Almost all of us are convinced that there
must be ‘something’ that none of us cannot be excluded from. Many of us have
tried to know and understand about that ‘something’ and have even reached to
some conclusions that appear to be right to them, but not absolutely right to
many others, because others have also tried their level best to know and understand
about that ‘something’ and have drawn their own conclusions that are different
from those drawn by others. It is the uniformity of our intellect that
convinces all of us that none of us, without exception, is beyond that
‘something’; but, the differences and variations in our respective intellects
lead us to reach to different conclusions. For the purposes of communication
with others and with ourselves, we refer to that ‘something’ as ‘the absolute
truth’. Whether we value the uniformity of our intellect in believing about
the existence of ‘the absolute truth’ or we give more importance to the
variations of our intellects leading to different conclusions drawn about ‘the
absolute truth’ is up to us.
If
we devalue the component of human intellect that has remained unaltered,
surviving all kinds of changes of the time, space and circumstances, and rely
on the component that keeps
changing for developing any
understanding of the truth that we desperately seek for our survival, we expose
an immature and childish part of our
nature. If we put our respective religions in the same category that we allot
to the types of clothes we need to wear in different parts of the world
according to the variations in weather conditions, we are guided by principles
that sadly lack even the elementary human sensibility.
Faith
is about settling in the uniform component of human intellect that does not
vary with time, space and circumstances; it has nothing to do with
insensibilities of human mind.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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