Following science exclusively is not my thing because I believe our knowledge encompasses much more than just math, science, and religion. As evolving entities, our knowledge can never be complete as it has been preached. Our natural makeup is designed to evolve, so logically, no human knowledge, even our religious knowledge, can ultimately be an unquestionable truth. Unless we reach our potential—a bad thing for some but good news for most of us—is that even our potential is in an evolving process. When we learn something new, our brain produces new neurons, meaning if we keep producing new neurons by learning, that process can be unending. So logically, we can’t simply measure a human individual’s potential. Personally, I believe we are individually blessed with our own atom of autonomy, a God-like particle within all of us. Yet we have been and are still underestimated not only by our controlling political powers and religions but by ourselves as well.
Regardless of our evolution and scientific progress, science still can’t measure our metaphoric realities like God, love, compassion, bravery, sense of justice, and sacrifice, to mention a few. Even our medical community, which prides itself on being scientific, accepts placebo effects openly and generally as not-so-understood facts. I am all for solving our mysteries and believe in looking for their causes as challenges to solve. But I want our scientists to live and enjoy their lives like everyone else as well. I believe no one should miss out on the other rich experiences of being mortal. Since our evolution is founded on our God-given nature, no one has succeeded in stopping the process of evolution. Regardless of the forceful aggression of our religions, they could not hold humanity down to their successful heyday. Our evolution is going to be there whether individually we like it or not. We all should individually take our responsibilities as the CEO of our mortal lives, not as a department head. Especially when we are preached that life after death is the main department of human living. Remember, all the Godly work of converting spirituality into physical actions you do is in your living days. Here on earth is a physical reality, and after that, you become a metaphoric reality. Simply and logically looking at our realities reveals that our physical realities are far more important than our metaphoric realities. If God needs your help, that help is your physical help; otherwise, God would do everything as a miracle. Logically, the main miracle is us, who are running the Godly machine. If you say that you are saving for retirement, that I can accept. But why should we believe we are not important in our living years? Our main job in our living years is to be useful, not after. I would rather pay attention to living as a useful entity who reciprocates instead of just believing in receiving exclusively without putting in any effort.
To me, spending a whole lifetime in a robotic mode is not a wise option, whether it is in being a scientist or constantly worshipping, because there is much more to human life. Especially for mortal beings like us, we should remember that science and religion don’t cover everything in our mortal life. Being successful in one department of life, like becoming a scientist, doctor, engineer, mullah, or priest, may be fulfilling to some, but if you can’t enjoy the real blessings of human life, it is not lived as it was meant to be. I want to cover and enjoy everything whatever mortal life has to offer. So I believe in a religious preacher taking medical help like blood transfusion or vaccination and believing in science, and as a scientist, to be soft on people who believe in God, know, and research love and compassion just like science because their own knowledge has not been proven to be as ultimate as they believe. Remember, a successful CEO does justice to all departments of their life, so regardless of our understanding of science and religion, as mortals, we should not just be surviving but happily enjoying our temporary visit.
I used this quote before; Kabir said it with a clear vision of what a human being is. Since this suits and fits here, I am using it again.
“Quote” “The drop in the ocean, everybody knows, the ocean in the drop, a rare one does.” (End Quote).
If you start to dig in and really look at human beings spiritually, you will find that each and every single one of us is a vessel that does not only contain the ocean and space but everything else as well. This incredible machine has been undermined not only by politically inspired belonging groups but by the individual themselves. This phenomenon has been able to come up with mathematically correct scientific facts to break down old myths to evolve. Going to space without having the wings to even fly. Looking into the future to understand the reasons for global warming, connecting and predicting the path of storms to save lives. Unlike our ancestors who literally undermined human individuals and even sacrificed them to please God because they believed bad weather or storms were because God was mad at them. Interestingly, it may not be to that extreme, but it still goes on in certain segments of populations. I Googled human sacrifice, and to my surprise, I found out that there were twenty-five unconnected human societies that performed human sacrifice. Sure, today we have come a long way from that, but we are still far from respecting our individual lives. We are still killing each other in the name of our political sense of belonging. For sure, we have a long way to go yet, but interestingly, it is only the beginning of where we are going. Even if there are people who believe the coronavirus is a punishment from God and vaccination is a business venture, still there is proven science that is helping to save lives. Contrary to all the pessimistic points of view of our religious people. I happen to have some faith in our future because we are understanding a lot more about our climate today than even yesterday. Regardless of our scientific decisions and the lethality of our weapons of mass destruction, we are learning new things all the time.
