Good day, all!
Again, I am attempting to take this topic from another angle, when I remembered about a satirical Malayalam movie song written by Vayalar Rama Varma.
Here are the key lines in English translation:
Manushyan mathangale srishtichu, mathangal daivangale srishtichu
Man created religions, and religions created gods.
Manushyanum mathangalum daivangalum koodi, mannu panku vachu manassu panku vachu
Man, religions, and gods together divided the land, divided hearts.
Hinduvaayi musalmaanaayi christianiyaayi, nammale kandaalariyaathaayi
Becoming Hindu, Muslim, Christian, [acting] like strangers to each other.
India bhranthaalayamaayi, aayiram aayiram maanava hrudhayangal, aayudha purakalaayi
India became a madhouse; thousands and thousands of human hearts became fortresses of weapons.
Daivam theruvil marikkunnu, chekuthaan chirikkunnu
God dies in the streets, the devil laughs.
Sathyamevide soundaryamevide, swathanthryamevide, nammude rakthabandhangalevide, nithya snehangalevide
Where is truth, where is beauty, where is freedom, where are our blood relations, where are eternal loves?.
Aayiram yugangalil orikkal, varaarulloravathaarangal evide
Where are the incarnations that come once in a thousand ages?.
Manushyan theruvil marikkunnu, mathangal chirikkunnu
Man dies in the streets, religions laugh.
The basic issue with this song is the inability to differentiate between God and the creator, and it is quite subtle, too. All forms of differences formed within human society, whether it is political parties, religious differences, man/ woman, or elder/ younger, all when we forget we are human beings basically. Instead of aspiring higher from that position, we degrade ourselves into lower strata as described above. And as far as I can make out, the author of the song ridicules the idea that religions created the Gods. But it is true, as I feel that, all religions started off as science with available means at that time to search for the creator, and on the way they define qualities which they arbitrarily take as a Godly form. They may even picture them. But once too much is acquired, the science part vanishes, and it becomes a religion and may explode into different cast systems too. Even the materialistic science of today has reached religionhood, I feel. And I still do not know why human beings are not content as human beings and degrade themselves to lower levels. As the man/ woman conflict is concerned, they are both are either side of a coin and complement each other. Maybe the problem lies in the fact that one side of the coin, maximum can feel the other side and never see or analyse.
So I totally agree with the song, but not in a satirical way, but as a truth, knowing that the creator, if there is one, and the Gods, belong to different regimes.
To continue...
PS. When God is there Devil too will be there, but for the creator, there can not be a devil around!
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