I am having a debate from a long time about the principles of different religions. I have tried to solve this by reading some books. But still the doubt exists in me as to weather everything is created by man or if all the principles are true. I’ll try to mention the basic differences what I understand in the following…..
Hinduism: when we take Hinduism, it has a very vast and ancient history. As I have understood, there are probably two different opinions in this itself. First as told by sri sri shankaracharya, god is in every living and non living thing. God is not to be found outside us. Its within. But on the contrary, some gurus like sri sri ramanujacharya propound that what is present in us is just aatma, but there is another supreme soul called paramathma into whom we all will have to go. This theory is also seen in bhagavadgeetha. Overall, in Hinduism, the main belief is that the god is present inside us and he can be seen nowhere else but only through self realization.
Though hindus seem to worship many gods, all the gurus and great people of Hinduism argue that there is only one god and he is not in any form but the god is formless.
Islam: coming to islam, though I have very less knowledge about religions other than Hinduism, I will try to explain here whatever I know. Basically, they believe “Allah” to be their god and “mohammed” to be his messenger. According to this philosophy, humans are entirely different from god and god is separated from other beings on earth. They strongly believe that idol worshipping is a sin and god is formless.
One thing I have observed is, many practices in Islam for example, “polygamy”, “jihad”, etc which were told by “Prophet Mohammed”, was basically relevant for the medieval arab countries. What I mean to say is for instance, “jihad” was required to be included as a practice because mohammed had to resist the arab attack for Islam to survive. Also, “polygamy” was recommended as the population of muslims during that period was very thin and needed to be increased.
Christianism: the belief about god is very similar to islam here. The main difference being that Christians are idol worshippers contrary to muslims. They believe that “jesus Christ” is the son of god. They believe god to be supreme power and he is different than humans.
Many beliefs of Christianity probably which were developed slowly through different generations have been proved wrong for instance the church maintained that earth is flat and not circular. But scientists later proved it wrong. These things were propounded by some people in church and not by Christ himself though.
Jainism: this is another prominent religion about which I have read recently. Its main prophet is “Mahaveera”. According to this, humans’ life span is decreasing from generation to generation and once it will end up being 10years.
I know only this much about this religion. Another thing in this religion is that they believe in “Ahimsa” which means that no living being has to be harmed.
Other than the above mentioned religions, there are many others like Buddhism, Sikhism, etc. But as I cannot recall much about them and also because I don’t want to drag it more, I’ll conclude this blog.
Why I am discussing these things and what I really intend to know is only one answer. Basically all the religions in the world are both unique and similar in their own way. Infact many beliefs and practices are shared by these religions or have been borrowed by other religions. Many other beliefs are unique in these religions. Even with such diversity, we get to see people proving that their respective religion is correct. We have also witnessed that god is really present and we can learn about him by following any religion.
But again, many beliefs in all religions are baseless and created by humans. Only some are true and they indeed lead us to god. What I want to know is, if it is true that we can understand or atleast hope to know something about god, which religion is the best and if all religions lead to one god, how to decide which belief is authentic and which is man made?
I know that this million dollar question can be answered properly only by few people and is indeed very difficult. But whatever time it may take, I will be searching for the answer to this question probably till I am living as beyond that none of us know what will happen.
7 comments:
You can be spiritual and provide fuel for your soul. Thats what I believe. You don't need to follow any religion.
If you become spiritual, you can transcend all religions and lead a peaceful life.
@ dadamama
for me, to become spiritual i need to know who is the god....(not where is the god)....is he our inner voice, or is he the 5basic elements of universe, sun, moon, planets, or does he exist as a seperate entity? i want to know who he is first to be devoted to him.
what i thought was religion is the way to know this truth but all religions contradict in this matter and yet people seem to find god through their respective religions. this is what is puzzling me and i want to know which is the perfect one......
according to me no religion is perfect, they r all flawed in their own diffr ways....but they all lead to the same end.....
so we just need to weed out the bad..in watever we r following...
all religions r created by men..and to err is only human!!!
@ kruthika
how do you say something is good or something is bad? everything you do has both good sides and bad sides to it. for instance, if someone says drinking alcohol is a bad thing, another can argue that it is a good deed. it all depends on the induvidual's perception. so, how can you decide something is wrong or bad in a relegion?
Well according to me different religion is like different river which have born in different places but the final destination is to reach the sea. Religion is just a means to reach that destination; it may be god r soul r Ur inner voice. So it’s up to individual believes to choose the religion. Also there is nothing like u should fallow others principles, based on those principles n Ur experiences you can make your own path
Harsha, first of all, what u've done as a perfect Virgo, to touch upon something that's very abstract and that which does not have answers.
U know what, whenever we think of GOD, we usually think of him as the idol that we'd have seen in a temple or TV or so as Kids...
Mainly, when u think of self-realisation its all about the GOOD and the BAD.... Vishnu,Shiva etc were all beings with ultimate powers bcoz they could create and destroy at the same time, but u shud kave known that they also had to yield to many temptations. So, the bottom line that every guru or saint of Hinduism says is this : The GOOD in u is the GOD, the BAD in u is the Rakshasa... Even the great SaiBaba who's considered to be a musilm did preach the same.
So, it might be any religion, Hinduism, islam ..... are all just names of the same thing that brings here: HUMANITY.
Ever wondered why we say all GODs are one, be it Rama, Krishna etc etc...They are just different forms and names of the same and only one GOD , i.e., the GOODNESSS.....
In the same way, whatever people might follow the religion, it boils down to this, DO GOOD and BE GOOD... Its all about killing the BAD in u that brings about Moksha or salvation.
GOD is not there to oversee all that u do, its just our conscious that we fear him when we do something BAD. Thats the effect he wants us to have. End of the day, we do know what's right and what's wrong, but we dont realise it when we commit the wrong or we dont relaise it unless the right happens to us.
The topic is a very debatable topic, we can never get answers for the KIND of questions u have asked in ur prev comments.
GOD himself could not be perfect, if he was the only one superpower or so, there wouldnot be anything BAD on this earth. But, to distinguis the GOOD from BAD, we have the BAd elements. This is actly away from the topic, but i just wanted to say that GOOD ois what is GOD is.
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