible something is not right.