Is God Alive..?

The idea here is not to negate the existence of God. If anything, I am a habitual believer… One who is a believer by habit, more than out of conviction.

God is the most simplistic explanation for the life forces that modern science can not explain…

What keeps the sun and moon in their place..? Ask a physicist and he would answer gravity….

What is gravity…? It is the force exerted by two bodies, he would answer…

What is force…? Force is THAT which changes or tends to change the state of rest or motion of a body…

What is THAT...??? hmm !!!!

Almost habitually, I am inclined to call it God…the life force behind everything living and non-living.

The big question here is - IS God worth killing for or dying for…?

If God is the giver of life, how can one appease Him by taking a life…. Whether it is the ritualistic animal sacrifice or the expansionist crusades or the insane inter-faith killings and the murderous sectarian violence…

If God created man and man created religion, why can’t religion bring compassion and love..?

More has been killed in the name of God than the two world wars put together…

If religion can not promote peaceful co-existance, why do we need religion…???

I look at the conflicts around the world and wonder – Is god really alive..???

I look at the misery of people in Darfur and Ethiopia and wonder if God is really alive today…

What have these people done to deserve such appalling misery…? Hundreds of thousands are dying of sectarianism in the name of religion and politics. In Africa and other regions in Asia millions are starving to their death…

Why would God allow this if he were alive…?

Introspection

I sit still…
In the apparent safety of my car’s interior…
The cool air gushing from the grills of its air-conditioner
With a dampened hiss, perhaps of protest
Comforting me with an obligation…

The tinted glasses hugging my eyes
Filtering off ‘unwanted’ rays from the scorching sun
Oblivious to myself,
And the numerous cars raging past (as if there is no tomorrow)
I sit still, in the car
Taking me to my destiny!

From the depths of my mind
A voice awakens me...
Of concern and inquisition
Echoing in the emptiness of my ears
“What makes you YOU…?”

Mind dilates with the urge to decipher
Wide eyes searching with greed to behold
Ears listening anxiously to absorb…
The clues that may give away...
The answer to my quest…

Thoughts swirl inwards,
Extending, expanding, wandering and searching…
Through the alleys I have walked
Through moments I have breathed
Through the days that I have lived
Through the scenes I have seen, and
The sounds I have heard
And the wisdom my senses has accumulated

As my mind heaves
In the labor of this intercourse
Of mind and thought
Of time and space…
Cold realization precipitates
Heavy beads of contempt

Sighing deeply
As if to revitalize..
Shaking my head
As if to dispel the ill thoughts
Blinking to contain bewilderment

In sheer disbelief..
Do I utter this to myself

I know not…
What makes me ME....!!!