यो सतबार पढे जो कोइ, छुटहि बन्दी महा सुख् होहि |
Meaning: Whosoever reads this hundred times, will experience great happiness and will be free of all sorrows.
Every modern religious text ends with some words to this effect. This is true across religions and countries. I am sure majority of us also follow these kind of dicta, however majority of us are still in the bounds of sorrow, day in and day out. So why do people still read these texts, go to temples / mosques or churches, knowing fully well that this may not end their sorrows. How many of us have committed money / sweets / candles / bed-sheet (चादर) at religious places for a successful exams or an operations and then had no doubt at all about success? I would say none of us. We do all that's prescribed in religion but still have our own doubts. So we do go and pray to God but still don't believe in Him! Isn't it paradoxical?
So why do we need the God? Why we need a God is to shirk our responsibilities on someone or something more powerful and nothing else. Sounds crazy right? but it's true! Whole of our life we play blame games. For our failure in an exam we first try to put blame on syllabus, teacher, lack of time for study etc. When none of this is accepted by our consciousness we ultimately blame it to the destiny or to 'God's will'. But what we never realize is on 99% occasions it's us who failed to control the controllable events. It was us who did not study or did not pay attention to teacher.
We blame god or destiny for even smallest of things. I am not able to find the keys while getting delayed for office. Blame God. The milk has boiled over and whole kitchen is spoiled. Blame God. Missed a train. Blame God. Did not get promotion. Blame God. For everything and anything God should be blamed!
And the funniest part is, we also give 'proofs' that God is the culprit. We quote Geeta, where God said just leave everything on to me! But we conveniently forget that Geeta says Act according to best possible option in a given situation and then, only then, leave everything on God. Issue is if we accept the first part of the message we will need to take up the responsibility of our acts, which we do not want. So best solution, leave the first part take up the second part and hold God responsible for everything that's happening to us.
And, if we start taking responsibility or our own action will we need God? It will be us who will then be the maker of our own destiny. WE will be the GOD!! Yes and then you will find the real meaning of religion and God. Then you will understand why Krishna said the soul in you and me is same. And then when he said 'I am God' he is merely saying 'you are God'.
So stop blaming God or destiny and start taking up the responsibility of your own actions.
