Don’t let anyone feed your insecurities and fuel your fears.
Because that’s what society wants: to keep you enslaved to your worries and
anxieties.
One of
the first things we are taught as children is to be God-fearing. My grandma
used to encourage me to eat my food or avoid telling lies by saying, “Swami vanthu kanna kuththum”. Meaning,
God will come and gorge out your eyes if you don’t finish your meal or if you
say lies. How gory can that be? Hardly Godly! Resultantly, most of us are
brought up fearing an external God who will punish us for any transgressions.
But how
can God be both merciful and fearful at the same time? Have you ever wondered
why you have not been encouraged to be God-loving? As you grow up, enter
adulthood, the whole spectre of SIN looms large over you. If you drink it is a
sin. If you have sex it is a sin. If you as much as not pray it is a sin. Then
Life becomes, in due course, a challenge for most of us. What all this
God-fearfulness does is it makes us insecure to the point that we lean on the
crutches of religion, abstinence (weekly fasting to propitiate the divine!) and
God-men/God-women! This is bizarre.
You –
and I – were not born basis a religion. You were not brought up because you
chose a society, a standard of living or a way of Life. Then why become victims
and slaves of what society wants you to do? Deal with Life, its beauty, its
challenges, its pain, its joys, its insecurities and its abundance in your own
way. Be free. Because it is your Life. When you experience Life for what it is
than what others make you believe it is, you will see a God, your God, within
you! Then you will appreciate the value of being God-loving!
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