Praying, rituals, invoking Gods : alternate view

It’s binary when you invoke divine intervention. 

While expecting miraculous receiving through prayers, chanting mantras, visiting temples, churches or mosques,  either you get what you want or you don’t get it. Probability is half either way.

There will always be someone who will get what they desired. Stories of those who succeed by praying or visiting a popular shrine get well documented and widely talked about lifting importance of the prayer, ritual or the shrine. 

Those who fail to get, just move on hoping for some other chance or some other temple or pilgrimage or penance, or would just blame their poor fate. 

This is how formal religious dogmas and practices work. Stories of those few who get what they want are popularly in circulation because these are pleasing facts everyone loves to pay attention to and strengthens their faith and influence as many people further as it can. While those who fail in this binary just keep it to themselves rarely revealing that they tried pleasing Gods for their wants. So we know mainly of those who have received.

Xmas and Santa Claus

Ever since my first child was born some 31 years back, Santa Claus has been visiting our home without a single miss. He brings gifts for all every Xmas eve. He doesn’t know or care about my faith. He visits like a spirit or angel bringing unconditional love. He is always  there celebrating birth of Christ with the world. Santa is just supremely epitomised embodiment of happiness anyone willing can embrace. 

When we were growing up in Shimla there used to be snow fall almost always on eve of Xmas and we used to look up to falling flakes giving us illusion of rollercoaster ride towards heavens. For those few wintry days when world celebrated arrival of Christ we used to rest all other personifications of God and associated tales and saying and used to just enjoy this moment in this form. Perhaps Gods from our parental faith too celebrated this day  with us. 

I believe God in all His manifestation would never pitch His one IMAGE against Other. He won’t be God any more for that. If we are staging that rivalry we are possessed by satan. 

To me the Santa is the happiest Godly someone among all what God would like his blessings be represented by for our times. 

Rest all are merely best suited representation of what we imagine what God should be though He possibly would keep us guessing only of what He be. Let’s just celebrate.

Narsimha Rao

He was indeed best PM after Jawahar and  Indira. 

Political class trying to usurp legacy of Narsimha Rao was the one which went viciously after him from 1993 onwards. 

Do dig into real happenings and stop learning history from sources like whatsapp which manufacture it rather than record it as what happened. That period was not so ancient that one can't look into archive of newspapers or search authentic sources now to educate oneself. 

He indeed was great PM because he worked taking all along and took best of the talent for advisers even adversaries. If one were present during those days, post schooling, (means had grown up to know what was going on, and is not still left naively low wit juvenile ), do recall to understand which political class was blatantly after  Narasimha Rao, dragging him to courts on dozen of false made up cases and pulling him for such humiliation  like that from Harshad Mehta’s flimsy allegations, or importing unknown gravely old  men from US to file idiotic cases against him, making him appear such a politically untouchable person in lates nineties that even Congress was pushed to back-foot and  attempted to avoid him lest that causes it any further political damage to already out of office weak party. With political posturing and amplification  Rao was made pariah to that extend that even Congress was left itself distancing from him. 

Narrative from those who were in reality working relentlessly against Rao when he was in power to project him like a political untouchable, imported aged obscure businessmen from US with stupid allegations to drag him to courts and celebrated his near arrest. They openly supported a thug stock broker crook who claimed carrying 500 kg cash in hands to bribe a PM walking a km past toughest security. They asked for Rao’s ouster repeatedly and publicly. 

Even after leaving  office he was made to visit courts for years. He was treated like a culprit during a decade he was out of power and that time govt was not of Congress. 

Those vicious forces smartly changed the narrative on Narsimha Rao later and Congress fell for these tricks and acted stupid. 

Those who are now claiming rescuing his image and his contributions and his legacy had brought his downfall and dishonoured his achievements. After two decades he is darling of same political class.  What a farce. 

About religion: alternate view

Foundation of every religion is on 'after life' or 'after death'. Either no one knows what happens once the body stops functioning or no one wants to believe that this is ‘The End’ of the subject human in all of its entirety. 

Knowing this impossibility, some influencers, availing the opportunity handy from this unknowable,  decided to create myths using their wizardry of storytelling laced with gifted eloquence, thus  making public  easily reposing faith in those hyperboles. The influencers became closely related to that god thus  earning residual collateral respects. God or gods too became characters of new geographic specific historical myths and  religions got born. New influencers continued to this day. ‬

‪Rest all, associated moral stories, tales of one supreme god or variety of gods, angels, gods’ or god’s representatives, spirits and higher souls,  knowing of future or tricks of modulating future, realisation of wishes, burden of sins or rewards of good deeds ie everything what makes up a religion; are hyperbolical fabled legends. These are either part of deliberately cooked up fictions or honestly created literary masterworks by some genius which the influencers of the later ages made into mythical propaganda for promoting their version of some belief about death and after life and to command how one should conduct day to day life based on those assumptions with fear of unknown God or Gods and death and after death. ‬

Every religion could fundamentally be simply deep rooted largely trusted gossip only. 

This is not statement about existence of God or Gods but only a comment on religions as we encounter.