Lets start this one with you as an individual, ask yourself who are you, Really?
As a human individual, one must always remember all human knowledge is related to all fields, whether it’s related to religious beliefs and spirituality, science, technology, mathematics or medicine, right up until the present days and nothing has not been completed. Why are we constantly learning and inventing new things? It’s because of the human individual’s continuously evolving nature as well as their potential. You can believe in anything wholeheartedly and live accordingly as an individual but realities are a lot more than just our passed on or taught knowledge. Not only it is not enough what we have learned, with our evolving nature , that there is no cap, ceiling or limits. Whether it is coming from our constitutions and religions, all human knowledge has not been, is not, and never will be completed for humanity. For the individual, well that is an other story because of mortality. It is very important for the individual to be flexible to keep room for learning new things.
Whether God exists or not has never been the real issue, in actuality its a human wisdom which has the potential to help the human individual in living a mortal life with some hope, optimism, happiness and contentment. The wisdom of God is highly personal and individual so the benefits or harms both are for us all individually. I happen to believe the wisdom of God as a pearl but if you don’t believe in God it is fine with me but to you personally a tear is just a drop of water regardless of how it came to existence. You can’t really benefit from it because you can’t acknowledge its value. Two plus two equal four is mathematically correct so are lots of scientific discoveries, they can only help you if you use that knowledge during your living years. Same goes for the unknown knowledge you can benefit from it but you don’t really know yet how it works, just like the placebo effects. As you get old that two plus two does not add up, but with our ego we don’t want to live our lives with inaccuracies. If we don’t change to adopt as the things change we lose our happiness and contentment, and in a mortal life happiness and contentment are the real deal if you ignore that life can be hard to bare. Its hard to acknowledge that we don’t know everything there is to know. If you believe that you have to know everything remember your time will run out so don’t forget to attend all the departments of life. Best way to deal with it is to stay in constant learning mode, deciding or believing about the unknown egotistically may feel natural but it is not for entity like human being who is constantly evolving. Today’s truth can be proven false tomorrow so not knowing everything is okay because that is how you keep your arms open to learn more and evolve. When it comes to science and religion we are told to believe in knowledge as it is ultimate which means you are told to believe that there is no more to learn about it. Since we are still learning new things everyday no one should claim about any human knowledge as a complete knowledge. Passionate people push you to believe in it because of their politics of sense of belonging so it is up to you to question it and cross those limiting factors. We are able to open ourselves up to spiritual wisdom which can actually help us individually to put some life into our living years. Regardless of the level of my evolution I personally feel that believing in God is a wisdom to know as a pearl not a drop of water. I feel anyone can benefit from it, it can help one to reach within to find personal inner peace and then spread outward. This pearl helps me to reach within and enjoy deep happiness and contentment, I don’t just live life to feed my body and brain I believe in feeding my soul to create balance to live life with inner peace. Knowing that not knowing everything is a human thing so especially for a mortal being my happiness and contentment means more to me than egotistically claiming that I know everything there is to know. (Read You, body and brain).
Everything related to our past and present knowledge is in your hands and what we decide to consume individually as well as to live wisely is our choice. Interestingly it’s your duty to use all the available knowledge to live a healthy life that makes us lead full of happiness and to enjoy a successful life regardless of mortality.
If you do use all the technologies that are available to you how can you serve yourself and become a CEO of your life? If not it’s your choice, and believe me there are a lot of people who can not live their life as a CEO. They live and die for their belonging groups yet with pride regardless of the possession of the continuously evolving potential.
Remember not only you are responsible for your actions, you are responsible for the consequences as well. So becoming a CEO of your life becomes crucial for us all individually.
What makes us a CEO.
Since you have no say in the time and era you are born into, your oxygen supply, how long you are going to live, get sick, old and die etc. In a nut shell, regardless of what you think you have to know, what to control and what not to. I wrote two blogs a while back where I discussed circles of life and storm in my tea cup.
A serious wisdom is required to successfully navigate through living years especially as a mortal. Again it can go into detail but for now we stick with our abilities to use our free will and a personal sense of justice to understand why are we here.
What is the purpose of our existence and in the grand scheme of life what is our real value as an individual?