If somehow, as an individual, you feel insecure, it is not because of who you are, but because of who you have been made into by the people you belong to. If you wholeheartedly accept your mortality, believe in God unquestionably, and remove the politics of greed and fear to the point that you can see through the origination of all your traditions, customs, rituals, and rules. When you get there, you will be able to see that other creatures don’t cause problems at the scale of human beings. Human beings think and actually have been believing that their knowledge is complete and causes no adverse effects or consequences. Simply if you look at our individually inspired projects related to damages, you can clearly see and relate to serious consequences of that even in one lifetime.
Someone posted a video titled, “Why Did This Sea Vanish?” It triggered the thought of my old blog titled “Ocean in a Drop.” So this is turning out to be a part two of “Ocean in a Drop.” I believe we can not only solve our problems by thinking but we usually create them as well. We may have good intentions but may not have the ability to connect all the dots together, but we are too quick to blame God for our shortcomings. To me, undermining the human individual is one of the original sins committed by our political religions. An individual’s importance in the holy picture is undeniable and can logically be proven. If you want to see for yourself, just picture Earth without human beings. A lily in the forest cries for appreciative eyes, so God would be that beauty without human beings. If you pull a thread or two or even a hundred, the holy fabric or material would not be damaged. But if you keep pulling until all the thread is gone, what happens to God? Ask yourself, what happens to the material? Meaning, if we are the thread the holy material is made of, God can seriously suffer and lose meaningfulness.
The scientific community has been and is slowly chipping away at religious myths, but is having a real hard time with the powerful politics of the sense of belonging to our groups. There are still people who would rather believe in religious stories than the importance of blood transfusion. A whole lot of people believe the coronavirus is God’s punishment for humanity yet seek vaccination to survive. Remember, our problems have never been from us being spiritual. Most of our problems stem from the politics of belonging to our groups instead of humanity. Unfortunately, we have lost our spirituality because the politics of belonging has been able to penetrate and taint our religions. That is why, regardless of spirituality being universal and making sense, we simply can’t even achieve equal human rights. Islam spread in India like wildfire because they had caste system-related oppression, and Islam brought equality but fell short because of the politics of belonging to Islam.
To me, a human individual is an ultimate truth in our holy picture of spirituality because they convert spirituality into physical actions. Spiritual thoughts of humanity are our metaphoric realities and are up in the air until human individuals get their physical hands on them. The hungry get fed by a spiritual thought of a living, breathing human individual. A jobless person who prays to God for a job gets it through another human being, making it a reality. Maybe God is involved in putting thoughts into the minds of helping individuals, but it gets physically done with the help of human beings.
The problem is all our bad and ugly get a life from human beings as well. Now the question is, why would our groups and even our religions think a human individual is insignificant and irrelevant? If you start to dig into it honestly, you will find serious political infiltration. If that was true from God, why would we discover that human decisions are the ones keeping the spiritual world of God going and even all the bad and ugly of humanity is connected to human beings as well? Especially these days, our discoveries are pointing toward and connecting our climate-related extremes, like making a whole ocean disappear. Causing not only harm, death, and destruction to people but to other creatures as well.
How can a whole sea disappear, just vanish? A disaster in Central Asia left ships sitting in a desert. During Soviet times, someone made a decision that created a disaster for Uzbekistan. The Aral Sea, the fourth largest lake in the world, was cut off from its river source. A simple human decision started a perpetual and long-lasting problem. This decision to divert water for agriculture and development resulted in a major, God-like disaster. My point is if we, as human beings, can convert spirituality into physical actions and affect our climate like God, why don’t we take ourselves seriously and take responsibility? Why do we keep underestimating ourselves? It’s all because of our insecure religious politicians. If, God forbid, the individual human becomes stronger, what happens to their power and political control?
In another part of the world, Indian farmers were committing suicide because they couldn’t pay their bills due to droughts, created simply by cutting down trees to create land for farming. Remember, we are an evolving entity, so our knowledge is constantly evolving. We should separate our spirituality from our politics. Our well-intentioned decisions may seem good, but they can have long-term consequences. These consequences can be deadly for us and future generations. Blaming God is premature. Our scientists have been alerting humanity for a while, but some still don’t believe in global warming. It’s not wrong to make decisions, but research should be conducted beyond politics and business to see the consequences as well.
