Apart from climate deterioration and energy exhaustion, the most gruesome enemy which our world is having right now is "Religion". Religion has been breeding in our world for thousands of years and history has witnessed several highs and lows throughout its journey. It has always kept humans trapped inside its constraints by not allowing us to speak out our mind. Just like an innocent newly born human baby, which is devoid of any negative thoughts, ego, selfishness and greed, every religion was born like an innocent child. But as age goes on, the child starts absorbing the negatives. But there is a difference between this newly born child and newly born religion. While the former has its originality, the latter is full of artificiality. Artificiality in the sense that, the latter is made to take birth by a group or an individual with a view of some selfish motives. Initially, it is showcased as an innocent child in front of the masses, but a very few understand the hidden agenda. It is showcased as being filled with love, but a very few or none understand that this love is restricted to its own people only. This love gets evaporated when it crosses the so called "religious boundaries". If we closely interpret all the religious scriptures, we will find that every religion has the same philosophies to say. Everything gets back to where it started, but the only difference is that they all are in a jumbled form. It depends on the degree of rationality of the interpreter, that how he/she interprets these with the correct meaning. Every religion in this world closes its doors for any kind of intermixing or exchange. Even though, there has been some kind of intermixing, but that too landed to form some other kind of religion. We all believe in some king of energy driving our universe. Religion is nothing but naming this energy with some name, and then calling it as the creator all of human races. I want to make a point here that, universe is not a home for only humans, every living creature has been breeding here ever since humans had or much before that also. These living creature have been living and abiding by the laws of nature without the support of any religion. Even though, there is a competition between them to survive, they have been living here in harmony for long. It is we humans who have disturbed the entire balance of nature. Nature has no religion, It only knows how to create, breed and destroy.
The main motive behind forcefully breeding religion lies inside a few people who have been carrying out this breeding, ever since the founding of a religion, as a tradition. Motives have changed with time, from anarchic interest to monetary and interest for power to rule. This has divided our society into different cubicles, with every corner of each cubicle maintained at a distance from each other. Any attempt to lessen this distance is hampered by these few people. Masses have been blindfolded by these people with very little space given for them to question. History has also seen plenty of reforms in age old religious practices and has to some measure made some positive changes. It has allowed a few to think outside the cubicle and has also gave them the confidence to question. Reforms have borne seeds of rationality inside some people which needs to grow so that the seeds of the fruits that they bear needs to passed on to a fertile mud. Here, the fertile mud is the mind of a child in the process of his/her growth, which is having a higher grasping rate than an infertile mud. This fertile mud needs to be taught to question the irrationality in the societal traditions. An infertile mud needs to be ploughed excessively and added with fertilizers,so that it becomes fertile.
I remember people saying that the mindset of the people of Kerala became broadened when there came a huge revolution with the advent of libraries in panchayats. Libraries became a place for these people to share their views and to read books related to variety of topic, be it the same which a person is supporting or totally opposite to his/her ideology. The main advantage of this is that we will have a wide angle of introspecting ability and will help our own self to grow outside the above mentioned cubicle. The main problem which is faced by the world is the inability to accept contrary views or the other versions. The publication of the book "300 versions of Ramayana" by A.K.Ramanujan was stopped by a few hooligans of ABVP, who called themselves the saviors of Hinduism. Acceptance of Valmiki's version and rejection of other versions shows the degree of fear inside these people. They fear that showcasing different versions will create a sense of rationality and questioning in the young minds, which they don't want to happen because this will become an obstacle for these opportunists for carrying out their selfish interests using their tool of religion. Same is the case with other religions, be it the ban on "Satanic Verses" or on "Da Vinci Code", such events have proven that the people behind these bans have the same motive throughout.
If there is an energy which drives this universe, then why is their any need to name, dress and depict this energy in different manner. Everybody is in a hurry to make this energy theirs and in that process, they create a set of rules and regulations to attract and restrict others so as to make them their followers. In due course of time, these regulations becomes teachings and in the end a religious scripture is born out of it. If a particular religion has a particular God, will it be necessary that a particular God will be a savior for followers of that religion. I mean, how can God be religious and biased. If the God has created this universe, then the same God will be unbiased and will not be a face of any particular religion. If the religions claim that Gods of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism etc. will help everybody who believe in them, irrespective of the caste, creed and race, then why do we have different Gods? Why can't we have a "Single God"? A single God for our universe. Yes, I agree that if we say that everybody has their way of worshipping their different Gods, then the question arises that, why do a person from a religion A is restricted to worship another religion B by his/her own people of the same religion. There answer is very easy. They are fearful that they might lose one follower if he/she worship another God of other religion. So, it is proven that, it is religion which is not allowing that person to move freely and thereby tying the hands. Religion preachers are very much aware of the fact that the mentality of these followers is like a "Sheep in a flock". But we will never think that how did human become a sheep in a flock. It is due to continuous mental pressurization and restriction that the humans are forced to behave like a sheep, otherwise if there were no cubicles, humans might have remained as humans and the number of Gods would have converged to one.
Why can't we humans believe in one single energy and teach our children and grandchildren a new way of life. A life of freedom, a life of independence to select, a life devoid of cubicles, a life where traditions intermix, a life where inter-religion marriages are never seen as blasphemous but seen as a positive interaction and exchange of values and traditions. Every night I think of such a world coming into being, but never get an answer, as I get doubtful seeing the present state of madness among us.
Will we get such a world ?????????