One thing is clear that as a human being we all have a life and its our personal project.That is only if you are a CEO of your life. Since life has several different departments, you personally have to juggle things around and attend to all life departments in order to achieve a fulfilling mortal life.
Exclusively or selectively, one department lived life may be intellectually fulfilling to some but personally I don’t want to be starved in any other areas of my life. Love related emotional richness, physical expression and spiritual fulfillment, etc. can actually be part of intellectually lived life.
Let’s look at it this way, this simple example can clarify a complex problem humanity has faced in the past and is still struggling with it today. It has been and it is all because of our passionate political belonging to our groups. That sense of belonging has been able to over ride any individual’s CEO status. If you have somehow lost your personal and individual identity or a personal sense of justice and you have become prejudiced and discriminatory because of your group politics, you are not respecting your CEO status you have brought along from before birth and yes directly from God. If you believe that you are just what your belonging group calls you to be, you have forgotten what your real identity of human being is. When you are born into humanity as a human being you are, by nature a human being first. You start to get the labels of whatever you belong to so who is secondary? For instance a boy or a girl or something in between, black, white, brown, yellow, or red or mix of some or all as well as Muslims, Christians, Pakistanis, Canadians or any other nationality that they are, choose to belong to that community. They can to choose to be a member of any sports team but first of all, they are A HUMAN BEING.
If you think and believe you are what your family, color, gender, race, community, nationality or religion is calling you, you and every one who believes in that can be connected to prejudice and discrimination. Look at yourself genetically, scientifically and spiritually so you can see what you really are? You are directly connected to God and you are called a human being before all the given identities and yes even before your given name. As human beings we are metaphorically part of God’s body and we make God’s spiritual body function physically.
Picture yourself as if you are a cell of a human body. You have been provided oxygenated and nutrient rich blood to keep you functioning and alive by the body and in return you keep the body physically functioning. I am going to explain why and how you should have a relationship with God directly.
God is not some conventional guy sitting up there in the space somewhere pulling our strings to make us fight and kill each other. There is a lot more than what we have been taught to believe by our politically tainted religions. Spirituality has taken a hit but these days even ordinary individuals like me are learning about equal human rights so as to become aware of the real and purity of politics spirituality.
To me God is an understanding that you can personally and individually understand it. It’s like a tear rolling on your cheek. Depending on how you look at it, it can be a pearl otherwise its just a drop of water. I wrote in detail about this in a blog in the past.
My hat is off to the writer of this song. I am sure we all get some songs stuck in our mind sometime and we just they just keep repeating these songs. You just can’t shake them off. I just remember only a few words of the song. That means I don’t know the name of the author.
I would love to mention but I really don’t know so I am quoting as it is in the Punjabi Language and I would write as author unknown. I would quote in the original words and then try to translate it in English. “Quote”
Panwain khey thay Anmole panwain kodian ch tole,
Nanon hunjoo bun waggay tarri ishk kahani
jay toun samjain taan moti jay na samjain taan pani.
According to my understanding which may be different than the author, the translation would be as follows:
“You can say its priceless, or you can compare it with the dirt cheap, the story of your love flows out of my eyes like tears. If you understand it, it’s a Pearl, if you don’t then it’s just water.
My understanding about God and human being is that we all are the cells of the body of God. We all are able to individually imagine or think a spiritual thought and bring it into physical reality. Practically we are so small in the grand scheme of life but we have our abilities to move mountains, so I have to put some physical value to it. I came up with a metaphorical worth of five bucks each one person at a time.
Physical expression of a spiritual God is the man-kind so our spiritual expression would logically be God and since we can’t physically and spiritually function separately we live through each other. My way of proving this is that is as follows. If man- kind disappears, no one can be there to understand God , let alone believe in God, or do good deeds.
My logical reality says if you ask an Alzheimer patient about God, you may not get anywhere fast because the installed knowledge has been wiped-out by the disease but the way I see it in this situation, God is there in the people who are taking care of these people.
God is our understanding usually installed into us as we are growing up, which can be drastically different from society to society. Especially this field of knowledge is highly tainted and influenced by the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups so our religions have been suffering because of the infection of politics.
Let’s start from the beginning. A baby is born into a Muslim household but adopted by a Christian family, or a black baby is raised by a white family. What is that kid’s identity? Would we change the status of being a human being? I don’t think so. But when it comes to the sense of belonging it is not an easy question to answer.
