Monday, September 29, 2008

Heaven & Hell

Heaven: Heaven is a plane of existence in religions and spiritual philosophies, typically described as the holiest possible place, accessible by people according to various standards of divinity (goodness, piety, etc.)

Christians generally hold that it is the afterlife destination of those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.

Replace the word “Christians” with “Muslims” or “Hindus” and the word “Jesus Christ” with Allah or “Trinity” (Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma) or use any other reference that you like.

The concept is: If you have done good deeds in your life you will qualify to enter heaven n you’ll stay there with GOD.  Else Hell will be waiting eagerly for you. What kind of crap is that? People fool kids with such lures. Behave nice you’ll get candy else harsh beatings on the back. They say heaven is a place full of good stuff. One would get every possible thing there. A place with no crime no sin. Does god wants us to be so much materialistic? I wonder at times for how long a place like this can be enjoyable. Suppose I can access every possible thing on earth. I can get any thing. Can I live happily now? Or I should ask will there be any fun left in living then? I have nothing to do for I don’t need to. I would surely not like this situation. The excitement should be there in life. And I assume most of us will agree with my last statement. Some religions even say: “A person won’t be allowed in heaven if he doesn’t follow that religion. This person will definitely go to hell”. What a lame reason to force someone to follow a particular religion.  

Why would god offer me loads of “good stuff”? Is he so much desperate to get worshiped? God created this universe; he created the minutest speck of dust to the gigantic galaxies, all species including humans… but why? Just to get worshiped? What a loser. Why would he create all such things… to entertain him self? They say you disrespect god and you will go to hell. What an egotist. If it’s true then god is forcing us to pray him. How can that be a will of the most benevolent? Why would he force us? I have heard people saying that god is ubiquitous that is he is every where. They say where there is god there is no sin no devil… that place is considered as “Holy”. I just want to logically analyze some statements

Statement A: God is every where.

Statement B: Hell is the abode of devil. (that is Satan lives in hell)

Inference: if A is correct then B should be wrong. Coz where there is god there should not be any devil. If B is correct then God is not ubiquitous.

Conclusion: some thing is wrong here. I don’t want to challenge God so I think god should be give his ubiquitous property which means there can not be any place called Hell. So if Hell does not exist then it is useless to believe in the existence of Heaven as Heaven is good because Hell is bad.  They are relative. If one does not exist how can the other? So I think the whole shitty idea of hell and heaven is nothing but a huge load of crap.

I want to live my life, I believe in my conscience and I know I should not do the things to others that I don’t want them to do to me. And for doing all this I don’t need to follow any religion. I firmly believe religion is now an out-dated concept. We don’t need it any more.

I know I can not convince you to adopt my perspective but I wont follow yours too.

 

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Solar Eclipse and Age Old Myths .. Don't they bother you ?

1st Aug 2008. I received a call from my friend and she said don't go out today evening from 4 pm to 6:30 pm. I asked for the reason and I got one very good innocent reply: Its solar eclipse today and it will harm your body. I paused for a moment and thought, it's not her fault she isn't from the science background. May be she has inherited this piece of knowledge from some gossip magazine, some news channel trying to raise its TRP or may be from some elderly person who do not have much time to go for latest science updates .

What irritates me most is why don't people[Lets categorize people in two major categories: 1) myth walkers , who do not want to check the source of knowledge and are very much happy with what's going around and 2) wanna be iconoclastic, who gets irritated by such myths to the level of vomiting their intestines out ] try to hunt form the right source to update their knowledge bank. Internet can be misleading at times but one can always get the required authentic information from it (it may take hours or more although ;) ).

I know it's difficult to convince your parents by giving them scientific rationale. Sometimes its intelligent not to argue with them also [I almost every time fail to do so :( ]. I know it wont harm me if I wont go out side nor will I miss any chance of winning jackpots if I don't go out during solar eclipse plus I can please most of the people around by acting in compliance with them. But the point is I don’t want to give air to such stupid myths. And I know if I wont do it this time I will never be able to do it again.

And what irritates me to the highest order is when these myth walkers try to use scientific approach to support their point. I heard someone saying "the rays from the sun gets deviated by the moon and becomes more harmful than the normal scenario." my dear rocket scientist the only way solar eclipse may ever harm you is if you watch directly to it. The retina in our eyes can not respond to pain so it can not transfer pain signals to brain and it makes it even more dangerous if you are gazing right into a highly luminous object like sun. More over what happens during the total solar eclipse when the sun gets completely covered, it becomes very dark (and if you are watching it now, the pupil of your eye will be wide open), and the moment sun comes out from behind it suddenly becomes bright and the pupil of your eye will not be able to shrink fast enough, allowing a lot of light falling on your retina, causing harm to the eyes. So always use specially designed glasses when viewing such events.

Solar system is just like other natural phenomena and one should enjoy such events more. Go out people and appreciate the beauty.

One humble appeal : please do not spread wrong information regarding anything. If you don't want to go out then don't go but don't stop others.

I know I can't change your perspective.. And I won't follow yours too..

For more information on solar eclipse follow the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse .

