Wednesday, June 07, 2023
One prayer
Be a God follower and not a religion follower. Religion packages God into brands like packaged food or drink. Like food and drink that nourishes your physical body, God nourishes your soul. So you can choose any brand of religion that may help you attain this spiritual nourishment and enlightenment.
Many follow and stick into the religion they are born. No harm at all. Harm begins when you become ambassadors or models of your religion to prove your religion is the best. Just like models who in advertisements for brands of food, drink, clothing, etc. The bigger harm is when we blindly follow role models or ambassadors of religions who are the spiritual leaders of any religion.
Good leaders in religion or for that matter anywhere. Be it politics or Businesses are now a diminishing species nearing extinction or even extinct. Very few stories you hear of humanity of people reaching out. Unfortunately most of these (or maybe all) are ordinary individuals not religious leaders. So it is no good being a leader that cannot be a front foot infantry to fight evil and do good.
Most of these religious leaders now merged with political leaders have become the most lethal WMD. Weapons of not just Mass Destruction but even Moral Destruction. Dividing people on religion, racial or human created lines of caste? To the extent creating divisiveness in religion where wars have been fought. Yet all religions claim God is one and trying to prove their version of God is the one God. At the same time religions have many manifestations their God or even different Gods. Then proving oneness of many Gods in the same religion as one?? Even God on High is getting confused.
Then comes the rituals of prayers claiming to worship and honor God. Which God wants honor of us creation which he created? Rituals from sacrifice of animals, to burning candles or fragrance burning or self inflicting wounds or abstinence or fasting? Does God want animals to satiate his hunger? Candles for him to navigate in the dark? Fragrance for God, maybe even God cannot bear the stink of the world himans have made it into? Inflicting wounds and then praying when sick? Abstinence and fasting is when God actually laughs. God wants us to abstain from evil and that we will never do? Fasting???? Instead why not feed the hungry?
Even our prayers? It is only asking God and very rarely Thanking God! Does goes God need to be prayed too for what we need? He accepts and answers only one prayer.
Pray to control our greed and reach out to those in need.
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