Never Mind

This poem is the depiction of the emotions and chemical reactions my body and mind encountered due to the conflict in my mind, over the existence of meaning in life. This question coupled with the desire to understand my mind had driven me crazy, unable to find answers. Finally my intellect comes to salvage, and I drop the desire to comprehend my mind, drop the desire to ask the question of existence of meaning in life, because I realize its not a question to be asked but to be answered...

So bemused, so frightened, uneasy conscious,

Petrified by the power of itself, so innocuous.

Emotions demure, flow through the pen,

Amidst the trumpet of silence and quiver;

Without an inkling its intimate self,

Suffocates it with suffusing power.

So hapless, so impotent, the victim suffered,

With none to blame, self harassed self-tortured.

Pushing itself into the darkest recess,

All light sucked out, hollow inside;

Forcefully diving in the ocean of pain,

Happy hormones swept, away by the tide.

Thoughts of defeat overflows from the eyes,

In effort to hold the last breath, vanity cries.

Aware of the scarce sense of the self imposed dementia,

‘Enough!’ yells the intellect, no longer stoical;

As enlightened as always, consciously proactive,

Decides to take the reins, responsibly practical.

So powerful is the mind, power that flows through the brain,

So incomprehensible is the mind, in the reins of the brain you can train.

All cynicism, all skepticism, consciously sidelined,

No doubts that one doesn’t have to find meaning in life,

Cause meaning is not to be found, but to be created,

With principles, with focus, with an endless strife.

---Shashwat

The Origin of the Religion

What is our basic aim in life? Why do we do anything at all in life? To achieve the so called “Happiness”. In fact, this is the aim of every creature in the world. The deer feels happy on chomping the juicy plant leaf; the lion feels happy on tearing the juicy deer. These creatures seek happiness based on their instincts. But we humans, fortunately or unfortunately, endowed with supreme capacity of thinking and of apprehension, want to seek answer to the question of what happiness is.

Consider a simple example of a child who loves chocolates. He is sent to a room where there are heaps of chocolates. At the first sight, he is extremely overjoyed. He then begins eating the chocolates. When he eats the first chocolate he is very very happy. Happiness acts on him like alcohol and he desires to be ore happy by eating more chocolates. When he puts in the mouth the second chocolate he is quite happy, since most of his urge to eat was contented by the first chocolate. By the time he starts eating his tenth chocolate, he is almost fully contended and loses interest in eating anymore chocolates. Eating more chocolates won’t give him anymore happiness now. Why does this happen? Why does his way to achieve happiness by eating chocolates suddenly become discarded?

Our philosophers and thinkers have given a perfect and well known but less understood reason for this. They have said that happiness can not be searched for outside, it lies well within you. This means that happiness which is derived from material things is transitory, while the feeling of happiness if we are able to create within us, that is, through some thing imaginary, that happiness will remain eternal. This is precisely a reason why some wise men created God, crafted a religion and developed a culture.

Religion gave man the image of something supernatural, something metaphysical, something to be awed, and someone called God. With the introduction of the concept of God, people got a direction to their hay wire life. They got an eternal source of happiness. They could melt out all their sorrow on the feet of the Almighty, find content even in the difficult situations in life by calling them the wish of God, and find happiness in worshipping Him and pleasing Him by following the religion. Religion taught them to end their greed and jealousy. And taught them peace and comfort.

...To be continued