The day I declare myself an atheist
If the early human beings would have tried to resist the changes like we are doing right now, perhaps till date we would have been using stones to maybe light up the wood and eat animals raw. But we don't because we have changed and developed.
I AM angry, I am sad, I am in tears; I repent being a human being…. The life being an animal would have been much easier, may be in peace. The animal instinct in every living being has always been there; perhaps it is a gift of God to survival till a race attains maturity and turn ‘human’ in deeper terms of value. But, India has a developed a unique tendency… we always try to resist a change! God knows the fact that change is the only permanent thing in this world then why don’t we humans calling ourselves a superior race simply accept the fact and let the change occur. For if the early human beings would have tried to resist the change like we are doing right now, perhaps till date we would have been using stones to maybe light up the wood and eat animals raw. But we don’t because we changed, we improved, we developed, we understood, we realised, we empathised, we loved… all as we wanted to live the life squeezing every drop of happiness potion it could give us and why not; after all its my life. I will have it my own way; please stop directing me. We all have become civilised. But wait, have we…? Really?The New Year- 2010 has approached. We have all set some resolutions to ourselves or maybe the resolutions have set themselves to us; whatever the case be, like everyone, even I had forced some resolutions to myself. Like I have to shape up my physique, I have to work hard, I have to learn driving and so on. But sipping a cup of masala chai, on an office cubicle in an alien city, going into chance introspection, I find myself standing at a disillusioned coordinate of life.
How people ranging from students to businessmen are made to get involved into politics (both at smaller and advanced levels) giving them a sense of pseudo power and with that of course adding them up to their vote bank. Alas! Rather than contributing to building up of our nation, we are contributing to building up of a political party. And believe me; these so-called party workers are more than happy to upload offensive images to their profiles like weapons, their party-workers beating up police, protesting unlawfully with taglines just representing their inclination to protect their religion from other religions etc. I wonder which attack and how they are going to protect it? May be if now law was there, they would just go by killing everyone belonging to other religions. Is this not the reflection of how that particular party’s ideology replicates and the person himself becomes the party? He becomes the tool of destruction. Compare it with the policy of Taliban, Lashkar or whatever… brainwash people and add them to you squad!
‘Trying to make this country a Hindu nation’ titles one such photograph with a sub-title, ‘Jai Hindu’. I smiled at the next comment on the photo by a girl, ‘Don’t say Jai Hindu, say Jai Hindustan’. How stupid of that girl if she thinks that she will be able to make the guy think otherwise with her child-like innocent remark! How if we all would have continued to be children just wondering about the twinkling stars, the dew-drops on leaves, the scorching sun turning into comforting moon, not knowing about the satans like religious rivalry, regionalism, casteism and on and on and on…. ! I am ready to die for you God but tell me why should I believe you when I have not even seen you, why shall I forfeit humanity that I can seed dying in front me and not forfeit you if you have not ever even taken birth! Any reasons I can give to myself… but will they ever alter the reality that I do believe in your existence as much as I believe in mine? I believe that you are there somewhere watching the loveliest of your creation turning the ugly. I believe it when you come through Kabir’s pen and say ‘Moko kahan dhunde re bande, main to tere paas mein, na mai mandir na mai masjid, na kaabe Kailas mei’; I believe you when you come as blessings through elder’s heart, I believe you when you come on earth as Jesus, Krishna, Mohammad, Guru Gobind and teach us the language of love, I believe you when you come from Bulle Shah’s words, “Ja ja badhde Mandir Masidi, kadhe dil vich apne badheya nayi, aive ladhda hai shaitan de naal bandeya, kade nafs apni naal ladeya nayi” But how am I supposed to believe you when you become death for people just because they worship you in some other form? I don’t believe you when you come as the deadly weapons killing people on your name, I don’t believe you when you develop as hate in heart’s of people, I don’t believe you when they say that you created some people inferior and others superior, I don’t even believe you when you tell me to love people only after inquiring their religious status. I don’t believe you when you tell me not to do what my heart tells me to go when I know that it’s you who is sitting inside me. I know.
You name any major social crises that world is facing today as a potential threat and think deeply about it, you’ll get a unique pattern. Every problem roots itself at the point where human race tries to classify, differentiate or channelise itself. Things like religion, region and caste merely signify a point that divides a particular set of people and drives them to polarity. Nature is the biggest witness to what happens when the land sharing the same soil moves away; what happens when tectonic plates move separate ways, what happens when a single atoms splits! What happens if we eliminate these points of divide from our life? This is the least I can do to save humanity which is the only binding sensibility to be found. Why not capitalise on it. I announce my renunciation to the world of religion… so on the first day of the year I declare myself an atheist.
‘Trying to make this country a Hindu nation’ titles one such photograph with a sub-title, ‘Jai Hindu’. I smiled at the next comment on the photo by a girl, ‘Don’t say Jai Hindu, say Jai Hindustan’. How stupid of that girl if she thinks that she will be able to make the guy think otherwise with her child-like innocent remark! How if we all would have continued to be children just wondering about the twinkling stars, the dew-drops on leaves, the scorching sun turning into comforting moon, not knowing about the satans like religious rivalry, regionalism, casteism and on and on and on…. ! I am ready to die for you God but tell me why should I believe you when I have not even seen you, why shall I forfeit humanity that I can seed dying in front me and not forfeit you if you have not ever even taken birth! Any reasons I can give to myself… but will they ever alter the reality that I do believe in your existence as much as I believe in mine? I believe that you are there somewhere watching the loveliest of your creation turning the ugly. I believe it when you come through Kabir’s pen and say ‘Moko kahan dhunde re bande, main to tere paas mein, na mai mandir na mai masjid, na kaabe Kailas mei’; I believe you when you come as blessings through elder’s heart, I believe you when you come on earth as Jesus, Krishna, Mohammad, Guru Gobind and teach us the language of love, I believe you when you come from Bulle Shah’s words, “Ja ja badhde Mandir Masidi, kadhe dil vich apne badheya nayi, aive ladhda hai shaitan de naal bandeya, kade nafs apni naal ladeya nayi” But how am I supposed to believe you when you become death for people just because they worship you in some other form? I don’t believe you when you come as the deadly weapons killing people on your name, I don’t believe you when you develop as hate in heart’s of people, I don’t believe you when they say that you created some people inferior and others superior, I don’t even believe you when you tell me to love people only after inquiring their religious status. I don’t believe you when you tell me not to do what my heart tells me to go when I know that it’s you who is sitting inside me. I know.
You name any major social crises that world is facing today as a potential threat and think deeply about it, you’ll get a unique pattern. Every problem roots itself at the point where human race tries to classify, differentiate or channelise itself. Things like religion, region and caste merely signify a point that divides a particular set of people and drives them to polarity. Nature is the biggest witness to what happens when the land sharing the same soil moves away; what happens when tectonic plates move separate ways, what happens when a single atoms splits! What happens if we eliminate these points of divide from our life? This is the least I can do to save humanity which is the only binding sensibility to be found. Why not capitalise on it. I announce my renunciation to the world of religion… so on the first day of the year I declare myself an atheist.
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