Man has prayed to the power above us since time immemorial.None of us has seen God.Yet i have prayed...prayed everyday.I have often wondered about God but never doubted God's existence.I am not agnostic...certainly not.I believe there is a rhyme and reason to everything in this world.I guess that's what our myriad scriptures also say : there is an order a pattern to everything. How things happen daily,how our body works, how people talk, the rain, the sunshine, our busy lives, there is a set ordered pattern for everything.
There is even a reason behind our chaotic existence.Chaotic? Of course it is chaotic.Our lives are more mechanical than we can imagine and accept. Unwittingly, we have made ourselves like the
minute hands of the clock ticking away continuously.We are like puppets dancing away.How many of us have the time to stop and smell the roses?And yet there must be a reason behind our lives being so chaotic and mechanical.The fact that our chaotic , busy lives are small bits of an undisclosed broader picture cannot be overruled. I think it cannot be understood also.It is too complex to question the reason for our existence or to understand the broader picture.
But there are certain things that can be understood.....The fact that in spite of everything we still pray.We have progressed, are hard pressed for time, do not believe that God created us...but invariably we all do pray.I fail to buy it when someone says, he/she does not pray, does not feel the need to pray or does not believe in God to pray.That's hard to accept.One may never have believed in God or religion, never have been to a place of worship, but yet they must have prayed sometime in their lifetime.How? Because if one thinks more objectively, prayer is nothing but an appeal to the higher senses. Our notions of God and religion (most of them) are through man himself , but these higher senses are far more divine than we can probably know.These senses are within us and make us more human.One need not go to a church ,temple or mosque or any other place to pray.That may not be the only way to pray.When one pleads for mercy,for help, for justice ,he is praying.These higher senses, justice,mercy,compassion, understanding are too good to be human virtues.They are divinity manifested in all of us. I think god gave us that bit of himself to all of us when he sent us away.So when we pray to God, we just pray for the divinity to stay alive in all of us.
In other words we all pray to keep ourselves more human and less animal, even in our cluttered existence. We pray everyday for the human in us to rise above the animal. Some of us succeed and some do not. But consciously or unconsciously that is what we are doing when we pray. The broader picture remember? We have a penchant for complicating things but come to think of it things are quite simple and God is no complicated entity.He is right there and that's what some people have been trying to tell us all blokes since eternity ( all saints, gurus, messiahs everyone...)So for those of us who get cynical and say there is no humanity in this world...we are praying for it everyday...just that we don't realise it seems. So not everything lost for humanity , you see? not as yet.
There is even a reason behind our chaotic existence.Chaotic? Of course it is chaotic.Our lives are more mechanical than we can imagine and accept. Unwittingly, we have made ourselves like the
minute hands of the clock ticking away continuously.We are like puppets dancing away.How many of us have the time to stop and smell the roses?And yet there must be a reason behind our lives being so chaotic and mechanical.The fact that our chaotic , busy lives are small bits of an undisclosed broader picture cannot be overruled. I think it cannot be understood also.It is too complex to question the reason for our existence or to understand the broader picture.
But there are certain things that can be understood.....The fact that in spite of everything we still pray.We have progressed, are hard pressed for time, do not believe that God created us...but invariably we all do pray.I fail to buy it when someone says, he/she does not pray, does not feel the need to pray or does not believe in God to pray.That's hard to accept.One may never have believed in God or religion, never have been to a place of worship, but yet they must have prayed sometime in their lifetime.How? Because if one thinks more objectively, prayer is nothing but an appeal to the higher senses. Our notions of God and religion (most of them) are through man himself , but these higher senses are far more divine than we can probably know.These senses are within us and make us more human.One need not go to a church ,temple or mosque or any other place to pray.That may not be the only way to pray.When one pleads for mercy,for help, for justice ,he is praying.These higher senses, justice,mercy,compassion, understanding are too good to be human virtues.They are divinity manifested in all of us. I think god gave us that bit of himself to all of us when he sent us away.So when we pray to God, we just pray for the divinity to stay alive in all of us.
In other words we all pray to keep ourselves more human and less animal, even in our cluttered existence. We pray everyday for the human in us to rise above the animal. Some of us succeed and some do not. But consciously or unconsciously that is what we are doing when we pray. The broader picture remember? We have a penchant for complicating things but come to think of it things are quite simple and God is no complicated entity.He is right there and that's what some people have been trying to tell us all blokes since eternity ( all saints, gurus, messiahs everyone...)So for those of us who get cynical and say there is no humanity in this world...we are praying for it everyday...just that we don't realise it seems. So not everything lost for humanity , you see? not as yet.
