Life-That tiny spark...that unexplained, unknown energy...the only thing that differentiates you from that which is dead, non-living...
Life-The journey that we must make, each and every one of us, the most important journey EVER-from a single tiny inconsequential cell, to a withered, decaying, inconsequential corpse...
Life-A continuous struggle, an unending path...yet a single, infinitesimal flash of light in the endless void of Eternity...
Life-The blessing of Pleasure, the curse of Pain...
Life.
We live, all of us...what choice do we have? We run, frenzied and panicked, searching everywhere we can for happiness, knowing somewhere, deep down inside, that our time is running out. Controlled by fear, as the end draws inexorably near, we search harder, run harder...little knowing that we run not away, but towards that end.
And finally, when we do reach it, we realize that we have found nothing...that we have thrown away everything we had...and in that moment, that last moment of our existence, we wonder. At the pointlessness of everything. At our lack of true, permanent purpose. At the incomprehensible, purely illogical meaning of the thing they call-
Life.
[Yes, nothing here is permanent. Everything changes. Everything disappears. Every single thing all of us are struggling to gain is eventually going to end up in meaningless oblivion.
Body. Mind. Possessions. Power. Fame. Happiness. Family. Children. Country. Organization. Society. Civilization. The Human Race itself.
There was a time before all of these things existed, and there will be a time after them, too. So why exist at all? Why go through so much pain, so much effort, in order to achieve-nothing?
Look above. Look beyond. Stop just existing, just going with the flow. Think. Question.
"Who am i?"
"Why am i here?"
"Where am i heading?"
Ask, and you shall find answers. But open your eyes, realize the need for answers, and ask.]
Showing posts with label abstract thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abstract thoughts. Show all posts
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Monday, October 26, 2009
Rising Dark
The Human City lies, in the night,
Darker than ever, though 'tis filled with light.
The evil aura of that vile race
Hangs around it, heavily laced
With Pollution-both Physical and in the Mind.
Everything around it, slowly sank,
The once-beautiful now decayed and dank...
Mother Nature herself cries to see
How cruelly so-called 'Humanity'
Destroys all that was peaceful, sweet and kind.
In those rectangular, unnatural dwellings,
And on those streets, are being done vile things.
Look in that house, that creature foul,
Angry, reeling, drunk as an owl-
Advancing on his bruised and beaten child.
And that girl, in that lonely street,
Cowering in fear, chased by savage Beasts...
Exhausted running, now trying to hide,
Staring wildly around on every side,
As they creep up, unnoticed, from behind.
The City crouches, hungry, hunting,
Concealed in smoke of its own making...
Hearts destroyed in the search for gain
Planting malice, reaping pain-
Evil itself, personified.
The Heavens look on with tortured Eyes,
As the power of the Devil continues to rise...
Faith in the Almighty fades away
Endless Night arrives, preceding no day,
Bringing Chaos, as order unwinds.
The people degrade into savage creatures...
Greed and rage their defining features,
Their hearts filled with desire
As they burn in an eternal Fire
Bringing Hell to Earth, as the End arrives...
Darker than ever, though 'tis filled with light.
The evil aura of that vile race
Hangs around it, heavily laced
With Pollution-both Physical and in the Mind.
Everything around it, slowly sank,
The once-beautiful now decayed and dank...
Mother Nature herself cries to see
How cruelly so-called 'Humanity'
Destroys all that was peaceful, sweet and kind.
In those rectangular, unnatural dwellings,
And on those streets, are being done vile things.
Look in that house, that creature foul,
Angry, reeling, drunk as an owl-
Advancing on his bruised and beaten child.
And that girl, in that lonely street,
Cowering in fear, chased by savage Beasts...
Exhausted running, now trying to hide,
Staring wildly around on every side,
As they creep up, unnoticed, from behind.
The City crouches, hungry, hunting,
Concealed in smoke of its own making...
Hearts destroyed in the search for gain
Planting malice, reaping pain-
Evil itself, personified.
The Heavens look on with tortured Eyes,
As the power of the Devil continues to rise...
Faith in the Almighty fades away
Endless Night arrives, preceding no day,
Bringing Chaos, as order unwinds.
The people degrade into savage creatures...
