Today when I logged-in into my FB profile, I saw some posts from a group named "NOW THIS IS THE TIME OF HINDUS TO RULE THE WORLD" that was liked by someone in my friend list. Those posts and comments left me agape and that churned up my wheel of thoughts resulting into this piece of writing. Although India is developing in science and technology but it is still lagging thousands of years from today's west world. People just couldn't think ahead of religion. There is so much hatred and envy among people of different religions for each other dwelling in the same society in the same nation.
Lets say the story of hatred started from the conquest of Sultan of Ghazni in 11th century, when he ruined many temples just to get the gold storage or from the period of Mughal empire in India during 16th to 18th century or when britishers ruled over the nation and adopted the "divide and rule" policy. Whatever may be the reason of this hatred but now its time to forget those old hard times and move on and get together as humans. This fire of hatred is fuelled by certain group of people who don't want peace and prosperity in the world by reliving those eras of war and conflicts among the religious groups. And we forget that we are one of those people who just want to live peacefully regardless of the religion.
Thousands of year ago when humans started evolving from apes, they were hunter gatherers for much of the time. It was around 7 million BC when our human ancestors evolved in African continent that migrated to Asia and Europe around 1 million BC and 500,000 BC respectively, which further migrated to Australia and its islands and American continents by around 40,000 to 10,000 BC. During this period they lived a life of hunter gatherers when they fed on wild plants and animals. As they were getting more in number and wild food was getting scarce, they gradually started settling down thus the period of food cultivation began around 8500 BC. Further down the lane, during the period of 3000 BC scripts and languages originated differently in different places which gradually got spread with lots of modifications all over the globe. To start a civilization they required peace and prosperity and to reach that goal the knowledgeables wrote some scripts which were named differently in different languages like Vedas in Sanskrit, Quran in Arabic, Bible in Hebrew and others. These books told us how to live peacefully in a society so that the country can flourish and prosper. Some mythological characters were created to (which are now known as gods/godesses) to guide humans towards righteousness. As the time passed, and trade between different civilizations started, traders started travelling and wars and conflicts took place to acquire more land and more resources, hence resulting into a mixture of people from different parts with different languages and following different books came together in one land. Slowly due to the differences in the language, scripts followed and thus differences in cultures people formed different groups and "religion" came into existence.
The term "religion" is since then misused and misinterpreted. Religion now has become the strength of "bad" and weakness of "good" (bad and good always being respective words for a person). If we see the past any religious conflict or riot has killed so many innocents irrespective of the community they belonged to. So lets be patient and use our brains instead of reacting vigorously to any such situation. There are many other problems and issues in this developing nation to deal with instead of fighting among each other. Lets be "humans" and serve the real purpose of these "holy" books. After all we were born humans and not hindu, muslim, christian or any other and our purpose should be to serve and follow humanity religiously. Rise up of the religious rivalries and hatred and bring peace and harmony in the society. That will be the INCEPTION of a new era.
JUST THINK !!
P.S. - I can just vent out my thoughts here, I know it will not make any difference to the world but I need to write.
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