Too Much Religion, Too Less God...

God made man, man made religion to reach God. Then he made Caste to decide who has the right to pray, conduct rituals and decide the order. God was also classified. Everyone does not have the same God. Many other lines were drawn - language, region, etc. All in all a priority order was decided for reaching God. The hierarchy of caste in the end resulted in deciding one's status in the society and priority order to access God.

Look where we have reached in this journey... 

Two toddler kids were burnt to death when their house was set on fire by a mob. Their fault - they belonged to lower caste. The visuals of the charred bodies of the kids wrapped in white cloth being carried out  of the gutted home was traumatic, to say the least. 

Few days back, a man was dragged out of his house and lynched to death by a mob. His fault - rumours were spread that he ate a particular kind of meat that the mob's religion did not permit. 

The people who burnt those kids or lynched that poor man in name of caste and religion forgot that the same religion believes in 'Nar NARAYAN' that means God resides in every human being. Then how can one man kill another in name of religion or caste. Those kids who were burnt alive did not even know the meaning of religion.

Will then our religion help us to access God? 

Did we not forget God in protecting religion? 

Will God accept our offerings soaked in blood of innocents? 

Humanity that once used tovbe the biggest religion is now dying and gasping for breath. But man is busy keeping and settling scores, all in the name of religion.

Today perhaps we have too much religion and too less God.

Far and Near

It is amazing that sometimes people who are close to you become really ' close' when they are far away. Distance of miles brings back the same simple smile on their face and turns them into their same adorable old self. With whom you would interact only occassionally when at a handful distance, you start talking to them, using technology, every morning and every evening, when they are several oceans away. Old times seem to have come back. No baggages of the past and no hangovers of the present! You yearn to meet that someone again, soon.

And then that someone flies back and is at a handful distance again! You rush to meet the old buddy that you saw again on 'Skype'. But alas! he seems to have left 'him' in an alien land when he came back. He seems to be burdened again. Old buddy, old ways, cannot be found 'near' anymore. He hath changed too!

'O' my dear you were close when far, yet you chose to be far when near!

I wish the best for you my friend but this time when you pushed me, you pushed me too far.

I will be near you whenever you need me... But now that you are so far again...so...

Bye and may you be happy.