The Golden Age

Right now in Iraq and Syria, a group of individuals commit atrocities to the humanity occupying the territories that belong to other nations. They are misguided individuals who use the name of a particular religion for a wrong reason. Several decades back, a dictator in the name of conquering the world under his leadership killed millions of Jews in the concentration camp. A group of people divided by the sect within the same religion killed each other including bombing of newly constructed building in Ireland. Because a terrorist attacked Mumbai city to retaliate for the destruction of Babri Masjid, thousands of innocent Muslims were hacked to death in Mumbai for nearly a month two decades back.

Can any of these actions be really attributed to any of the religions? Absolutely not. No religion teaches terrorism or justifies killing another human being in the name of God. Only reason why the religion is used in these situation is to motivate people to participate. Traditionally, a new thinking that elevates individuals used to result in people getting motivated to join together to follow the teachings. There is enough history in the past to prove that point. But mostly, such new thinking evolved in the past to wipe the tears shed or alleviate the sufferings faced by the group of people. If a group of people are able to successfully use the name of religion to motivate people for terrorism, it only proves the point that how the human values have deteriorated over the period of time. The fault is with human beings not with the religion.

One is a believer or not, one should have principles and values in life not to hurt a fellow being even if there is no tendency to help one another. What caused this kind of erosion in value? In each Yuga, the world is going through a cycle of raise and fall of values. Sanatana Dharma otherwise known as Eternal Righteousness used to be the core of every human being. Once someone thought of something and said, it became an act of truth. Now we have reached a stage where the values have declined drastically. Dr. Hawkins provided a scale to measure the consciousness and the human beings are precariously in the range of 200 in the scale of 1,000. Only when we reach the level of 500, love would determine our thoughts, words and actions. Even the human beings are dwelling in 200 only because of constant effort by the great souls to consistently pray for the well-being of the world.

The holy books were presented to elevate the consciousness of the human being as they are the only beings in the world capable of using the intellect to discriminate right from the wrong. They all teach us to investigate and then only accept the values. Vedic philosophies and Epics have time tested inherent values built into it. Now we have reached a stage of questioning the contents in the holy Bhagavat Gita, Bible and Quran. The religion and the holy books are only facilitators to elevate the human beings and if one does not believe in it, they should make their own effort to enhance their human values. One should be able to create own set of values and present it to the fellow beings and obviously, if they are invaluable for their growth, they would begin adapting those values.

One who does not believe in religions should become a role model for others to follow. One who practices Hinduism should become a strong experiencer of Sanatana Dharma, one who practices Christianity should become well-versed in practicing the teachings of Jesus Christ and one who practices Islam should become well-versed in practicing the teachings of Prophet Muhammad. This should be applicable to all religions.

We have not come into existence to criticize the body of principles created by the God Heads. We have come here to improve our own values and become a better human being recognizing that values exists in every being created. What we lack is how we practice them and what we learn from our experiences. Let us together create the Golden age that every God Head talked about by uniting the values under one roof and become a spiritual being. Instead of question the values in each religion, let us question our own values and become a better human being. What value we add by questioning the body of principles already created several thousand years ago? If we believe the values have deteriorated now because of the events happening around us, let us search inside of us as to how to improve those values. If we are dissatisfied with the core values created by the God Heads, let us create new values using love as the foundation instead of teaching hate. Scriptures indicate that every time when righteousness reaches the lowest level, the world would be destroyed by the natural resources. We have reached a stage now that human beings are perfectly capable of destroying not only the nature but also themselves due to lack of values. Let us forget the differences, make every effort to probe inside of us and build spiritual values driven by love so that we can together create a Golden age.

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