I know, this is really a sensitive topic to Blog on, but again being an Indian and seeing all the fights about religion and gods, I always had my own perspective on this topic till now, which ends up in a post today.
Being a son of a couple who followed different religions altogther and joined by Love.
I had the privilege of learning about Christianity as well as Hinduism. 4 yrs of in a Muslim College gave me glimpses of Islam as well.So, I can say I have a fair amount of knowledge all 3 major religions in india.
Let me not Blabber more. I have always had this question in my mind, Who is God ? How do we define GOD ?
If Christians worship Jesus as God/ Mary as God/ Baby Jesus as God and Hindus worship lot of GODS and for islam its Allah.
When I started writing abt this topic , only one story came into my mind. Its a story which tells about shrewdness of Birbal in the court of Akbar , which also gave the answer for the questions which I had in my mind.
Birbal, as we all know was the smartest minister in Akbar's courtroom. Every decision was taken by Akbar only after consulting with Birbal.
This made the other ministers jealous. They went to Akbar and asked him why do he favour Birbal all the time and he doesn't consult any of them. Akbar said Birbal is wiser than all of the ministers.This only made ministers pretty angry and they left the palace at once, some how this incident started spreading in and around the palace and Birbal came to hear it too.
The next day a sadhu came to Akbar's court room and asked Akbar that he indeed want to test the knowledge of his wise ministers.Sadhu asked Akbar to select his best Minister to answer his questions. Akbar was searching for Birbal and he could not find. He sent a soldier for Birbal and the soldier came up saying that Birbal has left town due to some urgent family issue.
Eyeing a Chance to prove, the rest of the ministers wanted to prove that every one was really wiser than Birbal. One of the ministers came forward quoting "Birbal is not the only wise Minister here. So let us try to answer his question." Akbar acknowledged. Sadhu pointed his head with Munda and asked the Minister "What is this?". The Minister just laughed and said "the whole world knows its a Munda".
The Sadhu untied the munda and wrapped it around his shoulders as a towel and asked the minister " What is this ?". The minister without hesitating "A towel". Sadhu smiled.
He took the towel and tied it as dhoti , asked the same question again , the minister said "Dhoti".Again sadhu laughed out loud.
Sadhu " All of your answers were Wrong!!". All the Ministers gave a puzzled look. Sadhu continued "I asked what is this, the obvious answer is "it is a piece of cloth", but you called by the name of the place where it was tied."
Akbar, stood up . He understood that this Sadhu is no ordinary man. He went near to Sadhu and asked him about his details.
Sadhu took his disguise off and every one in the court room was astonished to see, that it was Birbal. The other Ministers understood the wisdom and knowledge he possesed.
Now if you see the crux of the story, I got the answer when I read this, God is only like a piece of a Cloth. Different people call GOD in different names when placed in different religions and we humans are manipulated puppets in the hands of the so called religionist people in earth...Poor Us!
Being a son of a couple who followed different religions altogther and joined by Love.
I had the privilege of learning about Christianity as well as Hinduism. 4 yrs of in a Muslim College gave me glimpses of Islam as well.So, I can say I have a fair amount of knowledge all 3 major religions in india.
Let me not Blabber more. I have always had this question in my mind, Who is God ? How do we define GOD ?
If Christians worship Jesus as God/ Mary as God/ Baby Jesus as God and Hindus worship lot of GODS and for islam its Allah.
When I started writing abt this topic , only one story came into my mind. Its a story which tells about shrewdness of Birbal in the court of Akbar , which also gave the answer for the questions which I had in my mind.
Birbal, as we all know was the smartest minister in Akbar's courtroom. Every decision was taken by Akbar only after consulting with Birbal.
This made the other ministers jealous. They went to Akbar and asked him why do he favour Birbal all the time and he doesn't consult any of them. Akbar said Birbal is wiser than all of the ministers.This only made ministers pretty angry and they left the palace at once, some how this incident started spreading in and around the palace and Birbal came to hear it too.
The next day a sadhu came to Akbar's court room and asked Akbar that he indeed want to test the knowledge of his wise ministers.Sadhu asked Akbar to select his best Minister to answer his questions. Akbar was searching for Birbal and he could not find. He sent a soldier for Birbal and the soldier came up saying that Birbal has left town due to some urgent family issue.
Eyeing a Chance to prove, the rest of the ministers wanted to prove that every one was really wiser than Birbal. One of the ministers came forward quoting "Birbal is not the only wise Minister here. So let us try to answer his question." Akbar acknowledged. Sadhu pointed his head with Munda and asked the Minister "What is this?". The Minister just laughed and said "the whole world knows its a Munda".
The Sadhu untied the munda and wrapped it around his shoulders as a towel and asked the minister " What is this ?". The minister without hesitating "A towel". Sadhu smiled.
He took the towel and tied it as dhoti , asked the same question again , the minister said "Dhoti".Again sadhu laughed out loud.
Sadhu " All of your answers were Wrong!!". All the Ministers gave a puzzled look. Sadhu continued "I asked what is this, the obvious answer is "it is a piece of cloth", but you called by the name of the place where it was tied."
Akbar, stood up . He understood that this Sadhu is no ordinary man. He went near to Sadhu and asked him about his details.
Sadhu took his disguise off and every one in the court room was astonished to see, that it was Birbal. The other Ministers understood the wisdom and knowledge he possesed.
Now if you see the crux of the story, I got the answer when I read this, God is only like a piece of a Cloth. Different people call GOD in different names when placed in different religions and we humans are manipulated puppets in the hands of the so called religionist people in earth...Poor Us!
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