Anyway, back to that you are a cell connected to the body and you are alive, not because of your personal efforts or will, but with the security of the supply-line for oxygen and live within an able environment with nutrient for nourishment. Automatically you learn and appreciate being alive and do your job to reciprocate by working for the body to secure your job whatever you are designed for.
If the body is alive and functioning you get all you need to function and live. Yet at the same time, your body lives if you do your job so no body no cell. If there are no cells then there is no body. One can say God would still be there, maybe but it would be like a lily in the forest, no one is there to appreciate its beauty and make it valuable.
Where I am going with this is that you are directly connected to God and God is connected to you and you both function with the help of each other. Some can say you live only because of God, they put God on a very high super natural place because it sounds good to be connected to some majestic authority. To me that almighty is dependent on human beings physicality to be meaningful, in the nutshell I am saying that human beings are the third equation because all the good and bad is done or comes to physical actions not by God or the Devil but through human being’s physicality.
I am not going to the Devils side because I am trying to make a case of human importance. Just look around and understand how God’s spiritual world needs and depends on human’s physical input to bring spirituality into physical actions.
You as an individual are so important that God’s work is not done without you. Now let’s look at the middle men. They preached spirituality based knowledge like helping each other to fulfill each others prayers. Interestingly that is where and why human’s insecurity based politics entered into the spiritual world and we started to give a good name to God and bad name to the Devil. Yet by the use of politics we remove the human responsibilities just to make them feel unimportant, inferior and even born sinners.
That made politics of our sense of belonging to our belonging groups more important than our spiritual deeds. From the group’s political interests to the human’s savage, all took a tole to the point that here we are entangled with non stop religious wars for thousands of years. Yet we are killing the cells of the body to make the body weak and vulnerable physically as well as intellectually.
If people don’t attend the mosque, church or temple they become like a city without the people. They may become like a failed state, a ghost town and valueless properties. If God loses value; it is on the shoulders of those extremists who’s political views, whether they are related to nationalism or and yes even if it is related to religious beliefs.
Should I dare say our middle men were just human beings with human insecurities and related politics. Sure they started with spirituality but lost out politically by calling their belonging group is it, and God is only for them. Totally political and really far out of the spiritual zone even to the point hurting God in real meaning. Just think about it, is God only for some exclusively selected group of human beings? If that is the case I personally would not believe in a prejudiced and discriminatory God. Not only I take responsibility of my actions I believe in being the third equation. I judge any and every word thrown at me to believe, if it is spiritual I believe, If it is political I believe it as a politics important but has nothing to do with God and spirituality. Remember your life is your personal sheet of paper with your own rhythmic melody you can enjoy God and value it as a pearl or you can just beat your drum with any rhythm, spend your life a noisy and stressful living days and die. Either way it is for you to choose personally with your God given free will and sense of justice. Scientifically you can live a life with correct numbers and die, or you can have some kind of spiritual belief system which allows you to enjoy life beyond the numbers. We are not just the numbers, nor we are an intellectual entity exclusively so limiting life to mare numbers would not allow you to enjoy emotions like love and spirituality based deep happiness.
To me, just like humanity, God is a body with several different types of cells. I am going to mention a metaphoric dilemma of the living human body. Just imagine a brain cell says to the others, if I am not functioning you can’t live so I am the most important one. Heart cell jumps in and says if I don’t supply you an oxygenated and nutrient rich blood you are going to die fast and give the body a stroke. Lung says wait a minute I am the one brings oxygen into the body so you can’t take all the credit. Skin cell says if I don’t protect you all, you can die from infection. Liver jumps in and says I clean up your mess, kidney says the same thing then colon cell speaks and says you are all full of shit I am the one who provides you nutrients so you don’t die of starvation. Arm and legs say we can’t live in this chaotic bickering. Then God says I need you all to function so I can live in this chaotic but functioning body. Remember if I can’t live in it, it dies so we all need each other to be relevant.
For God to be relevant, God needs a human body to live in and for a human body to live we all need God inside. A building means nothing if there is no one living in it. It is just like a dead body who loses all the identities and even their name. Remember you are directly connected to the source, that source is a metaphoric God, you as an individual are a metaphoric cell and you both need each other to function.