Greed and rage their defining features,
Their hearts filled with desire
As they burn in an eternal Fire
Bringing Hell to Earth, as the End arrives...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
As a species comes to an end...
Has it ever happened with you, that you hear something, or read about something, something totally unconnected with your life, your world...and yet, somehow, the world seems a darker place...blacker, somehow? It happens with me everyday. Every single day. All i have to do, is open the newspaper...
It hurts somewhere deep, inside, when you see what the human race is doing to itself...when hate is so much easier than love, when more people harm each other each day than smile, even, when the ruling emotion in our lives is frustration...when all you can feel, when you see the stranger on the road, is mistrust and fear...
The villages, where our very sustenance is grown, the places most connected with Mother Earth, have people committing suicides every day, as the cruel people exploiting them, milking their innocence, shrug and find someone else to kill...and elsewhere, animals are slaughtered in the millions, a huge, unending river of thinking, sentient life being destroyed continually, to feed pure, selfish, self-destructive greed...
The concept of beauty loses all meaning and value, when faced with profit, the idea of earning money...hills are destroyed to build more, bigger, more expensive houses...whole forests vanish, replaced by factories, spewing death of every kind, destroying the World...
Children, supposed to be the very symbol of innocence, fill themselves with so much hate as to destroy everyone they can, in their very schools, supposed to be Temples of education, before destroying themselves...
God has become something only foolish people believe in, and anarchy towards the Laws of Nature has become THE way of life...
Our rulers, who are supposed to guide us, to show us how to live, are absorbed only in their obsession with money as the very system they live off crumbles around them...uncaring of all the lives they destroy every single DAY...
Our celebrities, the people we WORSHIP, are worse humans than us, and we all, perversely, enjoy seeing the hidden truths about them cruelly exposed...the shows we watch the most are the ones with the most hate, the most fights...and these shows are called the 'Reality' of our lives...
This Diwali, the Festival of 'Light', i look up at the Sky, and all i can see is a haze of smoke darkening the Sky...adding even more Darkness to our lives...slowly, inexorably, blotting out each tiny, twinkling star of Hope...
Sometimes, when you see all this, you flare with rage, ashamed that you must be a part of this species too, wanting to scream, to shout, to CHANGE things...but sometimes, overwhelmed by the utter hugeness of our self-destructive evil, all you want to do is sit down, bury your head in your arms, and cry...cry your heart out...as you feel the pain of an Earth, a Mother, whose children determinedly, surely, tread the path to a waiting, patient Hell...
It hurts somewhere deep, inside, when you see what the human race is doing to itself...when hate is so much easier than love, when more people harm each other each day than smile, even, when the ruling emotion in our lives is frustration...when all you can feel, when you see the stranger on the road, is mistrust and fear...
The villages, where our very sustenance is grown, the places most connected with Mother Earth, have people committing suicides every day, as the cruel people exploiting them, milking their innocence, shrug and find someone else to kill...and elsewhere, animals are slaughtered in the millions, a huge, unending river of thinking, sentient life being destroyed continually, to feed pure, selfish, self-destructive greed...
The concept of beauty loses all meaning and value, when faced with profit, the idea of earning money...hills are destroyed to build more, bigger, more expensive houses...whole forests vanish, replaced by factories, spewing death of every kind, destroying the World...
Children, supposed to be the very symbol of innocence, fill themselves with so much hate as to destroy everyone they can, in their very schools, supposed to be Temples of education, before destroying themselves...
God has become something only foolish people believe in, and anarchy towards the Laws of Nature has become THE way of life...
Our rulers, who are supposed to guide us, to show us how to live, are absorbed only in their obsession with money as the very system they live off crumbles around them...uncaring of all the lives they destroy every single DAY...
Our celebrities, the people we WORSHIP, are worse humans than us, and we all, perversely, enjoy seeing the hidden truths about them cruelly exposed...the shows we watch the most are the ones with the most hate, the most fights...and these shows are called the 'Reality' of our lives...
This Diwali, the Festival of 'Light', i look up at the Sky, and all i can see is a haze of smoke darkening the Sky...adding even more Darkness to our lives...slowly, inexorably, blotting out each tiny, twinkling star of Hope...
