Just before my CharDham Yatra began, one of the most unfortunate events of the year so far, the Ahmedabad aeroplane tragedy, was the headline. Whenever such awful accidents take place, typical agnostic questions start clouding the minds of the non-believers.
These questions have been there since the antiquity. Does God exist? If He does, why do the good suffer, while the evil prosper? Why the punishment to the innocent? And the secular question that has haunted every society since the days of Sophocles' "Antigone" and, may be, our Charvak, namely, what matters more, the individual conscience or the religious dicta; which are more important, the laws of the state or the laws of the Divine?
Of course, there have been multiple answers to these multifarious answers. One of these has been the notion of present individual life as the sum of all the "Karma'' of previous births, et al. Even when I respect Marx hugely, right now is not the time to get in to his economic/political/societal analyses.
When one is in the midst of the ultimate of Hindu religion, that is, the Devbhumi, how does one answer such insistent and persistent questions? May be, by celebrating each day as the very last day of one's life? Live life to the fullest and the best each way and every day? Well, there is no knowing if you would see the sunrise tomorrow. Celebrate hence the every ray of sunshine, the silver lining, however dark may be the clouds? That is the real divinity within humanity, I suppose.
Pratima@The divinity you seek is born(e) with(in) you!
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