We are more responsible and have more of God within us than we are taught to believe. The politics of belonging has placed the individual human at the bottom corner of this holy triangle. Yet without their physicality, both God and the Devil become impotent. Our evolving knowledge is there to help us figure things out, so making a decision should not be taken lightly. Today, you can’t simply accept things as God’s will; scientific research should be respected and encouraged. That is how we can connect things to their real realities. If we keep taking things as God’s will, we may keep removing our responsibilities and simply suffer from our actions without knowing. Like making a whole ocean disappear. Flying salt with the winds can destroy crops even hundreds of miles away. Today, things are different, so we need to learn all kinds of knowledge to evolve with inner and outer peace, including the safety of our future generations.
Our body is an example of God. Just like we have cells that belong to us, we are cells that belong to God. We can go to the gym and make our bodies stronger by stressing them. Our evolution does not come unless we seek it. If religions preach that God is doing everything, we need to ask how. If we can improve our bodies physically by stressing them, we can enhance humanity spiritually by seeking. God would be proud of our contributions because we work for God without even asking. We self-regulate to avoid sins without the fear of hell and automatically do good deeds without the greed of heaven. We can help the needy who are praying and asking God for help as a duty of reciprocation. Interestingly, we do everything automatically because we have our own atom of autonomy.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR SENSE OF RECIPROCATION, WHICH NOT ONLY CONNECTS US DIRECTLY TO OUR SOURCE OF GOD BUT ALSO GIVES US SELF-RESPECT AND SELF-ESTEEM. REMEMBER, OUR SPIRITUAL WORLD WOULD BE A VOID IF THERE IS NO PHYSICALITY IN IT. WE ARE THE NOTES OF GODLY MELODY, AND GOD IS AN EMPTY SPACE ON A SHEET WHERE OUR MUSIC IS WRITTEN. IF WE REMOVE HUMAN PHYSICALITY, WE WILL BE HOLDING A BLANK SHEET, SO BOTH NEED TO BE RESPECTED. OTHERWISE, THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY SOUND OR CONSTANT NOISE WITHOUT RHYTHM. REMEMBER, IF WE DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO OUR PHYSICALITY, THE WORLD AROUND US GOES QUIET LIKE A GHOST TOWN, AND EVEN GODLY THINGS DON’T HAPPEN.
Our trouble is that we are taught to believe all our pain and suffering will simply disappear after we die. So, there are people who commit suicide, ending the pain and suffering of living years, meaning removing or trading a physical reality for a metaphoric one. Sure, our metaphoric realities feel real, but no one really knows them as physical reality. Losing physical reality for a metaphoric one is one thing, but leaving the same pain you are running from for loved ones is a physical reality for them. The pain of love lost should be respected by all of us because we don’t want to face it ourselves. Any kind of loss can be painful, even material things, friendships, and relationships of all kinds. They all have the potential to cause us pain, but suffering from all that is usually optional. The purpose of believing in God is to get help in those areas where we don’t have control. If you put in more effort and expect less, or better yet, give yourself a logical explanation of being mortal with temporary and limited time, suffering from a failure simply can’t be an option for an individual who is just transiting. If you compare yourself with others, you may feel bad, but that is not fair. If you plan to compare, you should compare both sides of the coin. You may not suffer if you compare with others less fortunate than you. SO TO ME, WE SHOULD COMPARE WITH THE BETTER FOR INSPIRATION AND WITH THE LESS FORTUNATE FOR APPRECIATION. If you don’t succeed despite your efforts, it doesn’t mean you should suffer. Logically, look around and see how many people work in different professions. If everybody got what they wanted, there would be social chaos. Just imagine if everyone succeeded and became a rock star; what would be the value of being one? Who would go to the concerts? If everyone became a doctor, who would be the patient? The value of any and all professions goes down, and socially, things don’t work very well. You could be a brilliantly talented musician and spend your life playing in pubs. Yet some kid becomes an overnight megastar just by putting a video online. The question is, should you compare, feel bad, and question your talent, or should you be thankful to have a job that pays your bills?
