The ultimate desire
Murali Murthy
Do seekers always have to take a philosophical path, spiritual path to find answers?
Is seeking itself a desire? Let's decrypt Desire - If desire is want of something, strong attraction towards an objective or a goal, then isn't the answers found in all Religious texts as ultimate truth - to reach God, to be one with God, to reach Heaven, a desire as well?
Desire is a Desire. One cannot say worldly desires are bad, but a desire to live better in Heaven/Next life is right.
All the spiritual, philosophical beings across all religions promote disconnecting from worldly desires and allures, and punish oneself by constant meditation, rituals, fasting to reach the ultimate perceived, imaginary pleasure of being with the God, or reach an imaginary heaven.
Even the good deeds, philanthropy people are engaged in, also have a motive that this will yield them good punya, and help in their next birth or in Heaven!
What do we do to find peace in this life? If the answer to every question is "God will keep a tally entry of every deed, and helps you or punishes you in next life or in Heaven".
What do we do to get him help us in this reality we live in, in the present life we are leading?
Even people in power, position doing bad deeds or causing hurt don't do it intentionally, most of them do it just because they can do it.
If we all believe in God and he being the creator of this world, why humiliate him by saying the world he created, and the life bestowed on you is to be denounced, and look for an imaginary, beyond comprehendable place called next life or Heaven!?
It is what it is. There is God. God created this world. We were put here. So, let's just live this life.
Every religion also hides behind their root scriptures, any question is countered "hey that's what texts say, and these texts are God's own message, not written by anyone".
Be it Vedas, Quran, Bible, all these are supposedly voices of God, written by some human who had access to God!!
Even in Buddhism, their scriptures were not dictated directly by the Buddha unfortunately. The messages and teachings of Buddha were passed on for generations for over 100 years (after Buddha's time) verbally, until someone finally decided to document, and it's anyone's guess they are not unadulterated.
So, as a seeker, where do I find answer? Learned scholars say one has to read scriptures, understand, do deep dive and learn for a lifetime and you would still not get answers!
I have a problem here, with every known religion being many centuries old, and many scholars under each school of thought dedicating their life studying scriptures, has no one found answers to give us straight answers?
Every religion points the right way to lead this life is to eventually, constantly keep impressing God. If he is pleased, he will help you elsewhere, not now, by the way!
Why is God so ego filled? I know it's all his creation, but if he is really "God", he should be egoless and stop expecting praises, prayers from every single being through out life, or face consequences!
Then why the exception to Animals? Or is God exclusive only to Humans?
The incomplete, imperfect beings that we are, had to find solace in a perfect, complete supreme power, to fulfil our desire and hope to reach the highest, beyond human character that we could ever imagine and comprehend, and we designed God.
Religious identity, spiritual bliss that we attain, morality, righteousness are all just individual convenience. The theory of relativity in the context of self-entitlement is to add "Convenient" as prefix - Convenient Consciousness, Convenient Morality, Convenient obedience, Convenient rules, Convenient Sympathy, Convenient Submission.
Everything is about individual convenience, what works for me, how can I make things work for me, including Nature, God, Resources.
Sometimes I wonder if God is really all this religious that we imagine him to be. What if he is just busy inventing, manufacturing people, places, lives and doesn't really care what we do? Why should we assume he is exactly how he is, how we perceive him to be?
With so much confusion, questions, tendency to be rebellious, once I finish this writing, I go back to my belief system, work within the framework of my religion, bow down to God, seek his help in everything that I do, not by force, but by conviction, which is again my convenience!