Let’s start this one with you as an individual. Ask yourself, who are you, really?
As a human individual, one must always remember that all human knowledge is related to every field, whether it’s related to religious beliefs and spirituality, science, technology, mathematics, or medicine. Right up until the present day, nothing remains incomplete. Why are we constantly learning and inventing new things? It’s because of the human individual’s continuously evolving nature and their potential. You can believe wholeheartedly in anything and live accordingly as an individual, but realities are much broader than just our inherited or taught knowledge. Not only is what we have learned insufficient, but with our evolving nature, there is no cap, ceiling, or limit. Whether it comes from our constitutions and religions, all human knowledge has not been, is not, and never will be completed for humanity. For the individual, however, due to mortality, it’s a different story. It’s very important for the individual to be flexible and keep room for learning new things.
Whether God exists or not has never been the real issue; in actuality, it’s human wisdom that has the potential to assist the human individual in living a mortal life with hope, optimism, happiness, and contentment. The wisdom of God is highly personal and individual, so both its benefits and harms are for each of us individually. I happen to perceive the wisdom of God as a pearl. However, if you don’t believe in God, that’s fine with me, but to you personally, a tear is just a drop of water regardless of how it came into existence. You can’t truly benefit from it because you can’t acknowledge its value. Two plus two equals four is mathematically correct, as are numerous scientific discoveries; they can only assist you if you apply that knowledge during your lifetime. The same goes for unknown knowledge; you can benefit from it, but you don’t yet comprehend how it functions, similar to placebo effects. As you age, that two plus two doesn’t always add up, but due to our ego, we don’t wish to live with inaccuracies. If we fail to adapt as things change, we lose our happiness and contentment, and in a mortal life, happiness and contentment are crucial; ignoring them can make life difficult to bear. It’s difficult to accept that we don’t know everything. If you believe that you must know everything, remember that your time will run out, so don’t forget to participate in all areas of life. The best way to handle it is to stay in a continuous state of learning; making decisions or believing in the unknown egotistically may seem natural, but it isn’t appropriate for entities like human beings that are constantly evolving. Today’s truths can be proven false tomorrow, so it’s okay not to know everything because that’s how you keep yourself open to learning more and evolving. When it comes to science and religion, we are instructed to believe in knowledge as ultimate, which implies we are instructed to believe there’s nothing more to learn about it. Given that we are still discovering new things every day, no one should claim that any human knowledge is complete knowledge. Passionate individuals urge you to believe in it due to their sense of belonging’s political nature, so it’s up to you to question it and surpass those limitations. We are capable of embracing spiritual wisdom, which can genuinely assist us individually in infusing life into our years of existence. Regardless of my level of evolution, I personally believe that viewing God as a pearl rather than merely a drop of water is a wise choice. I believe anyone can benefit from it; it can help a person discover inner peace and then share it with others. This pearl aids me in exploring my inner self and experiencing profound happiness and contentment. I don’t merely live life to nourish my body and mind; I also believe in nourishing my soul to achieve balance and live a life of inner peace. Understanding that not knowing everything is a human trait, my happiness and contentment mean more to me, especially as a mortal, than egotistically claiming to possess complete knowledge. (Read You, body, and mind).
Everything related to our past and present knowledge is within our reach, and what we decide to personally consume and wisely live is our choice. Interestingly, it’s our responsibility to utilize all available knowledge to lead a healthy life, which enables us to live happily and enjoy a successful life regardless of mortality.
If you utilize all available technologies, how can you serve yourself and become the CEO of your own life? If not, it’s your choice, and believe me, there are many people who cannot live their lives as CEOs. They live and die for their groups of belonging, proudly, irrespective of their ever-developing potential.
Remember, you’re not only responsible for your actions; you’re also responsible for the consequences. Therefore, becoming the CEO of your own life is crucial for each of us individually.
What makes us a CEO.
Since you have no control over the time and era of your birth, your oxygen supply, how long you’ll live, get sick, age, and die, etc., in a nutshell, despite your thoughts on what you need to know and what to control, you have two blogs.
Navigating through life, especially as a mortal, requires profound wisdom. While the details can be vast, for now, we will focus on our abilities to use free will and a personal sense of justice to understand our purpose here.
What is the purpose of our existence, and in the grand scheme of life, what is our real value as individuals?
One thing is clear: as human beings, we each have a life that is our personal project. We are the CEOs of our own lives. Since life has several different departments, we must juggle responsibilities and attend to all aspects of life to achieve a fulfilling mortal existence.
Living exclusively in one department of life might be intellectually satisfying for some, but I personally don’t want to be starved in any other areas of my life. Emotional richness, physical expression, and spiritual fulfillment can all be part of an intellectually lived life.