Our happiness and contentment are important, so no one should stop pursuing what they want. But being mortal, losing happiness and contentment is a loss we can’t afford. Two examples come to mind. I was watching my son playing a video game. The object was to collect coins while going fast to reach the end of the game and win. My triggered thought was that those coins are our happiness, and we are supposed to collect them regardless of winning the game or not. The second example is floating in the river of time. Say you have three lanes in the river: one is always turbulent, the middle one is sometimes turbulent and sometimes calm, and the third one is constantly calm. If you are in the turbulent area, you have to swim and put in the effort to stay above the water. Automatically, you would want to go to the next lane to get a breather. When you get there, the constant calm starts to look very tempting, so you start to put in more effort to get there. Trouble is, being mortal, that calm is not our destination. If that calm becomes your destination in life, your attention from collecting those coins starts to stray, and you end up spending your life in dissatisfaction. As mortal beings, our destination is and should be those coins along the way, not the calm. Making choices as if you are going to live permanently is simply wrong. Remember, we simply can’t get around our mortality. Since we all have our individual atom of autonomy related to free will, God put the responsibilities on our personal shoulders to decide how we want to live a mortal life.
Personally, I believe it does not matter where on earth you are born or live; if you pass the test of being a human being, you hold your atom of autonomy, which makes you a holder of the ocean, space, and everything in between, all rolled up within you. You are the center of our evolving universe because you are the one who is evolving to make things happen. If you doubt or do not accept your importance, you will not take responsibility for your actions. If you really learn and understand everything about yourself, you will lose all the fears and related insecurities simultaneously because you will see your value and worth. You will not only learn to respect yourself, but you will become the spiritual entity God meant for you. If you learn to respect and see who you are, you will personally have to consider yourself a first-class citizen of the planet. Present-day circumstances and the know-how of humanity inspired me to state the truth according to the best of my knowledge.
Let’s look at India. If you are a Hindu nationalist or a protectionist, you may think Kashmir is part of India. Yet, India itself is a place where many nationalities, religions, their sects, and castes of all people live together. To me, every single one of them is a first-class citizen of this planet and deserves equal human rights. If anyone or someone is treated as a second-class citizen, the politics of belonging is in play. Logically, it would be against equal human rights. Their conflicts are based on their political differences, meaning spirituality has nothing to do with it. When it comes to our collective actions, politics may play a role, but as individuals, we all have to live in our mortal skin. It does matter when people can individually label you as prejudiced and discriminatory. The same goes with Israel. If Palestinians are second-class citizens, it is against equal human rights. If any race, gender, nation, or religion looks down on people who look or believe differently, that is politics, nothing but. If that kind of situation makes you feel good and powerful, you are ignoring and living under your own shell. If you don’t like the taste of your own medicine, you should not expect others to like it. If you follow that path, God would not be proud of you.
There is a time when we all die, but our politics stays alive, so no one can escape their karma. However, our spirituality moves on with us. The good thing about it is we keep moving to the next stages of our evolution. So, it’s worth learning more and leaving behind a strong legacy and a good name.
Logically, we cannot move without knowing, so it is worth learning about ourselves and our true realities. Otherwise, if we keep moving with our false realities, we may end up with a path of regret. Learning is a long and constant process, so taking any physical action to hurt yourself or anyone else is the wrong thing to do. We need to stay positive, so if we are not learning the truth and true knowledge, we may end up creating a monster inside of ourselves. It is hard to go back and find the truth about yourself once you start looking from a skewed angle. Being logical and using your common sense, we are most certainly a highly evolved species, meaning if we keep learning and teaching the truth, even God would be proud of us. My message here is to stop underestimating yourself. Learn and study more about yourself and the people around you. We can create heaven on earth if we all start respecting ourselves and each other. There is nothing like a problem-free world, but most of us can pass our mortal lives with a respectful life. Happiness is free, so don’t pay a price for it by falling into the hands of false politicians, even if they wear a garb of spirituality. Just like your body is your responsibility, your spiritual needs are your duty, so keep your sense of reciprocation alive and don’t listen to anyone blindly.
Looking back at your life, you should be able to say you have done your best in all areas, and there is no regret. If you take this attitude as your baseline, it will help you no matter where on earth you are. It does not matter which faith, nation, gender, color, or race you belong to. Your sense of reciprocation is your power. Learn from your actions and take your lessons to heart to make your future better. The same applies to humanity, so your presence will always be felt and remembered. That is my definition of evolution. If our example of God makes the whole sea disappear, our spirituality would not be respected until our physicality is taken seriously. So, get up and make the difference you are supposed to make. When all said and done, God would be proud of us.
