Why

I walk in the park and see many people. The faces tell me a story and I like to read these stories. 

The stories are regular features of hate, love, depression, sadness, remorse and the other parts of life. In one of my walks, I sat by a bench and was in my own thoughts when an elderly gentleman came to sit next to me. He was in pain and I could read the story on his face. Duty bound and looking to better the world, I ventured to speak with him.

"Good evening, sir! Isnt this a beautiful place to be"

I dont think he wanted to speak and shared a mute reaction to my statement. I also did not venture further as it was his choice to be on his own and I should respect it.

I sat there on my own realising we are the cause of the why!

Why did this happen to me? Why am I suffering? Why can't good things happen to me? Why am I always the loser?

The "why" in our lives is a place that we are not able to remove./We chose to make ourselves the victim rather than the winner. By questioning our situation at that moment, we forget to understand the universe and it's creation. And since we fail to understand the universe, we fail to understand ourselves.

The question we could be asking ourselves is, why was I born? why did I get to breathe life? why did the sun rise from the east and set in the west? why do plants have veins on their leaves? why do I have veins inside my skin?

Let your mind wander to the nature of truth and realisation. There is a lot, you and I can learn from nature and we can have ourselves associated with such beauty that we would realise how nature forms the part of our universe. In finding the answers to these questions, we will be better equipped to find the answers of life.

No, we do not have to become a sage or a sanyasi or wander off into the jungle to find the answers. All we need to do it take the time in the course of lives to notice people around us, notice the environment around us. See how life builds itself around us. We are part of the universe, there is a reason for our birth and our lives. Find the purpose of your life, and keep asking the why till you have a suitable answer to it.

The pursuit of the Why will bring you to the feet of your problems which you can dust and walk along with a smile.

Remember, all you need to do is ask, "Why?"

God lives in us....

The creator named in different formats of God, Bhagwan, Allah, Yahweh, Elohim, Jehovah, Waheguru, Nirankar, etc. are good for the whole world to worship their deity and be one in spirit. No faith has ever entrusted a human to steal, hurt or take the life of his/her neighbours. There is only love and peace professed by each faith.

I take my strength from the word of god and profess it into my daily life, why then should I bow down to the hate mongers or the liars who are now doing well but eventually suffer for their misdeeds. There are many ways for me to be in the path of the light and see the way forward. The books of god, the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Hebrew Bible, the Buddhist texts, the Jain Agamas, etc. have words that create a path for each of us to walk on. Having read a combination of the scriptures from different faiths, one would come to realise the coincidence in the words used to describe the same parable of humility and brotherhood. The language maybe different but there is definitely a common point where all of them meet.

The beauty of religion is that it was never meant to be religion but a way of life. A style, a code, an ethic of living. It was taught to over come the evils that society of the time had cuddled against its chest. There was no love in the hearts of the humans that existed. Strength and power were the only way to show case the dominance of the weak. Sharing, caring, love, were words of the weak. The wealthy and the rich would feed on the ignorance and stupidity of the poor.

Not that much has changed in todays times, but diplomacy has painted a new face on the wicked and made them look good as well. There are still the evil lords of earth who tread without the fear of hurting others and ensuring that their will be done.

But in all of this, there is always the remembrance of the good deeds and the change that the world is slowly moving towards a world with no boundaries. A world with no religion, a world with no caste, no creed, no colour of the skin to differentiate the beings from each other.

God in his own abundance, is clearing the path of life in different languages and bringing about a change in a way that we would not be imagining. The end of days for evil to exist is dawning soon, and who knows you may be the angel of change who may just be the last to nail it to its grave. For god lives in us!!!