Let’s consider this example to clarify a complex problem humanity has faced in the past and continues to struggle with today: our passionate political allegiance to our groups. This sense of belonging can override an individual’s CEO status. If you lose your personal identity and sense of justice, becoming prejudiced and discriminatory because of group politics, you are not respecting the CEO status you received from God before birth. If you believe you are solely what your group calls you to be, you have forgotten your true identity as a human being. When born into humanity, you are first a human being. Labels such as boy, girl, black, white, Muslim, Christian, or any nationality are secondary. Regardless of these labels, you are first and foremost a human being.
Believing you are defined by your family, color, gender, race, community, nationality, or religion connects you to prejudice and discrimination. Look at yourself genetically, scientifically, and spiritually to understand your true nature. You are directly connected to God and called a human being before any other identity, even before your name. Metaphorically, as human beings, we are part of God’s body, and we make God’s spiritual body function physically.
Picture yourself as a cell in a human body. You receive oxygenated, nutrient-rich blood to keep you functioning and alive, and in return, you keep the body functioning. This analogy explains why and how you should have a direct relationship with God.
God is not a conventional figure pulling our strings from above. There is much more than what politically tainted religions have taught us. Spirituality has suffered, but today, even ordinary individuals like me are learning about equal human rights and becoming aware of the purity of politics in spirituality.
To me, God is an understanding you can personally and individually grasp. It’s like a tear rolling down your cheek; depending on how you look at it, it can be a pearl or just a drop of water. I wrote about this in detail in a previous blog.
I recall a song, though I don’t remember the name of the author, that beautifully encapsulates this idea. I’ll quote it in Punjabi and provide a translation:
“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, the translation is: “You can say it’s 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, it’s just water.”
My understanding is that we are cells in the body of God. We can individually imagine or think spiritual thoughts and bring them into physical reality. Although we seem small in the grand scheme of life, our abilities can move mountains. I metaphorically value each person at five dollars.
Humanity, as a physical expression of a spiritual God, means our spiritual expression would logically be God. Since we can’t function separately in body and spirit, we live through each other. If humanity disappears, no one would be there to understand or believe in God or do good deeds.
If you ask an Alzheimer’s patient about God, they might not respond because the knowledge has been wiped out by the disease. However, God is present in the people caring for these patients.
God is our understanding, usually instilled in us as we grow up, which can vary drastically from society to society. This knowledge is highly influenced by the politics of our sense of belonging to groups, which affects our religions.
Consider a baby born into a Muslim household but adopted by a Christian family, or a black baby raised by a white family. What is that child’s identity? Their status as a human being doesn’t change, but their sense of belonging does.
As a cell in the body, you are alive not because of personal efforts or will but because of the secure supply line for oxygen and nutrients. In return, you do your job to keep the body functioning. If the body is alive and functioning, you get what you need to live. If the body dies, so do the cells, and vice versa. God would still exist, but like a lily in the forest, unappreciated and without value.
You are directly connected to God, and God to you. Some may say you live only because of God, placing God on a high, supernatural pedestal. However, I believe that God is dependent on human physicality to be meaningful. Human actions, not those of God or the Devil, are what bring about good or bad in the physical world.
I won’t delve into the Devil’s side because I want to emphasize human importance. Look around and understand how God’s spiritual world depends on human physical input to bring spirituality into action.
You are so important that God’s work is incomplete without you. Middlemen preached spirituality-based knowledge like helping each other, but human insecurities and politics entered the spiritual world, making group politics more important than spiritual deeds. This led to religious wars and weakened humanity both physically and intellectually.
If people don’t attend religious places, they become like ghost towns. The value of God diminishes due to extremists whose political views, related to nationalism or religion, overshadow spirituality.
Middlemen, with their human insecurities, lost the spiritual focus by claiming exclusive access to God for their groups, hurting the true meaning of God. God is not only for a select group but for all humanity. I believe in taking responsibility for my actions and being the third equation. I judge every word I hear; if it is spiritual, I believe it; if it is political, I recognize it as politics, not spirituality.
Your life is your personal sheet of music. You can enjoy it as a melody or live a noisy, stressful life. It’s your choice, with your God-given free will and sense of justice. You can live scientifically with correct numbers or embrace a spiritual belief system that allows for emotions like love and deep happiness.
Humanity is like a body with different types of cells. Imagine a brain cell claiming to be the most important, while the heart, lungs, skin, liver, kidneys, and colon each argue their significance. God says, “I need you all to function so I can live in this chaotic but functioning body.” For God to be relevant, God needs a human body to live in, and for a human body to live, we need God inside. A building is meaningless without occupants, just like a dead body loses all identities.