Bringing middle men in, disrupted and changed the priorities of humanity and brought group politics. Since we naturally tend to lean towards people of our belonging groups, all middle men seemed natural. If they could not do the equal justice to all human individuals they left room for politics and its related wars and killings. If that was not the case we would not have people killing each other in the name of God. Remember God lives through people and imagine if we have been and are killing God one cell at a time. It is as if God has some autoimmune disease, it is painful to God and we are the cause of it, that is if we think spiritually, but politically well you can see everyday how many people get killed by the political religions. Now think back and go into the history and start counting the death tole of our religious wars or even extreme actions. Its mind boggling to me that even this day and age of modern advancements we still keep doing the same thing. The education and evolution is there but in different departments of life but political religions have such a strangle hold on their followers they just can’t come out or even are able to think beyond the politics of sense of belonging to their groups. It is time to come out of our pigeon holes and call spade a spade. If millions of people bang their bleeding heads against the walls does not make it right. A wrong is a wrong regardless of how many people are committing it. Any time you favor one group of human beings over the others you are totally out of spiritual world and become a political being.
We all bring some gifts from before birth like free will and personal sense of justice so following any philosophy of sense of belonging to a group of people is against the personal sense of justice thus it is political and yes it apply to religious beliefs as well.
You have come to existence with free will and personal sense of justice from way before your birth and I can’t state any other way that your are responsible personally everything you do in your living years. Your actions should be for the preservation of God’s body and indirectly for yourself, and if you are working against all that makes you working against yourself.
If you feel not worthy just look at your connection and makeup then question everything you have been taught. If your taught knowledge is making you do things what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones, you are on wrong path regardless of what your belonging nation or religion says.
Remember you are the one who came with free will and personal sense of justice so you have to learn to see not only God in yourself but in the fellow human beings as well, if you can’t see clearly its because you have been brain washed. You are programmed to live, think and feel inferior so you can be easily controlled and used for political purposes. It is all done by some smart group of people to help them live their lives at higher level than you. I am not going to say follow the money exclusively I would say follow the politics to find out who is benefiting from your lack of belief in yourself.
As a cell your story starts and finishes with a purpose and that purpose is the reciprocating connection between you and the body for the well being of both. To elaborate further you have to see yourself as a subcontractor who has the free will yet a job to do. That free will is discussed in the blog called five bucks. This five bucks is undermined by you yourself because of installed education. Remember your belonging group is always after your fiver but don’t want to you to know its value so they don’t have to give you anything in return. Body or God on the other hand handsomely rewards you yet you can not see your value regardless of those rewards. Its all because of the political propaganda by the controlling authorities. If you want to know about your fiver look at it this way.
Picture yourself standing on the river bank with the desire to cross. Not in today’s time but in a distant past. You don’t have education, knowledge of how to swim and there are no bridges. All you have is a functioning brain and an able body with an imagination to die for.
You see a log floating in the water to get an idea that wood floats. Long story short you gather some sticks weave them up put them together and in the water with a long stick to navigate, you row your way to cross the river.
That ability to see and understand log floating, ability to weave sticks and rowing yourself with a long stick came from you exclusively. If you can see all that you would learn to respect your self but you are told that fiver means nothing to live so you should join your belonging group and be used as a puppet. The kind of abilities you have from your fiver are above the level of functioning of other creatures, so that is why you are a human being. (Read Five Bucks). This fiver and your free will make you an automatic CEO of your life and a subcontractor to God.
If it is established and you accepted your authority of being a CEO, you will have to assume your duties to run your day today life.
First order of life is to appreciate and reciprocate for your blessings, and if you can’t see your life as blessing, it is your out of control sense of belonging which has created a desire to please, fit in, impress or want to be admired by the people around especially the people of your belonging group.
Only as a CEO you would be able to see what kind of price you are willing to pay otherwise you can become broken and dysfunctional especially for yourself, you can be used or you yourself demote to live like a genetically programmed warrior ant or worker bee.
To understand yourself you have to look at life as a mortal being who has a limited time to visit, enjoy and reciprocate all at the same time. Creating balance in all areas of life is not easy so I give examples to make things easier to understand.
