Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. *Kidding 🙂
There are around 4300 religions in the world, while some of them are very popular and widely practiced, many of them are not that lucky, as some of them. To avoid any religious, cultural, political, and all other conflicts in the world, which are based on religious sentiments, I won’t take any names today.
Rather, we will look into another perspective, a deeper one that is uniform throughout all religions.
Faith!
People follow religions, they live by them. They spend their whole life honoring and appreciating various aspects of their respective religion. All of them promise happiness in the end. And since we all want happiness, religion is the most promising and convenient choice.
But, in the end, it is a thought. A thought that guarantees happiness, contentment, and Moksha in the end. People who don’t understand Moksha, it is a term in Hinduism, which means you are completely free from anything which binds you.
Wow! It’s such a wonderful thing to experience, though we don’t know how it feels to attain Moksha, certainly I look forward to it someday. Some of us also imagine heaven, well we don’t know how does it feel when we are into Jannat.
For those, who don’t understand Jannat, it is an Islamic perspective towards heaven. In Christianity, heaven is seen from a different perspective. But we are humans, heaven would be heaven only for us, no matter which perspective we see it from.
Now, why I am talking about, religious things, when the objective of this article Is to be completely neutral towards any perspective. Because these are the things that everybody wants in life.
Science is also a kind of religion only, in my perspective of course. This is an exploratory religion, who doesn’t know everything yet, but they are curious to know. The best thing is we can couple with any other religion very easily.
We can be a religious person, and at the same time, we can appreciate scientific accomplishments. Now, again apologies for drifting to the topic again. But mai Kabhi Kabhi idhaar udhar nikal jata hun. *😊
I think religion is all about faith. Faith that there is something beyond us, which is doing everything around us. We are programmed. If not digitally, but definitely thorough some other technology. Technology wide enough to spread across the cosmos.
And, we might just be in a test tube of someone’s laboratory. Our perspective towards the size of any object is completely a reference to our own standards. Nature doesn’t use our measurement system.
But we need this faith. We need to believe spiritually that there is something that will bring success and peace to my body, and my soul. There will be something who will help me to build something up. I will do the hard work and that outer power will bring the results.
For those, just don’t give a shit about religion and the concept of faith can definitely agree with the power of our subconscious mind. Amygdala is a small part of our brain, and it stores our reaction to any situation.
Have you experienced sudden waking up, maybe out of fear, or noise? People often wake up from dreams terrified, suddenly our body comes into motion, while it was completely resting a few seconds before. Well, Amygdala does it for us.
Amazing technology. Wow!
Our subconscious mind is already trained and working on its own, we can’t control it, it will keep on working because it is programmed like that. Can we think of evolution as an updated version of an Android App?
Fishes started coming out of the water, so they released fish 1.1 which can come out and move on land. Well, we can think of anything, and in the end, life will feel like a joke. But it is funny and adventurous, colorful, and exciting. Life is awesome. *Most of the time.
Now, let’s get back to the faith. We need it. Otherwise, there is no meaning to anything. We need to have faith to give meaning to our life. Even if we strictly follow evolution, we need to have faith in the natural forces of this universe.
Now, we know how important faith is, You can YouTube thousands of videos regarding the benefits of faith. My objective is to establish its importance. You can reason with millions of other experts; I just want to say it.
Hence, this relates us back to our main protagonist here, religion. We need religion because we need faith. If religion is hard, we can find anything else. But, why to have faith in anything else, when we can have faith in ourselves?
I wonder.
We need religion because we need faith.
~R
An Observer 