Nothing is going to change through the political and religious leaders of our groups, simply because they are the root cause of our passionate conflicts. Change must come from individuals themselves, meaning we need to embrace our humanity from the bottom up to end our group differences by accepting and advocating for equal human rights. If each of us starts to question the hidden politics behind every human conflict and stops fueling them with our individual and passionate emotional fires, then and only then will there be a chance for that elusive peace on Earth.
Before this can happen, individuals must gain self-respect and self-esteem to become the CEOs of their own lives. Remember, it goes both ways—individuals can either solve or cause problems. We can envision something and make decisions that have devastating consequences on humanity.
Imagine drying up an entire ocean and witnessing the effects of such actions. Logically, if humans lived like other creatures and did not build dams or cut down trees, we could argue that God was responsible for all the good and bad in our lives. However, God has blessed humans with an evolving nature and free will, so the related responsibilities fall on our shoulders as well. This clearly means that not everything is predetermined by God; in spiritual matters, we have a significant role to play. We are not like other creatures; we are potentially like the cells of God, tasked with making things happen physically. Our ignorance can be deadly, so it must be kept in check. We cannot do that if we refuse to evolve.
First, we need to understand our importance and responsibilities. If we underestimate ourselves, we also underestimate our responsibilities, potentially creating our own doomsday. If we comprehend human potential and responsibilities, we can overcome predicted scenarios of doom. However, we are still stuck, unable to evolve from the quicksand of political belonging to our groups.
History shows that populations which underestimate their individuals often attribute both good and bad outcomes to God. My question is: why do Godless or non-believing societies end up achieving higher levels of evolution and progress? Why are they able to bring good and bad outcomes under their control, while believers often accept everything as God’s will? Is it individual ignorance, or is it related to religious politics that keeps individuals weak, vulnerable, and politically controlled?
Each of us is born with a highly sophisticated “computer” with many perks. Unfortunately, we identify ourselves as either the computer or the data. Yet, God created us as computer operators. Our families, communities, nations, and religions start installing data in us as soon as we are born. Educators expect us to accept our identity according to this installed data. For instance, if you are born into a Sikh family, elders may expect you to grow a beard and not cut your hair. If you are born into a Muslim family, you are expected to pray five times a day, believe in God and Prophet Muhammad, and follow the teachings from fifteen hundred years ago. If you are born Christian, you are taught to believe in Jesus as the Son of God and follow his teachings from two thousand years ago, and so on. Interestingly, our education is designed to confine us within our belonging groups with literal boundaries. Yet, as human beings, God created us as evolving entities that cannot be contained. The proof is in the pudding—look at how humans have been breaking boundaries set by our ancestors. From blood transfusions to stem cell research to artificial insemination, human progress has not been contained. Unfortunately, we still struggle to overcome the politics of belonging to our groups, which hinders our ability to resolve conflicts.
As CEOs of our own lives, we know that education is merely data installed by our belonging groups. We must understand that our real identity is not the computer or the data, but rather the computer operator. A person who receives a name at birth and then thinks, mixes, and matches data to draw conclusions—like a Ph.D. professor—is the computer operator. This individual, living in a body with a brain, accepts or rejects knowledge as data. We are much more than just the computer and the data. To me, this spiritual entity is not a mere drop in the ocean, as our groups and religions might have us believe. Quite the opposite—we take physical form at birth and can be seen as vessels containing a universe within. The question then becomes: what is this spiritual entity? It depends on who and what you believe as you grow up. As individuals in a sea of seven billion, we might logically feel inferior compared to a group or humanity as a whole, leading us to perceive limitations and mortality as facts of life. We tend to gather together and feel stronger as social creatures, leading us to believe in the politics of strength in numbers and the sense of belonging to our groups. However, it was meant to be a direct connection between the individual and the larger entity, whether you call it God, the Source, or humanity.
Just as our cells die and regenerate within our bodies, we as individuals go through a similar process as part of the body of God. The question is, when, why, and how did individuals lose their identity? If you can move beyond the politics of belonging and connect with humanity as a whole, you can easily feel the connection and understand who you are. Belonging to a group is like being an arm or a leg of a body that depends on the whole, just as an individual cell depends on the body. Logically, our politics of belonging to groups is not grounded in reality. This is evident in the COVID-19 situation, where the limitations of group politics became apparent. Human knowledge is always evolving, and we can be proven wrong repeatedly, regardless of our strong sense of belonging to our groups.
