Re: World's best religion
Okay....i think now i should tell why i like hinduism. The first attraction for me towards hinduism was 'for me it's a religion that came by birth'. It was only later that i became deeply interested in it's philosophy. Now i will tell why.
Let me go back 7 years or so. At that time, this very concept of "god" or this very thing called "spirituality", was not there in me. I was very happy or even arrogant or in general enjoying myself in my own self-created world. I ended up doing many mistakes. It's not that i commited a "sin"...like murder or such things. Or in short i never cared for others feelings. For me my own feelings, were important. My own feelings were important more than my friends. I was selfish and stubborn. These very mistakes led to many other mistakes. These didn't boomerang immediately. They all boomeranged all together at a time, so much so that i was bruised, hurt, and I lost complete confidence in myself. My studies were badly affected because of my own mistakes. This situation continued for quiet sometime. I was seriously looking for mental comfort. My parents were there with me. But somehow, i didn't find comfort in their presence. It was in this time that i came across something called "philosophy" . This situation made me to think deeply about every phenomenon that is there and i started relating it to whatever knowledge of philosophy that i had. I started relating my own life to philosophy. I came to know more about this "philosophy" by watching mahabharata in TV and reading some philosophical books. WHile reading them, everything that i listened or read, i started relating them to my own life. My very depression and loneliness did that. It helped me to grasp every philosophy that i came across quickly and it was giving explanation to every phenomenon including my own. In the end, it not only made me a more matured and sensible person, but it has also made me realize that there is something beyond this material world. Every human beings job is to look for it. Even i am not very much sure about that. Even if i am, i dont think i should explain it.
Whatever philosophy i spoke now, 95% of them had to do with hinduism. So, i like hinduism.
Now when i look back, everything that happened, in the end it made me to think or look differently. So, i have no regrets if i had suffered. Besides, other peoples worries are much bigger than mine. I am in a way lucky only.
Initially i didn't care whether what ever i was reading or listening was linked to hinduism. I just did it without being aware that it is hinduism's philosophy. Even now i dont want to care, but it is somewhat difficult now.
So, i have explained why i like hinduism without telling anything about hinduism.....i dont want to talk about hinduism. I am not a scholar of hinduism. But if you guys want to "fire" on hinduism, i am prepared for it.
But, I do want to share one instance from mahabharata, when yaksha asked yudhistir one of these questions, the answer which yudhistir gave, i will remember it all my life. I dont know whether it will have the same impact on you guys.
Yaksha: "what is the greatest mystery in this universe, yudhistir?".
Yusdhistir: "every man works, thinks, reads, enjoys, fights and even suffer as though he is going to live for ever. this is the greatest mystery in this world".
May be i wrote all these, thinking that i am going to live forever.