Sometimes, when you see all this, you flare with rage, ashamed that you must be a part of this species too, wanting to scream, to shout, to CHANGE things...but sometimes, overwhelmed by the utter hugeness of our self-destructive evil, all you want to do is sit down, bury your head in your arms, and cry...cry your heart out...as you feel the pain of an Earth, a Mother, whose children determinedly, surely, tread the path to a waiting, patient Hell...
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Change.
You know when you're walking down the street, and you're pretty sure about how the world looks, how everything is working? And then something happens, unexpectedly, and-
Paradigm shift.
You're suddenly living in a different place, a whole new planet, almost...and you start floundering, struggling to adjust...suddenly, painfully aware of how little you actually know...wondering what behaviour is acceptable in THIS place, how you should be reacting, what you should be doing...and then, with time's unstoppable, inexorable flow, you adjust. What was unthinkable yesterday, is obvious today. Life goes on, inescapably...
We humans ARE a strange race, ain't we?
Paradigm shift.
You're suddenly living in a different place, a whole new planet, almost...and you start floundering, struggling to adjust...suddenly, painfully aware of how little you actually know...wondering what behaviour is acceptable in THIS place, how you should be reacting, what you should be doing...and then, with time's unstoppable, inexorable flow, you adjust. What was unthinkable yesterday, is obvious today. Life goes on, inescapably...
We humans ARE a strange race, ain't we?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Life? She's one tough teacher.
What is it about life that just as you're settling down and, even though you know you're not supposed to, in some dark corner of your mind, you go-"I could learn to live like this, dude!"-and just as that though worms its way into your head, she gets up and BAM! There lands one HARD kick on your butt...and the wind blows, and you realize [way too late] that all the houses you ever built were beautiful, complicated monuments made purely of cards... And then you're in the trough all over again...struggling to stay afloat in that stormy, lonely ocean...wondering when, WHEN will you ever find an anchor...a boat to rescue you...you hear the faint laughter as, up there, He looks down upon you, shaking his head at how foolish you are, that you can't see what's right in front of you...and He smiles mercifully and let's you learn your lesson, for your own good. But you hate it. And then you rise up on the next wave, and there you go again, forgetting everything you've learnt so far, all your determination, everything...and He laughs all the harder. Because he can see what you can't: Life, waiting just around the corner, foot raised for the next Kick...
"This, too, shall pass."
"This, too, shall pass."
Friday, September 4, 2009
Why i believe God exists [and think you should, too!]
1. Because it's obvious?
Yeah, it really is! Think about it-What really are the chances of the Big bang explosion JUST happening? Imagine a really, REALLY long, winding road. Now imagine standing at one end of it, having never EVER traveled on it, not even knowing how long it is, properly, and being asked to guess the EXACT number of curves on it. What would you be ready to bet on getting it right? And then imagine being asked to describe each and every curve EXACTLY right, with details like angle of variation from previous line of travel, surroundings, amount of grass growing on the verge, etc etc. NOW what would you bet on it? Even provided you're drunk as an owl, aren't the odds glaringly obvious? Thats exactly what the Big Bang theory is. An infinitely long road from one single point to a universe...with each curve being an event in that chain...and each event having infinite possibilities...you get the picture. And, of course, the fact that the existence of the single point is ALSO suspect! Yeah, right. And people who believe in a MUCH more logical concept, a creator? Hell no, THEY are the fools! Look, people, when i look around at the world, and see the beautiful, greased machine that it is...perfectly self-preserving...unchanging even in constant change...the only discordant note in this beautiful, complicated chorus US humans, the probability of it all occurring by chance is SO impossible it simply vanishes for me. What IS it with people that the simple idea of something bigger and better than them is unbearable? Ha?
2. Because my ego ain't SO inflated...
that i can't take the idea. That, in my not-so-humble opinion, is the biggest issue people have with God. HOW can i agree that there is someone out there who's so much better than me that if i live for a thousand years, or more, i'll still just be a tiny, infinitesimal point in front of His almighty hugeness? NO chance! I'd much rather bury my head in the sand and spend my life denying that i ain't the best thing in the world. I control everything! Yeah, i ain't a big fan of the whole "You build your own destiny" thing either. There are, and will always be, uncontrollable elements in your life. Loads and loads of them. Of course, no one says that you stop trying to make your life better than it is and blame it all on Fate...but if it ain't there for you, you ain't gonna get it. However much you struggle. All the facts are right there in front of you, dude! Just look at 'em.
