Saturday, January 15, 2011

Is there any Super Power?

We often come across people who say God will take care of everything, God is fair, "Bhagwan ke ghar der hai andher nahi", etc. Even I used to think like this before. Rather, my mind was trained to think like this before. It was when I did a meditation course when many logics of life were clarified.

Today morning I had this beautiful thought.
First the earth looked brown and blue because of the land and water. Suddenly one day, some green patches start covering the brown part. Then some moving life also come into existence. Its called a creation of God, the almighty.
But what did actually happen? Earth is an organic mass of land and water consisting of so many elements. And all the elements when come together under a certain temperature, pressure, physical state, etc., have a property of getting decomposed (being organic) and some fungus starts growing on it. It is all because of the physical and chemical reactions taking place at that instant because of multidimensional factors. Had someone kept a satellite camera high above the Earth's surface, imagine how it would have been. It was an extremely slow motion. Since it is organic material, it starts decomposing for those multidimensional factors. The algae comes into picture and fungus starts growing, some in the tiny form, others really tall, basically, all being different forms of vegetation.

It is similar to a ball of any organic material, let us say, we keep in an experiment at home. Initially some fungus will grow. If we don't clear it, some worms will start growing. Its all because it is the property of organic material to decompose and at certain multidimensional factors, life comes into picture in the form of worms.

In terms of Earth, these worms are in the form of all these insects, animals, birds, reptiles, each and every living thing on this Earth, even man. The initial worms later developed slowly into bigger worms, then reptiles, then different forms of animals and birds. Then where does God come into picture?

Its a human tendency to blame/give credentials for the unknown to a Super Power. This tendency has been gifted to us by our ancestors. In order to be not afraid of unknown, to have the courage of facing of the unknown, our ancestors created objects of faith, hope and trust. When nothing works, having these objects will give any man the faith, trust and hope required to face any situation which he feels is not in his control. These objects took the shape of God, the Almighty as per different beliefs. Sometimes even some influential individuals, who had a deep impact on bigger mass of inidividuals were treated as idols and then slowly they were appreciated and were told stories about, and with time and exaggeration, they slowly managed to take the form of these Gods unknowingly, even after they did not exist anymore.

If we trace back, life was in the form of simple life. Only one thing is common everywhere. Everything slowly develops with time. Everything. And we humans are also a product of this development. Initially, starting from worms, animals did not have any brains, or rather, had tiniest brain as small as 1 cell. Slowly, this also developed. And today, we humans have a very complex brain and a vast, really huge stack of memory, both random access memory and the read only memory. Since the time we are born, each and every scene is recorded in our memory, which also works similar to a video concept. It catches every scene frame by frame in a sequence and stored in the ROM. Thats why once an impact is made, it cannot be reversed. Since we physically have no control of memory storage. Whatever all the senses of our body capture, esp audible sounds, visibile scenes, sensable smells, different tastes and touches, are recorded and stored in our ROM. To make memory management simpler, all the scenes captured are labeled with lessons learned or meanings. Since all of this information stored cannot be retrieved, at least their meanings or lessons learned can be retrieved. Whenever there is a similar situation later, these scenes or their labels are searched for the similarity of situation, referred to, and acted upon. Even the good and bad actions, or maybe likes and dislikes are labeled on these scenes. Also, in a society, we are supposed to be behaving in a particular way. The goods and bads are also hammered on our minds since we are born, in the form of words and actions. Our conscious and unconscious mind acts/makes decisions based on all these reference knowledge. And we think our favourite objects we rely on have helped in making any decision or taking any action.

Also, we believe that every happening has a reason. Every happening may have a reason but some may be due to mere coincidences. And the thing is, when we don't have a reason to explain, it goes to our dear God, the superpower who has planned it and does it for us. For human mind, and hence the science behind its behaviour, the human psychology, its good to have such objects for the well being of the self, for confidence, for bravery, for being focused, etc. But when humans don't treat them as mere objects and start getting obsessed with them or being dependent on those imaginary objects that have been created by humans only, its not good. Its not good for their own well being.
Along with our spiritual objects, if we take the responsibility of ourselves, we can develop ourselves even better.