Friday, September 4, 2009

Beggars and Religious People

I am not a Religious kind of person. Not an athiest either. It may sound like a Paradox, but it is not so.Because I am not sure about the existence of God. I don't deny His so called Divine Existence also. It will be foolishness on my part, if I accept something about which I have heard only. Again it will be arrogance on my part if I deny something only because I don't have any proof on that. Rather I would play safe in thematters of Relogion by creating a group of my own, instaed of joing in these two groups-Religious and Athiests.
Religious people ascribe all their successes and failures to God. But some of them depend so much on Him toachieve their goal that they always try to please Him at any cost. Be it in the form of keeping fast, or visitingHis holy shrines or donating their valuables to the temple. Simply they will do anything but the required duty toachieve their goal.
Atheists in other hand believe in creating their own destiny. Some of them can go to any extent of sweating out to reach the finish-line. They credit all their successes to themselves only and their failures to the circumstances :)only.
Without any intention to hurt anybody, I find a good comparision of these two groups with Labourers and Beggars.
Labourers do not live on anybody's mercy. They work hard to reach their immediate goal, which is to earn their livelyhood. If they don't work, they don't expect anybody's help also.
Whereas Beggars live on the mercy of others. They don't do any work eventhough some of them are capable of doing it to support themselves. What initially started as a way out to escape from hunger, with due course of time, becomes their main occupation(?). To get the alm, they try to please their doners with all the good wishes.
Perhaps this similarity has something to do with the close association of Religious people with Beggars. You willfind Beggars mostly at temples wooing temple-visitors for their mercy and these Religious people also get satisfaction of being blessed by the Almighty by giving away the alms.
I think these two groups must be giving too much of headache to God, if at all He exists. I'm sure He must be annoyed with these people for burdening Him with such silly demands. After all He has made them capable of performing the duties assigned to them and leaving the result on Him only.