If you have passed the genetic test to be a human being, you are not merely a computer or data; you are a computer operator—a spiritual entity who is simultaneously a physical being. You are above all the education or data you have been given. If you reduce yourself to just the data, you will become extreme and passionate about your existing knowledge. Just look around and see the progress humanity has made.
When you fall victim to the politics of belonging or become enraged due to love loss, you are letting the data become your identity. This is where you have the potential to become just a drop in the ocean, a common element, even though you are the computer operator yourself—the one who is spiritually aware and carries an ocean and even space within. I previously wrote a blog titled “Five Bucks” (Read Five Bucks) in which I discussed how that five-dollar bill represents the ocean and space. Despite its significance, it has been ignored by both human populations and individuals themselves.
I wholeheartedly believe that if that five-dollar bill disappears, the number turns out to be zero. Regardless of the powers God Almighty possesses, they become insignificant if humans are removed from the equation. All the gazillions of dollars that God is holding become meaningless because we, as human individuals, are a crucial part of that picture. If all of humanity were to disappear, what significance would God have, and to whom would God matter? No matter how you look at it, without human beings, life loses all meaning. This means that the individual is like an ocean in a drop. If you feel insignificant, it is not because of God but because of the data you have received or been conditioned with. Your feelings of irrelevance and insignificance are deeply connected to your sense of belonging, as every religion, nation, and ideology promotes the weakness of the individual for political purposes. In Christianity, some even preach that you are born a sinner. Imagine what that does to one’s self-esteem. Therefore, try to physically and spiritually connect with humanity and God directly. Explore and understand reciprocity and related duties, live and let live with equal human rights, and see what happens to you as an individual. Since you are the one who translates spirituality into physical actions, you will feel your importance, relevance, and direct connection to the source.
The data we collect from the start can be problematic for many of us. Consider the education systems in our nations. Most schools around the world begin by teaching nationalism and religion, burying our human identity under politically assigned or installed identities. Each group promotes that their way of living is the best, whether it’s their traditions, customs, methods of governance, or worship. They always claim to be superior to everyone else, yet humanity is striving for equal human rights. When education is rooted in contradictory ideologies, how can we expect different results in adulthood? This is the foundational cause of our prejudice and discrimination. It is practiced by nearly all groups, yet humanity is seeking world peace. To me, educating the new generation with prejudice and discrimination from the beginning is a flaw in our education system. If you desire that elusive world peace, we must first teach what it means to be a human being, then democracy and equal human rights. If education starts with group politics and a sense of belonging, individuals will struggle to think beyond collective politics. In today’s interconnected world, people quickly realize that their education contradicts reality. Our outdated political propaganda, based on group superiority, perpetuates conflict, leading humanity to spend more on weapons, shed blood, and rob love instead of eradicating poverty, hunger, and disease. Religions, too, are deeply entwined with the politics of belonging, though they should focus solely on spirituality. Spirituality is universal like God, but religions often ignore it, leading to more severe and prolonged conflicts. I believe that religions should be exclusively about the path to God, spirituality, and humanity as a whole, but they often take pride in their involvement in political group dynamics.
I believe and blame our group politics for creating spiritual chaos for both God and humanity, so let me illustrate this with an example. Imagine yourself as a cell in a functioning human body. The brain claims, “I am the one keeping the body alive and functioning.” The heart responds, “Don’t forget, I supply the life-giving oxygenated blood, so I am the most important.” The lungs chime in, “If you talk about oxygen without me, you won’t get any.” The liver and kidneys say, “We clean you up, so without us, none of you can function.” The skin adds, “I fight and protect you all from infections daily so you can live.” The colon then says, “You’re all full of it. I not only clean you but also supply all the nutrition you need.” Hearing all this, the arms and legs complain, “We don’t want to live in this bickering and chaotic environment.” God then quietly and calmly says, “If you all function together, I can exist within you peacefully despite the chaos. But if I leave, you have no chance of survival.”
This has been, is, and will likely continue to be the status of humanity unless we metaphorically get our act together and learn that we need each other to create a functioning body. Whether or not you believe in God is less important than being a fully functioning human being. Sure, God exists, but how does that existence carry on and become useful to humanity? Finding answers to our spiritual questions is a personal responsibility, rather than something we are taught or told to believe.
