27th sept.
I recently read abook "BoonIsland "by Kenneth Roberts .It is about a ship named 'Nottingham ' which sanknear Boon Island along the sea coast of southern Maine in 1710 .It is a remarkable story of survivors .One paragraph whisch made a lot of impact on me was about how Captain Dean prays to God .All the fourteen survivors were in a very bad shape surviving on Sea weed in bitter cold without fire or clothing and yet The Captain does not ask God for any thing .He says "If God feels we should be helped,I think he ought to work it out in his own way.I don,t feel qualified to tell God what to do and how to do it " I think this is real prayer but very often we find people bring down God to our own level .I have never been able to understand how can our wishes be fulfilled if we pray in one temple rather than the other one .Are there different Gods living in different temples or church ,mosque 'Gurudwara or Synagogue ?.If we pray at any place of worship or for that matter at home will not we be praying to the same God ? I have been asked who is my favourite deity Ganesh ,Shiva ,Rama or Durga ?Are they different ?I believe there is a supreme power and by whatever name we call Him we call out to the same God .
Similarly I have never been able to figure out the reasons why some days are more auspicious than others ?The names we give to different days are not given by God We named them for our convenience Sunday is sacred for Christians ,Friday for Jews and Muslims .Hindus will not eat non veg food on tuesday .Iam all for vegetarianism (though I do relish non veg.)I believe it is best not to eat but than why only on Tuesday ?Why not on all days ?Similarly there are periods which are auspicious and in auspicious .Incidentally it is an inauspicious period running now (maybe I shdn,t have started my blog ?)This also I simply can not fathom .
I suppose it is a matter of faith and well faith is just that faith .
I recently read abook "BoonIsland "by Kenneth Roberts .It is about a ship named 'Nottingham ' which sanknear Boon Island along the sea coast of southern Maine in 1710 .It is a remarkable story of survivors .One paragraph whisch made a lot of impact on me was about how Captain Dean prays to God .All the fourteen survivors were in a very bad shape surviving on Sea weed in bitter cold without fire or clothing and yet The Captain does not ask God for any thing .He says "If God feels we should be helped,I think he ought to work it out in his own way.I don,t feel qualified to tell God what to do and how to do it " I think this is real prayer but very often we find people bring down God to our own level .I have never been able to understand how can our wishes be fulfilled if we pray in one temple rather than the other one .Are there different Gods living in different temples or church ,mosque 'Gurudwara or Synagogue ?.If we pray at any place of worship or for that matter at home will not we be praying to the same God ? I have been asked who is my favourite deity Ganesh ,Shiva ,Rama or Durga ?Are they different ?I believe there is a supreme power and by whatever name we call Him we call out to the same God .
Similarly I have never been able to figure out the reasons why some days are more auspicious than others ?The names we give to different days are not given by God We named them for our convenience Sunday is sacred for Christians ,Friday for Jews and Muslims .Hindus will not eat non veg food on tuesday .Iam all for vegetarianism (though I do relish non veg.)I believe it is best not to eat but than why only on Tuesday ?Why not on all days ?Similarly there are periods which are auspicious and in auspicious .Incidentally it is an inauspicious period running now (maybe I shdn,t have started my blog ?)This also I simply can not fathom .
I suppose it is a matter of faith and well faith is just that faith .
posted by Pushpa Bhatnagar at 1:38 AM
1 Comments:
I do agree with you in fact religion as we know it, in my opinion was a replacement for what we call constution, Laws and norms of society. Religion probably was started to ensure that people live a life which was acceptable to others and followed the norms thus laid. vegeterianism, isms , different types or faces of god were perhaps each individual society or group trying to manifest its uniqueness. Perhaps over the time the differences blurred and what we have today is man's bsic nature of trying to profit from everything and anything around him.
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