RELIGION & WEAKNESS

Since the beginning of human history we have accounts of numerous debates on religion. The religion got its birth from many factors, the first one be the society. As the man learned to live in groups it developed a society in which large groups were added, groups as in tribes with varying thoughts. I won’t say culture because culture is far from what we are talking about. The new breed of man, social man was now developing a sense of responsibility and this sense of responsibility was the stage where he learnt about his weak side. Man learnt that though he is powerful enough to kill animals alone to feed him-self but in a society when he is with others, it is difficult for him to reveal is strong, cruel side. He saw his tender side towards others in the society and thus began to develop a fear. Fear of losing those who were in his group. So you see societies were the source of man’s fear, man’s weakness.

But he knew he is strong, but was confused to see his weak side, mainly because he was too busy maintaining his social side. Thus he began developing the ‘pretentious’ nature of his existence in order to get rid of that confusion. He did one more mistake of neglecting the true understanding of all the developments he was undergoing, he rather baffled with sudden changes which he himself brought upon himself developed a ‘blame- game’. Though Known but still unknown to him, the cause of these changes, he brought up an idea of a mysterious force working upon him. He started thinking: ‘ I was so mighty earlier, no animal nothing could stand before me but why am I weak now, why do I feel weakness within my society, with my loved one’s? ‘ Already surprised by the natural phenomenon of lightening and sudden appearance and disappearance of sun & moon, he believed somewhere in the distant sky, something not visible to him was controlling him.

I must say that this was no new idea of a mysterious being or force in distant sky but a reflection of his weakness which man had already developed inside. This weakness made him feel safe under the hood of that invisible mysterious force. You see man has always been fascinated with what he can’t grasp easily!! So unable to grasp the changes his weakness made him develop such a concept of a mysterious force and with the development of language, it started calling that force a GOD.

His fears reached their heights when he began allegorizing that invisible being. One may ask why he needed to allegorize that force, well, thanks to the language or communication that compelled him to do so. Not only this, the dominant nature of man was a basic instinct so how could he leave that force unexplained? And since he respected that god, who could control him so easily, he was left with no choice but give that god a shape just like a man. Because man was the next strong being after god on the face of the earth. And so we have gods as we know them today.

He didn’t stopped here, for societies were developing fast and he needed to control them. Why? Because fear and weakness had already entered and had taken various forms of hatred, jealousy, selfishness etc; and these were causing problems and giving birth to what we now know as CRIME. Since man had no fear of man anymore so the only solution left was to take refuge under the god. Ironically, man once again showcased his weakness that had been amplified by now. The language and communication was already developing so the smarter minds gathered their lost strength and developed theories, doctrines, philosophies, ways to help fellow men understand their weakness under the God.

Since man was separated from each other geologically, this helped developing various languages and RELIGIONS. Well, culture was/is nothing but the usual way or the conduct of these societies being separated geologically. This very well explains why or how almost all the religions of the world teach the same thing of LOVE, PEACE, HARMONY obviously in a different language, because this is what man needed to control itself being destroyed by self-created fear and weakness.

This theory is very well in accordance with cause-effect principle because what all man is facing right now or has faced in past is nothing but an EFFECT whose cause is man himself but the habit of living under the fear, he has made himself so weak that he now blames, the very religion which he developed for his convenience, for all the misery he is in.

Religion can’t be due to emergence of societies alone, the strong desire to understand the nature but failing to make correct inferences from his researches and driven by the weakness which is now an integral part of his DNA, he mixed it all. We all know that majority religions especially Hinduism is the most scientific one, it not only tried to control man and his societies but also elucidated some scientific ones, but in a more poetic, metaphorical and conceited manner. It depends solely on the follower for the interpretation. The Vedas and Upanishads were a more brave approach towards understanding the man’s existence. They tried not to flow with the evolution which was happening but go deeper. They showed how man developed his fears and is now nothing but a slave due to his own ignorance. They ask him to wake up and rise above his Self-created weaknesses. They ask him to search his true self which is he himself and not some GOD which he seeks through his five senses in the external world. They tell him that once he realizes his true self, he is the god himself because the external god was a reflection of his inner and had come out to save him from his ignorance, to tell him that see though we are stronger than you yet a reflection of your infinite self.

For a long time we have been slaves to our self-created ignorance, nature is not ignorance or illusion it exists in us and only our endeavor to rise above it will help us go through it. The external world is a reflection of the better one inside. Do not be-fooled man. Wake up to the call of ‘ thou art that’ ( You are that ).