If an individual is playing a role in God’s work, why don’t we accept and understand that? The answer lies not in religions but in spirituality. As groups, we not only use individuals but also politically exploit God. Since individuals are blinded by the political strength of their sense of belonging, they cannot see clearly. The real problem is not in our belief systems but in our personal weaknesses. Racism, prejudice, discrimination, and resistance to equal human rights are clear signs of individual weakness.
When you stray from spirituality and follow the politics of belonging, you are discouraged from questioning and learn not to because you are told it goes against God’s words. Personally, I believe in God’s true words because they are enacted through human physicality. Our reciprocity is not only the purpose of our individual lives but also the foundation of spirituality. Unfortunately or fortunately, human beings are evolving entities, and the proof is in our actions. Just look around and see where we were, where we are today, and where we are heading. You will find that human beings are like worker bees, following their evolving nature and changing everything. Although we have not yet overcome the politics of belonging, changes are happening, and equal human rights are being accepted worldwide, even in religious societies.
Logically, if you believe in God without doubt, you accept and continue to believe in God’s will, so you would not have difficulty accepting circumstances and people as they are. Remember, it is your lack of belief that causes extreme reactions, and God forbid you start punishing people in the name of God. Listening to our mullahs or priests has created weaker individuals who do not question and even commit spiritual crimes in the name of their religions.
If you believe in evolution in all aspects of life, existing knowledge is always a stepping stone for our future. This has been true since the beginning of our awareness, and we have come a long way in our evolution. Yet, to this day, the politics of religion still incite us to kill each other over it. This happens because we start to believe egotistically in our religious knowledge and separate ourselves from God and humanity.
As mortal beings, we cannot afford to sacrifice happiness over something we are going to leave behind. When you turn a molehill into a mountain and fall victim to it, becoming self-destructive, you have a personal duty to take charge and become the CEO of your life, ruling all aspects of it, including the sense of belonging. If you let it, it will overwhelm you, and you will become a puppet of your belonging groups. Our partial knowledge has always been and continues to be dangerous for us humans. It not only affects you mentally and spiritually but also has the potential to rob you of your happiness and health. Without health and happiness, nothing is successful in our lives, even if it is our religious belief.
Since spirituality is an ingrained reality of God for us all, we all have the potential to question our religion’s political boundaries, though our sense of belonging often prevents us from questioning our authorities. I believe that humans are the cause and effect of everything good and bad in nature, and since we cannot even move a finger or breathe on our own, how can we claim to make it all happen? For instance, oxygen is beyond anyone’s control, and nothing gets done by humans without it. Since God’s work is carried out by living, breathing human beings, we are supported. Now the question is, why do people have different paths? What has been and is happening in humanity has hidden wisdom that we do not yet understand. If someone is bad, they are doing that to make people realize what good is, and the good is to make others realize what bad is—much like cold and hot, dark and light. Does this mean humans choose to be good or bad? Yes, because we are all created with free will. If you can choose to get up in the morning and go somewhere with a decision, it is because you are using your free will. The ability to choose is ingrained in us all equally, but our insecurities dictate the paths we choose.
For example, if you divide a love triangle into three equal parts, a fourth triangle emerges at the center, which I call our core, where our spiritual and physical sides merge to make us human beings. If you divide it into two equal parts, you are a normal human being. If you neglect the spiritual part entirely, you become more like an animal, and if you neglect your physical side, you fail to be a normal human being. Many people try to live a monk-like lifestyle, but that is not a normal human life. You cannot ignore your physical side because it translates spiritual thoughts into physical actions. Keeping them balanced allows you to live a mortal life with the wisdom of mortality; otherwise, extremes can rob you of happiness and contentment. If you are unhappy and discontented, things are not adding up spiritually, so it cannot be from God. Remember, God is a just entity and cannot commit injustices. It is us using our free will to victimize ourselves. If you have divided your triangle properly, you will understand that you are encompassed by three kinds of love: Passionate Love, Instinctive Love, and Universal Love. We fall victim when deprived of any kind of love, so whatever dominates within the individual’s core will influence their spiritual awareness.
The balance we achieve is the real blessing of our spirituality. Always strive to balance the three loves and learn the value of each. With that balanced awareness, our personal strengths can become more than just spiritual beliefs; they can translate into our actual worldly actions.