We are made to drink vials and
vials of religion from the very first day we arrive here.
It doesn't matter whether we are
passive receptors or we actively participate in the process.
At the end, the end of which never
comes, we are made to assimilate a lot, without given a chance to realise what
we needed to assimilate and what we needed to be aware of to keep us away from.
It is a cycle that begins with
birth and goes on and on. Even the death doesn't put a lid on its spillover
effects.
And we cannot be blamed for it. It
is the System that sucks.
But if we are the System or a part
of it, we are to share the blame. So, even if we cannot be blamed, we are to be
blamed, in a way, by the feeling of a transferred burden, continued unabated,
the beginning of which no one knows.
And neither ‘they’ are to be
blamed directly, who, unknowingly or unwittingly, become part of this elaborate
trap of indoctrination of religious elements, manipulated and wrongly
interpreted for ages to the extent that religion, in reality, has lost its
essence for the commoners who form the majority of the followers of any
religion.
The spiritual quotient has been
killed effectively and the fear quotient of religion reigns supreme.
Religion, being dominated by its
different contractors today, has become a well-oiled machinery of the System for
its opportunist diversions.
Whether ‘they’ are our immediate
family members, our friends, our neighbours or our teachers, they themselves
are the victims of this mentally tortuous cycle of domination of few over the waves
of the multitudes by implanting in masses the fear of religion and the subsequent
religious hatred, that it so easily inculcates then.
And like us, ‘they’, too, are to
be blamed for being part of this System, carrying the feeling of the
transferred burden, knowingly or unknowingly.
The heterogeneity of religious
hierarchy has this homogeneous characteristic – the followers largely bear the
similar traits – ignorant, fearful, threatened, burdened and confused – that
make the thousands of millions of them ruled by a numbered few.
The prevalent forms of almost of
the practicing religions have been manipulated into the worst forms of
indoctrination practices and the exercise begins right at birth.
Had it not been the case, we would
not have the likes of Asaram Bapus or the likes of millions of their followers.
And Hinduism is not singular to
this rot. Christianity, Islam and every other big or small religion (in terms
of number of followers) have their Asaram Bapus.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
