I dont have to proclaim that I am a firm believer in God,for, I guess all in the family know that.But what intrigues me is the reluctance of many around us to admit that they believ in that omnipotetnt power. Even a hard core communist like Panniyan Raveendran, the sitting MP from Trivandrum and belongong to the CPI, recently wrote about a near-terminal attack of small pox he had when he was small and how his mother defied all warnings and sat by him to sooth him and nurse him.He goes on to say "all doomsayers were proved wrong, when the 'power that guards nature' saved his life and shielded his mother from getting the disease."Guess some one had asked the communist MP who thsi power that guards nature was. If i were there i would have told him it is the same power that people like me call "God". His communist credentials might get tarnished if he utters that three letter word. Same is the case with many other so-called iconoclasts and non-believers who take refuge, at least, in the privacy of their homes, 'in the power that guards nature' in times of crisis.
What made me script this piece is a news item that caught my eyes today .
One is about a management trainee with Wipro, an class mate of Ashwin's( my son), who joined the company just a couple of weeks back, based on a campus selection. He had studied for his MBA in Mumbai. So metros were not new to him. Yet he got killed in a tragic road accident (run over by a bus while crossing the street in Bangalore),just 15 minutes afte he talked to his mom and sis in TVM and after he was told his father who was in the gulf was to come to TVM on leave in another weeks time.Seems he had also promised to go to TVM then. Imagine the fate of the poor father, who had to prepone his visit on the news of his sons' death.He rushed to Muscat by road to take the first flight. Imagine his fate, when all flights from Muscat got cancelled indeinitely and his road access to otehr places also got cut off due to a cyclone that hit Oman .It is like fate playing a double whammy of the poor father. Can the iconoclasts explain this as a pure concidence or the act of a power beyond us? I dont know.
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Everyone believes, deep in their minds, they do. A non- believer doesn’t exist. Without belief in something or the other one is as good as dead. Be it god or be it an omnipotent power outsides one’s hands, or be it a scientific theory, belief is what keeps one going. Now admitting to one’s belief is a different story. A friend of mine calls himself an atheist, he doesn’t believe in God, he believes there’s no God, but to me that’s a belief again. He says everything that happens has a cause. One’s own karma. He calls it Karma. He is just not comfortable using the word God. And that’s fine. To me karma is just a modern word to what I call God. I often use an alternative name for God myself. The word Faith. One has to have faith, a strong belief in something to be human else one would be a vegetable. A lot of people associate God and religion and use them synonymous. And what with the tragic incidents occurring in the name of religion, it’s natural that people are not comfortable to admit to their own beliefs. Esp. politicians who have their own agenda. In reality god and religion shouldn’t be considered synonymous at all. There’s heck of a lot of difference. But it’s impossible to separate the two, so we will have believing non- believers for time immemorial. If we look at our puranas, we have them there as well don’t we? Eventually they all bow to the higher power. There’s no difference between then and now, is there?
That’s just my opinion.
Sorry to hear the news of Ashwin’s classmate. It must’ve been a shock. My condolences to the grieving family.
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