Soul of Life

There is a wide spread belief among vast majority of people that a soul is sent on the planet by God that outlives a mortal life and can’t defeat even death.  This notion that probably came from the religious teachings (considered as unsubstantiated truth) is actually creating multiple problems to its adherents.

On dispassionate thinking under scientific scrutiny, it has been proved beyond anyone’s doubt that neither does a soul enter into a newly-born baby nor does it depart when one life’s  comes to an end.  

Can anyone who contests the above statement tell what a soul is made of?  While one can passionately argue and attempt to defend his false beliefs as absolute truth, it takes but a little common sense to conclude that all of this is but a figment of imagination that is largely influenced by a staunch belief in religion.

You can’t blame or praise the God for perpuating the idea of a cyclic karma (that is supposed to give birth to souls in the first place).  For it is not He who guides your life on earth. All events have a cascading effect-good or bad. And it is those events alone that affect the quality of your life.

In most of religions texts, the mere name of God is personified as sublime love that took life on earth to save the humanity. The essence of all Godly teachings exhorts the importance of pure love and care for the humanity. There are billions of people, who believe in God, worship him and engage in all rituals and prayers but do they really follow the meaning of religion? Even if a fraction of humanity would have really followed these principles, the world would have been a paradise!

Prayers, rites, and ceremonies are not a substitute for your own internal growth to become a better human being. We ignore the cardinal question of what is fundamentally wrong with us in our approach to the external world.  We are steeped in our own fantasies and cling to our prejudices. We are part of the ocean of vast humanity and our actions, communications, verbal or nonverbal affect the humanity. We accept ancient fables and superstitions of past. These old beliefs accompanied by endless ceremony and rituals only reinforce our false notions.

 Have we ever thought how the soul which can’t be characterised by any yardstick enters and departs and again re-enter in one’s body? Death is pronounced the moment we cease to breath any more. It is an organic death and decay. If we try to understand any one will be convinced that our beliefs have no basis.  Let us concentrate on our journey of life from birth to death. We wrongly believe that a non-existing entity influences us and our life is preordained. This fatalistic outlook destroys our own life.

Trust you are Godly and discover it within yourself. Fear-based doctrines have nothing to do with God. The faith in God, external or internal makes you more loving, bold, fearless, kind and humble and you treat everyone as your brother and sister.  There is no question of discrimination on the basis of religion, since it is an institutionalized belief system which has its self-interest to perpetuate. The world would be a different one when we turn the search lights inwards and promise that we will not curse, abuse or implore to be blessed.

We are complex carbon life form evolved over billions of years from cosmic dust. There is no supernatural being but natural bounties. Life is a fleeting moment. From cradle to grave it is an endless quest to discover the potential existing within each one of us. Blend your rational and spiritual self and see the world and its species, including humanity as an indivisible entity since we will live and prosper only by realising this simple truth!