Whom should we blame for faults in our religion?

Was religion then the main creation of priests and rulers? What about the sages and prophets?


Tribal faiths only became religions after regiments of professional priests or monks elaborated spiritual traditions and organised them into well defined rituals, scritures and dogmas that they managed.

There were generally five main creators of all religions:

1. Founding sages or prophets, who sometimes through a vision, dream, revelation or enlightenment gained a new insight into harmony or truth. They all lived simple lives and wanted no idols, temples or places of worship. They were simple people who loved all humanity.

2. Apostels, who spread the word of their sages or prophets. They wrote down and elaborated on the words and philosophies of their founders that later became their religious scriptures. They were marketing managers of their carefully crafted brands of God and they also provided their religious orders with distinctive costumes, symbols and disciplines. It was Ashoka who made message of Buddha into a great religion. Peter and Paul raised Christ from a poor Palestinian Jew to a Christian god. It was the first four Khalifs who spread the message of Muhammad from Spain to China in just 60 years. With the elaboration by the later nine gurus, Nanak would have been just another Indian sage.

3. Priests, who were the dedicated soldiers or salesman of their brands of God. The word priest is used here in the sense of all the professional keepers of religious places and practices.

4. The patrons, rulers and rich merchants who rewarded the priests for taming and disciplining the masses.

5. The ordinary believers, who accepted their duties to priests and deities they promoted.



So now if we have any problem with any perticular aspect of religion, then whom should we blame?

सब दुल्हन सा.....

नन्ही बच्चियाँ सिर पर
ओढनी डाल कर दुल्हन बन जाती हैं...
वो जानती हैं,
दुल्हन जैसा कोई नहीं...

जो सुंदर है,
जो कुछ भी सुंदर है,
वो दुल्हन जैसा है...

रूप अगर लाजवाब है, तो दुल्हन का. कुछ सजा अच्छा हो, तो दुल्हन सा. नवेला और तारीफ़ के काबिल हो, तो नयी दुल्हन सा. हया की लाली भी अगर कहीं की मिसाल देने लायक होती है, तो दुल्हन के चेहरे वाली. चाल तो दुल्हन की, आन तो उसकी, और शान तो भी उसकी ही.

जो शादी के घर में आता है, पहले दुल्हन को देखने की ख्वाहिश ज़ाहिर करता है. मंडप में अगर कहीं निगाह ठहरती है, तो दुल्हन पर.

सच कहें, तो हमारी संस्कृति में दुल्हन एक ऐसी शख्शियत का नाम है, जो मानो शादी वाले दिन यकायक जन्म लेती है और सबको मोहित कर लेती है. एक पारी है दुल्हन.

वो लकदक, गहने, रेशमी कपड़े, शृंगार, चुनरी, पायल, टीका, कंगन, वेणी, बिंदी मानो इस दिन से पहले किसी ने पहने ही ना थे.

किसी वीराने को केवल एक कूची से संवार देना हो, वहाँ बहार ले आनी हो, तो वहाँ दुल्हन को ले जाना काफ़ी होगा.

एक जादू का नाम है दुल्हन. आलते का रंग, मेहन्दी की खुश्बू, फूलों का नज़ारा, सुनहरी आभा है.

एक नयी शुरुआत है दुल्हन...

Sometimes it hurts, it did, today.....

He just felt very inferior, down today in that class. All of the positive energy which he gained by that other class and by talking with both of them was just vanished by responses of others. He called her various times but got no response. He thinks that she was not listening or was trying to not to listen or may be didn't want to listen to. Her behaviour was completely changed in last few days. Even few others have noticed it or say are little bit upset by that. She generally behaved just opposite in front of others as she behaved in front of me.

They again showed a sign of group-ism and he again felt that expecting anything from them was his own mistake. He shouldn't expect. Both of them were focusing on reading answer from candy's system and pen it down on paper and were not interested in giving it to him for some serious work. Lovely thing here was that even candy told him take the system to get his solution checked.

It really hurts when you do something with such devotion and are unable to get it checked because of lack of resources in your pocket and lack of intentions in other's pockets. At the same time, you see people who didn't do anything and just got everything copied on the last day are showing with such comfort and confidence. Really there are incidences when you really feel bad.....

He doesn't know whys she completely changed. The only option left for him is to go away from everything and get himself so involved in work that nothing can haunt him. He hopes that change in her attitude and behaviour is not mistake. He is not able to remember anything which he has done and which might has forced her to change. Still he feels very sorry for that.

Still at the end of class when he showed his problem, because of some problems he was not able to run his code successfully. There was no error in his code but he was f***** up at the end...