3. 'Cuz the Holy Books say so.
No, the idea ain't as absurd as it looks at first. What many non-believers say about the great religions is that they were just invented by some really smart ancestors so that people would live their lives well, and being afraid of an after-life and a greater power and so on, would be more afraid to commit crimes and be anti-social. Also, as an added bonus, the mythical ancestor would get a free fan-following, people listening to whatever he said, and loads of cash [or kind, depending on the time-span] for doing nothing but sitting around blessing people. And, maybe, it would generate employment in the future, what with all the people needed for building temples and all the priests, etc. All fine, but i see two holes in this theory. First, the scale of what some of these Books say is so vast [for example, the Hindu culture lists 330,000,000 SUB-Gods alone, and yeah, they all have a name and function. Would YOU sit around making something like that up just for those motivations?] that it is really tough to imagine anyone who had the brains, the patience, and the TIME for writing all that as human anyways. A person that smart? And getting power at that scale, with people doing whatever you told them to, it would take someone of such pure spirit not to go crazy with the power that he really would deserve to be called a God. [Evidence that their power didn't drive them mad? Read some of those Books!]
And second, if there was such a person, who was so sweet and kind and compassionate that he thought about all the future generations till the end of the world-why would he lie about what he was saying? Maybe, just maybe, honesty was another of his long list of qualities? Think about it...
4. 'Cuz atheism, or even agnosticism, is a REALLY lame excuse...
for running away from what you KNOW you're doing. A flimsy, lace curtain you hide behind, because you realize completely, that if all, or even ANY, of the religionists are right, you are majorly screwed after you die. Because hell, in none of the religions, is an attractive place, and heaven, in all of them, is definitely not where YOU are heading! Because you don't want to learn any kind of control over yourself, want to do everything that is morally discouraged in life, want to break every rule in the Book, and then want to believe you won't even be punished for it. But, trust me, you're screwed anyway. Try telling an angry patrolman on the streets that you don't believe driving drunk is illegal and just see what you get. So, cuz there ain't any running away from THIS court of law, you're much better off finding out, and following, the rules don't you think? And even if it ain't true at all about the afterlife, all you're really losing from staying away from alcohol, drugs, tobacco and crime is a huge load on your conscience, a screwed up liver, and every kind of cancer you can think of. And some that you can't. And if, by chance, it is, and you insist on doing things they say you shouldn't... Make sense to you? Sure did to me
That is mostly it. I ain't saying you should become a Vaishnav [like me], or a Christian, or a Muslim. Not yet, anyways! That is entirely your pick. After all, you never know which one might be right! [Actually, they all are, but that's another long story for later...] So i ain't some religious fanatic just waiting to get up and riot all because you call God something different...or don't believe in Him at all...nope. I'm just stating my opinion...and hoping it gets YOU thinking...please comment.
Yeah, it really is! Think about it-What really are the chances of the Big bang explosion JUST happening? Imagine a really, REALLY long, winding road. Now imagine standing at one end of it, having never EVER traveled on it, not even knowing how long it is, properly, and being asked to guess the EXACT number of curves on it. What would you be ready to bet on getting it right? And then imagine being asked to describe each and every curve EXACTLY right, with details like angle of variation from previous line of travel, surroundings, amount of grass growing on the verge, etc etc. NOW what would you bet on it? Even provided you're drunk as an owl, aren't the odds glaringly obvious? Thats exactly what the Big Bang theory is. An infinitely long road from one single point to a universe...with each curve being an event in that chain...and each event having infinite possibilities...you get the picture. And, of course, the fact that the existence of the single point is ALSO suspect! Yeah, right. And people who believe in a MUCH more logical concept, a creator? Hell no, THEY are the fools! Look, people, when i look around at the world, and see the beautiful, greased machine that it is...perfectly self-preserving...unchanging even in constant change...the only discordant note in this beautiful, complicated chorus US humans, the probability of it all occurring by chance is SO impossible it simply vanishes for me. What IS it with people that the simple idea of something bigger and better than them is unbearable? Ha?
