Saturday, June 12, 2010

Trying to understand what relegions teach

Hi Everyone,


Couple of weekend back I was watching "Clash of Titans" at my home. I was enjoying the movie and suddenly one question strikes in my mind that this movie plot belongs to Greece and also their one of the god (Zeus) name resembles history of Greece and their civilization which was expected. As I am a human and as other human's I also have tendency to explore "WHY and HOW", I thought to explore this topic further till I have got answer to my questions.

Since I am a Hindu so I started analyzed about Hindu gods and found that all names belong to our culture like Shivji, Vishnu Bhagwaan & Shankar bhagwaan belongs to hindu culture. Now I thought there is something which I am not able to understand or relate with what has been taught to me.

This confusion inspired me to do further analysis of other civilization and found that god name prevale in other civilization are related to that particular civilization only. For example For muslins it mohammad paigambar, for Christians it is Jesus Christ and so on. Since my question is a bit long and abstract, I would like it to be answered in parts

Q1) If we look into our holy books than it has been mentioned that god has created the whole universe, now how it can come possible that within earth existence of god is country specific?

Best part of the question is some follow hinduism then its only hindu God which appears to them and not a Christian god and vise-versa.

Q2) Common part in every relegion is that all define hell and heaven. If we look into books of different religion there are several things in one relegion that are considered as sin while in others it has been considered as how human lives or way to achieve god. If god is one then how it can be possible that he has defined contradictory country and region specific ways to reach him.


Then last week I visited my village and as I am a nature lover and a bit eager to explore things I went to have looked on unexplored places with few villagers. While our expedition I heard a very loud sound of some water body behind some extraordinary healthy shrubs. I asked couple of people about this sound and they told me that few years back it was a place where children’s from village comes for swimming. But due to some miss happenings with few of children there, villagers have started rumor that there is some ghost which catches children. Impact of story was this after some time every child of the village have stopped visiting this place because of ghost's fear.

Q3) why it is so humans see ghosts only when they are terrified and not in normal routine?



I tried my best to get answer to this question but since I was not able to do get it till today's date so thought to share it with a larger audience. I would be very grateful to one who can provide me these answers/hint/pointers on this topic.



Regards

~Tarun