Back to the responsibility to create a personal and rhythmic melody, as a CEO it is your duty to find balance so a mortal life is lived with some enjoyment. Nothing scientific but common sense mortal living.
Take a sheet of paper with the music written on it, you will find a musical note a space or an empty space, a musical note and on and on. Now think of yourself as a musical note and that empty space as God. If you don’t respect your empty spaces you will bang the drum non stop with no rhythm non what so ever, you would get exhausted within short period of time and will have no rhythmic melody to it, so no one including yourself can enjoy your living years.
Now if you don’t speak when its your turn there will be a complete silence which I am absolutely against, regardless of what some religions say to me God’s wisdom for having living breathing humanity is for bringing spirituality in to physical actions. We as human individuals hold continuously evolving Godly nature and our potential has no freezing or caps on it, so staying quite is not a human thing to do. We suppose to evolve and bring more strength to God to make God even mightier.
We are here for a reason, we make a spiritual God into God of physicality. If even God needs living breathing individual to fulfill other human beings prayers then we as an individual should learn to respect and value ourselves.
As a CEO responsibilities land on our shoulders individually, you can’t just go to mosque or church to pray to fulfill the desire to have bigger muscles, more money or powers. You have to take charge and join a gym, get a job and put some personal efforts to achieve whatever you want to because God can easily say I gave you a functioning body brain and continuously evolving potential so go use your free will to get what you desire.
When you stand in front of the mirror look through your eyes and connect to the person who lives inside. If for some reason you are not happy being in there you personally should know why? A functioning body and brain alone should be enough for you to be thankful. If you are not, you are looking at the shell and thinking with the installed data, which is bias. It means you have no idea about the powers of the individual who lives inside of you.
A nice and shiny car which is not running is worse than the not so shiny but running one. Our behaviours are usually stemming from installed data, so growing over the data is a difficult task for the best of us. We form our opinions but they are not really ours as they are related to the politics of our sense of belonging. A logical explanation would be appropriate here.
Say if you are an atheist, you live life logically but are in love and do some stupid things and enjoy them that make you a Hipacrit because love does not make any sense yet you are enjoying it. If God does not make any sense to you, then how do you explain why there are a lot of people who are able to enjoy God, just like you can love. Going a little further to talk about placebo scientifically it does not make any sense but works for human beings. The power of imagination is real. Everything including scientific discoveries are the product of a human imagination. If God resides in that area, it does not make God irrelevant God is a pearl not just a little water. If included properly individual can benefit tremendously especially being a mortal. Lets go even to the darker side of the addictions of alcohol, smoking, gambling or hard drugs. You can’t be logical and addicted at the same time but there are a lot of people living with thousands of excuses everyday. Tell an addict to rationalize it. They will tell you that they are going to die anyway so I have the right to enjoy whatever makes me feel good.
Religions have taken an easy out, by banning it all without the explanation. It is regarded as social problem so it should be controlled by banning it all. To me it is a matter of injustice against the individual by mass. Sure anything which rules individual to be out of control is bad socially but if the individual enjoys it, as a mortal they have the right to live the way they want to. Remember the free will is given regardless of how an individual uses it. Even God is dependent on the human individual’s choices.
You can choose not to even believe in God or live your mortal years without enjoying emotions like love or spiritual fulfillment related deep happiness of helping someone in need. You can selectively say you don’t believe in God but remember your mortality and whatever makes you feel good is your prerogative.
Enjoying love and addictions is just like believing in God so choose something what fulfills you all around, not just ego of being right yet still die. Its not only personal and selfish living, our purpose of life is reciprocation and since God as a spiritual entity may not need anything from you but your physicality is badly needed or required to fulfill weak and vulnerable people’s prayers.
Now how you look at God or believe whatever or don’t believe is not the question, it is your physicality which is needed in the grand scheme of life.
You can pray for others like religious people would do but neither its worth while nor its practical for God. They are nothing but religious rituals and most religions rely on these rituals to keep their followers in control. A majority of human beings are attracted to conforming practices for social purposes. It feels natural to follow because of a personal sense of belonging but they are far from the real help that God admires in the human individual. A practical help to the weak and vulnerable is the real and useful prayer to God because a physical being is doing spiritual and Godly things.