2. Because my ego ain't SO inflated...
that i can't take the idea. That, in my not-so-humble opinion, is the biggest issue people have with God. HOW can i agree that there is someone out there who's so much better than me that if i live for a thousand years, or more, i'll still just be a tiny, infinitesimal point in front of His almighty hugeness? NO chance! I'd much rather bury my head in the sand and spend my life denying that i ain't the best thing in the world. I control everything! Yeah, i ain't a big fan of the whole "You build your own destiny" thing either. There are, and will always be, uncontrollable elements in your life. Loads and loads of them. Of course, no one says that you stop trying to make your life better than it is and blame it all on Fate...but if it ain't there for you, you ain't gonna get it. However much you struggle. All the facts are right there in front of you, dude! Just look at 'em.
3. 'Cuz the Holy Books say so.
No, the idea ain't as absurd as it looks at first. What many non-believers say about the great religions is that they were just invented by some really smart ancestors so that people would live their lives well, and being afraid of an after-life and a greater power and so on, would be more afraid to commit crimes and be anti-social. Also, as an added bonus, the mythical ancestor would get a free fan-following, people listening to whatever he said, and loads of cash [or kind, depending on the time-span] for doing nothing but sitting around blessing people. And, maybe, it would generate employment in the future, what with all the people needed for building temples and all the priests, etc. All fine, but i see two holes in this theory. First, the scale of what some of these Books say is so vast [for example, the Hindu culture lists 330,000,000 SUB-Gods alone, and yeah, they all have a name and function. Would YOU sit around making something like that up just for those motivations?] that it is really tough to imagine anyone who had the brains, the patience, and the TIME for writing all that as human anyways. A person that smart? And getting power at that scale, with people doing whatever you told them to, it would take someone of such pure spirit not to go crazy with the power that he really would deserve to be called a God. [Evidence that their power didn't drive them mad? Read some of those Books!]
And second, if there was such a person, who was so sweet and kind and compassionate that he thought about all the future generations till the end of the world-why would he lie about what he was saying? Maybe, just maybe, honesty was another of his long list of qualities? Think about it...
4. 'Cuz atheism, or even agnosticism, is a REALLY lame excuse...
for running away from what you KNOW you're doing. A flimsy, lace curtain you hide behind, because you realize completely, that if all, or even ANY, of the religionists are right, you are majorly screwed after you die. Because hell, in none of the religions, is an attractive place, and heaven, in all of them, is definitely not where YOU are heading! Because you don't want to learn any kind of control over yourself, want to do everything that is morally discouraged in life, want to break every rule in the Book, and then want to believe you won't even be punished for it. But, trust me, you're screwed anyway. Try telling an angry patrolman on the streets that you don't believe driving drunk is illegal and just see what you get. So, cuz there ain't any running away from THIS court of law, you're much better off finding out, and following, the rules don't you think? And even if it ain't true at all about the afterlife, all you're really losing from staying away from alcohol, drugs, tobacco and crime is a huge load on your conscience, a screwed up liver, and every kind of cancer you can think of. And some that you can't. And if, by chance, it is, and you insist on doing things they say you shouldn't... Make sense to you? Sure did to me
That is mostly it. I ain't saying you should become a Vaishnav [like me], or a Christian, or a Muslim. Not yet, anyways! That is entirely your pick. After all, you never know which one might be right! [Actually, they all are, but that's another long story for later...] So i ain't some religious fanatic just waiting to get up and riot all because you call God something different...or don't believe in Him at all...nope. I'm just stating my opinion...and hoping it gets YOU thinking...please comment.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
That strange impulse...
You felt it? That weird, no-real-thought-behind-it nerve signal that motors you, invariably, into something that you regret later? Something you say, with this evil kinda rush of sadistic satisfaction as you realize, in your rage, that you've really crossed the line with this one...that THIS one is really gonna hurt? Or the same evil, animal rush as you literally cross the line and commit an act you don't really mean to, physically ripping through that barrier of 'civilization' that we humans have built around ourselves over the ages...letting savage instinct take over? Or it might not be anger...just something that you end up, without knowing how, doing...and then thinking about all the reasons why you REALLY shouldn't have later, when its way too late? I have...how many ever times too many! Hand of fate? Plain human stupidity? Or is it just me and the voices in my head? [Sigh...!]
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