Originally posted by: reeps
So tell me, how important is spirituality and religion to you?
Spirituality is very important to me.I feel every person ,irrespective of their age need to develop some curiosity towards spirituality.Spirituality is neither some feeling which needed to be developed after certain age nor some specified task to be performed by speciifed gender of specified age!!Spirituality arises when we have the zeal to understand the beauty of the creation of GOD,when we want to know the purpose of our live or the beauty of our existence in this universe.We need not preach or display about our spirituality but we need to continue our efforts in understanding the beauty of GOD's creation!!
Religion is just one route to understand the concpets of spiritual things! But Practising religion alone without any zeal to know the things of the creation doesnot have much impact!! I donot give much importance to only one religion .I like to know the concpets of all the religions but personally I don't find any necessity to claim myselves to belong to any religion!
Do we only go to religion to find peace of mind from all else?
Most of the people opt religion because it gives them a sense of security!!They feel their RAM or ALLAH or JESUS protects them from the problems!! This act of transfering our burden on someother gives us peace of mind!!
how do athiests deal with this issue?? They have nobody to fall back on?? CAn we not rely on ourselves?? Is it lack of confidence? fear of all?? all just seeds put in us by society??? Does society makes us strong or weak individuals? Impediment to growth, esp. with all sorts of stigma that exist in society, and keep us bound to ''acceptable" behavior? or adds spice to life, and enrich us, and are a good tool for our development?π
I never goto any one for my problems,I just pray for the almighty to give me the strength to face that problem !! I'm not in the habit of giving bribes to the GODS for solving my problems or my wishes!! I donot know who is an atheist!!!π
I wish to post the views of my friend here with reference to the above questions :
One does not always have to percieve things by five senses to accept thier existance.
I used to be a believer, than a non-believer, Now I am an agnostic wanting to believe.
The problem was that I was handed down a concept of God, that sounded more like a 'ration ki dukaan' rather than God. God is not someone that you go and ask for things for cheap. Neither is God someone who will grant us reward we do not deserve if we just butter Her up. Neither is God the cruel being who will throw people in eternal hell and make them suffer just because they do not follow some arbitrary lists of 'do's and 'don't's - lists She is apperently not quite sure about because She changes them again and again before handing down to this or that religion! We can keep going down list of what God is not. (what Hindus call 'Neti Neti')
As of now idea I can live with is that God is everything menifest and everything unmenifest. Chances are that some day I will have to come to a conclusion that God is not that either. I will just have to see.
The problem is that we are encouraged to believe in God since childhood when we are not capable of abstract tinking. Any concrete concept we are given of God in childhood invariably turns out to be false...so either we turn atheists or we continue to believe without facing that what understanding or idea we were capable of God in childhood was not what God actually is...and not everyone is inquisitive enough to continue asking what God really is!
I hope that did not answer your question because that would imply that I know what I am talking about.
Edited by abhijit shukla on 23 September 2006 at 3:47am
(Above Views of Dr Abhijit in earlier posts of DM,I donot know from which post is it and I saved this post earlier so I posted this here for all of you)
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