Love, God and Religion

(19 Oct 2006)

Love is supposed to be the solution for a lot of human problems. By human problems, I mean man-made problems (we can’t stop or solve the problem of a tsunami with love!). It’s strange that love is the most talked about, yet the least practiced form of emotion.

We are waging wars everyday, in the name of love, god and religion. These three are so intensely interlinked, that a little emphasis on god or religion, at the cost of attention to love, would mean more complication, and less peace.

What are we fighting for, by rising to new heights of fanatic recklessness? Every fight is devoid of love, and we claim, we are fighting for a cause, for peace! When was human being more insane? Bloodshed only means, and leads to more bloodshed.

The underlying message of every religion in the world is: love humanity. Rest is all unnecessary. The first step towards loving people is to be sensitive to others. Forget sensitivity, we are up to converting people, and bringing them under the banner of a ‘more-liberal’ religion. Changing religions would only give a new name to the religion that we’ve practiced all our life. Escape is an illusion.

Sensitivity would pave the way for better understanding of people, and of the self. Love will follow. And love is the only way to peace. If we can scale this height, the ritual-centric religions would lose their relevance. When we know how to love people, we do not need any more religion. Love is the religion.