I came across a blog where the lady asked why do we have to celebrate some festival or the other? First of all the reason why we should celebrate is not for our own sake but for the reason the day is there. We celebrate Independence day because we got that, Gandhi jayanti for the Great Persona's day, Diwali for defeat of evil, Xmas for the birth of Jesus and so on. Similarly we celebrate our own birthday and anniversaries too, even the day we met our s/o's .The celebrations have nothing to do with the festivities but we adapt according to the ways of the world. There was no loud music earlier but music like shehnai and dholaks were played. The elders were respected and bowed down to. There were hardly any fireworks but now there are and we light fireworks. Can we tell the Chinese not to light then during their festivities? Or the special playfulness at Halloween? We have celebrated Ganesha in a sarvajanik(community) way in Mumbai, where the youngsters gather funds from one and ...
Nearly ten years ago I used to go about like a mad man searching for the love of my life and I could never co relate to any human being then or any other. I never could understand what it is that I wanted to see or relate to in my life. I was completely distraught and had absolutely no clue what it is I was after then. That was then my search and quest for the spiritual. My wife used to say that if there was some woman in my life she could fight it but some invisible God she could not fight at all. Everyday was a nightmare then. I roamed about the streets and used up so many contacts searching for God. The ones that I visited could never satisfy my deep craving for the Lord. It was the most horrendous time for the family then. They had to face my uncontrollable anger then. I changed Gurus after Gurus just to find out whether the newer one could take me ahead in my quest. I never slept, never ate well, anger seemed to ride me all day long. Why that anger was there I could never fathom. ...
Now I was watching a video posted by an atheist about debunking the claim of believers of Gods. I was asked by my disciple how can we accommodate these people and don't they get punished by God? Here is a story to tell you how all these religions and atheism and agnosticism works. All the people in that group are blind and they come across an elephant. One of them touches the trunk and says it is like a hose pipe, the other touches its ear and says it is like a big tree leaf, then the next touches the legs and says it is like a tree trunk, one touches the tail and says it is like a rope. Now they are not wrong at all since it is their individual perspective from their handicap point of view. So also God is seen by different people as per their individual tastes and observations. The others who guide them also give their own versions about God. Now if we have a person who does not want to believe in anything at all, he too has his own view point which cannot be discounted at all. he...
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