Hi. I'm Souvik. Souvik Mazumdar. I live in Bihar and I belong from a bengali family. Hindu Bengali family. To be more specific.
I'm mentioning all of this very precisely because it matters af in our society. We are living in 21st century today by books but we are still talking about cast, creed, color and many more useless things .
I am a Hindu because my parents are hindu. Religion doesn't play any vital role in deciding my life goals or simply my day.
I can't mention a single thing which I got from my religion and that helps anyway, anywhere in my life.
I am just grateful to my parents , because they are the reason of my existence and to be honest, my parents never told me to act like a hindu, do worship, going to temples and all. It doesn't mean that I am an atheist. No it's not. I pray to God everyday, only the thing is, I don't try to find them in the temples or somewhere else, rather I feel his aura somewhere in the air, I breathe in and the place I live. I firmly believe, every single thing that is positive, is the Godly thing and bads are evil.
The moment you start believing to much in ritualism, you start going on the way people want you to. There are people and institution around us that try to brainwash us and show a different path and a different way to believing in God.
For example, some temples in South India have so much wealth that is beyond our imagination.
Leave that part, we shower tons of milk on our beloved god that is a total waste.
Why would gods be happy by wasting tons and tons of milk on them?
We need to be really practical.
If we want to get blessings from God, we should use that milk in feeding the malnutritioned kids. India has a huge number of malnutritioned kids, more than 20% of the Indian population is living below the poverty line, we should use our money (if we want) for the betterment of that class.
Religion is made to unite people, teaching good things and not to harass us.
Appalling side of religion is seen everywhere these days. You are scared by the institutions that are self proclaimed spokesperson of God.
And the most suffered class is the lower-middle class and the BPL class.
Reason being , Lower middle class is such a class that is suppressed and scared by its own dreams. The feeling of being failed to achieve them fills them with immense terror and if someone says that doing any rituals will give them the assurance of achieving their dreams or wishes, they will do it, blind-folded.
Talking of the BPL class, they don't even have the essential resources for the development of them, they are the illiterate class, they believe too soon.
Most of the people of this class believe that their poverty is the curse of God for the sins they have committed either in this life or some previous life and they waste on getting out of the sins and become poorer day by day.
I'm mentioning all of this very precisely because it matters af in our society. We are living in 21st century today by books but we are still talking about cast, creed, color and many more useless things .
I am a Hindu because my parents are hindu. Religion doesn't play any vital role in deciding my life goals or simply my day.
I can't mention a single thing which I got from my religion and that helps anyway, anywhere in my life.
I am just grateful to my parents , because they are the reason of my existence and to be honest, my parents never told me to act like a hindu, do worship, going to temples and all. It doesn't mean that I am an atheist. No it's not. I pray to God everyday, only the thing is, I don't try to find them in the temples or somewhere else, rather I feel his aura somewhere in the air, I breathe in and the place I live. I firmly believe, every single thing that is positive, is the Godly thing and bads are evil.
The moment you start believing to much in ritualism, you start going on the way people want you to. There are people and institution around us that try to brainwash us and show a different path and a different way to believing in God.
For example, some temples in South India have so much wealth that is beyond our imagination.
Leave that part, we shower tons of milk on our beloved god that is a total waste.
Why would gods be happy by wasting tons and tons of milk on them?
We need to be really practical.
If we want to get blessings from God, we should use that milk in feeding the malnutritioned kids. India has a huge number of malnutritioned kids, more than 20% of the Indian population is living below the poverty line, we should use our money (if we want) for the betterment of that class.
Religion is made to unite people, teaching good things and not to harass us.
Appalling side of religion is seen everywhere these days. You are scared by the institutions that are self proclaimed spokesperson of God.
And the most suffered class is the lower-middle class and the BPL class.
Reason being , Lower middle class is such a class that is suppressed and scared by its own dreams. The feeling of being failed to achieve them fills them with immense terror and if someone says that doing any rituals will give them the assurance of achieving their dreams or wishes, they will do it, blind-folded.
Talking of the BPL class, they don't even have the essential resources for the development of them, they are the illiterate class, they believe too soon.
Most of the people of this class believe that their poverty is the curse of God for the sins they have committed either in this life or some previous life and they waste on getting out of the sins and become poorer day by day.
What should be done?
This is a problem that can't be solved with some kind of magic. Toughest task in the world to break some firm belief, so we shouldn't try to break their belief, rather we should try to emphasize on providing the people quality education that should help them giving the capability to differ between right and wrong, fact and misconceptions.
It will provide them practical approach of thinking & once they start understanding things, once they start taking things logically, they will start believing in humanity and not on this artificial religion...
This is a problem that can't be solved with some kind of magic. Toughest task in the world to break some firm belief, so we shouldn't try to break their belief, rather we should try to emphasize on providing the people quality education that should help them giving the capability to differ between right and wrong, fact and misconceptions.
It will provide them practical approach of thinking & once they start understanding things, once they start taking things logically, they will start believing in humanity and not on this artificial religion...
P.S -Things are missing here. Which is obvious. May be after posting this article , I'll realise that some good things are missing. That's life....