Friday, March 28, 2008

Sapna...

neeras uss pal me baitha...main jeevan dhoond raha tha..
main majboorion se toot..khud se lad raha tha...
umeed ek patta...aur samay pattjhad ..aise me tinka..paani dhoond raha tha..

kismat ki naav me... lehar chali kinare or
chod aayi wo saagar...har naav se naata tod...
sab mit rahe the ya mita rahe the...
or main...main ek door dhoond raha tha...
neeras uss pal me baitha..main jeevan dhoond raha tha....

hmmmmm.....ye kiski aawaz... uffff hai kitni mithaas.
arre ye kya...ye patta hara ho gaya...
abhi tha patjhad...abhi basant ho gaya..

ye lehar sagar ko chhod nahi...kinaaro ko jode rahi hai..
hawaein aag badha nahi..aag bujha rahi hain...

par..par ye hua kaise??......
do pal me duniya badal gayi jaise..

or wo aawaz..wo aawaz kahan gayi...
ghol gayi ras saare..duniya rangeen bana gayi....

hmmmm..shayad idhar ...naah.. shayad..udhar??..
wo aawaz kahan hai??
meri duniya badal gayi
wo mitthas kaha hai??

"chapaak!!" ye pani ki aawaz...kahin wo waha to nahi??
arrey wo lehron se khelti hui wo..dekho wo rahi...

tum!! to ye tum thi!!!
main pehele kyon nahi samajh saka...
mera jeevan badalne wali, tum hi to thi...
aah tumhara wohi jaadu...tumhaari wohi jhalk..
wohi gili gili jhuki hui...jannat liye palak...
bas tumhe ek baar or dekhne ki hasrat liye....shayd main sab kuch bhul raha tha
tumhare bina.. dekho main jeena bhool raha tha......

aaona paas me...

"tak-tak"....ohhhahhhahh...hoonhhh..ahh kya main so raha tha??
ahh...kuch der or...main tujhe or dekhna chahta hoon...
is sapane me main or jeena chahata hoon...
pal - pal ko jina sikha....pal-pal me ras ghol rahaa hoon....
main tujhe dekh raha tha....ab tujhe ji raha hoon...
main pyaar kar raha hoon!!!!!
fir se......main pyaar kar raha hoon!!!




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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sukoon...

main chalta raha khud se door .. chhod purane raaste
sabse juda ho chaal meri..kuch aisa muda har mode pe

chu lun har ek diwaar
koi kona anchua na ho
suljha lun har ek jaal
koi dor uljhi na ho

bina ruke, bina thame, har patthar pe naam likhta gaya
mita nahi kahin naam mera..kuch aisa rang tha siyahi me

ghutan bahot nahi khuli hava
dhul bhari har kone me
upar uthne ko yahan
gir gaya hun ghadde me

samakar sara samandar..apni pyas badata gaya.
haarta raha jab jab main jeeta..ki chain nahi hai chaandi me

noor koi mil jaae..
andhera door ho jaae.
bahot bheed hai yahan chaaro or..
ek shaant kinara mil jaae..

chal pada..chhod khud ko peeche..
ab apna bhaar saha na jaae..
bas jhoot joda hai ab tak
kuch yaar sachha joda jaae..

girte hue ko mila sahara..khuch aisi teri baanhe hain..
ghut-te hue ko mili hava...khuch aisi teri saanse hain..

pagal main bhaga idhar udhar
paane ko jo nashwar hai
dhund raha tha mandir kidhar
jab tera pyar ishwar hai..


main jaga raha raat raat bhar
par soya tere aanchal me

main ladta raha shor se harpal
or sangeet mila teri payal me..


main ghira raha darr se harpal
mehfoos hua tere haathon me

main bechain raha astitva se apne
par sukoon mila teri bahon me..

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Panna...

ki gir jata hai haath se wo murjhaya hua panna...



puri umar samet ke, ek panna wo likh na saka
ki udhar ke palon me usne likha ek tarana
budhi ungliyon ke beech me jab laathi wo pakad na saka
dil ko dawaat me daal likha ek fasana...


"

TUTI THI NAAV JAB SAAGAR KE BEECH ME
TAIRAK WAHAN BAHOT THE, LOGON KI BHEED ME.

BHAAG RAHE THE CHHEEN SAHARA KINARE KI OR WO
KI CHHOD DIYA THA TUJHE SAGAR KI GOD ME

EK TARAF KINARA, eK TARAF TU
BAHOT SAAF HAI NAZARA DHUNDHLI AANKHON KI KAID ME

LAD AAYA MAIN WAHAN, KHADI MAUT THI JAHAN
KI CHEEN AAYA NIVALA, MAIN BHOOKE SHER KE MUH SE

TAIRA MAIN TAIRA, BAHOT DAIR TAK TAIRA
HAATHON MAIN TU OR BADAN PAR KUCH GHAV THE

KINARE NE KABHI ITNA NA TARSAYA
PAR BACHANE KO TUJHE HUM DIL SE MAJBOOR THE...

AGLE DIN JAB AANKH KHULI, CHHAYA ANDHERA DOPEHRI KI DHOOP ME
CHEER RAHI THI KAAN AWAAZEN ,KI BACHA LAYA THA "WO" TUJHE LEHRON KI CHAPET SE..
RO RAHA THA HAR EK AANSU KHUN KI TASVEER ME
KI SIMATI HUI THI TU WAHAN, USS BACHANE WALE KI GOD ME

"

rukti saanso ko baandh kar samay se ladta raha
bina palaken jhapkae wo panna dekhta raha
koi pahocha de ye khat uss tak shayad yahi ab usne maanga
par kho jaata hai bachhe se sabse pyara wo khilona
zindagi bereham hai, ki gir jaata hai haath se wo murjhaya hua panna...
ki gir jaata hai haath se wo murjhaya hua panna!!!!