Finding God is a tumultuous task. To say that you are still finding God at 26 would sound like an infidel. To say that you do not agree with what the religious people preach would make you sound like an anti-Christ for the Christians, like dajjal for Muslims.
People may settle down and be satisfied with what they believe in. Like a religious person said when we met one fine evening. To follow without any question is also good he said; there is a term to describe this sort of people, I care not to remember because I would never agree. The simplistic view is not for me and in fact, it would not be suitable for most of the people, except the retarded.
Never would it be a complete understanding without us making the effort to understand God. Mere rituals are not sufficient. Mere rituals are for the people who are incapable of synthesis. For us, the people who are capable of thinking need to offer more than that to understand the religion and God.
Mere rituals after generations to come will lost in translation. A person praying to God in the last generation would not feel as deep as what is felt by the person in the generation before, the humility and transcendence degrade.
After a while, it would be like a mere tradition; a daunting effort to preserve tradition. It would feel like a torment following rituals devoid of any spiritual significance.
That is the risk, my friends, of keeping spiritual transcendence as mere ritual
Monday, April 20, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Azrul is Finding God: Prelude
Time and again, religion and God recur. God and the lack thereof.
Since antiquity, human have many perception of God and religion. The creation of superior being with many faces and forms. The pagans with the superior power of the sun and the moon, the colourful deities of the eastern religions and the God perceived with various level and depth by the Abrahamic religions’ followers.
Unlike the gravity and the unicellular plants, God and religion can never be observed and measured. It can only be reasoned. Like all reasoning, never would it come to a definitive conclusion seen in scientific experiments.
I am one of the people who are finding God. God is not as simple as following a religion; it is more than mere adherence to a particular belief. God, while some religions have their basic belief of God’s existence, is different for each individual. When some people believe that they share the same God, they are not fully right, as God is perceived differently.
Sometimes a classification of religion, to say you are Christian or Muslim, is just for the sake of classification. The differences of perception of God among the individuals in the same classification of religion vary as much as it is among different classification. Sometimes, a Muslim is different from another Muslim more than the perception difference of a Muslim to a Christian. That is how much God differs from one person to the other.
The differences in perception may not be seen clearly in physical sense. We always assume similarities with the help of our five simple senses. When we see a person wearing a skull cap or listen to a person talking the same language, the first impression is enough to impress on our psyche to accept a person to be similar or otherwise with us. That mere first impression has made a huge decision for the relationship.
The perception of God in a deeper level cannot be seen on the first impression. When we delve deeper into the other person’s perception, we see differences. The differences, the understandably complex interconnectivity of perception, the unknown in the brain; they are all making God an attractive subject to pursue,
I would be one of the people who would vehemently find God. We want to understand God better, better than our predecessors do. I personally think that we have the tools, we have existing knowledge, we have books, we have people who studied God, and we have better technology. All to our favour, it would be a shame to let them be without us trying to understand God is deeper sense.
Since antiquity, human have many perception of God and religion. The creation of superior being with many faces and forms. The pagans with the superior power of the sun and the moon, the colourful deities of the eastern religions and the God perceived with various level and depth by the Abrahamic religions’ followers.
Unlike the gravity and the unicellular plants, God and religion can never be observed and measured. It can only be reasoned. Like all reasoning, never would it come to a definitive conclusion seen in scientific experiments.
I am one of the people who are finding God. God is not as simple as following a religion; it is more than mere adherence to a particular belief. God, while some religions have their basic belief of God’s existence, is different for each individual. When some people believe that they share the same God, they are not fully right, as God is perceived differently.
Sometimes a classification of religion, to say you are Christian or Muslim, is just for the sake of classification. The differences of perception of God among the individuals in the same classification of religion vary as much as it is among different classification. Sometimes, a Muslim is different from another Muslim more than the perception difference of a Muslim to a Christian. That is how much God differs from one person to the other.
The differences in perception may not be seen clearly in physical sense. We always assume similarities with the help of our five simple senses. When we see a person wearing a skull cap or listen to a person talking the same language, the first impression is enough to impress on our psyche to accept a person to be similar or otherwise with us. That mere first impression has made a huge decision for the relationship.
The perception of God in a deeper level cannot be seen on the first impression. When we delve deeper into the other person’s perception, we see differences. The differences, the understandably complex interconnectivity of perception, the unknown in the brain; they are all making God an attractive subject to pursue,
I would be one of the people who would vehemently find God. We want to understand God better, better than our predecessors do. I personally think that we have the tools, we have existing knowledge, we have books, we have people who studied God, and we have better technology. All to our favour, it would be a shame to let them be without us trying to understand God is deeper sense.
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