Monday, August 13, 2012

Religious Vandals: Criticism of elements in Islam

It is necessary to form an alliance of men who value basic Human decency above all religious Dogmas. Religions receive a cultural and personal space .But No more shall we let go the religious vandalism and indecency unopposed . The Way has to be civil .For the Civil culture where Freedom of speech is valued and practiced fairly is far more important invention for mankind than any of the religious Dogmas and traditions. Human decency is above any God.
Religion is for peace is an obsolete sentence now given the bloody History of almost all Organized religions .Islam In particular because Over the years I have come to conclusion that it the most Notorious of them all .We can no longer let them drag entire world into irrationalities of dark bygone ages. A religion Like Islam has always been Imperialistic .A child of authoritarian struggle in 7th and 8th century desert land of Middle east Asia. It is gravely stuck into the culture of aggressive nomadism and clan clashes. May be that was the way of living then .Not an Ideal way but a practical way of semi-cultured nomads constantly engaged in their own safety and power struggles.
It’s a culture based on a Law book allegedly Given By God itself. With certain aspects having universal appeal like ‘Charity ‘ and ‘Brotherhood ‘but is by no means entirely universal or absolute. It is in fact quite fiercely stuck to its chaotic timeline, especially in terms of its treatment to women and criminals or immediate outcries of war and violent conflicts . The Punishments and the way of judgment prescribed would be entirely outrageous to our evolved notions of law and ethics these days.
.Personal Faith is not a problem. I am a strong believer in freedom of having a personal Faith. Problem arises when the followers of a Book take it as a absolute world from God and try to force it onto others ,using violent means .Anything That is so obviously caged in its time ,if taken as absolute , will definitely lead to myriad irrationalities for not just to the insiders of that law system but also to the rest of the world who otherwise have no attraction or even slight interest in that old Book .
The Book is full of Contradictions . Its not a fault within the context of Law given in the limited time zone (no Law is perfect) or even within context of literature .But the absolutism associated with it leads to fanaticism .And Its no secret .It is more vivid and dangerous in times where propaganda sharing is so simple through internet .All you have to do is start an internet website and put few pictures .Cry of ‘Honor and shame’ some quotes from the old book ,twisted to convenient extent and the general Human stupidity .You have a perfect mixture of irrationalities and fanaticism ,generated to an Organized terrorism or just vandalism of public property both within and outside of Islamic law system and societies.
The idea is not to target a particular culture .But to target the absolutism , intolerance or even worse the violent intolerance and the irrationalities that are a direct threat to world peace and Human Decency .
Human faith is a complex thing what pleasures people derive out of irrationalities is a matter of deep and collective psychoanalysis . But Freedom of speech is simple thing and Must be protected. So is Human decency. It is universal and above Islam, or any other religion for that matter . Nor should be there two ways of speaking against Human indecency without being afraid of any religion, terrorism, philosophy or dogma .
So If you find something dangerous to human decency always speak against it .Protest against it .Be proud of being a decent Human being and having spoken against dangerous superstitions of large groups prone to mass violence .Our ways have to be civil of course .

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Truth for sale?

When Paramhansa Yogananda landed into America in 1920 as per the suggestions of His teacher he didnt know

Monday, April 12, 2010

fear of the future

What makes us so afraid at times in life that we simply dont want to live a life and just run away from it?
Fear of life? fear of tomorrow? fear of a dead line? fear of future ? fear of failure?

Is this fear not triggering our levels of motivation in life? is there a way out of it?
My answer to the last question at present is neither affirmative nor negative and I am not to be intimidated by any ready made answers or quotable quotes or the talks of How I should remain in 'present''awareness' 'transformation' 'here' 'now' 'god' 'hamburgers' etc etc.

I sit here and I question this.Why? because I have fears ,if I had no fears would I even want to know what fears are?I am not worried about humanity or any other imagined entity right now...I see fears and I am trying to find out the exact meaning of it.

Then what is making me afraid? hmmm..lets see...its mostly a failure..I dont want to fail ..I dont want to be deprived of a cozy thought of success...I dont want to let many things Go....I dont want to face my past...

Many reasons..Its interesting how there is 'I' In every one of them...Can I scrutinize the I? I try...There are many things I collectively call as I ..a thinking process..this body...both combined ....neither ....All of them talk about soul but I cant feel any soul...I can imagine it to be many things but I cant feel it...
Anyway..I focus on my fear...and as I am writing this they dont feel to be existent...so through a momentary one pointedness of attention or a simple distraction they dont have a valid(felt) existence.

Lets keep this pending for you.As I go into serenity for time being.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Of Instincts

The constant need of man to devote himself to an ideal that exists without amazes me.When did we learn to distrust ourselves and started believing in something that always existed outside us?...Any Idea, however noble, if it does not come from inside out It bears a very little significance.
The faculty of memory and recall is at the bottom of all intellectualization and excessive rationalization ...The free will and instincts that exist beyond the realm of simple memory-recall mechanism is invariably and unfortunately ignored...

a set of rules..even if it shall exist has to come from a whole hearted sensitivity towards the surrounding-individual dynamics and not from the concrete ideas of moralities.
Thus an objective set of moral values cannot be decided and forever followed. It must be individualistically deduced(or may be induced) from the knowledge of all that exists in us .
Freedom of will cannot be underestimated....the common ideals can never be realized...each individual must be curled up in himself/herself....
The submission of will is lack of life....there is no such thing as artificial intelligence vs natural intelligence.....because all form of intelligence is essentially artificial...
Value of life is in its natural instincts and not in the effectiveness of memory-recall mechanism.

In this regard,Human intellect does have limited yet definite significance at least inside Civilizations.But its not an ideal in itself. It is something to be mastered and triumphed over through the natural power to evolve.The desire to overcome the intellect and a mere pond of thoughts to transcend into the realm of what exists in reality and not just in our limited memory and perception is a very important one if we wish to separate ourselves from apes.Even the animals live a 'better' life than most of the civilized Humans(may be all of them) as in the bigger picture all of us are impermanent..and just because we have created artificial bunch of imaginary ideals for us doesnt really make us any special....

The truth is that there is no natural difference between any other living consciousness(that includes even unicellular organisms) and Humans as far as the 'quality' of life is considered....because it is the 'lifeness of life' itself that is more important than whichever organic form it exists in....

Which Brings us to the very Idea of realizing of our Highest ideal....the identification of ourselves with everything else by constant inward knowledge of ourselves on all fronts....In this regard Human intellect ,which is just an organic tool..(like the venom of snake or claws of tiger or tail of a monkey),is of secondary significance

Thus a natural instinct 'to live' ,'to see','to hear','to taste','to feel' in its most purest form is always more important than the intellectual yearnings of 'to achieve' ,'to succeed' 'to follow'....