Deconstructing Religion

Time and again, the purpose of faith, the reason to follow a religion. Issues, questions that stir and shake the very cores of our conscience rise. I have no incisive knowledge, no great awareness to sermonise. All my faculties of reasoning, analysis, understanding and sense, morality and ethics, can gather is that religion is what one is. It means an individuality is religion, one's sensibilities, one sense for justice, one's compassion, all of this comprises religion.

I don't think one needs to study religious scriptures, The Quran , The Holy Bible, The Vedas, The Guru Granth Sahib to understand religion. A pure, noble, just conscience in every human being is that human being's religion.

Act versus Thought

An act of faith, a thought of faith, an act of love, a thought of love, an act of infidelity, a thought of infidelity, an act of honesty, a thought of honesty.

So it's act versus thought. An act has riders like regret, resentment, anger whereas a thought transcends all these emotions.
How can anyone find out/ discern/ know what goes in a mind. A thought in a mind is as innocent as the statement in Law which clearly says that "a person is innocent until proven guilty."

So the person inside each of us is guilty or not guilty because the outside person has the keys to the door of that house where Guilt may reside. What he inside person intends to divulge is what other people get to listen.

Powerful and uncontrollable like a mad Stallion is the inside person.
Beware yet beloved.

"An excerpt from life"

"Is it morally right or wrong to feel love for more than one person. I don't know. But over the years, over a few draining relationships, i've realised and accepted that love can't be contained, can't be defined, because love in every relationship is present and like every relationship is unique so is the love in it.

Every human being has some sort/ a form of relationship with another human being. Be it a man and a man, a man and a woman, a woman and another woman; each one shares a relationship with someone or the other and there are factors/reasons for them to be together/ in that relationship.

Nitin and Nimisha share a relationship which can't be defined. Well, for a simple reason they don't want to. Their rationale/logic is that if they define it then it may destroy/ mollify/ deprave or may just dilute the essence of them. It's fair to them. Nitin like to believe or rather astutely believes that nothing is wrong and nothing is right. Morals/ scruples/ ideals are not journalistic in nature."

Disenchantment with Attachment

A great philosopher once said, "Expectations are suicidal". I think along with that attachment is more suicidal. Well i know the following space will be filled with disjointed thoughts and random musings but i guess it's a reflection of my current state of mind.

Every morning when one wakes up the feeling of being alive is phenomenal. Cynics may frown and wonder,"Why? What on earth is so beautiful about waking up every morning and getting badgered by the day?"
Well, a positive mind like mine, at this point, may like to philosophize and say,"Since you are alive, you may change, can do a lot more to alter the day, to alter your life, iron out glitches, weed ill thoughts, wipe out people who affect you in a negative way, anything positive anything that can bring a much more than smile on your face, make you happy, cos it's fair to be a tad selfish, who isn't?"

The best way to cope with anything that someone near to you says that ruffles your sanity, peace of mind is to remind yourself that this moment when we are feeling sad, low, disgruntled, angry and dejected, the next moment none of it would be there cos death is not only inevitable but also fiercely unexpected. So when one dies nothing is left. Nothing at all.

So what i choose to do is to remain detached and if it helps me, after a lot of effort if i have been able to acquire it, then it should help others. And after sometime the efforts would be effortless.

Melting In

The very idea of relationship implies - self and the other. When we can let go of our illusions of being separate, and the protective defenses that this creates; we can become real lovers.
If you love a person open your heart completely, because even if you keep a small secret, that remains like a barrier. It may not be visible but underneath it separates you.

All secrets are like walls. If you drop all secrets, suddenly you are unburdened and the other comes closer and closer and no longer remains the other but becomes one.

Beauty of Love: all secrets can be dropped. Nothing exists between two individuals, nothing.
Then only they can flow into each other and an understanding arises. One feels unburdened and clean.
Unless love spreads it's wings to the whole sky and covers all the stars, it remains imprisoned, an imprisoned splendour. Do not imprison your love because that's your very "spirit."

And how many of us believe in the above or follow it in our lives? Self-introspection is the best answer.

Be the Witness

Be the witness. Let experiences pass. Let them come and go. Don't get distracted, unruffled by them. Do't be pulled in by them. Remain alert, unconcerned - just watching the traffic, watching the clouds in the sky, watching the world pass by, watching the rain.
It's difficult to simply be and ironic as it is - the most simple experience. And beautifully fulfilling.