One of my recent readings, a
special one, was "God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, an atheist who is
trying to prove his point by all rational process and available resources. Unlike
my family or friend circle, I am okay with this as over a time frame I have realized
that the will and ability to question anything and everything to find the right
answer is always commendable, immaterial of the findings they land up to. And this
was perhaps one of the driving force behind the old philosophies, like the
Hindu Philosophy (mind it not Hindu Religion). With time philosophies tend to
become religions and religion starts producing Gods and unquestionable beliefs.
There was a recent Hindi
film "Oh My God" which had a very relevant and thought provoking
statement...."don't snatch religion from people, then they will make you
their religion". History perhaps justifies this. From time in memorial
someone has said something, someone learnt something, someone wrote what he
learnt....in all these steps there must have been some losses based on
individual perception of senses. As a result different preaching, different religions,
different sects came into picture. This is good if the urge to question stays
undisturbed as then new ideas, new thoughts & philosophies will come up.
The inquisitiveness to know the unknown (which is often termed as "Divine
Search") led to the formation of Gautam Buddha, Isaac Newton, Darwin or
Albert Einstein. Different routes but same intent.
There was a time when
Managers of Religions were serious life threats to budding scientists/philosophers.
With time the zeal of the truth seekers won over the Managers as right to
questioning grew popular and were justified by experimental results. Even today
the grey areas of life where Science have not yet succeeded in finding logical
interpretations people consider that as Spiritual or Divine. With time upcoming
explanations will erode away old beliefs. Darwin's theory of Survival of the
Fittest came up for explanation of Evolution of Animal World but I find it
relevant to human life, beyond biological boundaries. Things which have withstand
the test of time have survived, be it science or philosophy.
If the likes of Kabir,
Budhha, Vivekananda were philosophers then it's the same for Newton, Einstein,
Darwin, Ramanujan, Satyen Bose or Stephen Hawkins. A man like Hawkins who is in
such physical state in which anyone would surrender to fate, still fighting to
find out that "ONE EQUATION" which defines everything. This itself is
a great philosophy, never surrender. His never ending passion to search compels
me to salute him for the ENERGY he represents..this is in one word GOD-ly.
Kabir's doha or SUFI music does not speak of God but there is somewhere
something which speaks of a presence..which perhaps is there in Hawkins too!!!
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