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God and me

My god is very simple.He is someone who listens to me whenever in need.He is someone who offers me solutions at difficult times.He is someone who offers me a direction.He is my strength and cannot be my weakness.He never wants me to to take a head bath on a particular day of a week,chant mantras and do bhajans. He wants me to grow up,learn new things,enjoy the spiritual path and reach him.
He is always with me and so he never wants me to see him in the temple.Rather, he wants me to got to the temple to see the artistic skill of the sculptor, to appreciate the handwork that a priest puts in to attract people to temple,to learn to communicate with different people and to help those dependent on temple for their livelihood.
My lord is not human.He never asks me to differentiate people based on their faith,color,status or any other.He does not care about rites and rituals.Their costs too.He tells me that unlike us-humans, he cannot differentiate between young-old,learned-ignorant,rich-poor,man-woman.He says,he blesses everybody alike and answers anybody alike.
But he laments that humans want everything to be human,and are getting swayed away by applying all worldly things to him- created different RELIGIONS,different gods their families-stratified them,fight for them.
He is ONE, only ONE.God is always to do with our spirituality, our emotional strength.Religion is something that evolved based on the socio-economic conditions of different times.Religion acted as a societal regulator in the past.It acted as a moral authority on society.But for the past 2-3 centuries,religion and god are equated , people are getting confused between the two.They are unable to understand that "our god is same as the others' god,but a different version which suits them".People are even using GOD to display their glory.A costly religious rite,a costly gift to a temple,or any other religious organisation for that  matter is mistaken as a greater recognition by god.It is time for us to correct our lenses to 'SEE GOD AS GOD AND NOT AS HUMAN'

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