You are directly connected to God, a metaphorical source, while you are a metaphorical cell. Both need each other to function. Middlemen disrupted humanity’s priorities and brought group politics, leading to religious wars. We have been killing God, one cell at a time. Politically tainted religions continue to cause harm.
We need to recognize the importance of each individual and move away from group politics. Favoring one group over another removes us from the spiritual world and makes us political beings.
You bring gifts from before birth, like free will and a personal sense of justice. Following group philosophies against personal justice is political, including religious beliefs.
You are responsible for your actions throughout your life. Work for the preservation of God’s body and yourself. If you feel unworthy, look at your connection to God and question your taught knowledge. If it contradicts your sense of justice, you are on the wrong path.
You must see God in yourself and others. If you can’t, it’s because of brainwashing. You are programmed to feel inferior for political purposes. Follow politics to find who benefits from your lack of self-belief.
Your life starts and finishes with a purpose: the reciprocal connection between you and the body. You are a subcontractor with free will and a job to do. This five dollars metaphor represents your worth and free will, making you the CEO of your life and a subcontractor to God.
As a CEO, appreciate your blessings and create balance in life. Avoid living to please or impress others, especially your belonging group. You might end up broken and dysfunctional, like a programmed warrior ant or worker bee.
Look at life as a mortal with limited time. Balance all areas of life for fulfillment. As a CEO, find your rhythm for a meaningful life. Respect the spaces in your life, representing God. Speak when it’s your turn, as silence doesn’t honor God’s purpose for humanity.
We bring spirituality into physical actions. We make God physically present. Recognize your importance in God’s work. Middlemen preached spirituality but became politically entangled. This led to religious wars and weakened God’s body, metaphorically.
Religions rely on rituals to control followers, but practical help to the weak and vulnerable is the true prayer to God. It is physical beings performing spiritual acts.
Now, if you don’t speak when it’s your turn, there will be complete silence, which I am absolutely against. Regardless of what some religions say, to me, God’s wisdom in having living, breathing humanity is to bring spirituality into physical actions. As human individuals, we hold a continuously evolving Godly nature, and our potential has no limits or caps. So, staying quiet is not a human thing to do. We are supposed to evolve and bring more strength to God, making God even mightier.
We are here for a reason: to transform a spiritual God into a God of physicality. If even God needs living, breathing individuals to fulfill other human beings’ prayers, then we, as individuals, should learn to respect and value ourselves.
As CEOs, responsibilities land on our shoulders individually. You can’t just go to a mosque or church and pray to fulfill the desire for bigger muscles, more money, or power. You have to take charge—join a gym, get a job, and put in personal effort to achieve whatever you want. 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 with the person who lives inside. If for some reason you are not happy being there, you should personally 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 biased. It means you have no idea about the power of the individual who lives inside you.
A nice, shiny car that doesn’t run is worse than a not-so-shiny but running one. Our behaviors usually stem from installed data, so growing beyond that data is a difficult task for the best of us. We form our opinions, but they are not truly ours, as they are influenced by the politics of our sense of belonging. A logical explanation would be appropriate here.
For example, if you are an atheist, you live life logically but fall in love and do some stupid things. You enjoy them, which makes you a hypocrite because love does not make any sense, yet you enjoy it. If God does not make any sense to you, how do you explain why so many people are able to enjoy God, just as you enjoy love? Taking it further, consider the placebo effect: scientifically, it does not make any sense, but it works for human beings. The power of imagination is real. Everything, including scientific discoveries, is the product of human imagination. If God resides in that area, it does not make God irrelevant. God is a pearl, not just a drop of water. If included properly, an individual can benefit tremendously, especially as a mortal.
Let’s even consider the darker side of addictions like alcohol, smoking, gambling, or hard drugs. You can’t be logical and addicted at the same time, yet many people live with thousands of excuses every day. Tell an addict to rationalize it, and they will say, “I am 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 explanation. It is regarded as a social problem, so it should be controlled by banning it. To me, this is an injustice against the individual by the masses. Sure, anything that causes an individual to be out of control is bad socially, but if the individual enjoys it, they have the right to live as they want to as a mortal. Remember, free will is given regardless of how an individual uses it. Even God is dependent on human choices.
You can choose not to believe in God or live your mortal years without enjoying emotions like love or the spiritual fulfillment and 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. Choose something that fulfills you all around, not just the ego of being right yet still dying. It is not only personal and selfish living; our purpose in life is reciprocation. Since God, as a spiritual entity, may not need anything from you, your physicality is needed to fulfill the prayers of the weak and vulnerable.
How you look at God or believe, or don’t believe, is not the question. Your physicality is needed in the grand scheme of life.
You can pray for others like religious people do, but it is neither worthwhile nor 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 these practices are far from the real help that God admires in the human individual. 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.