I dislike religion. Everyone thinks they're right. And everyone else is wrong. These people will kill themselves in order to prove that they are "right". What a bunch of nut-jobs?
Where's common sense? Where's a sense of reality? I lose my mind when people exhort these virtues that can turn into vices, if we don't understand that there's a limit to kindness, goodness and so on and so forth.
Disagree with me? Let's look a little deeper, shall we?
What good is kindness and your generosity if we only find people waiting to deceive in feigning 'neediness'?
Cynicism, as Bill Maher explains, does have its "value" in these cases…
On what it takes to be truly "Indian" (and patriotic)
Being Indian is being Hindu, even though I'm a Christian. I'm proud to be a part of a civilization that has been part of our lives and which has made an impact on the dawn of civilization as we know it.
You can say, I'm truly patriotic in the fact that I was born Indian. If you understand the richness of spirituality that lies within the country's borders regardless of whether people truly practice it, you'd understand why.
Simple but not simplistic… and yes, some of us don't speak very good English, and it doesn't mean much, thanks to the insipidity of the language, in comparison to the vernacular languages found in India or anywhere else in the world.
It tires me that cultures that are only about a few hundred years old assume that they know it all – as opposed to a culture that has stood the test of time. The stupidity is appalling but I don't blame people for being ethnocentric because I don't have any qualms about expressing my ethnocentric views either. And we can always agree to disagree… can't we?
But I digress…
In studying religion, I've come to the conclusion that the seat of religion lies in India, a country that has never forced its citizens to adopt a 'way of living' or to convert to a life that is 'foreign' to theirs. Several of the world's popular religions found their beginnings in India…
In fact, Swami Vivekananda emphasized that every man or woman has to find his own sense of 'spirituality'. Please no organized religion, thank you! Talk about the 'herd mentality'…
Some of us have played that game and have understood that there's another world – and that "discovery" cannot be denied.
Yes, we're talking about a "new age" of spirituality… not a religion where we have to feel guilty about ourselves but one where we can maximize our potential and accept ourselves for who we are!
And an exponent of this 'religion' is Deepak Chopra through the numerous books that he has written…
Deepak Chopra Books – Just Another New Age Guru?
Most people have thought that the solution to their everyday problems [and which cause them stress] is by taking medication, and somehow this is what led Deepak Chopra to "stray" when he realized that the body doesn't need a physical cure [as a doctor] but the mind does…
Common sense again – if you are stressed mentally, what good is taking pills, really?
What you need to rewire are your thought processes, and if you read the numerous Deepak Chopra books, you'll understand why they have sold about 20 million copies and have been translated into 35 languages.
You can find his books at this link, and profit greatly from a culture that has been suppressed for its inability to speak English, in more ways than one.
In Closing
Or you can just carry on being who you are, and with that arrogance that "goeth before a fall" (and which organized religion reeks off)… after all, a spiritual awakening is really a personal thing. Swami Vivekananda said so… it's your "spiritual quotient", really, that matters!
