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.
2 comments:
dont agree- i mean some factually wrong info like starting of god as a concept wasnt just by some wise men for contentment but rather by some intellectually responsible weirdos who used it as an xcuse to avoid answering qstns they had no clue about like certain natural phenomena. its true tat later the wise men did as u pointed out, n if u were tlkng about the unreal start of the concept den u r right, but the actual start was there. religion has made us more greedy n bickered than ever before- a case of interpretation gone wrong with us. there shld be just faith no religion.
From the author..in reply...
Forgive me for not being so precise, but the reference to the context shud not have created this confusion. I refer to the creation of faiths by philosophical intellectuals and the creation of god for that purpose, I dont refer to the naming of unforesaid phenomena under the definition of things done by God.
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