I have heard an incident.
Those were war days, and bombardment started suddenly.
On a lonely path a priest was going somewhere.
Running quickly, he took a shelter in a cave in which foxes lived.
As soon as he reached inside, he saw that a military officer had already been hiding there.
That officer moved to a corner so that there could be room for the new comer.
Then the bombs started falling in the vicinity. The priest started trembling.
He sat and started praying to God .
He was praying loudly when he lifted his eyes, he found that military officer was also praying as loudly as he. When the attack ended, that priest asked the military officer: ”Brother, I saw that you were also praying?” that military officer started laughing and said : ”Sir, where could there be an atheist in the cave of foxes?”
“Are you also not searching for God because of fear? Are your prayers also not based on fear?”
Remember that the religion based on fear is not true religion
I prefer a fearless atheist to a theist who is afraid; because it is impossible to reach God through fear.
The first condition to find truth is fearlessness.
And think over, can fear ever become love? If fear cannot become love that how can it become prayer?
Prayer is perfection of love.
But in the foundation of temples, made by men, there is this brick of fear; and the God carved out of the fear is made with the feeling of fear. It is for this reason that all that we possess is untrue; because what could be true with those whose God himself was not true?
And where is the wonder that very breath of those be false whose thoughts are untrue, whose love is untrue, whose prayer is untrue?
Through love; prayer is true only through love.
And through knowledge and only through knowledge can he be known who exists.
I say love, and the intensity of love alone converts life into prayer. I say: awaken your own intellect, because the awakening of that alone leads to a view of God.
Love and intellect- he who has understood these two basic mantras can know all that should be known, that is worth knowing, and can be known.
Where is the temple of God? When some one ask me, I tell him;” That is in love; in intellect.”
Surely, love is God. Intellect is God.
We can see all the hindu gods carrying some thing or he is having a elephant head. The man is cunning enough to keep his names also it seems that God looked at vignahartha is the biggest problem in our society.
All stories written on them seems the stories written by a third grade movie script writer.
It is easy to be a sculptor because you are working with lifeless objects. You can create beautiful statues but those statues are dead. You cannot relate with them, you are alive. There is no dialogue possible between life and death.
You can appreciate; you can enjoy; it is your creation. You can feel fulfilled — whatever you wanted, you succeeded in doing it. But remember one thing: on the other side, there is no one. You are alone. U can keep saying any thing any mantra play any music u can make him sit in a swing & do all that u want no stopping of it..
Because of this situation, there are people who can love their dogs, who can love their gardens, who can love their cars, who can love anything in the world except man. Because man means you are not alone, the other is there. It is a dialogue. With a statue, it is a monologue. The statue is not going to say anything, is not going to criticize you, is not going to possess you. You possess the statue; you can sell it in the market. But that you cannot do with a human being. That is the problem.
When you start relating with human beings, you have to take into consideration that they are not things, they are consciousnesses. You cannot dominate them...although almost everybody is trying to do that, and spoiling their whole life. The moment you try to dominate a human being, you are creating an enemy, because that human being also wants to dominate. You may call it love, you may call it friendship, but behind the curtain of friendship and love and brotherhood there is a deep will to power. You want to dominate; you don’t want to be dominated.
With human beings, you will be in constant conflict. The closer you are, the more the conflict will hurt you. There are thousands of people who have been so wounded by human relationship that they have dropped out of all human love, friendship. They have turned towards things.
It is absolutely necessary that god should be dead or we can declare that he was never born
Imagine a world where no god exist just for some time see it….
God is not a solution but a problem & more over u can say it is the drugs given by the priest for people who r lazy tired & not able to solve their problems to make them temporarily happy but nothing changes it is a drug its effect is reduced u come back & ur problems r the same so u r kept 24 hrs drugged with any many reasons promising heaven, unlimited young, living forever, no work to do.. this is what u want & last thing is ur enemies shall suffer in hell & this gives us total happiness b’coz a sick mind is always comparing himself. Do not take any consolation for ur problems life is a matter of maybe 70 yrs it shall be gone soon. Anybody who gives u a belief system is ur enemy it is creating a barrier in ur eyes u need not search u hv got the best truth this is it & u shall live forever. I do understand that if all belief systems are removed all the fears inside shall surface & u hv to fight it alone so a crowd is good more people backing u better. But that shall give u the ultimate courage in u… truth is for the brave & its experience is for the strong hearted.
Freedom to me is the ultimate value nothing can be compromised for it whether holy or non holy freedom lost is self lost….
Hmm...
