ANOTHER search for "THE TRUTH"

Hi Friends,

WELL.... It had been silence for long here. I was pretty much occupied.. not by work but by thoughts. Pulled deep in the webs that i have woven . And guess what!!! The answer once again was in my dreams... An impossible out of the world situation, where religious leaders and scholers all sat at one place, without quarelling and abusing anyone. They all listened to me and answered.
I was really very confused tensed and irritated as all my efforts to know religion and god seems to be going waste. It is then that I decided to ask these questions to a few scholars. High in the ranges of himalayas, there lied a desert where sun never sat. It was here i asked them the questions about the truth. Now with their help I have developed a theory that looks logical in defining GOD, Religion and evolution.

I will start with a story first....

Once there was a king who was desperately searching for the perfect religion and true God.
He invited all the scholars of the world and started off a debate. Even after 15 months he couldn’t be convinced. Then there came a person who told the king that he can show the king the perfect religion.... but only at the other end of the river which was in front of them. King happily ordered a boat, but the saint rejected the boat pointing to some imperfection. The king ordered another and this one was also rejected. king did everything possible to convince him but the saint was not ready. Finally the king ordered his men to forcefully put the saint in a boat and sailed towards the other end.

When they reached the other end the saint said to the king. "Religion is like a boat which helps us to cross the river called life. Most religions can help you cross this river, you can choose to swim, create your own boat but you have to cross the river.

Now here onwards all comments are what I can compile. It will be difficult to differentiate the comments by a single person because i dont know who said it.

Now on the question what is religion?? Why religion?? And how did religion evolved??

Man has walked on this earth for longer than before recorded history. Even the archaeologists know very little about the cultural beliefs and practices of early man. We assume that they had some sort of transcendent belief because of the manner in which they buried their dead.

It is not until the agricultural developments around 10,000 BCE that man begins to have a sense of cultural identity. As mankind started living in large groups, it is highly probable that the rudiments of what we, today, call "religion" began to formulate. This is not to say there weren't belief structures before societal man.

Man at a point of time was no better than an animal. All he could think of is survival, food and shelter. Clearly with no society in place there was no religion and no concept of God (animals donot have religious beliefs). As and when the evolution happened and man started living in groups. They started using that special weapon (BRAIN) that was way above the rest in vicinity. It all started with that special gift of (COMMUNICATION) that man became organized and started to socialize. Survival may have been the chief reason to it.

***One of the Acharyas (TEACHER) was very keen to know how did communication skill came to man. How did this evolved where he was convinced that it did not fall in the very important needs that can bring evolution. WE wondered that whether it was the power to imitate that brought this. Only a single spark , the first letter or first signal may have started the process but we wondered on what caused the first spark.***


Coming back to the topic. What created religion is really the Fear.
Man became powerful and greedy of more power. He started achieving impossible, they gathered more than what is required and had ample of time left. He feared every thing that couldn’t be explained by him. Even the most intellectual could not explain. They wanted answers for all that was there, unexplained, created, and all that happens beyond any observable force.

All factors like Lightning, Eclipse moving of object through magnetic fields was considered an act of GOD. Even the most enlightened who believe that each and every thing has an explanation, and every thing is governed by a law that cannot be broken or altered, felt good to have the image. The powerful became rulers and societies evolved. The rules were set and the need for some rules that cannot be broken or questioned arise. These rules, mostly did not have any direct effect and demanded a few restrains were designed to make the life easier. These set of rules turned into religion and every word of these rules believed to come from GOD.

On why so many religions?

The number of religions that existed on earth cannot be determined. Evolution of religions is not very different from reproductive system. The number of followers determined the popularity of a religion and hence its base. The set of rules and emotional as well as social satisfaction that a religion provided to its follower determined its popularity. Most religions raised and felled by the actions of its religious leader.

· So do we have a God?
This Question had a peculiarity that each answer started with something like this.

“ Yes, Undoubtedly there is a God. And I knew that this was going to come.”

I will pick few of the most convincing answers.

“If I abuse your father, would you be angry. Why? I only abused someone who is your father. It is the association that you make to that person whom you love. Why do you love him…?”

“ I said there is a god that governs all that happens, that know all that happened and who is responsible for all that will happen…. You don’t believe me ok who do you think he is….”

“GOD… If it does not exists what do you think the word means”